Line of Service

Internal Firm Services

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

IFS - Human Capital (HC)

Management Level

Senior Associate

Job Description & Summary

At PwC, our people in talent and development focus on finding, deploying, training and enabling talent through talent identification and enhancing employee skills and knowledge, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth. These individuals collaborate with subject matter specialists and project teams to strategize effective ways to locate, assess, educate and train employees, in line with market developments and firm strategy.

In staffing and deployment at PwC, your work will focus on managing and optimising the deployment of employees within the organisation, getting the right talent to the right place at the right time.

Focused on relationships, you are building meaningful client connections, and learning how to manage and inspire others. Navigating increasingly complex situations, you are growing your personal brand, deepening technical expertise and awareness of your strengths. You are expected to anticipate the needs of your teams and clients, and to deliver quality. Embracing increased ambiguity, you are comfortable when the path forward isn’t clear, you ask questions, and you use these moments as opportunities to grow.

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

Respond effectively to the diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.

Use a broad range of tools, methodologies and techniques to generate new ideas and solve problems.

Use critical thinking to break down complex concepts.

Understand the broader objectives of your project or role and how your work fits into the overall strategy.

Develop a deeper understanding of the business context and how it is changing.

Use reflection to develop self awareness, enhance strengths and address development areas.

Interpret data to inform insights and recommendations.

Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.

As a Senior Associate, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

· Pursue opportunities to develop existing and new skills outside of comfort zone.

· Act to resolve issues which prevent effective team working, even during times of change and uncertainty.

· Coach others and encourage them to take ownership of their development.

· Analyze complex ideas or proposals and build a range of meaningful recommendations.

· Use multiple sources of information including broader stakeholder views to develop solutions and recommendations.

· Address sub-standard work or work that does not meet firm's/client's expectations.

· Develop a perspective on key global trends, including globalization, and how they impact the firm and our clients.

· Manage a variety of viewpoints to build consensus and create positive outcomes for all parties.

· Focus on building trusted relationships.

· Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Preferred Knowledge/Skills:

Total Years of experience - 5+ years in the deployment function

Location - Bangalore / Hyderabad / Kolkata

Education - Any graduate/postgraduate

Demonstrates extensive knowledge and/or a proven record of success in human resources/recruiting policies and practices, preferably within a professional services environment, including, but not limited to, the following areas: Deployment:

● Enabling staffing decisions while considering individual development needs, career interests, and broad-based experiences utilizing analytical and presentation skills to provide key data to drive business decisions.

● Highly experienced in managing Data Sanity and Checks, data manipulation, analysis and reporting.

● In-depth knowledge of Deployment / Staffing.

● Excellence in Deployment Operations: Utilization / analysis of forecast variance / Demand-Supply gap analysis.

● Excellent Communication skills for Stakeholder management.

● Leveraging understanding of the practice to positively influence deployment / staffing decisions with the goal of balancing workload, optimizing utilization, promoting flexibility, and providing broad-based experiences and developmental opportunities while balancing firm and client needs.

● Understanding and implementing Diversity strategy through all staffing and deployment decisions.

● Understanding of firm and business priorities to collaborate within the Deployment Consultant network, maximizing resource sharing and enabling the delivery of the firm to our clients through Line of Service (LoS) and xLoS staffing.

● Utilizing alternative talent pools including global workforces and third-party labor.

● Leveraging PwC’s resource scheduling tool and systems as the single source of deployment and forecasting information;

● Leveraging tools from Onboarding teams to support assimilation of new hires and interns to the team/practice, reviewing initial client assignments and chargeability, with a heightened focus on diverse staff.

● Implementing the firm’s deployment strategy, leveraging tools and industry leading practices developed by the Deployment CoE, and other Centers of Excellence (CoE’s) as applicable;

● Leveraging the knowledge of immigration and global deployment to navigate partners and engagement teams through these protocols to enable the staffing process, including cost impact of assignment.

Operations:

● Collaborating with peers and leads, to manage budget and execute workforce planning, forecasting, utilization, and workload balance for the assigned resources and teams.

● Promoting the understanding of firm economics and achieving retention, utilization, workload balance, diversity initiatives, and broad-base experience targets.

● Establishing and leveraging relationships with Talent Consultants and other Business Services teams to positively impact our people experience;

● Supporting formulation and execution of succession plan development and implementation with Talent Consultant to determine support needed in preparation for Career Roundtable (CRT - annual performance process) in balance with deployment responsibilities, as and when required;

● Understanding Human Capital metrics, sourcing, employee relations, strategies, goals and critical achievement targets.

● Liaising with Global Mobility teams to prepare for deployment of new short or long-term assignees coming to the US, repatriations back to home territories and identification of resources to supplement talent pool;

● Collaborating with the HR Shared Services Deployment Enablement Team to identify staff for instructor roles and validating that individuals are well positioned for the opportunity.

● Being able to independently make decisions and solve problems affecting assigned team.

● Leveraging Talent/Deployment Senior Associates to deliver services to the team.

● Coaching and development of juniors, if asked, including providing timely written and verbal feedback.

● Maintaining knowledge of current and emerging human capital technology trends and experience innovating with new human capital technology tools.

Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)

Degrees/Field of Study required:

Degrees/Field of Study preferred:

Certifications (if blank, certifications not specified)

Required Skills

Optional Skills

Accepting Feedback, Accepting Feedback, Active Listening, Analytical Thinking, Business Performance Management, Business Reporting, Communication, Conflict Resolution, Coordinating Staff, Creativity, Data Analysis, Demand Management, Development Collaboration, Embracing Change, Emotional Regulation, Empathy, Human Resources (HR) Report, Inclusion, Intellectual Curiosity, Learning Agility, Optimism, Project Resource Allocation, Project Resource Management, Resource Allocation, Resource Identification {+ 15 more}

Desired Languages (If blank, desired languages not specified)

Travel Requirements

Not Specified

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No

Government Clearance Required?

No

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