PwC - Director - TMT Consulting

Roles & Responsibilities: -

PwC actively works as a management advisor to leading telecommunications and IT market players across the value chain, including fixed, cable and convergent service providers, mobile operators, tower operators, telecom regulators, industry bodies etc.

Our Management Consulting- TMT practice in India focuses on bringing together our Indian and global network resources around our clients needs, creating teams to help respond to challenges around almost every dimension of their business. Our clients are majorly spread across India, Africa, Middle East and Southeast Asia.

A brief description of the work and roles and responsibilities are as below:

- Candidate to have strong subject matter knowledge (telecom domain) and think creatively to solve large-scale problems for telecom clients across India and global markets. We look for self-driven individuals that can work effectively in an unstructured work environment and work very closely with project teams to support clients needs.

- Understand and define the business problem and co-create the proposed solution. Leverage essential knowledge of the leading practices in the industry to develop project scope and approach to solve client problems

- Perform quantitative and qualitative analysis including data mining, analysis, financial models, perform market and secondary research to collect business intelligence and insights.

- Work collaboratively with the team in developing project deliverables meeting and exceeding PwCs client service and quality standards

- Deliver all client commitments within time/budget constraints

- Drive business development opportunities by proactively translating thought leadership and delivery execution to follow on project opportunities and analysis into consulting

- Develop internal knowledge collateral to help drive the thought leadership within and outside the firm

- Willing to travel internationally and work on site 50-70% of the time at client locations.

Key skills:

- Understanding of the telco capex and opex areas, capex planning, budgeting (3+9F, 6+6, 9+3F) and management including spend analysis, capex and opex optimization and prioritization.

- Experience in end-to-end asset lifecycle management for telecom and IT assets- Asset Lifecycle Management (ALM) processes from acquire to retire, systems & tools driving efficiency in end to end ALM stages for Telecom operators. Understanding of IMF, BoM, BoQ, location standardization, categories, taxonomy , FAR analysis and reconstruction.

- Data analytics Good knowledge and hands on experience on data visualization tools , Tableau , power BI, and data analytics tools like Alteryx, SQL, python. Exposure of ETL, data modelling and driving data quality enhancement.

- Telecom Network Experience- Working level experience on latest technologies like 4G, 5G, - Experience in Cloud and telecom network virtualization & orchestration, NFV, SDN Cloud RAN, network automation , self- optimization of networks.

- Emerging technologies - Cloud, IoT, Telecom frameworks (eTOM etc)

Education and Experience:

- 12+ years of experience across consulting or telecommunications industry (consulting experience preferable)

- Excellent verbal and written communication, and presentation skills

- Advance working knowledge of with MS-Office tools (Excel, PowerPoint and other tools).

- MBA/BE/B.Tech/CA with relevant qualification in Telecom and equivalent.

Candidate Specifications:

Essential Skills:

- Excellent Interpersonal skills and ability to deal with top corporate clients, large enterprises including CXOs and Senior leadership.

- Consulting experience with similar firms or in industry.

- Candidate should be self-driven with an ability to deliver in high pressure environment

- Excellent research, problem solving and analytical skills

- Attention to detail to ensure high quality outputs

Desirable Skills:

- Exposure of working in different/ multiple geographies or global clients outside India would be an added advantage.

- Experience / skill sets in areas like data analytics and visualization, project & program management, etc. would be an added advantage.

Location - Bangalore