Guide public and private sector clients through major deals, organisational changes and strategic decisions. See close up how different organisations work. Tackle every kind of business problem. Help increase value while reducing risk. And build a range of core skills whichever area you join.
Our Business Recovery Services practice is (BRS) one of the UK’s largest. Work here to advise under-performing companies on restructuring, refinancing, Mergers & Acquisitions and insolvency scenarios – all to find the best way forward for the business and its stakeholders.
In Corporate Finance Infrastructure & Government you’ll work on global transactions, financing and policy at the public/private interface. Whether raising funding for infrastructure projects or finding private sector partners for public sector clients, you’ll be part of an award-winning team delivering advice across sectors ranging from national and local government, to renewable energy.
In the fast-paced world of Corporate Finance Mergers & Acquisitions you’ll provide widespread transactional advice to clients spanning sector and ranging from corporates to private equity houses to management teams. This experience will see you rapidly develop strong negotiating, relationship building and strategic thinking skills.
Forensic Services offers experience of investigations, disputes and claims involving everything from money laundering and regulatory compliance to corruption, fraud and economic crime. You’ll work with a wide variety of clients facing crises, as well as those looking to prevent issues arising.
Forensic Technology Solutions (FTS) is the application of information technology to uncover fraud, solve complex investigations, or respond to incidents of cybercrime. Typically this involves applying technological, analytical and statistical skills to very large datasets to uncover evidence, derive insights, and to help our clients through crisis events – many of which have front-page impact.
Transaction Services supports private equity firms, investment funds and corporate clients undertaking mergers, acquisitions and disposals. Advising throughout the life of the deal, you’ll see both buy and sell-side work, develop specialist sector understanding and build key skills in financial due diligence.
Expert Valuations advice helps our clients make key strategic decisions on business deals or restructuring; disputes, tax regulation and financial reporting; Analysing financial, economic, regulatory and strategic factors will give you superb sector knowledge and technical valuation skills.
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From small family run organisations to major multinationals, Business Recovery Services (BRS) helps underperforming businesses-and those with interests in them, understand and solve their problems. That might mean coming up with strategies to turn the company around or guiding it through liquidation.
With over 800 staff in 22 offices, ours is the UK's largest BRS practice. We work with people right across the firm, from Tax and Assurance to Financial Advisory, this gives our clients the specialist knowledge they need to make the right decisions.
Whether clients are after advice, restructuring or refinancing, we can help. Our services include:
We win the confidence of clients by showing both empathy and objectivity. We also have the credibility to make convincing arguments even when clients resist the tough decisions they have to make. It’s absorbing work. And it offers unusually high exposure to all sides of running a business - plus, often, of the chance to put our recommendations into practice.
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In your first couple of years, you’ll get as much exposure to different clients and challenges as possible. This invaluable on-the-job experience will develop you technically and personally. You’ll start by liaising with creditors, which calls for tact, sensitivity and assertiveness. And you'll see more than just the finance side of things too - we often have to look at how the staff of a business or its technology could affect its recovery.
Whether you're researching, modelling, writing reports or analysing data, your work could well help rescue a business, perhaps saving jobs and reducing what creditors are owed. No wonder it’s so rewarding. We’ll also give you opportunities to assist the administrators in trading insolvent businesses where you’ll get a chance to take an active role in managing customer, supplier and employee relationships.
You'll also spend time in Assurance to give you one of the best business educations around - a strong platform for your role advising clients in BRS and a network of contacts across the firm.
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You'll develop skills that’ll help you build a career both in BRS and the wider firm. You’ll learn how to look at every facet of a business with a strategic eye - weighing up all you see and hear against its current financial situation and coming up with a plan to take it forward. And the business intuition and decision-making skills you'll develop will have all sorts of applications.
This gives you the widest possible experience while you train plus a platform to make informed decisions about your career.
You’ll study to become a Chartered Account with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales (ICAEW). But you’ll also work closely with colleagues who liaise with financiers, then with those who restructure debt and finally, alongside insolvency specialists. All this will help you decide which areas interest you most and where you'd like to work after you qualify.
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You’ll need to have a natural talent for problem-solving and the perseverance to identify and explore every option - no matter how unlikely - to save clients' businesses. And the kind of work we do means you must have good people skills, a genuine ability to empathise, a flair for the written word and good standards of numeracy will help to grapple with the financials.
If you’re after endless variety and challenge, plus the chance to learn what makes successful businesses tick - and why others fail.
Your intellect, willingness to learn, ability to build relationships, to put yourself in others’ shoes, while always making a positive impact with our clients and each other.
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Time is often critical in BRS. If we’re to rescue a client, everyone has to pull together and that calls for real team spirit. It makes celebrating successes all the sweeter though. Turning round a business whose management was convinced it was going under is even more satisfying when it’s a team effort.
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| Date | Description |
| Monday 1 October 2012 | Vacancy opens for online applications |
| Friday 30 November 2012 | Vacancy closes for online applications |
| Monday 3 December 2013 | Deadline to have completed the online testing |
| Rolling | First interviews take place |
| Monday 17 December 2012 | Assessment centre |
| 23 January 2013 - 29 January 2013 |
Second and final interviews take place |
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Infrastructure and Government (I&G) is a diverse and dynamic part of our Corporate Finance business. We provide commercial and financial advice on infrastructure and energy projects, public sector procurements and other government-related corporate finance activity.
Typically our clients are major government departments, local governing bodies, and private sector contractors and investors. Our ambition is to be at the leading edge of infrastructure and other government related projects, working on novel, complex and ground-breaking transactions wherever possible.
Our people are motivated by the rewarding nature and public relevance of our work. We operate across a truly diverse range of sectors both in Scotland, across the UK and globally? Recent major projects include the London 2012 Olympic Village, Forth Replacement Crossing, Scotland's hub initiative, Glasgow City Council's Residual Waste Treatment project, the Green Deal initiative, Ministry of Defence restructuring and London’s Crossrail. Our work also has a truly international flavour. In the last few years we’ve helped advise on the world’s largest privately financed hospital based in Sweden, the first ever privately provided prison in New Zealand and a host of other projects in Brazil, Mexico, Bahrain and many others.
Our areas of expertise include:
Our work is constantly developing as we adapt to changes in public policy. Not only do we react to policy, our senior people are viewed as industry experts with our ‘thought leadership’ papers helping to shape and improve future policy to enable the government and private sector partnerships to continually improve infrastructure development. Our work spans both sides of ‘the deal’ and so our people gain experience of public sector behaviours and operations as well as a firm grounding in private sector commercial concerns. This includes raising debt finance for our clients and modelling project finance solutions as well as evaluating bids for government projects. We work closely with our clients to deliver best-in-class solutions across both public and private sectors.
This is an exciting and dynamic time for the public sector. With millions or even billions at stake, clients can rightly be demanding and our advice - the advice you could ultimately be giving - is critical. We need to be able to build relationships quickly and effectively and think strategically. The work you’ll be doing will have tangible results; you’ll be helping to deliver schools, hospitals, wind farms and other pieces of major public infrastructure. We always aim to make a difference.
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You'll typically work as part of a project team advising private or public sector clients on Public Private Partnerships or project finance transactions. Clients may include private sector companies bidding for government contracts and government departments or local authorities seeking to deliver new infrastructure and services in partnership with private firms.
Your responsibilities will vary from project to project but might include:
Relationships are a key part of our business. In addition to your technical work, you’ll be expected to interact with clients including leading civil servants, project leaders and investment directors. You’ll need to have strong communication skills and the flexibility to adapt when you may find yourself in different environments.
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We’ll invest heavily in your training and development to enable to you to develop an expert knowledge of the underlying principles of infrastructure and government related procurement. As part of your initial training you’ll attend a 3 day financial modelling course as well as various courses on client communication and presentation skills. Although not a requirement, you’ll also be given the option to study for the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) qualification.
On a day-to-day basis you’re surrounded by a wealth of experience. You’ll be assigned a buddy who will assist you through your first few months and a people manager who will also oversee your future career development. And, as you progress, you’ll experience different specialist teams and explore the alternative routes your career might take.
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There’s no typical I&G graduate, just people with a genuine interest in working on large, high profile infrastructure and government-related transactions. You’ll need to be a logical, strategic thinker who’sself-motivated and able to adapt to changing environments and situations quickly. Just as important are exceptional relationship building skills, an eagerness to learn and the ability to think on your feet!
Your intellect, willingness to learn, ability to build relationships, to put yourself in others’ shoes , while always making a positive impact with our clients and each other.
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Our people are motivated by the rewarding nature and public relevance of our work. We operate across a truly diverse range of sectors both in the UK and Internationally. Recent major projects include the London 2012 Olympic Village, assisting South Africa's Renewable Energy Programme, the Green Deal initiative, Ministry of Defence restructuring, Forth Replacement Crossing, Scotland's hub initiative and London’s Crossrail. Our work also has a truly global flavour. In the last few years we’ve helped advise on the world’s largest privately financed hospital based in Sweden, the first ever privately provided prison in New Zealand and a host of other projects in Brazil, Mexico, Bahrain and many others.
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| Date | Description |
| Monday 3 September 2012 | Vacancy opens for online applications |
| Wednesday 19 December 2013 | Assessment centre |
| 21 January 2013 - 25 January 2013 |
Second and final interviews take place |
Summer internship applications
| Date | Description |
| Monday 1 October 2012 | Vacancy opens for online applications |
| Friday 7 December 2013 | Vacancy closes for online applications |
| Monday 10 December 2013 | Deadline to have completed the online testing |
| Rolling | First interviews take place |
| Tuesday 15 January 2013 | Assessment centre |
| Friday 1 February 2013 |
Second and final interviews take place this day |
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Our Mergers & Acquisitions team within Corporate Finance offers a full range of financial advisory services, from mergers, acquisitions and disposals through to raising corporate finance. We operate across all industry sectors and our clients range from corporates and management teams to private equity houses.
Our work includes:
Our work here is fast, exciting and fun. That means you’ll develop an expert knowledge of the factors that affect the organisations and industries you work in. With millions at stake, our clients are demanding so our advice - the advice you could eventually be giving - is critical. We need to be market-savvy, able to build relationships quickly and effectively and think strategically. And we have to keep an eye out for opportunities that will make or save money for our clients.
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You'll typically work as part of small, highly focused project teams. The project manager will rely on you for effective support from start to finish. Your responsibilities might include:
We’re always on the look-out for new Corporate Finance business opportunities ourselves, whether with existing or new clients. So you might also gather information for a pitch - or even take part in one. We’ll develop your instinct for a business opportunity and, so you can make the most of it, help you build a network both inside and outside the firm.
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We’ll invest heavily in your training and development. You’ll learn from more experienced people, benefit from more formal training courses and spend time with the Career Adviser who’ll be your mentor. And, as you progress, you’ll experience different specialist teams and explore the routes your Corporate Finance career could take. Although not a requirement, you'll also be given the option to study for the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) qualification.
You'll quickly develop the skills you need to play a pivotal support role in your project team – all while building a detailed picture of how financial and corporate bodies work.
Among many other things you'll learn how to:
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As a Corporate Financier you'll become a strategic thinker, a business developer and a powerful negotiator. Just as important will be your exceptional people skills, an eagerness to learn and plenty of self-motivation.
Your intellect, willingness to learn, ability to build relationships, to put yourself in others’ shoes , while always making a positive impact with our clients and each other.
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Stimulating and rewarding, working in Mergers & Acquisitions offers a steep learning curve. When the pressure’s on the hours can be long, but people who do well here thrive on the excitement of putting complex, high-value deals together. The sense of achievement they share is unbeatable.
Working hard? on potentially headline-making deals, especially when the stakes seem unbelievably high, also creates a hugely rewarding spirit of camaraderie. And when a successful deal goes through, we celebrate. What’s more, we encourage and promote talent and reward our star performers well.
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| Date | Description |
| Monday 3 September 2012 | Vacancy opens for online applications |
| Friday 26 October 2012 | Vacancy closes for online applications |
| Monday 19 November 2013 | Deadline to have completed the online testing |
| Rolling | First interviews take place |
| 09 November 2012, 07 December 2012 | Assessment centres |
| 10 December - 12 December 2012 |
Second and final interviews take place this day |
Summer internship applications
| Date | Description |
| Monday 1 October 2012 | Vacancy opens for online applications |
| Friday 23 November 2012 | Vacancy closes for online applications |
| Monday 3 December 2012 | Deadline to have completed the online testing |
| Rolling | First interviews take place |
| Friday 18 January 2013 | Assessment centre |
| 11 January 2013 & 14 January 2013 |
Second and final interviews take place this day |
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Forensic Services helps clients investigate, analyse and sort out all sorts of different business issues and disputes - like the damage economic crime can do to profits and reputation. Our forensic experts spot financial irregularities, recover stolen assets and set up controls that reduce the risk of fraud. We've also developed and pioneered new technology that captures, manages and analyses the data used to support investigations and resolve disputes.
The team has a long-established litigation support practice. Its investigation and accounting skills help businesses sort out complex financial disputes that stem from corporate transactions, insurance claims, intellectual property and licensing contracts, and construction projects. We also make sure clients comply with Securities and Exchange Commission and Financial Services Authority regulations and lower the risk of lawsuits from shareholders.
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We call the role a shared scheme as you’ll start off working in Assurance, then move in to Forensic Services. This will give you the breadth of experience you need to become an effective Forensic Accountant.
In Assurance, you'll carry out audits on anything from large multinationals to small entrepreneurial enterprises, making sure a client's accounts are true and fair.
In Forensic Services, you'll help clients get to the bottom of particularly complex business issues – anything from a fraud allegation to a Merger & Aquisition dispute – and advise on next steps. Your Forensic work could include:
You’ll pick up highly specialised experience in a team that’s committed to quality. It’s an area that generates urgent and absorbing projects – and we react fast to them. But we also help our clients anticipate and plan for change. You'll work with other trainees, make lasting friendships and build strong networks.
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As well as your two-week induction, you'll benefit from all sorts of superb learning resources plus in-house and external training courses on forensics topics:
You’ll also be mentored and coached by experienced Forensics professionals. You’ll move around the firm and get as much experience as you can over your first five years. This not only helps you make more informed career decisions. It’ll also build your skills, making you a more rounded and able professional. With the help of your mentor, you'll pick the areas you'd like to move between as your training progresses.
If you're to analyse financial information for clients, you must understand the numbers involved. That's why you'll study to become a Chartered Accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales (ICAEW). It’ll be tough - but we'll be right behind you with full financial support and access to first-class tuition. Forensic Services also gives you the chance to specialise in a particular area of interest or even work overseas.
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You’ll need to be inquisitive. And as the role may involve you having to extract information out of people reluctant to part with it, you must be persistent and persuasive too, able to build the trust that could produce the vital piece of evidence that helps your client.
It’s also important for you to have a flair for analysing information and interpreting your findings - both inside and outside the Forensic Services team.
Your intellect, willingness to learn, ability to build relationships, to put yourself in others’ shoes , while always making a positive impact with our clients and each other.
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The Forensic Services team is made up of accountants, engineers, lawyers, former regulators, computer forensic specialists, and other experts. We often respond to clients in crisis situations so we need our people to be flexible and quick thinking to respond to our clients' needs. We regularly work with other parts of the business and in offices all over the world. There's a strong support network within the department and we put a strong emphasis on coaching and training.
| Date | Description |
| Monday 3 September 2012 | Vacancy opens for online applications |
| Friday 7 December 2012 | Vacancy closes for online applications |
| Monday 10 December 2012 | Deadline to have completed the online testing |
| Rolling | First interviews take place |
| 12 November 2012 & 16 January 2013 | Assessment centre |
| 28 January 2013 - 01 February 2013 |
Second and final interviews take place |
Work placement applications
| Date | Description |
| Monday 1 October 2012 | Vacancy opens for online applications |
| Friday 25 January 2013 | Vacancy closes for online applications |
| Monday 28 January 2013 | Deadline to have completed the online testing |
| Rolling | First interviews take place |
| Monday 18 February 2013 | Assessment centre |
| 28 February 2013 & 29 February 2013 |
Second and final interviews take place this day |
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We apply technological, analytical and statistical skills to very large datasets in order to derive insights for our clients and help them navigate crisis events, many of which have front-page impact.
In the UK alone, we have over 80 technology practitioners working from dedicated secure forensic labs in London, Birmingham, Leeds and Belfast.
Join us in any one of these locations and you’ll get to work alongside industry-recognised specialists in computer forensics, data analytics, cybercrime, electronic discovery, information management and electronic disclosure.
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Your role could see you analysing the personal computer and smartphone of an executive suspected of intellectual property theft, or searching for evidence of fraud and abuse within a company’s finance system. Much of our work centres on the analysis of large volumes of electronic data.
These are examples of the kinds of challenges you’ll tackle every day as part of the team in one of the largest dedicated forensic technology practices in the world, and because we operate in an environment where speed of response is often critical to our clients, we are constantly innovating and drawing on the very latest technologies.
The very nature of what we do means that many of our clients have an international reach. And our engagements frequently involve working in cross-border teams alongside regulators, legal advisors and other parts of PwC, providing opportunities for international travel.
Despite these common factors, however, you can rest assured that no two jobs, or indeed days, are ever quite the same.
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If you're naturally inquisitive, have an analytical mind and enjoy solving problems in a rigorous and methodological manner, we would be interested in talking to you. Experience in data mining, text mining, search, statistics or computer forensics is useful, but not vital.
Your intellect, willingness to learn, ability to build relationships, to put yourself in others’ shoes, while always making a positive impact with our clients and each other.
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We support clients in the fast-paced Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) sector, advising throughout the deal cycle from planning beforehand to supporting after the deal has gone through. We help clients looking to buy a business, sell all or part of their business, refinance or list on stock exchanges through Initial Public Offerings (IPOs).
Transaction Services is a market leader with many private equity and corporate clients. We regularly advise on some of the largest and most complex cross-border deals.
The financial due diligence work we do helps buyers understand what will make a transaction successful. We thoroughly assess a target company’s finances, weigh up the opportunities and risks, and pinpoint potential deal issues and deal breakers. We also work for vendors, independently assessing businesses so that potential buyers can make informed decisions.
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You’ll benefit from training in both our Assurance business and Transaction Services. You’ll start off in financial audit, building the financial skills and commercial awareness you need to analyse and advise on M&A deals. Here you'll carry out audits on anything from large multinational organisations to small entrepreneurial enterprises. Essentially, you’ll check whether a client's accounts are true and fair.
In Transaction Services, you'll help clients understand the business issues that surround a transaction. Your work could include:
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Work with our prestigious client list and you’ll develop the business skills, knowledge and relationships you need to do well in a career that’s about so much more than numbers.
You’ll get broad exposure to the wider Assurance business, experiencing audit alongside your client work in Transaction Services. You'll learn how clients in different industries operate – and about the range of opportunities and threats they face. And you’ll build commercial awareness by getting under the skin of businesses during audits. All of this will develop the analytical skills and professional scepticism you need to advise clients on what drives a successful transaction through.
If you're to analyse financial information for clients, you must understand the numbers involved. That's why you'll study to become a Charted Accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants, England and Wales (ICAEW). Studying can be tough – but we'll be right behind you with full financial support and access to first-class tuition. When you qualify, you'll be a well-rounded business adviser, enjoying a real career head start.
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You’ll need to be as driven and ambitious as your clients – with the commercial awareness, investigative mind and flair for detail that underpin sound advice. You’ll work in multidisciplinary teams, build lasting relationships and meet clients often, so excellent interpersonal skills are vital too. And the more flexible you are about the work you do and where you do it, the more successful you’ll be.
Your intellect, willingness to learn, ability to build relationships, to put yourself in others’ shoes , while always making a positive impact with our clients and each other.
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The M&A sector is fast-paced and fast-changing. That makes Transaction Services projects challenging but hugely rewarding. Because they’re often multinational, you’ll need to work with people from other parts of the business and from offices all over the world. That means you can look forward to a wide range of different experiences. And thanks to our great support network, you’ll always have someone more experienced to advise and coach you along the way.
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Graduate vacancies in Transation Services closed on 16 November 2012.
Work Placement vacancies in Transation Services, Belfast close on 26 April 2013.
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Our team of 200 Valuations specialists give clients expert valuation and thorough financial, economic, regulatory and strategic advice on their businesses, brands, products, services, customers and markets. Making the most of how much the wider firm knows about industry and local and global business, we come up with innovative ideas that make our clients more successful. We also give them regulatory advice that explains different ways to structure a business and sorts out disputes.
We work with boards of directors and management teams to answer questions about their strategic investments, such as:
If we’re to be successful, we must be instantly credible with powerful business leaders and entrepreneurs. That only happens if we have a firm grasp of the client's challenge and are confident we can deliver.
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If you’re starting in Autumn, you’ll join our shared scheme, as you’ll start off in Assurance building the financial skills and commercial awareness you need to analyse and advise our clients. Here you'll carry out audits on anything from large multinational organisations to small entrepreneurial enterprises. Essentially, you’ll check whether a client's accounts are true and fair.
You'll then move into one of the Valuations functional or industry-focused teams:
You'll provide vital support for a project team. For instance you might be:
If you’re starting in Spring, you’ll be training solely in the Valuations functional or industry-focused teams.
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If you’re starting in Autumn, you’ll join our shared scheme, as you’ll start off in Assurance building the financial skills and commercial awareness you need to analyse and advise our clients. Here you'll carry out audits on anything from large multinational organisations to small entrepreneurial enterprises. Essentially, you’ll check whether a client's accounts are true and fair.
You'll then move into one of the Valuations functional or industry-focused teams:
You'll provide vital support for a project team. For instance you might be:
If you're to analyse financial information for clients, you must understand the numbers involved. That's why you'll study to become a Charted Accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants, England and Wales (ICAEW). Studying can be tough – but we'll be right behind you with full financial support and access to first-class tuition. When you qualify, you'll be a well-rounded business adviser, enjoying a real career head start.
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Our clients turn to us for help with the big issues. So our people must use their powers of analysis to the full. You’ll need to be innovative, thoughtful, and enthusiastic about learning all you can on industry and markets. Vital too are confidence, credibility and strong communication skills.
Your intellect, willingness to learn, ability to build relationships, to put yourself in others’ shoes , while always making a positive impact with our clients and each other.
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Our culture is based on teamwork. Valuations relies on everyone's input, especially as much of our work hinges on how much we know about many different issues and markets. And when the advice your team gives ultimately leads to a spectacular success for a client, we celebrate together and reward a job well done.
The better our research, analysis and investigations, the better our advice. So we always share what we know with each other – not just our information, but also how we interpret it and the insights we gain. That means you’ll benefit from a wealth of experience and knowledge.
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Guide public and private sector clients through major deals, organisational changes and strategic decisions. See close up how different organisations work. Tackle every kind of business problem. Help increase value while reducing risk. And build a range of core skills whichever area you join.
Our Business Recovery Services practice is (BRS) one of the UK’s largest. Work here to advise under-performing companies on restructuring, refinancing, Mergers & Acquisitions and insolvency scenarios – all to find the best way forward for the business and its stakeholders.
In Corporate Finance Infrastructure & Government you’ll work on global transactions, financing and policy at the public/private interface. Whether raising funding for infrastructure projects or finding private sector partners for public sector clients, you’ll be part of an award-winning team delivering advice across sectors ranging from national and local government, to renewable energy.
In the fast-paced world of Corporate Finance Mergers & Acquisitions you’ll provide widespread transactional advice to clients spanning sector and ranging from corporates to private equity houses to management teams. This experience will see you rapidly develop strong negotiating, relationship building and strategic thinking skills.
Forensic Services offers experience of investigations, disputes and claims involving everything from money laundering and regulatory compliance to corruption, fraud and economic crime. You’ll work with a wide variety of clients facing crises, as well as those looking to prevent issues arising.
Forensic Technology Solutions (FTS) is the application of information technology to uncover fraud, solve complex investigations, or respond to incidents of cybercrime. Typically this involves applying technological, analytical and statistical skills to very large datasets to uncover evidence, derive insights, and to help our clients through crisis events – many of which have front-page impact.
Transaction Services supports private equity firms, investment funds and corporate clients undertaking mergers, acquisitions and disposals. Advising throughout the life of the deal, you’ll see both buy and sell-side work, develop specialist sector understanding and build key skills in financial due diligence.
Expert Valuations advice helps our clients make key strategic decisions on business deals or restructuring; disputes, tax regulation and financial reporting; Analysing financial, economic, regulatory and strategic factors will give you superb sector knowledge and technical valuation skills.
From small family run organisations to major multinationals, Business Recovery Services (BRS) helps underperforming businesses-and those with interests in them, understand and solve their problems. That might mean coming up with strategies to turn the company around or guiding it through liquidation.
With over 800 staff in 22 offices, ours is the UK's largest BRS practice. We work with people right across the firm, from Tax and Assurance to Financial Advisory, this gives our clients the specialist knowledge they need to make the right decisions.
Whether clients are after advice, restructuring or refinancing, we can help. Our services include:
We win the confidence of clients by showing both empathy and objectivity. We also have the credibility to make convincing arguments even when clients resist the tough decisions they have to make. It’s absorbing work. And it offers unusually high exposure to all sides of running a business - plus, often, of the chance to put our recommendations into practice.
In your first couple of years, you’ll get as much exposure to different clients and challenges as possible. This invaluable on-the-job experience will develop you technically and personally. You’ll start by liaising with creditors, which calls for tact, sensitivity and assertiveness. And you'll see more than just the finance side of things too - we often have to look at how the staff of a business or its technology could affect its recovery.
Whether you're researching, modelling, writing reports or analysing data, your work could well help rescue a business, perhaps saving jobs and reducing what creditors are owed. No wonder it’s so rewarding. We’ll also give you opportunities to assist the administrators in trading insolvent businesses where you’ll get a chance to take an active role in managing customer, supplier and employee relationships.
You'll also spend time in Assurance to give you one of the best business educations around - a strong platform for your role advising clients in BRS and a network of contacts across the firm.
You'll develop skills that’ll help you build a career both in BRS and the wider firm. You’ll learn how to look at every facet of a business with a strategic eye - weighing up all you see and hear against its current financial situation and coming up with a plan to take it forward. And the business intuition and decision-making skills you'll develop will have all sorts of applications.
This gives you the widest possible experience while you train plus a platform to make informed decisions about your career.
You’ll study to become a Chartered Account with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales (ICAEW). But you’ll also work closely with colleagues who liaise with financiers, then with those who restructure debt and finally, alongside insolvency specialists. All this will help you decide which areas interest you most and where you'd like to work after you qualify.
You’ll need to have a natural talent for problem-solving and the perseverance to identify and explore every option - no matter how unlikely - to save clients' businesses. And the kind of work we do means you must have good people skills, a genuine ability to empathise, a flair for the written word and good standards of numeracy will help to grapple with the financials.
If you’re after endless variety and challenge, plus the chance to learn what makes successful businesses tick - and why others fail.
Your intellect, willingness to learn, ability to build relationships, to put yourself in others’ shoes, while always making a positive impact with our clients and each other.
Time is often critical in BRS. If we’re to rescue a client, everyone has to pull together and that calls for real team spirit. It makes celebrating successes all the sweeter though. Turning round a business whose management was convinced it was going under is even more satisfying when it’s a team effort.
Infrastructure and Government (I&G) is a diverse and dynamic part of our Corporate Finance business. We provide commercial and financial advice on infrastructure and energy projects, public sector procurements and other government-related corporate finance activity.
Typically our clients are major government departments, local governing bodies, and private sector contractors and investors. Our ambition is to be at the leading edge of infrastructure and other government related projects, working on novel, complex and ground-breaking transactions wherever possible.
Our people are motivated by the rewarding nature and public relevance of our work. We operate across a truly diverse range of sectors both in Scotland, across the UK and globally? Recent major projects include the London 2012 Olympic Village, Forth Replacement Crossing, Scotland's hub initiative, Glasgow City Council's Residual Waste Treatment project, the Green Deal initiative, Ministry of Defence restructuring and London’s Crossrail. Our work also has a truly international flavour. In the last few years we’ve helped advise on the world’s largest privately financed hospital based in Sweden, the first ever privately provided prison in New Zealand and a host of other projects in Brazil, Mexico, Bahrain and many others.
Our areas of expertise include:
Our work is constantly developing as we adapt to changes in public policy. Not only do we react to policy, our senior people are viewed as industry experts with our ‘thought leadership’ papers helping to shape and improve future policy to enable the government and private sector partnerships to continually improve infrastructure development. Our work spans both sides of ‘the deal’ and so our people gain experience of public sector behaviours and operations as well as a firm grounding in private sector commercial concerns. This includes raising debt finance for our clients and modelling project finance solutions as well as evaluating bids for government projects. We work closely with our clients to deliver best-in-class solutions across both public and private sectors.
This is an exciting and dynamic time for the public sector. With millions or even billions at stake, clients can rightly be demanding and our advice - the advice you could ultimately be giving - is critical. We need to be able to build relationships quickly and effectively and think strategically. The work you’ll be doing will have tangible results; you’ll be helping to deliver schools, hospitals, wind farms and other pieces of major public infrastructure. We always aim to make a difference.
You'll typically work as part of a project team advising private or public sector clients on Public Private Partnerships or project finance transactions. Clients may include private sector companies bidding for government contracts and government departments or local authorities seeking to deliver new infrastructure and services in partnership with private firms.
Your responsibilities will vary from project to project but might include:
Relationships are a key part of our business. In addition to your technical work, you’ll be expected to interact with clients including leading civil servants, project leaders and investment directors. You’ll need to have strong communication skills and the flexibility to adapt when you may find yourself in different environments.
We’ll invest heavily in your training and development to enable to you to develop an expert knowledge of the underlying principles of infrastructure and government related procurement. As part of your initial training you’ll attend a 3 day financial modelling course as well as various courses on client communication and presentation skills. Although not a requirement, you’ll also be given the option to study for the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) qualification.
On a day-to-day basis you’re surrounded by a wealth of experience. You’ll be assigned a buddy who will assist you through your first few months and a people manager who will also oversee your future career development. And, as you progress, you’ll experience different specialist teams and explore the alternative routes your career might take.
There’s no typical I&G graduate, just people with a genuine interest in working on large, high profile infrastructure and government-related transactions. You’ll need to be a logical, strategic thinker who’sself-motivated and able to adapt to changing environments and situations quickly. Just as important are exceptional relationship building skills, an eagerness to learn and the ability to think on your feet!
Your intellect, willingness to learn, ability to build relationships, to put yourself in others’ shoes , while always making a positive impact with our clients and each other.
Our people are motivated by the rewarding nature and public relevance of our work. We operate across a truly diverse range of sectors both in the UK and Internationally. Recent major projects include the London 2012 Olympic Village, assisting South Africa's Renewable Energy Programme, the Green Deal initiative, Ministry of Defence restructuring, Forth Replacement Crossing, Scotland's hub initiative and London’s Crossrail. Our work also has a truly global flavour. In the last few years we’ve helped advise on the world’s largest privately financed hospital based in Sweden, the first ever privately provided prison in New Zealand and a host of other projects in Brazil, Mexico, Bahrain and many others.
Our Mergers & Acquisitions team within Corporate Finance offers a full range of financial advisory services, from mergers, acquisitions and disposals through to raising corporate finance. We operate across all industry sectors and our clients range from corporates and management teams to private equity houses.
Our work includes:
Our work here is fast, exciting and fun. That means you’ll develop an expert knowledge of the factors that affect the organisations and industries you work in. With millions at stake, our clients are demanding so our advice - the advice you could eventually be giving - is critical. We need to be market-savvy, able to build relationships quickly and effectively and think strategically. And we have to keep an eye out for opportunities that will make or save money for our clients.
You'll typically work as part of small, highly focused project teams. The project manager will rely on you for effective support from start to finish. Your responsibilities might include:
We’re always on the look-out for new Corporate Finance business opportunities ourselves, whether with existing or new clients. So you might also gather information for a pitch - or even take part in one. We’ll develop your instinct for a business opportunity and, so you can make the most of it, help you build a network both inside and outside the firm.
We’ll invest heavily in your training and development. You’ll learn from more experienced people, benefit from more formal training courses and spend time with the Career Adviser who’ll be your mentor. And, as you progress, you’ll experience different specialist teams and explore the routes your Corporate Finance career could take. Although not a requirement, you'll also be given the option to study for the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) qualification.
You'll quickly develop the skills you need to play a pivotal support role in your project team – all while building a detailed picture of how financial and corporate bodies work.
Among many other things you'll learn how to:
As a Corporate Financier you'll become a strategic thinker, a business developer and a powerful negotiator. Just as important will be your exceptional people skills, an eagerness to learn and plenty of self-motivation.
Your intellect, willingness to learn, ability to build relationships, to put yourself in others’ shoes , while always making a positive impact with our clients and each other.
Stimulating and rewarding, working in Mergers & Acquisitions offers a steep learning curve. When the pressure’s on the hours can be long, but people who do well here thrive on the excitement of putting complex, high-value deals together. The sense of achievement they share is unbeatable.
Working hard? on potentially headline-making deals, especially when the stakes seem unbelievably high, also creates a hugely rewarding spirit of camaraderie. And when a successful deal goes through, we celebrate. What’s more, we encourage and promote talent and reward our star performers well.
Forensic Services helps clients investigate, analyse and sort out all sorts of different business issues and disputes - like the damage economic crime can do to profits and reputation. Our forensic experts spot financial irregularities, recover stolen assets and set up controls that reduce the risk of fraud. We've also developed and pioneered new technology that captures, manages and analyses the data used to support investigations and resolve disputes.
The team has a long-established litigation support practice. Its investigation and accounting skills help businesses sort out complex financial disputes that stem from corporate transactions, insurance claims, intellectual property and licensing contracts, and construction projects. We also make sure clients comply with Securities and Exchange Commission and Financial Services Authority regulations and lower the risk of lawsuits from shareholders.
We call the role a shared scheme as you’ll start off working in Assurance, then move in to Forensic Services. This will give you the breadth of experience you need to become an effective Forensic Accountant.
In Assurance, you'll carry out audits on anything from large multinationals to small entrepreneurial enterprises, making sure a client's accounts are true and fair.
In Forensic Services, you'll help clients get to the bottom of particularly complex business issues – anything from a fraud allegation to a Merger & Aquisition dispute – and advise on next steps. Your Forensic work could include:
You’ll pick up highly specialised experience in a team that’s committed to quality. It’s an area that generates urgent and absorbing projects – and we react fast to them. But we also help our clients anticipate and plan for change. You'll work with other trainees, make lasting friendships and build strong networks.
As well as your two-week induction, you'll benefit from all sorts of superb learning resources plus in-house and external training courses on forensics topics:
You’ll also be mentored and coached by experienced Forensics professionals. You’ll move around the firm and get as much experience as you can over your first five years. This not only helps you make more informed career decisions. It’ll also build your skills, making you a more rounded and able professional. With the help of your mentor, you'll pick the areas you'd like to move between as your training progresses.
If you're to analyse financial information for clients, you must understand the numbers involved. That's why you'll study to become a Chartered Accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales (ICAEW). It’ll be tough - but we'll be right behind you with full financial support and access to first-class tuition. Forensic Services also gives you the chance to specialise in a particular area of interest or even work overseas.
You’ll need to be inquisitive. And as the role may involve you having to extract information out of people reluctant to part with it, you must be persistent and persuasive too, able to build the trust that could produce the vital piece of evidence that helps your client.
It’s also important for you to have a flair for analysing information and interpreting your findings - both inside and outside the Forensic Services team.
Your intellect, willingness to learn, ability to build relationships, to put yourself in others’ shoes , while always making a positive impact with our clients and each other.
The Forensic Services team is made up of accountants, engineers, lawyers, former regulators, computer forensic specialists, and other experts. We often respond to clients in crisis situations so we need our people to be flexible and quick thinking to respond to our clients' needs. We regularly work with other parts of the business and in offices all over the world. There's a strong support network within the department and we put a strong emphasis on coaching and training.
We apply technological, analytical and statistical skills to very large datasets in order to derive insights for our clients and help them navigate crisis events, many of which have front-page impact.
In the UK alone, we have over 80 technology practitioners working from dedicated secure forensic labs in London, Birmingham, Leeds and Belfast.
Join us in any one of these locations and you’ll get to work alongside industry-recognised specialists in computer forensics, data analytics, cybercrime, electronic discovery, information management and electronic disclosure.
Your role could see you analysing the personal computer and smartphone of an executive suspected of intellectual property theft, or searching for evidence of fraud and abuse within a company’s finance system. Much of our work centres on the analysis of large volumes of electronic data.
These are examples of the kinds of challenges you’ll tackle every day as part of the team in one of the largest dedicated forensic technology practices in the world, and because we operate in an environment where speed of response is often critical to our clients, we are constantly innovating and drawing on the very latest technologies.
The very nature of what we do means that many of our clients have an international reach. And our engagements frequently involve working in cross-border teams alongside regulators, legal advisors and other parts of PwC, providing opportunities for international travel.
Despite these common factors, however, you can rest assured that no two jobs, or indeed days, are ever quite the same.
If you're naturally inquisitive, have an analytical mind and enjoy solving problems in a rigorous and methodological manner, we would be interested in talking to you. Experience in data mining, text mining, search, statistics or computer forensics is useful, but not vital.
Your intellect, willingness to learn, ability to build relationships, to put yourself in others’ shoes, while always making a positive impact with our clients and each other.
We support clients in the fast-paced Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) sector, advising throughout the deal cycle from planning beforehand to supporting after the deal has gone through. We help clients looking to buy a business, sell all or part of their business, refinance or list on stock exchanges through Initial Public Offerings (IPOs).
Transaction Services is a market leader with many private equity and corporate clients. We regularly advise on some of the largest and most complex cross-border deals.
The financial due diligence work we do helps buyers understand what will make a transaction successful. We thoroughly assess a target company’s finances, weigh up the opportunities and risks, and pinpoint potential deal issues and deal breakers. We also work for vendors, independently assessing businesses so that potential buyers can make informed decisions.
You’ll benefit from training in both our Assurance business and Transaction Services. You’ll start off in financial audit, building the financial skills and commercial awareness you need to analyse and advise on M&A deals. Here you'll carry out audits on anything from large multinational organisations to small entrepreneurial enterprises. Essentially, you’ll check whether a client's accounts are true and fair.
In Transaction Services, you'll help clients understand the business issues that surround a transaction. Your work could include:
Work with our prestigious client list and you’ll develop the business skills, knowledge and relationships you need to do well in a career that’s about so much more than numbers.
You’ll get broad exposure to the wider Assurance business, experiencing audit alongside your client work in Transaction Services. You'll learn how clients in different industries operate – and about the range of opportunities and threats they face. And you’ll build commercial awareness by getting under the skin of businesses during audits. All of this will develop the analytical skills and professional scepticism you need to advise clients on what drives a successful transaction through.
If you're to analyse financial information for clients, you must understand the numbers involved. That's why you'll study to become a Charted Accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants, England and Wales (ICAEW). Studying can be tough – but we'll be right behind you with full financial support and access to first-class tuition. When you qualify, you'll be a well-rounded business adviser, enjoying a real career head start.
You’ll need to be as driven and ambitious as your clients – with the commercial awareness, investigative mind and flair for detail that underpin sound advice. You’ll work in multidisciplinary teams, build lasting relationships and meet clients often, so excellent interpersonal skills are vital too. And the more flexible you are about the work you do and where you do it, the more successful you’ll be.
Your intellect, willingness to learn, ability to build relationships, to put yourself in others’ shoes , while always making a positive impact with our clients and each other.
The M&A sector is fast-paced and fast-changing. That makes Transaction Services projects challenging but hugely rewarding. Because they’re often multinational, you’ll need to work with people from other parts of the business and from offices all over the world. That means you can look forward to a wide range of different experiences. And thanks to our great support network, you’ll always have someone more experienced to advise and coach you along the way.
Our team of 200 Valuations specialists give clients expert valuation and thorough financial, economic, regulatory and strategic advice on their businesses, brands, products, services, customers and markets. Making the most of how much the wider firm knows about industry and local and global business, we come up with innovative ideas that make our clients more successful. We also give them regulatory advice that explains different ways to structure a business and sorts out disputes.
We work with boards of directors and management teams to answer questions about their strategic investments, such as:
If we’re to be successful, we must be instantly credible with powerful business leaders and entrepreneurs. That only happens if we have a firm grasp of the client's challenge and are confident we can deliver.
If you’re starting in Autumn, you’ll join our shared scheme, as you’ll start off in Assurance building the financial skills and commercial awareness you need to analyse and advise our clients. Here you'll carry out audits on anything from large multinational organisations to small entrepreneurial enterprises. Essentially, you’ll check whether a client's accounts are true and fair.
You'll then move into one of the Valuations functional or industry-focused teams:
You'll provide vital support for a project team. For instance you might be:
If you’re starting in Spring, you’ll be training solely in the Valuations functional or industry-focused teams.
If you’re starting in Autumn, you’ll join our shared scheme, as you’ll start off in Assurance building the financial skills and commercial awareness you need to analyse and advise our clients. Here you'll carry out audits on anything from large multinational organisations to small entrepreneurial enterprises. Essentially, you’ll check whether a client's accounts are true and fair.
You'll then move into one of the Valuations functional or industry-focused teams:
You'll provide vital support for a project team. For instance you might be:
If you're to analyse financial information for clients, you must understand the numbers involved. That's why you'll study to become a Charted Accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants, England and Wales (ICAEW). Studying can be tough – but we'll be right behind you with full financial support and access to first-class tuition. When you qualify, you'll be a well-rounded business adviser, enjoying a real career head start.
Our clients turn to us for help with the big issues. So our people must use their powers of analysis to the full. You’ll need to be innovative, thoughtful, and enthusiastic about learning all you can on industry and markets. Vital too are confidence, credibility and strong communication skills.
Your intellect, willingness to learn, ability to build relationships, to put yourself in others’ shoes , while always making a positive impact with our clients and each other.
Our culture is based on teamwork. Valuations relies on everyone's input, especially as much of our work hinges on how much we know about many different issues and markets. And when the advice your team gives ultimately leads to a spectacular success for a client, we celebrate together and reward a job well done.
The better our research, analysis and investigations, the better our advice. So we always share what we know with each other – not just our information, but also how we interpret it and the insights we gain. That means you’ll benefit from a wealth of experience and knowledge.