Financial Services Advisory People and Change Senior Associa

Company: PwC 
Location: Charlotte, North Carolina

• Salary: Not Specified
• Category: Education / Teaching
• Date Posted: 01/26/2012
• Region: North Carolina-Charlotte
• Travel Required: Not Specified
• Security Clearance: No
• Work Type: Any

Job Description

Line of ServiceLine of Service" > Advisory
Industry" > IndustryIndustry" > Financial Services
State & City" > State & CityNC-Charlotte
NY-New York
Travel Requirements" > Travel RequirementsTravel Requirements" > 61-80%
Position TypeFull Time
Auto req ID" > Auto req IDAuto req ID" > 14233BR

PwC/LoS Overview
Are you interested in the opportunity to work for an industry-leading company that services Fortune 500 companies, and will give you the experience and exposure you need to build your career? If you are, then PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (www. pwc. com/us) is the firm for you. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC US) is well placed to help clients meet the challenges and opportunities of the US marketplace in the areas of assurance, tax, and advisory. We offer the perspective of being part of a global network of firms combined with detailed knowledge of local, state and US national issues. More than 163, 000 people in 151 countries across our network share knowledge, experience and solutions to develop fresh perspectives and deliver practical advice.

At PwC US, you will be part of a learning culture, where teamwork and collaboration are encouraged, excellence is rewarded, and diversity is respected and valued. We offer a flexible career progression model that allows for a variety of challenging opportunities throughout your career. We provide unparalleled coaching, mentoring, and career development programs; global opportunities; and state of the art technology-driven methodologies to help you provide quality service to our clients.

At PwC, you will find Advisory professionals with unparalleled financial and accounting expertise, knowledge of business processes, industry insight and technology, and customer relationship skills. Our Advisory professionals help companies anticipate, create and manage change. In short, we help companies to : (1) respond to crises, (2) improve business processes, and (3) transform their business. Note that across all of these solutions, we embed sustainability into our approach. This also includes helping clients to sustain prior changes that may have been undertaken to address a crisis.

Members of our Advisory practice provide a valuable service to our clients and strive to differentiate PwC by executing the following:

* We put our clients first: Each client situation is unique, and we tailor our approach to every relationship and engagement;
* We view the world from a client's perspective: From the initial client meeting onward, we listen first, and then assemble a hand-picked team from across the firm;
* We create lasting value for our clients: We bring together the precision, structure, and deep analytical capabilities of audit and tax and the creative mindset and problem-solving skills of consulting; and
* We focus on action, impact, and value: We don't just assess and recommend; we also help our clients implement with agility and flexibility.

Job Description

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) works with clients from the technical issues that are owned in the HR function, through the organizational issues that shape the structure and strategy of HR, to CEO sponsored initiatives to maximize the effectiveness of the organization as a whole. We help clients achieve the business objectives of:

â € ¢ People strategy - We help clients identify, design and implement the key people initiatives to support business strategy and optimize the value of human capital in their organization
â € ¢ Culture - We conduct diagnostic strategies/cultural misalignment analyses and develop frameworks and plans to transform organizations
â € ¢ Leadership and Talent Management - Jointly with our clients, we develop approaches and tools to provide leaders and top teams with skills to build the people capacity
â € ¢ Organizational design - Evaluate effectiveness of client â € ™s existing organization structure, align client â € ™s organization structure with business strategy and objectives, manage performance by linking individual performance to business outcomes and perform succession planning.
â € ¢ HR effectiveness - We assess our client â € ™s HR function and processes, by measuring and benchmarking key performance indicators, and we propose improved delivery models.
â € ¢ Reward and performance management - We advise on performance alignment and employee engagement through reward initiatives at CEO, executive and employee levels
â € ¢ Change management - We partner with clients to achieve cultural transformation and business changes

Position/Program Requirements

Knowledge Preferred:

Considerable knowledge and understanding of consulting on organizational design and operations with enterprise wide, multinational corporations in some of the following areas: business operations, talent management, change management, development and delivery of learning programs, project management, financial management, accounting, risk management and/or process improvement.

Considerable knowledge of and exposure to the common issues facing the Financial Services Industry including banking, insurance and/or investment management

Skills Preferred:

Working experience at an enterprise-wide and functional level assisting a project team in conducting workshops to articulate the client's strategy, analyzing their work, understanding the structural implications and identifying design criteria; assisting in the creation of conceptual design options; assisting in the effort to build detailed organization designs, including reporting relationships, complex linkage and unit-level accountability.

Demonstrated experience identifying and addressing client needs: actively participating in client discussions and meetings; communicating a broad range of Firm services; managing engagements including preparing concise, accurate documents and balancing project economics manageme