Working in Consulting and Deals Advisory

A professional career in Consulting and Deals Advisory

Innovative solutions to tomorrow’s problems. Our Advisory practice helps our clients create competitive advantage.

Businesses are striving to manage their way through disruption and improve their performance. They need agile and creative solutions to respond, grow and pivot. From strategy to execution, technology to management, we give our clients the edge they need to succeed.

Your skills and experience will help us provide our clients with unique perspectives and bold insights. Your ability to meet the challenges ahead will give you access to unparalleled career opportunities.

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How is our Advisory practice structured?

Technology Consulting

Our technology consultants help our clients keep ahead of digital disruption. Technology Consulting consists of Cybersecurity and Forensics, Data Analytics, Digital and Technology.

Cybersecurity and Forensics

Our Cybersecurity and Forensics team helps clients secure their data. The team provides review, design and investigation services to a broad range of industries. They work with organisations in the financial services, pharmaceutical, utilities and public sectors. We help our clients maintain the confidentiality, integrity and stability of their data and IT systems. This multi-disciplinary team comprises experts in cybersecurity, ethical hacking, identity and access management. Their expertise extends to data privacy, IT risk, IT compliance, forensics and e-discovery.

Data Analytics

Digital technology has provided businesses with more data than they know what to do with. The challenge is knowing how to interpret that data and deliver competitive advantage. Our Data Analytics team helps clients maximise the value of their data. By integrating business intelligence and analytics expertise, we give our clients insights to plan and pivot with confidence.

Digital

Our Digital team offers integrated, end-to-end technology solutions to our clients. We offer services from strategy and innovation to delivery and execution. We help solve client problems in innovative ways. The Digital team helps clients imagine and create new products and services on a project-by-project basis. They comprise creative, inquisitive minds who imagine, design and deliver solutions to clients' most pressing business challenges.

Technology

Technology is an important enabler of business transformation. The Technology team helps clients maximise the value from their technology investments. They specialise in information technology, strategy and architecture, IT organisation and governance, enterprise applications, information management, project portfolio management and systems integration to deliver sustainable benefits. Our Strategic Alliances team supports this work by collaborating with global tech giants like Microsoft, Salesforce and SAP to provide transformative solutions in the areas of customer experience, cybersecurity, cloud, finance and HR.


Strategy and Management Consulting

Strategy and Management Consulting in PwC involves working with industry leaders to solve their most challenging problems. You will work on complex and varied projects and get to bring fresh insights and solutions to the problems our clients face.

Financial Effectiveness

Senior finance professionals worldwide face myriad challenges. These include reducing complexity, understanding key-value drivers and improving the efficiency and effectiveness of their finance functions.

The Financial Effectiveness team works with clients across a broad range of sectors. They provide innovative viewpoints, independent advice, project management skills and support to help clients address their challenges.

Financial services and Regulations

Financial Services is a strong team of internationally recognised individuals. They have the skills and experience needed to advise clients in a complex industry with ever-changing regulatory and technical requirements.

The team’s services include regulatory engagement, operating model design and risk assessment, management and review.

They are market leaders in Ireland in the provision of advisory services to clients, thanks to their continuous focus on helping financial institutions respond to change.

Workforce

Workforce helps clients manage organisational change, improve and measure people performance and operate efficient HR functions. They specialise in organisation design, performance management, change management (including stakeholder and communications management), talent management, human capital management and HR function transformation. They also work as part of the wider transformation programme that encompasses teams from across Consulting.

Project Portfolio Management (PPM)

The PPM team is passionate about helping clients optimise, execute and realise their strategies. This is achieved through high-quality portfolios and programmes to help clients achieve sustainable change.

The PPM group helps clients:

  • Establish and run effective portfolios of change;
  • Drive and deliver complex transformation programmes; and
  • Underpin their portfolios and programmes with expert project management offices.

Operational Effectiveness

The Operational Effectiveness team understands the operational challenges businesses face. Organisations know they need to lower costs, align business models, reduce waste or optimise supply chains, while delivering sustainable results and retaining flexibility.

The team has the expertise to help our clients find practical solutions to these challenges. They provide services including process improvement, operations transformation, benchmarking, supply chain and procurement management.

We work with domestic and multinational organisations, using proven methodologies to help them transform their operations and processes.

Strategy

The Strategy team helps clients identify and plan future directions for their business.

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 multidisciplinary, featuring accountants, economists, engineers and scientists. We work across a broad range of sectors, but have particular expertise in tourism and leisure, healthcare, retail and consumer, agribusiness, broadcasting, financial services and education.


Deals Advisory

Our Deals Advisory practice, part of our Advisory line of service, helps our clients to buy and sell companies, manage debt and equity, and restructure their operations. Working with well-known national and international clients, you have an opportunity to help them improve how they function and face the future with confidence.

Business Recovery services

Where a business is facing financial distress or insolvency, our Business Recovery Services team advise on finding the best way forward for the business and its stakeholders, and help implement the best solution. This can include restructuring, refinancing, accelerated mergers and acquisitions and insolvency.

Corporate Finance

Our Corporate Finance group provides clear, practical and independent advice and assistance on all aspects of their capital and funding management. They offer a full range of financial advisory services, from acquisitions and disposals for corporate and private equity clients, to advice on infrastructure, energy and public sector projects.

Forensics

The Deals Forensics team helps clients investigate, analyse and pre-empt a wide range of business risks and issues. These can include major public enquiries, rogue trader or bribery allegations, and commercial and transactional disputes across all industry sectors.

Transaction services

Our Transaction Services group supports private equity firms, investment funds and corporate clients to get the best results from the mergers, acquisitions and disposals they are executing. They advise throughout the transaction life cycle, assessing how clients can get to the right deal and make the right assumptions about the outcome they are seeking.

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