Capital Projects & Infrastructure Compliance & Value Preservation Senior Consultant &[...]

PwC Middle East; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Associate for their Project Compliance and Value Preservation team. This role involves collaborating with a multidisciplinary team to address complex business challenges in capital projects, ensuring governance, and delivering impactful recommendations. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical and communication skills, alongside a background in engineering and project management. Join a dynamic environment that values continuous learning and offers opportunities to thrive both professionally and personally, while making a meaningful impact in the industry.

Benefits

Competitive compensation package

Inclusive benefits

Flexibility programs

Continuous development environment

Qualifications

• 4+ years of relevant experience in construction and capital projects.
• Bachelor's degree in an engineering field from an accredited university.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of a team to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution.
• Analyze project-related documents and identify governance gaps.

Skills

Project Management

Analytical Skills

Negotiation Skills

Communication Skills

Teamwork

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Post-graduate certification in project management

Job description

Line of Service

Advisory

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

Deals

Management Level

Senior Associate

Job Description & Summary

At PwC, we value every individual’s role in shaping our future. We’re looking for candidates who excel in their roles and embody our core behaviours of Trusted Leadership and Distinctive Outcomes. Trusted Leadership focuses on building trust, delivering sustained results, and showing courage and honesty. Distinctive Outcomes emphasize excellence, collaboration, and inclusiveness. We seek self-aware, collaborative individuals committed to continuous learning and delivering quality and integrity.

The Team

The Project Compliance and Value Preservation Unit within PwC’s Forensics Practice consists of a team of talented and multidisciplinary engineers, who have industry experience in the development & delivery of capital projects and its operations across multiple industries, currently focusing on Real Estate and Infrastructure.
Our mission is to build trust around capital spend, and support our clients to preserve the value of their capital investment and operations.
Our main focus is on giga and mega projects, where our team is highly experienced in engaging in factual reviews by looking into historical capex and opex transactions, and current practices, identifying program and project management procedural design and control gaps, and issues impacting performance, and providing recommendations to rectify the noted deviations.
Sample offerings under our project compliance and value preservation proposition:

1. Provision of advisory and technical due diligence services to board and board committees;
2. Provision of independent technical function operation review focused on governance and efficiency;
3. Conducting expenditure reviews which are focused on identifying potential non-compliance and cost recovery opportunities;
4. Provision of disputes advisory services for the construction industry.

The Role

As a Project Compliance and Value Preservation Senior Associate you will work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping solve complex business issues from strategy to execution and operations. Responsibilities include, but may not be limited to:

• Core team member as part of engagement planning, execution, and closure.
• Fulfill day-to-day requests by the engagement manager / the client.
• Develop presentation and draft reports, with high quality presentation, narrative, etc.
• Establish effective working relationships with engagement team and clients.
• Attend / lead meetings with clients, covering a wide variety of business and technical topics related to program and project performance, governance, and controls.
• Review and analysis of project related documents, for the purpose of, but not limited to, understanding current state, identifying procedural and / or governance gaps, and areas of underperformance.
• Assist in the delivery of multiple engagements in parallel.
• Analyze complex ideas or proposals and help build a range of meaningful recommendations.
• Be actively involved in business development activities; help identify and research opportunities with new / existing clients, and assist responding to opportunities (developing proposals).
• Keep up to date with local, regional, and international business and economic issues.
• Develop a point of view on key global trends, and how they impact clients.
• Use data and insights to inform conclusions and support decision-making.
• Continue to develop internal relationships, PwC brand, and new skills outside of your comfort zone.

The Requirements

• Bachelor degree in an engineering field (ex. Civil, Mechanical, Electrical) issued by an accredited university.
• Post-graduate certification related to program, project, risk and disputes management is a plus.
• 4+ total years of relevant experience.
• Experience in actual delivery of construction and capital projects.
• Ability to support multiple projects in parallel.
• Experience with a management consulting firm is a plus.
• Technical and analytical skills with the ability to translate complex issues to support the creation and delivery of clear and understandable client solutions.
• Experience around reviewing capital projects performance.
• Experience around projects’ governance, risks & controls.
• Passionate about delivery of capital projects and has a strong desire to succeed by learning from colleagues and creating collaborative relationships at all levels.
• Ability to manage or work effectively within a team to deliver projects and solutions.
• Motivated to build excellent working relationships and meet deadlines successfully in a fast paced & dynamic environment.
• Understanding of the KSA working environment in large corporate private, semi-government, & government entities.
• Strong negotiation skills.
• Confident communicator and can deliver messages with impact to a wide variety of audiences.
• Fluent in English (minimum 7.0 IELTS band score or equivalent if English is not the native language). Arabic would be considered a plus.

Why you’ll love PwC

We’re inspiring and empowering our people to change the world. Powered by the latest technology, you’ll be a part of amazing teams helping public and private clients build trust and deliver sustained outcomes. This meaningful work, and our continuous development environment, will take your career to the next level. We reward your impact, and support your wellbeing, through a competitive compensation package, inclusive benefits and flexibility programs that will help you thrive in work and life. Learn more about us at https://www.pwc.com/m1/en/about-us/life-at-pwc.html