Advisory | Senior Associate - Project Manager [US Client]

A career in Capital Programs Excellence, within Operations Consulting, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients understand where they might have vulnerabilities and develop solutions to manage the risks involved. We prevent, respond to and remediate a wide range of business threats, risks and complex issues. Our team helps organisations deliver on their large scale capital programs and portfolios by providing assurance, tax, consulting, deals and forensics services across the capital program lifecycle. As part of the team, you'll utilize technology solutions to help our clients analyse, design and implement business changes related to their large scale capital programs.

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Associate, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Use feedback and reflection to develop self awareness, personal strengths and address development areas.
• Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities, coaching them to deliver results.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.
• Use a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current industry or sector trends.
• Review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance.
• Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.
• Seek and embrace opportunities which give exposure to different situations, environments and perspectives.
• Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.
• Able to read situations and modify behavior to build quality relationships.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.
  
  

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment at PwC without regard to ethnicity; creed; color; religion; national origin; age; disability; sexual orientation; gender identity or expression; genetic predisposition or carrier status; marital; or any other status protected by law. PwC is proud to be an inclusive organization and equal opportunity employer.

What are you going to do?

• Use feedback and reflection to develop self awareness, personal strengths and address development areas.
• Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities, coaching them to deliver results.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.
• Use a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current industry or sector trends.
• Review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance.
• Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.
• Seek and embrace opportunities which give exposure to different situations, environments and perspectives.
• Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.
• Able to read situations and modify behavior to build quality relationships
  
  

Preferred Skills

• Advanced students or graduates of engineering.
• Demonstrates knowledge of the ‘end to end’ project lifecycle, including skills and abilities related to establishing, monitoring, and controlling projects, for individual projects as well as aggregated portfolios. Specific experience should include some of the followings:
• Familiarity with project controls processes.
• Exposure to contractors management.
• Familiarity applying performance metrics and analytics and experience creating project or program-specific KPIs to enable proactive management via the tracking of trends.
• Exposure to process governance and methodologies.
• Experience using project control tools and technologies.
• Knowledge in MS Office Suite (Excel advanced), Sharepoint based and Google cloud apps.
• Ability to adapt to different roles and responsibilities within a project.
• Eager to acquire new knowledge and skills related to project management.
• Advanced level of english.
• Familiarity with and/or exposure with the following technology: ○ Power BI ○ Primavera P6 and/or Microsoft Project ○ PowerQuery
• Understand the importance of have a correct information management
• Knowledge of Information Security and Data Protection
• Correct Information Security Management
  

Nice to have

• Experience in large scale capital projects.
• Familiarity with earned value management concepts
• Experience in application of statistical methods, data mining and/or data-driven problem solving.
• Familiarity with and/or exposure with the following technology:
• Tableau and/or Qlik.
• Alteryx
• Visio, IBM Blueworks and/or equivalent process mapping software.
• Acumen Risk, @Risk.