Advisory - Deals Strategy - Optilogic - Senior Associate

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PwC Acceleration Center India

India, Haryana, Gurugram Full-Time On-site

Posted 12 hours ago • Apply by June 14, 2026

Job Description

At PwC, our people in deals focus on providing strategic advice and support to clients in areas such as mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, and restructuring. They help clients navigate complex transactions and maximise value in their business deals. Those in deal strategy at PwC will focus on providing strategic advice and support to clients in areas such as mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, and restructuring. Your work will involve analysing market trends, assessing business opportunities, and developing strategic frameworks to guide clients in making informed decisions regarding their deals. You will help clients navigate complex transactions, identify potential risks and opportunities, and develop strategies to maximise value and achieve their business objectives. Working in this area, you will play a crucial role in assisting clients in formulating and executing effective strategies to optimise outcomes in their deal-making processes.

Focused on relationships, you are building meaningful client connections, and learning how to manage and inspire others. Navigating increasingly complex situations, you are growing your personal brand, deepening technical expertise and awareness of your strengths. You are expected to anticipate the needs of your teams and clients, and to deliver quality. Embracing increased ambiguity, you are comfortable when the path forward isn’t clear, you ask questions, and you use these moments as opportunities to grow.

Skills

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

Respond effectively to the diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.
Use a broad range of tools, methodologies and techniques to generate new ideas and solve problems.
Use critical thinking to break down complex concepts.
Understand the broader objectives of your project or role and how your work fits into the overall strategy.
Develop a deeper understanding of the business context and how it is changing.
Use reflection to develop self awareness, enhance strengths and address development areas.
Interpret data to inform insights and recommendations.
Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.

Work with the client engagement teams across the network to support global engagements from the KSDC offices, while ensuring the highest quality of deliverables and innovative solutioning, to meet and exceed Client requirements.

Responsibilities

Handle large data sets and perform data transformation, cleansing and validation activities to support network optimisation projects;
Create and maintain data visualisations using Power BI or Tableau for data validation, integrity checking and expected data volume analysis (e.g. supply chain flow maps, number of sites, total sales/distribution volume, sales/distribution volumes over time and by product category);
Build Alteryx flows to create required data tables, including importing multiple data sources, joining tables, performing data quality checks, cleaning data, creating new columns, using data types and filtering;
Upload data tables into the Cosmic Frog platform and undertake data integrity checks in the software;
Follow checklists on the required data tables for each of the key Cosmic Frog network modelling capabilities;
Create and run scenarios within Cosmic Frog, and assess whether the output is valid;
Perform project management activities, including working with and leading teams through delivery of assignments with clear communication and coordination across stakeholders;
Proactively communicate with, work with and report to senior stakeholders within territory firms on client engagements;
Identify and assess risks which could affect project delivery and proactively highlight them to key stakeholders; and
Be responsible for internal initiatives of the Business Unit and contribute to our culture of continuous improvement, including the upskilling of other team members.

Must Haves

Sound analytical skills (collecting, manipulating and analysing financial and non-financial data), including strong use of Microsoft Excel;
Report writing skills, including use of Microsoft PowerPoint;
Strong interpersonal, presentation & excellent communication skills (Oral and Written to a high business English standard);
Strong project management and organisational skills;
A solid understanding of operational business drivers and critical thinking to enable the “So what” analysis;
Strong experience in handling large data sets;
Excel data transformation, cleansing and validation skills e.g. structured tables, data types, pivoting, lookups, error checking and formulas;
Alteryx software experience in building flows to create the required data tables e.g. importing multiple data sources, joining tables, data quality checks, cleaning data, using data types, filtering;
Able to create PowerBI or Tableau visualisations for data validation, to check data integrity and the expected data volumes e.g. supply chain flow maps, number of sites, total sales / distribution volume, sales / distribution volumes over time and by product category;
Ability to multi-task and communicate effectively across teams in a high-performance culture and has a good sense of business English; and
Ability to work effectively in a globally dispersed team environment;

Preferable

Supply Chain principles knowledge to aid client conversations, data cleansing, validation and input table build e.g. understanding different supply chain nodes, flow lanes, transportation types, capacities, costs, service times, inventory policies;
SQL server script and large-scale transformation experience e.g. proficient writing select / join / case coding, uploading & extracting data, creating views, data quality checks;
Optimisation modelling experience; and
Working knowledge and understanding of current AI technology tools;

We Will Provide Additional Training In Skills Such As

Uploading data tables into the Cosmic Frog platform and undertaking data integrity checks in the software;
Ability to follow a checklist on the required data tables for each of the key Cosmic Frog network modelling capabilities; and
Ability to create and run scenarios within Cosmic Frog and assess whether the output is valid.