About this role
At PwC, our people in strategy consulting focus on providing strategic guidance and insights to organisations. They analyse market trends, assess business performance, and develop recommendations to help clients achieve their goals. These individuals work closely with clients to identify opportunities for growth, optimise operations, and enhance overall business performance.
A career within Technology Strategy will provide you with the opportunity to help organizations develop strategies that transform their technology capabilities and solve their most critical challenges. We focus on building technology enabled and Agile operating models, planning their new enterprise architecture into a differentiating capability system that helps them win in the market, leveraging digital analytics to enhance the customer experience, optimizing business operations, and using modern management techniques such as GenAI and next generation technologies to help our clients get fit for growth.
Consultants in our Financial Services industry teams enable banks, insurers and other financial institutions to innovate, improve and achieve high performance. You’re joining a team that will challenge you and invest in your professional development. You’ll get a chance to work with a high performing people that helps clients through a range of services including strategy and operations, business transformation, customer experience, and risk and regulatory consulting. The practice is tight-knit, entrepreneurial, and where everyone is expected to make an impact in a space of significant investment and growth for PwC.
Meaningful work you’ll be part of
As a Finance Technology Senior Associate, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve business issues, deliver high quality client service and operational efficiency. Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Support the Financial Services strategy and transformation programs, focused on Retail banking and channels (digital and contact center focus)
Gather and analyze client information and develop data-driven insights to support the development of platform and channel business and technology strategies
Understand the client’s business and technology strategy and operations through research, interviews, formulating and testing hypotheses
Work within Agile product teams and participate in Agile ceremonies, tolling and development
Work directly with clients to support Agile development activities in the role of business analyst or product owner
Gather and prioritize business and or technology requirements and build process flows
Make use of industry standard program and project management processes, tools and ceremonies
Help to deliver client projects on time and within budget, utilizing tested Project Management methods, exceeding client expectations through outstanding team performance and stakeholder management
Build and maintain effective, trusting and collaborative client relationships at multiple levels
Outside of project work, you will collaborate with PwC leaders to create compelling client proposals, white papers, thought leadership and point of view pieces, which investigate industry challenges and how technology can be used as a solution
Contribute to building a strong and sustainable PwC culture through effective employee engagement, mentoring and coaching team members through timely, meaningful verbal and written feedback
Experiences and skills you’ll use to solve
Exposure to technology strategy and management
Experience with Agile, Scrum, SAFe, and Kanban methodologies
Experience with a Financial Services firm or an internal consulting group
Knowledge of one or more business domains within Retail or Commercial banking
Experience with technology domains including and not limited to: Process Automation; Digitization; Full Stack Software Delivery; and experience with Cloud migration and Data strategies
A proven track record of successful project completion, including experience working with technology and business stakeholders to design process flows, write requirements, develop user stories, and facilitate the hand-off to development teams
A critical thinking mindset, able to culminate business and technology problems, and excellent problem-solving skills that lead to logical solutions
An organized worker capable of navigating changing project conditions, pressing deadlines, identify and resolve risks, and collaborate with team members
Enthusiasm for PwC’s community by fostering our culture through various initiatives, pursuing new business opportunities, and developing external facing research and articles
A demonstrated commitment to valuing differences and working alongside diverse people and perspectives
An ability to travel to client sites across Canada
PwC Canada is committed to cultivating an inclusive, hybrid work environment. Exact expectations for your team can be discussed with your interviewer
This newly created role reflects our commitment to growth and delivering distinctive value for our clients and stakeholders.
The salary range for this position is $84,700 - $134,700. The posted salary range represents the expected hiring range for PwC locations in major city centres. Given our national recruiting approach, ranges may vary for positions in other locations. At PwC Canada, base salary is determined by your skills, experience, qualifications and work location. In addition to base salary, eligible employees may have opportunities to participate in variable incentive pay programs which are designed to reward individual and firm-wide achievements. We are committed to offering competitive compensation and adhere to all relevant pay transparency legislation. During the hiring process, our Talent Acquisition team will provide details about our comprehensive total rewards package.
Why you’ll love PwC
We’re inspiring and empowering our people to change the world. Powered by the latest technology, you’ll be a part of diverse teams helping public and private clients build trust and deliver sustained outcomes. This meaningful work, and our continuous development environment, will take your career to the next level. We reward your impact, and support your wellbeing, through a competitive compensation package, inclusive benefits and flexibility programs that will help you thrive in work and life. Learn more about our Application Process and Total Rewards Package at: https://jobs-ca.pwc.com/ca/en/life-at-pwc
PwC Canada acknowledges that we work and live across Turtle Island, on the land that is now known as Canada, which are the lands of the ancestral, treaty and unceded territories of the First Nations, Métis and Inuit Peoples. We recognize the systemic racism, colonialism and oppression that Indigenous Peoples have experienced and still go through, and we commit to allyship and solidarity.
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What you'll do
- As a Finance Technology Senior Associate, you will support Financial Services strategy and transformation programs, focusing on retail banking and channels. You will gather and analyze client information to develop data-driven insights and work directly with clients in Agile development activities.
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