Transaction Services (FDD) | Associates | Stockholm

Job Description & Summary
At PwC we offer you "An opportunity of a lifetime". This means that you as an employee have the opportunity to develop your full potential together with fantastic colleagues. Through collaboration in a developing and coaching environment where we make use of all competencies, we make a difference. Come join our Transaction Services team!
We work with financial due diligence and other transaction advisory services in connection with especially major corporate acquisitions and divestments. Financial due diligence involves, among other things, a detailed analysis of a company's balance sheet, earnings and cash flows. Furthermore, our analysis focuses on understanding and analyzing the development of the most important value drivers in the Target Company, establishing underlying historical results and evaluating a company's ability to reach its forecast - all for the purpose of producing relevant financial information as a basis for a business transaction.
We work primarily with the largest Nordic and global Private Equity companies and large industrial companies both in Sweden and globally. The work also involves a lot of international contacts within the framework of PwC's global network.
A career in our Financial Due Diligence practice, within Deals Transaction Services, will provide you the opportunity to help organisations realise the potential of mergers, acquisitions and divestitures and capital markets. In short, we help some of the world’s leading companies originate, create, execute, and realise value from deals. Through data driven insights we help our clients move in the right direction ensuring maximum value for their company.
Our team focuses on playing the role of lead financial advisers in sell-side and buy-side transactions.
As part of our team, you’ll help us provide both corporate and financial buyers with peace of mind by analysing and validating all the financial, commercial, operational and strategic assumptions being made.
What we offer
Do you want to be a part of a company that invests in your future? We support career growth by encouraging continuous learning and by providing a framework for you to acquire new skills at the right time. At PwC we offer coaching, tailored training programs, and a variety of fun and challenging learning opportunities.
Responsibilities
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 an authentic and inclusive leader, at all grades/levels and in all lines of service. 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.
As an 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:
Work with existing processes/systems whilst making constructive suggestions for improvements.
Validate data and analysis for accuracy and relevance.
Keep up-to-date with technical developments for business area.
Preferred skills
We believe it is important that you want to and can establish trustworthy contacts. You are easy to collaborate with, enthusiastic and positive. Other qualities we value are initiative, communicative, strong analytical ability, creativity and business thinking. We would like you to grow and develop together with PwC.
We are looking for applicants who have a Master's degree in economics or engineering and is recently graduated or who has up to two years of work experience from similar profession. This job requires a high working capacity, good language skills in English and Swedish as well as a very good analytical ability. You need to have knowledge of accounting and be an experienced user of Microsoft Excel. In addition, you also have a distinct business mind combined with a great commitment and a strong drive.
To thrive with us, you work efficiently, are an explicit team player and are happy to share your experience and knowledge. You can easily communicate and take on new information and you are motivated by keeping up to date with the technical developments in your area.
Read more about us and how we help our customers at https://www.pwc.se/sv/corporate-finance/integrerad-due-diligence/finansiell-due-diligence.html, but above all we want to know more about you!
Expected joining period: January 2021 or based on agreement
Location: Stockholm
Application instructions
This ad applies to associates for FDD in Stockholm. We are also currently looking for associates to the following departments: DDV, V&A, RE, CF Göteborg, CF Malmö. If you are interested, you have the possibility to apply for more than one department.
If so:
Apply to the specific ads and state a justification of why you are interested in that specific department in your cover letter.
In addition to that, please rename your cover letter by this format: "Cover letter - First name Last name and departments you are applying for" (eg. “Cover letter - Lars Larsson FDD CF Umeå”).
Submit all the documents stated below for all your applications.
To apply, submit a complete application in PDF format with:
Resume
Cover letter
Grades from University/College
Grades from upper secondary school
NOTE! All documents are to be attached where the system asks you to add your Resume/CV (the system will only ask for attachments one time). We need all documents to be able to review your application, so make sure you have attached all of them before submitting. To upload your documents, go to “Resume/CV” under “My experience” and press “select files”. Make sure to upload all your documents in PDF format (*.pdf). Also state your Grade Point Average (GPA) in the fields for “Education and Overall result” (GPA).
Your application can be written in either Swedish or English. Submit your application to us as soon as possible, though no later than March 9, 2020.
If you have questions about your application, please contact Linn Klingsdal at HR, linn.klingsdal@pwc.com. If you would like to know more about the job, please contact Daniel Svensson, d.svensson@pwc.com.
We are looking forward to your application!