adminPricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Nigeria has been a key player in the country since 1953, evolving through its predecessor firms, Coopers & Lybrand and Price Waterhouse. As one of Nigeria’s leading professional services firms, PwC operates with over 1,000 staff members and 31 resident partners across offices in Lagos, Abuja, and Port Harcourt.
We are hiring for:
Job Title: Capital Markets and Accounting Advisory Services Manager.
Job ID: 460414WD.
Location: Lagos.
Contract type: Full-Time.
Service Line: Assurance.
Industry: FS X-Sector.
Area of Specialization: Assurance.
Management Ladder/Level: Manager.
Job Description & Summary
- Are you ready to build a career in a rapidly changing world?
- Developing as a PwC professional means that you will be ready to create and capture opportunities to advance your career and fulfill your potential.
What will you do if you work in CMAAS at PwC?
- You’ll ask questions and test assumptions.
- You’ll help determine if companies are reporting information that investors and others can rely on.
- You’ll help businesses solve complex issues faced by management and boards.
- You’ll serve the public interest and the capital markets by providing quality assurance and advisory services.
- The world is quickly changing, and that’s why PwC is quickly adapting.
- We’re capitalizing on trends that will impact corporate reporting.
- We combine skills and experience to help our clients address their challenges.
Roles & Responsibilities
- As a member of the Capital Markets practice within CMAAS, you will help clients navigate through complicated transactions and events, from evaluation through integration, in a multifaceted business environment.
- PwC helps clients negotiate with confidence. Some of the world’s most prestigious companies rely on our buy-and-sell side due diligence capabilities and turn to us for advice on financial reporting, valuation and tax issues.
- We also provide advice and project management for capital raising events such as initial public offerings, secondary listings and private placements.
- For companies in distressed situations, we advise on crisis avoidance, financial and operational restructuring and bankruptcy.
- Clients rely on PwC to help them make informed and empowered decisions to invest, divest, raise capital, or reorganize.
- As our clients execute on their chosen strategy, our focus turns to helping them extract value.
- PwC’s CMAAS practice advises our clients in moments of exceptional change around deals and accounting change, helping them shape strategy and transformation.
- We advise our clients across the deal spectrum to capture value.
- CMAAS employs a team-based structure to tackle clients’ needs with a solution oriented approach to creatively address complex financial reporting problems.
- We work on high profile transactions with significant interaction with senior company management teams, bankers, lawyers, and other advisors.
- We have a coaching environment with both formal and informal systems in place, as well as continuous on-the-job training to ensure industry leading personal and professional development.
Our main areas of focus within the capital markets team include:
- Capital markets such as IPOs, spins, debt raising and capital structure advice;
- Acquisitions;
- Alliances such as enter/exit JVs, strategic alliances, licenses, collaborations, etc.;
- Divestitures;
- Crisis, restructurings and restatements;
- Deal strategy and readiness including navigating fundraising and M&A options.
Requirements for the Position/Program
- Minimum Years of Experience: 6.
- Minimum Degree Required: Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or other business field of study, including an acceptable NASBA foreign education equivalent.
- Certification(s) Required: Passed either ACA or AACA Exam or the equivalent accounting or finance certification exam in the selected individual’s home country.
Knowledge Preferred:
- Participate as an individual contributor and a team member with senior CMAAS practitioners & other professionals (e.g. bankers, lawyers, auditors, and advisors) on complex financial reporting and regulatory matters related to deals & other transformational events on a daily basis in areas of focus listed above.
- This includes demonstrating extensive knowledge of and/or a proven record of success in the following areas:.
- Advising multi-national, publicly-traded companies & private equity firms on a broad range of financial reporting, & capital markets topics, including:
- IPOs, debt offerings, private placements;
- Carve-outs and/or spin-offs; and
- Acquisitions, alliances, joint ventures, and post deal matters.
- Demonstrates a strong interest in deals, capital markets, and other transaction-based activities and should expect to operate in a high pressure, fast-paced work environment.
Skills Preferred:
- Demonstrates proven extensive abilities and success with managing teams in a professional services consulting firm, including, but not limited to, the following areas:
Technical Capabilities:
- Applying extensive know-how of technical requirements for listing locally in Nigeria (bonds and equity) and cross-border, such as the JSE, LSE, and NYSE.
- Reinforcing firm compliance requirements and applying them to client engagements.
Business Acumen:
- Continuously deepening and broadening business know-how—how it is changing and why this matters—in order to articulate a relevant point of view.
- Developing and sharing a point of view on strategic business issues and trends, anticipating the impact of technological developments on client needs, and surfacing relevant behavioral patterns as potential trends.
- Integrating frameworks and models into an analytical approach to develop insight into organizations.
- Coaching team members on problem-solving techniques and guiding them to use more sophisticated tools and frameworks.
Global Acumen:
- Modeling and encouraging team members to learn about cultures that differ from their own.
- Articulating a perspective on relevant global trends and how they impact client challenges.
- Applying global industry-leading practices, global economic perspectives, and local territory cultural nuances to shape solutions and recommendations.
Leadership:
- Motivating others, helping them to understand and visualize goals.
- Helping others plan their development.
- Displaying respect and fairness when managing others, bringing conflict into the open to enhance the quality of decisions and team effectiveness.
- Evaluating the performance of team members on the basis of merit and skill, addressing performance issues in the moment.
Relationships:
- Building and sustaining relationships to create an exceptional client and people experience.
- Helping team members determine the impact of their communication styles on others and coach their abilities to collaborate with and respond to clients and individuals.
- Targeting and expanding a network of internal and external relationships.
- Demonstrating integrity, ethical decision-making, and behaviors that build trust across teams and with clients.
- Creating an environment that encourages improvement, innovation, and inclusion, and challenges traditional approaches.
Application Closing Date
20th July, 2024.
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