Mergers & Acquistions Operations Manager - IIM/ISB/FMS/MDI/XLRI

Core responsibilities as a Manager would entail (but not limited to)

- Develop strategies to solve complex technical challenges

- Assist in the management and delivering of large projects

- Train, coach, and supervise junior staff

- Assist in the management of clients

- Contribute to the development of your own and the team's technical skills

- Assist with the financial management of client projects

- Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify and win opportunities to work with new/existing clients

- Develop a strong internal network within PwC

Managers are expected to lead smaller projects, lead work-streams on larger projects and train/manage more junior staff. Additionally, Managers get involved in a range of business development activities outside of their project roles, these activities include client proposals, thought leadership and market scanning

You will be expected to manage Associates and Senior Associates to support project delivery as well as owning a range of business development activities.

Must-have skills

Experience

- Stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage and communicate with senior business leaders

- Excellent quantitative and written skills, able to build analyses or an evidence base to support a position, often in situations with imperfect or incomplete information

- Comfortable working to deadlines and managing through ambiguity to deliver tasks in an environment where there are many unknowns

- A healthy curiosity, coupled with a disciplined approach to understanding and solving problems

- Ability to quickly understand large amounts of information and draw out hypotheses and key messages

- Comfort around basic financial analysis and understanding of the drivers of financial information

- Experience of working in financial services consulting, or a role in industry, ideally Banking, Insurance and / or Asset and Wealth Management

OR

- Experienced in M&A, cost-out and / or synergies, integration, carve-out, change projects or business improvement

Eligibility Criteria

- MBA in Strategy/Marketing/Finance from a premium B-School

- Past Experience: 6+ years of prior relevant work experience

- Experience in M&A or management consulting domain