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<p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:left"><b>Industry/Sector</b></p>Not Applicable<p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:left"><b>Specialism</b></p>Operations<p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:left"><b>Management Level</b></p>Associate<p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:left"><b>Job Description & Summary</b></p>At PwC, our people in operations consulting specialise in providing consulting services on optimising operational efficiency and effectiveness. These individuals analyse client needs, develop operational strategies, and offer guidance and support to help clients streamline processes, improve productivity, and drive business performance.<br><br>Those in capital programmes excellence at PwC will specialise in providing consulting services focused on optimising capital programmes and projects. You will work closely with clients to analyse project needs, develop strategies for efficient project delivery, and offer guidance and support to help clients enhance project management practices, mitigate risks, and achieve successful outcomes.<p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p>Driven by curiosity, you are a reliable, contributing member of a team. In our fast-paced environment, you are expected to adapt to working with a variety of clients and team members, each presenting varying challenges and scope. Every experience is an opportunity to learn and grow. You are expected to take ownership and consistently deliver quality work that drives value for our clients and success as a team. As you navigate through the Firm, you build a brand for yourself, opening doors to more opportunities.</p><p></p><p>Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:</p><p></p><ul><li>Apply a learning mindset and take ownership for your own development.</li><li>Appreciate diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.</li><li>Adopt habits to sustain high performance and develop your potential.</li><li>Actively listen, ask questions to check understanding, and clearly express ideas.</li><li>Seek, reflect, act on, and give feedback.</li><li>Gather information from a range of sources to analyse facts and discern patterns.</li><li>Commit to understanding how the business works and building commercial awareness.</li><li>Learn and apply professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), uphold the Firm's code of conduct and independence requirements.</li></ul><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p><b>What are you going to do? </b></p><ul><li>You'll have the opportunity to support, analyze and follow-up the status of Capital Projects based in the US.</li><li>You are going to be able to work with multicultural and multidisciplinary teams.</li><li>You'll get training and development to extend and develop your PM skills, while fostering a strong collaborative culture.  </li></ul><p><b>Preferred skills</b></p><ul><li>Advanced students or graduates of engineering. </li><li>Demonstrates knowledge of the ‘end to end’ project lifecycle, including skills and abilities related to establishing, monitoring, and controlling projects, for individual projects as well as aggregated portfolios. Specific experience should include some of the followings:</li><li>Familiarity with project controls processes.</li><li>Exposure to contractors management.</li><li>Familiarity applying performance metrics and analytics and experience creating project or program-specific KPIs to enable proactive management via the tracking of trends.</li><li>Exposure to process governance and methodologies.</li><li>Experience using project control tools and technologies.</li><li>Knowledge in MS Office Suite (Excel advanced), Sharepoint based and Google cloud apps.</li><li>Ability to adapt to different roles and responsibilities within a project.</li><li>Eager to acquire new knowledge and skills related to project management.</li><li>Advanced level of english.</li><li>Familiarity with and/or exposure with the following technology:</li></ul><p>○ Power BI<br>○ Primavera P6 and/or Microsoft Project<br>○ PowerQuery<br> </p><ul><li>Understand the importance of have a correct information management</li><li>Knowledge of Information Security and Data Protection </li><li>Correct Information Security Management</li></ul><p><b>Nice to have</b></p><ul><li>Experience in large scale capital projects.</li><li>Familiarity with earned value management concepts</li><li>Experience in application of statistical methods, data mining and/or data-driven problem solving.</li><li>Familiarity with and/or exposure with the following technology:</li><li>Alteryx, PowerQuery.</li><li>Tableau, Power BI and/or Qlik.</li><li>Visio, IBM Blueworks and/or equivalent process mapping software.</li><li>Acumen Risk, @Risk.</li><li>Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project.</li></ul><p></p><p></p><p>All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment at PwC without regard to ethnicity; creed; color; religion; national origin; age; disability; neurodiversity; sexual orientation; gender identity or expression; marital; or any other status protected by law. PwC is proud to be an inclusive organization and equal opportunity employer.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:left"><b>Travel Requirements</b></p>Not Specified<p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:left"><b>Job Posting End Date</b></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p></p><p></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p>

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