Description

Join us in cultivating a collaborative workplace driven by unique perspectives. We’re proud PwC advances a culture that helps everyone to thrive. It's one of the reasons we're recognized as a "Top Company" to work for in Canada. As you ignite a meaningful career and build a network that’ll last for life, you'll work with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to help solve important problems, empowered by technology to turn today's ideas into tomorrow's solutions. We cultivate an environment in which our differences are embraced and our people feel comfortable bringing their whole selves to work. An empowering and diverse environment starts with you. Are you ready to get started?

A career in our Contract and Closing Mechanisms practice, within Deals Transaction Services, will provide you the opportunity to help organisations realise the potential of mergers, acquisitions and divestitures and capital markets. In short, we help some of the world’s leading companies originate, create, execute, and realise value from deals. Through data driven insights we help our clients move in the right direction ensuring maximum value for their company.

Our team assist organisations with both buy side and sell side due diligence. As part of our team, you’ll help us provide both corporate and financial buyers with peace of mind by analysing and validating all the financial, commercial, operational and strategic assumptions being made.

Important point(s) to consider

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This role doesn’t support completion of the Canadian CPA designation

All applicants will be reviewed and only successful candidates will be contacted by the Talent Acquisition team.

The Team:

A career in Contracts and Closing Mechanisms, a specialized team within our Deals Transaction Services practice, will provide you the opportunity to help create value for clients who are executing mergers, acquisitions and divestitures in a complex deals environment. In short, we are a team of trusted financial advisors for some of the world’s leading companies. We work with a wide range of corporate strategic and private equity clients, advising on sale and purchase agreements for both buy-side and sell-side mandates. We review hundreds of agreements every year across all industry sectors, and bring a deep level of knowledge and expertise to maximize value and support our clients as they negotiate their deals.

PwC Canada’s Transaction Services practice  is comprised of more than 100 deals professionals that bring a combination of financial, commercial, and operational expertise with data-driven insights to create value for our clients across all stages of the deal lifecycle. The Contracts and Closing Mechanisms (CCM) team is a small team of specialists that sits within Transaction Services, composed of approximately 8 deals professionals across Canada with backgrounds in audit and assurance, deals, and disputes

The Clients:

We support clients across a broad range of industries with transaction sizes ranging anywhere between $15 million and in excess of $1 billion. Our clients include:

major Canadian public and private corporations;

leading Canadian financial buyers (Private Equity and Pension Funds); and

inbound financial and strategic acquirers.

What you’ll create and do 

We work solely on deals - helping buyers and sellers to prepare better, close faster and realize profits sooner on mergers and acquisitions, divestitures and financing transactions. We focus on two main service areas: 

1. Sale and Purchase Agreement Advisory - we understand the key risks and issues identified during diligence and work with clients and lawyers to ensure the sale and purchase agreements have built in protections to protect against these risks. We also help to advise on the financial definitions that impact the basis of preparation of the pricing mechanism. 

2. Post-Closing Assistance - we help our clients to maximize and protect value through the purchase price mechanism through the preparation/review process as well as advise during post-closing negotiations and/or disputes over the pricing mechanism (i.e. cash, debt, and net working capital).

What can you expect working in our Contracts & Closing Mechanisms practice?

New and exciting challenges – join a new and fast growing practice area, our CCM practice is the first of its kind in Canada;

Unique training and development opportunities - we review hundreds of agreements every year, advising on complex deal structures across a broad range of industries;

Deep network of deals expertise- we work with a broad network of deals professionals from various backgrounds to bring the highest quality advice to our clients;

Quality team - we have a talented and dedicated team and are looking to build on that; 

Flexible working arrangements and potential travel opportunities (post COVID).

What you’ll bring to this role 

An interest in upskilling for a digital world and technology trends, an openness to learning new tools and adapting how you work

A demonstrated commitment to valuing differences and working alongside diverse people and perspectives

A Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) Designation (or local equivalent);

Professional work experience at the Manager level with successive years of audit and/or deals experience (prior diligence or disputes experience an asset);

Proven technical and analytical capabilities including proven financial and business performance analysis skills;

Strong communication, presentation and report writing skills;

Proven engagement team management and leadership skills

Travel: The position requires flexibility and will require travel throughout North America and internationally which can be up to 25% of your time.