Business Placement, Advisory

Line Of Service

Advisory

Industry/Sector

FS X-Sector

Specialism

Advisory Generalist (entry level)

Management Level

Associate

Job Description & Summary

At PwC, our people in finance consulting specialise in providing consulting services related to financial management and strategy. These individuals analyse client needs, develop financial solutions, and offer guidance and support to help clients optimise their financial performance, improve decision-making, and achieve their financial goals.

As a finance consulting generalist at PwC, you will possess a broad understanding of various aspects of finance consulting. Your work will involve providing comprehensive guidance and support to clients in optimising their financial performance, improving decision-making, and achieving their financial goals. You will be responsible for analysing client needs, developing financial solutions, and offering recommendations tailored to specific business requirements.

Role: Associate - Business Placement (12 Month Fixed Term Contract) 

Location: Guernsey 

Line of Service: Advisory 

Grade: Associate 

Contracted Hours per Week: 37.5 

PwC Channel Islands Overview 

PwC is a highly dynamic professional services firm offering Advisory, Tax, Audit and other assurance services to a large portfolio of international and local clients. The Channel Islands firm employs 600+ staff in offices across Jersey, Guernsey and Alderney and is part of an international network of 151 PwC firms employing over 364,000 staff. 

If you're taking a four-year degree course which has a sandwich element to it, a business placement at PwC CI is the perfect way to gain valuable industry experience during your penultimate year at university. 

Programme

Our training programme is underpinned by a development framework that broadens and deepens your knowledge. You'll learn from hands-on coaching and an outstanding variety of work, picking up business, personal and technical skills you can use across the network, and throughout your career. 

What You’Ll Do

We are looking for ambitious, creative thinkers, who want to get their career off to a great start, working in an environment that will challenge and reward you as you progress.  

Our Advisory team helps organisations to work smarter and grow faster, our work is always evolving to respond to industry trends and management focus, we combine our deep technical skills in response to our clients’ changing needs. Providing advice and assistance based on our financial, analytical and business process skills to help our clients improve the way they do business.   

Our business placement students will be offered the opportunity to study towards their professional Chartered Accounting qualification with the advantage of the work experience counting towards the time experience requirement. You’ll have a lot of support from your team, career coach and buddy to help you achieve this. Business placement students who return to PwC CI after graduating will recommence their training contract from where they left off. 

At PwC, whilst we strive to align engagements with the specific proposition you are aligned to or interested in, and your unique skills and experience, market conditions or other factors sometimes necessitate agility across our Advisory team and the broader firm. This flexibility not only supports our dynamic environment but also offers valuable development opportunities and broadened expertise. In these instances, coaching and guidance will be available to help you navigate these diverse assignments successfully. 

Depending on your client’s needs, your time will be split between working at client premises, working in the office and studying for your professional exams. We trust our people to be where our clients need them to be, working together with our colleagues in person as often as needed. Some travel is possible for work and you should expect there to be busy times of the year. 

Who is this vacancy for and what you’ll need 

Our Business Placements are available only to students on four-year degree programmes that feature a sandwich placement element.  

The subject of your studies is not relevant but you need to have achieved 96 UCAS points and be on track for at least a 2.1 result in your degree.   

Do you need a Work Permit? 

Due to immigration restrictions in Jersey and Guernsey the Channel Islands firm is unable to consider trainee candidates who require work permits.  

When To Apply

To avoid disappointment, we recommend applying as early as you can as applications for this role may close early should we receive a high volume of interest. 

The skills we look for in our people: 

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, Evolved PwC Professional. 

The Evolved PwC Professional focuses on two core behaviours: Trusted Leadership and Distinctive outcomes. Trusted Leadership is underpinned by core behaviours that Inspire, Empower and Evolve, and Distinctive outcomes is underpinned by behaviours that Champion, Build and Deliver. 

Diversity:

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. We aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their unique strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business. https://pwc.to/2vY6KZm.  

Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)

Degrees/Field of Study required:Degrees/Field of Study preferred:

Certifications (if blank, certifications not specified)

Required Skills

Optional Skills

Accepting Feedback, Accepting Feedback, Accounting Consulting, Accounting Policies, Active Listening, Communication, Compliance With Accounting Standards, Complying With Regulations, Economic Forecasting, Emotional Regulation, Empathy, Financial Accounting, Financial Economics, Financial Management, Financial Market, Financial Modeling, Financial Regulation, Financial Reporting, Financial Risk Management, Financial Statement Analysis, Financial Statement Preparation, Financial Strategy, Inclusion, Intellectual Curiosity, Investment Advising {+ 6 more}

Desired Languages (If blank, desired languages not specified)

Travel Requirements

Up to 20%

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No

Government Clearance Required?

No

Job Posting End Date