Deals Traineeship EMEA - Start: September 2023

We use big data analytics to help management and investors make the right decisions. This can include creating new growth opportunities, working more efficiently or more sharply identifying risks. Data and analytics have been essential to the way we provide security and advice to our customers for decades, but over the past 5 years the availability of data and analytical possibilities have grown enormously. Advanced data analytics is therefore essential to doing deals and to realising the desired company value increase.

We regularly advise on some of the largest and most complex cross-border deals. We help clients who want to take over a company or who want to sell all or part of their company. In addition, we advise on refinancing or on the IPO of a company via Initial Public Offerings (IPOs). The financial due diligence we carry out helps buyers understand what will make a transaction a success. We thoroughly assess a company's finances, take into account opportunities and risks and identify potential deal issues. We also work for suppliers and independently assess companies so that potential buyers can make informed decisions. You help your clients make investment decisions by analyzing underlying earnings levels, working capital levels and balance sheet positions. Your findings are the building blocks for deal valuation and provide clients with important input for negotiating prices and conditions.

As a consultant in Deals Strategy you support companies and (private equity) investors in their assessment of investment-related strategic issues. Based on a thorough analysis of market, competition and business information, you help our clients make investment decisions, develop business plans or help companies prior to or after acquisition to maximize company value. Your recommendations are concrete, pragmatic and practical and based on facts and insights. You work closely together with our industry experts from Strategy& to understand industries and develop tailored strategies. You also frequently collaborate with the global Deals Strategy network on international acquisitions, or to source specific market knowledge.

Within valuations you discuss the valuation of companies in the broadest sense of the word. You are involved in deal valuations, valuations for financial reporting and shareholder disputes. You are the spider in the web because you translate strategic, operational and financial results into an honest and independent valuation.

Buyers and sellers need to understand the key business drivers and key opportunities to quickly extract deal value from transactions. Within this competency, you support customers in the final phase of a takeover or merger, or just after. You help customers to realize the potential value of a deal and thus ensure the success of the investment.

From small family businesses to large multinationals, Business Restructuring Services (BRS) helps underperforming companies and people with interests in underperforming companies to understand and solve their problems. This can mean devising strategies to change the company, restructure its debts and operations or guide it through an insolvency process. You will examine whether the company can become viable after restructuring and help to turn the company into a restructuring plan to obtain new financing and/or restructure the company. You will also work on investment decisions from a crisis perspective.

A prerequisite for a successful acquisition is a well-managed process. With millions at stake, our customers can be demanding, so our advice - the advice you will eventually give - is crucial. We need to be well-informed, able to build relationships quickly and effectively and think strategically. Relationships are an important part of our business. In addition to your technical work, you will have regular contact with various customers. You need strong communication skills and the flexibility to adapt when you are in a different environment. Identifying new deals is an important part of your work.

Since the financial crisis, the rules for financing have changed dramatically. Where the choice for companies with a credit demand used to be very limited, there are now many parties active that want to provide credit. So nowadays the options are very wide. But with the increase in the number of options, the market has also become quite intransparent and it is not easy to find the optimal solution.

As a Debt & Capital Advisor at PwC, you know the players in the finance market and the advantages and disadvantages of certain solutions. You're part of a team that works with Private Equity and Corporate clients to ensure that they get the best solution, whether it's in the form of debt, equity or something in between. With us, you will develop into a fully-fledged Debt & Capital specialist, which will enable you to advise creative credit solutions whether they come from traditional banks or from alternative financiers at home and abroad. You also ensure that these loans are actually paid out, thereby relieving our clients of as many worries as possible. You'll find that this can still be a challenge.

In ESG in Deals you will help clients understand Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) topics in the context of mergers and acquisitions. The diligence and value creation services we provide help our clients understand the deal risks and opportunities associated with ESG topics such as greenhouse gas emissions, pollution, human rights and diversity. Based on a thorough review of material ESG topics and industry practices, you call out issues, identify upside potential and come up with specific recommendations for progress on ESG. You work closely with sustainability experts from across the firm to develop a point of view on a wide range of ESG topics. You also collaborate with other Deals teams to estimate the financial implications of ESG topics. Your findings will provide our clients with insight into both the financial value and societal impact of a deal.