About The Team

Our Business Recovery Services (BRS) practice is the largest restructuring practice in the UK and operates from 23 offices.

We are looking for highly driven and ambitious individuals to work in our Public Sector Operational Restructuring team. The service blends hands-on stakeholder management skills with technical financial expertise (such as cost reduction and working capital management), together with industry experience. Our aim is to support our clients to deliver financial and operational performance turnaround.

We are the UK market leaders in this area working across the public sector, with a particular focus on the NHS (hospitals, Clinical Commissioning Groups, and across health systems).

This is an exciting opportunity to join a highly successful and growing team, with excellent career progression opportunities.

About the role

You will be working with high profile NHS and public sector clients in a fast paced and highly rewarding environment. You will have excellent analytical capabilities supported by strong interpersonal skills and tenacity to support the delivery of operational change and financial turnaround.

Your role will involve analysis and report writing and working with client staff in hands-on roles to develop and deliver cost improvement projects. This may involve working operationally and in clinical environments in order to identify savings and implement cost controls.

You will work with our team to support a range of assignments including;

• Assessing and testing of financial positions and forecasts;

• Establishing programme management offices and supporting operations;

• Developing, planning and supporting the delivery of operational improvement projects;

• Developing and implementing cost control programmes;

• Strategic planning with business case and scenario modelling.

Our clients are based around the UK and you will need to be willing to travel to a variety of working locations.

Skills and experience we are looking for

• Sound analytical skills (financial and non-financial), including strong use of Microsoft Excel;

• Report writing skills, including use of Microsoft PowerPoint;

• Excellent verbal and written English;

• Strong interpersonal skills and comfortable communicating at different levels;

• Willingness to learn about and participate in marketing and business development;

• A commitment to continued personal development;

• Project and time management skills;

• Ability to work to tight deadlines in a pressurised working environment;

• Flexibility to work on diverse projects;

• Experience of operating on cost reduction programmes in the NHS or public sector is preferred but not essential.

You’ll be joining a team who will welcome your outlook and knowledge. Our team come from a variety of backgrounds, many with hands on experience of working in the public sector including the NHS and MoD. We also recognise that this type of work is quite new for some so we support our joiners as best we can to transition successfully to working in one of the world’s leading professional services organisations.

Please apply if you have a keen interest in the work we do.

Deals

Our Deals business is an exciting, fast-paced and an ever-growing business that focuses on deals and crisis situations for our clients. Collectively, we deal with the types of situations you hear about regularly in the news and we provide support, insight and analysis to the management, shareholders and financiers of business.

Not the role for you?

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The skills we look for in future employees

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional’ and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

Learn more here www.pwc.com/uk/careers/experienced/apply

Diversity

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.

Learn more here www.pwc.com/uk/diversity