JOB POST: Associate (Management Consulting) at PwC [Bangalore, Hyderabad]: Apply Now!
Applications are invited from eligible candidates for the post of Associate (Management Consulting) at PwC.
PricewaterhouseCoopers is a multinational professional services network of firms, operating as partnerships under the PwC brand.
About the Job
As an 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:
- Invite and give in the moment feedback in a constructive manner.
- Share and collaborate effectively with others.
- Identify and make suggestions for improvements when problems and/or opportunities arise.
- Handle, manipulate and analyse data and information responsibly.
- Follow risk management and compliance procedures.
- Keep up-to-date with developments in area of specialism.
- Communicate confidently in a clear, concise and articulate manner – verbally and in the materials I produce.
- Build and maintain an internal and external network.
- Seek opportunities to learn about how PwC works as a global network of firms.
- Uphold the firm’s code of ethics and business conduct.
Operations Strategy:
- Demonstrates extensive knowledge in helping companies define and evaluate digital and technology strategies, reflecting market, competitive and other external drivers
- Considerable experience in Operations Strategy and Transformation, and/or Product Innovation and Product Development is preferred
- Working experience with Financial operations, including the revenue tracking, cost planning and forecasting processes
- Working experience with operations and administration of Healthcare Payer, Provider, Product and Services businesses
- Specific areas of focus include:
- Digital Strategy
- CRM Strategy
- Technology Strategy
- Advanced Analytics Strategy
- Working knowledge in one or more of the following domains:
- Data & Analytics
- Automation
- Artificial Intelligence
- Health Advocacy
- Medical Trend Analysis
- Cost Benchmarking
- Ability to identify ongoing digital health trends, evaluate their impact, and develop strategic solutions leveraging these trends
- Experience in AML (anti-money laundering) / ABAC (Anti-Bribery and Corruption) / Risk & Compliance would be an advantage
- Managing and conducting quantitative and qualitative benchmarking, secondary analyses of large and complex data
- Ability to identify key attributes to be used from vast number of variables, finding patterns & correlations in data
- Demonstrates thorough knowledge and success supporting large teams through the design and implementation of changes to Operations, including people, process and technology changes
- Delivering significant business results that utilizes strategic and creative thinking, problem solving, individual initiative
- Communicating effectively in written and verbal formats to various situations and audiences
- Compelling storytelling through creative presentation and powerful data visualization (including Tableau, PowerBI)
- Hypothesis based problem solving with abstract/limited data
Enterprise and Business Transformation:
- Experience in delivering core transformation projects such as digital transformation, enterprise analytics enablement and cloud migration for healthcare payers
- Considerable experience in Operations Strategy and Transformation, and/or Product Innovation and Development is preferred
- Experience with customer segmentation, persona development, journey maps and identifying business and technology capability and solutions needs
- Understanding of human-centered design principles
- Conducting and managing, quantitative and qualitative market research analyses
- Timely synthesis of complex data into meaningful insights
- Ability to readily grasp analytical frameworks and employ them effectively to either qualitative or quantitative evidence
- Vendor assessment and RFP mgmt
- Ability to construct a multi-year roadmap and business case
- Compelling storytelling through creative presentation and powerful visualization (including Tableau, PowerBI)
- Hypothesis based problem
Project and Program Management :
- Strong program/project management skills with experience in delivering large transformation projects that have led to organisational change and business benefits
- Experience in driving overall program/project management performance goals (measures & metrics) to ensure transparency, predictability, and value realization
- Experience in identifying & managing program health, risks and issues along with an added view on their mitigation roadmap
- Working experience documentation and the identification of key controls within the transaction lifecycle
- Managing resource requirements, project workflows, budgets, billing and collections
- Experience in the performing the following functions: â—‹ Complex decision support
- Program value management
- Program capability planning
- Experience in utilizing pragmatic approaches to achieve sustainable financial functions and operating models
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite of tools Experience in project management tools like MS Project. Knowledge in JIRA, Rally, Confluence, etc would be an added advantage
- Demonstrating analytical skills using MS Excel and visualization tools such as Tableau / PowerBI / QlikView / MicroStrategy is preferred
- Knowledge of SAS/SQL and intelligent automation tools (eg., UIPath, Alteryx) would be an added advantage
Analytics:
- Demonstrates extensive knowledge of designing and developing business intelligence (BI) and basic predictive models for data warehouse (DW) information management architecture
- Evaluating enterprise DW architecture feasibility, risk and technologies related to business change i.e. assessing, identifying and recommending BI data requirements; BI solution prototypes
- Should have knowledge about processes and performance measures from business as well as technical standpoints with a definite perspective on the impact of data changes on business and/or IT processes
- Demonstrate insight driven mindset for interpretation of large data volumes using basic data analytics
- Working knowledge of Payer and healthcare organization structure, analytics strategy, analytics capability planning, analytics operating model transformation
- Demonstrating analytical skills using MS Excel and visualization tools such as Tableau / PowerBI is preferred
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite of tools
- Knowledge of SAS/SQL and intelligent automation tools (eg., UIPath, Alteryx) would be an added advantage
- Communicating effectively in written and verbal formats to various situations and audiences
Operating Model and Process Optimization:
- Operating model transformation
- Change management
- Finance planning and reporting incl benchmarking, LOS analytics etc
- Experience in creating process/workflow documents and automation models to increase efficiency
- Implementing/designing improvement projects in various departments of healthcare organizations
- Cultural and informal organization
- Leadership excellence
- Working experience with Operations and administration of Healthcare/Payer, Product and Services businesses
- Participation in the improvement of business processes, data and process standardization and development of future state business mode
- Payer operations strategy – Sales, Marketing, Benefits/Products, Clinical Management, and Core Operations (Enrollment, Claims, Billing, and Customer Service)
- Hypothesis based problem solving with abstract/limited data
- Demonstrating analytical skills using MS Excel and visualization tools such as Tableau / PowerBI is preferred
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite of tools
- Knowledge of SAS/SQL and intelligent automation tools (eg., UIPath, Alteryx) would be an added advantage
- Communicating effectively in written and verbal formats to various situations and audiences
Strategic reimbursement:
- US healthcare specifically medicare and medicaid reimbursements
- Cost models of healthcare providers
- Financial planning and reporting including benchmarking, LOS analytics etc
- Budgeting and reporting skills
- Demonstrating analytical skills using MS Excel, Alteryx is preferred
- Creative presentation and visualization skills including tableau, PowerBI
- Communicating effectively in written and verbal formats to various situations and audiences
Educational Background
Degree Preferred: MBA/MHA from a premium B-School; Healthcare knowledge will be an added benefit.
Additional Information
- Division: Management Consulting
- Level: Experienced Associate
- Function: Operations
- Experience: 12 to 36 months of work experience
- Time Type: Full time
- Work Timings: Work hours may vary for specific projects
- Travel Requirements: Travel to client locations may be required as per project requirements.
- Office Locations: Bangalore and Hyderabad, India
How to Apply?
Interesed applicants can apply for the post through this link.
