Advisory - Consulting

Our Consulting practice helps the world’s most significant organisations – public and private – become even more effective quickly. We improve the way they operate; accelerate their growth; reduce their costs; manage their risks; develop their talent; and change the way they do business. In doing so, we focus on their agendas and the big issues they need to deal with, both today and in the future.

You’ll typically find yourself working as part of a team of anything from two to 20 people. As an Associate, you’ll be the cornerstone of the team. We’ll value your opinion from day one and want to hear it. You’re likely to be supporting the project manager, carrying out detailed analytical or field research, you’ll develop insights for the project, discuss them with your colleagues and present them to the project team. You’ll have direct exposure to ambitious clients and knowledgeable colleagues at all levels up to CEO and Board members. You’ll also spend a lot of time with clients dealing with issues as they arise and gaining valuable exposure to different types of project and diverse industries. This experience, combined with deep technical training, will equip you with the skills to really make a difference.

The relatively short nature of the projects we work on means you’ll be exposed to the widest possible range of clients, issues and industry sectors. It’s this kind of variety that differentiates us from our competitors. The broad experience you’ll gain as a result will act as a strong base for developing individual consulting skills. Right from the start, we’ll encourage you to take on as much responsibility as you can handle. Prove your analytical rigour, commercial acumen and strategic insight and you’ll progress quickly.

Advising clients on important decisions calls for strong analytical, numerical, team-working and communication skills. Your confidence will grow as you develop these and build your understanding of business and any specialist area you might focus on.

In your initial years in Consulting, we allow you to develop your core consulting capability before specialising in areas that build deep technical skills recognised by our clients and our profession. As your career evolves, industry experience and knowledge become more important because our clients demand both an understanding of what they do as well as insights into what they should change and how.

There's no doubt you'll have to work hard. We look for people who are willing to invest what it takes to build up analytical skills, confidence and knowledge of the business world through project work, training and development. The professional and personal rewards, however, will make all your hard work worthwhile.

In Consulting we have over 80 professionals, divided into seven separate groups. Each area works with household names in a diverse range of industries – from big-name broadcasters and high street banks to multinational telecoms operators and energy companies. They’re incredibly bright, experienced people, and you’ll learn a lot from them. And whichever part of Consulting you join, you’ll quickly develop outstanding business awareness, as well as your communication, project management, coaching and core consulting skills.

Strategy
The Strategy group helps clients identify where it is they wish to go and how best this can be achieved. Our services include; corporate strategy; commercial due diligence; market entry strategy; sectoral reviews; economic impact studies; and voice of the customer analyses. The strategy team is multi-disciplinary, with accountants, economists, engineers and scientists counting among our number. We work across a broad range of sectors, but have particular expertise in tourism and leisure, healthcare, agri-business, broadcasting, financial services and education.

Operational Effectiveness
Our Operational Effectiveness group bring capabilities in management and process improvement to help our clients optimise their operating processes. The activities and areas within this team range from business process enhancement, benchmarking, sustainable cost reduction and project management to procurement and supply chain.

We help our clients transform their key value chain functions, from customer management through to sourcing of services and goods. We apply proven methodologies to facilitate agile responses to changing conditions and to drive business growth. We support our clients to improve value, reduce inefficiencies and costs to leave lasting sustainable benefits. As operational processes form the engine of organisations, our team regularly work on transformational programmes of change drawing on the wider skills available across the Consulting Team.

People and Change
The People & Change group are focussed on helping clients to effectively manage organisational change, deliver improved and measurable people performance and operate effective and efficient Human Resources (“HR”) functions. Our areas of specialisation include organisation design, performance management, change management (including stakeholder and communications management), talent management, Human Capital Management and HR Function Transformation. We work with clients to address these specific areas and also as part of wider transformation programmes encompassing teams from across Consulting.

Technology Consulting
Technology is an important enabler of business transformation. To assist our clients in maximising the value from their technology investments, we bring together the skills to deliver improvements in processes, as well as the knowledge in Information Technology (“IT”) strategy and architecture, IT organisation and governance, enterprise applications, information management, project and programme management and systems integration.

Information Security
Our Information Security group help clients secure their data by providing design, review and investigation services. We support our clients by helping them to maintain the confidentiality, integrity and availability of their data and IT systems. Our multi-disciplinary team brings together experts in technology infrastructure, compliance, forensics and encryption. We work in a broad range of industries including financial services, utilities and public sector.

Financial Effectiveness
Reducing complexity, simplifying the business model, understanding key value drivers in the business and improving the efficiency and effectiveness of finance functions are challenges being faced by senior finance professionals worldwide. Within the Financial Effectiveness group, we work with clients across a broad range of sectors to provide innovative viewpoints, independent advice, project management skills and support in developing solutions which will help our clients to address these issues.*

*Graduates who join us in Financial Effectiveness will study for the Chartered Accountancy (ACA) qualification.

Sustainability
Our planet is changing and so is the way we need to conduct our business in Ireland. Phrases like sustainability, climate change, good corporate citizenship and going "green" are now on stakeholders' agendas.

We know that the companies and organisations in Ireland that will succeed are the ones that incorporate sustainable business practices into the very fabric of their processes, systems and supply chains. We also know that sustainability and corporate responsibility affect numerous aspects of your organisation - from marketing your brand and differentiating yourself from competitors to showcasing sustainability initiatives to attract and retain talented workers.

Our Sustainability team works collaboratively with our clients to put strategic thinking at the heart of sustainability, and sustainability at the heart of corporate strategy.

What better way to find out more about PwC than to meet our people.