As a member of the Transaction Services practice, you will help clients navigate through complicated transactions and events, from evaluation through integration, in a multifaceted business environment. PwC helps clients negotiate with confidence. Some of the world's most prestigious companies rely on our buy-and-sell side due diligence capabilities and turn to us for advice on financial reporting, valuation and tax issues. We also provide advice and project management for capital raising events such as initial public offerings, secondary listings and private placements. For companies in distressed situations, we advise on crisis avoidance, financial and operational restructuring and bankruptcy. Clients rely on PwC to help them make informed and empowered decisions to invest, divest, raise capital or reorganize. As our clients execute on their chosen strategy, our focus turns to helping them extract value.
PwC's Transaction Services - Capital Markets Accounting & Advisory Services (CMAAS) practice advises our clients in today's uncertain and complex accounting and financial reporting environment, providing our clients the ability to enhance the quality of their financial reporting. Our customized solutions-oriented approach is tailored to company-specific situations allowing for a thorough approach in anticipating the needs of management, auditors, investors, and regulators.
The CMAAS practice within TS offers clients an integrated approach and practical, customized solutions to complex financial reporting and accounting issues faced by corporate and private equity firms as they navigate the capital markets. CMAAS advises clients on complex accounting and financial reporting matters arising from IPOs, business combinations, private placements, financing, carve-out and spin-off transactions, SEC filings and IFRS/US GAAP conversions and embedding. The practice is known for advising clients on structures that are designed to reflect the spirit and intent of the applicable financial reporting principles, while at the same time addressing how tax, corporate finance and regulatory concerns impact the transaction, leveraging deep knowledge of both US and global exchanges and regulatory processes. Technical accounting focus areas include financial instruments, business combinations/ purchase price allocations, consolidations, leasing, fair-value assessments, convertible securities, derivatives & hedging, stock-based compensation and revenue recognition in both US GAAP and IFRS.
Position/Program Requirements
Knowledge Preferred:
A proven track record of success in demonstrating expertise in the following areas:
-Providing core assurance or auditing services or transaction-related advisement to external clients, including leading teams and project management engagements focusing on complex accounting-, financial reporting-, and capital markets accounting-related projects within a professional services environment.
-Exhibiting team and project leadership and/or management of multiple large and complex engagements, leading and managing projects from pre-sale and initial scoping through final delivery and signoff.
-As a regarded industry leader, leading and/or participating in a wide range of complex accounting and/or capital markets accounting projects, where creative thinking, a consistent consultancy mindset, the researching of problems or issues, and developing and offering effective solutions for technical and complex accounting and capital markets accounting issues are emphasized.
Demonstrating extensive knowledge in a project engagement leadership role related to, advising multi-national, publicly-traded companies and private equity firms on a broad range of technical accounting, financial reporting, and capital markets accounting topics, especially the following areas within a client services environment:
-IPOs
-Carve-outs and/or spin-offs
-Business combinations and/or purchase price allocations
-Private placements
-Debt offerings
Demonstrates expertise of US GAAP, SEC reporting, IFRS and related financial reporting concepts and rules to resolve client issues related to:
- Financial instruments
- Leasing
- Consolidations
- IFRS conversions
- Fair value assessments
- Convertible securities
- Derivatives and hedging
- Stock-based compensation
- Revenue recognition and/or
- Business combination regulations.
Skills Preferred:
A proven track record of success and demonstrating expert-level abilities and skills in the following areas:
Directing efforts emphasizing the identifying and addressing of client needs: developing and sustaining extensive client relationships to identify and sell potential new service opportunities; preparing and presenting complex written and verbal materials; defining resource requirements, project workflow, budgets, billing, collection.
Leading teams to generate a vision, to establish direction and motivate members, as well as create an atmosphere of trust, leverage diverse views, coach staff, to encourage improvement and innovation.
Participating extensively in staff recruitment and retention activities.
Building relationships with and gaining the trust of partners and/or leaders in the market, demonstrating an expert-level ability to collaborate via those relationships toward high-value sustainable business opportunities at existing and new clients.
Developing strategy and generating thought leadership, including writing, communicating, facilitating, and presenting cogently to all levels of industry audiences, clients and internal staff and management that include the following: presentations on the spectrum of services to potential clients that lead to the development of client engagements; change management plans and/or project plans; practice methodologies and tools; whitepapers; and/or other standard business communications.
Maintaining and leveraging existing networks of contacts to generate revenue opportunities with corporate and private equity firms
Demonstrates leadership in building out a practice of high performing individuals that is market-facing and technically-competent in complex and capital markets accounting
Teaming with Partners to drive financial and operational success of a business practice and acheive practice goals
Minimum Years of Experience Necessary
9
Minimum Degree(s) and Certification(s) Required:
-Bachelor's degree in Accounting
-Active CPA license or equivalent (CA)
Additional requirements:
Proven willingness to conduct 40-60% bus
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