At PwC, our people in strategy consulting focus on providing strategic guidance and insights to organisations. They analyse market trends, assess business performance, and develop recommendations to help clients achieve their goals. These individuals work closely with clients to identify opportunities for growth, optimise operations, and enhance overall business performance. A career within Technology Strategy services will provide you with the opportunity to help organizations develop strategies that transform their technology capabilities and solve their most critical challenges. We focus on building technology enabled and Agile operating models, planning their new enterprise architecture into a differentiating capability system that helps them win in the market, leveraging digital analytics to enhance the customer experience, optimizing business operations, and using modern management techniques such as robotic Process Automation and next generation sourcing strategies to help our clients get fit for growth. Consultants in our Financial Services industry aligned team enable banks, insurers and other financial institutions to innovate, improve and achieve high performance. You’re joining a team that will challenge you and invest in your professional development. You’ll get a chance to work with a high performing team that helps clients through a range of services including strategy and operations, business transformation, customer experience, and risk and regulatory consulting. The practice is tight-knit, entrepreneurial, and where everyone is expected to make an impact in a space of significant investment and growth for PwC.

Meaningful work you’ll be part of

As a Finance Technology Senior Associate (BSA), you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve business issues, deliver high quality client service and operational efficiency. Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Support the Financial Services strategy and transformation programs, focused on Retail banking and channels (digital and contact center focus)
• Gather and analyze client information and develop data-driven insights to support the development of platform and channel business and technology strategies
• Understand the client’s business and technology strategy and operations through research, interviews, formulating and testing hypotheses
• Work within Agile product teams and participate in Agile ceremonies, tolling and development
• Work directly with clients and stakeholders to understand client architecture and to support Agile development activities in the role of business system analyst or data analyst
• Gather and prioritize technology requirements: non-functional requirements, build process flows, sequence diagrams, data dictionaries and contribute to system architecture diagrams
• Write detailed technical documentation including but not limited to API documentation, data documentation, NFR testing documentation, technology blueprints, etc
• Build and maintain effective, trusting and collaborative client relationships at multiple levels
• Outside of project work, you will collaborate with PwC leaders to create compelling client proposals, white papers, thought leadership and point of view pieces, which investigate industry challenges and how technology can be used as a solution
• Contribute to building a strong and sustainable PwC culture through effective employee engagement, mentoring and coaching team members through timely, meaningful verbal and written feedback

Experiences and skills you’ll use to solve

• Exposure to technology strategy and management
• Experience with Agile, Scrum, SAFe, and Kanban methodologies
• Experience with a Financial Services firm or an internal consulting group
• Knowledge of one or more business domains within Retail or Commercial banking
• Experience with technology domains including and not limited to: Process Automation; Digitization; Full Stack Software Delivery; and experience with Cloud migration and Data strategies
• A proven track record of successful project completion, including experience working with technology and business stakeholders to design process flows and sequence diagrams, write technical requirements, build API documentation, collaborate with development and testing teams, contribute to system architecture designs, and lead technical estimation sessions
• A critical thinking mindset, able to solve technology problems with logical solutions
• An organized worker capable of navigating changing project conditions, pressing deadlines, identify and resolve risks, and collaborate with team members
• Enthusiasm for PwC’s community by fostering our culture through various initiatives, pursuing new business opportunities, and developing external facing research and articles
• A demonstrated commitment to valuing differences and working alongside diverse people and perspectives
• An ability to travel to client sites across Canada
• PwC Canada is committed to cultivating an inclusive, hybrid work environment. Exact expectations for your team can be discussed with your interviewer

Why you’ll love PwC

We’re inspiring and empowering our people to change the world. Powered by the latest technology, you’ll be a part of diverse teams helping public and private clients build trust and deliver sustained outcomes. This meaningful work, and our continuous development environment, will take your career to the next level. We reward your impact, and support your wellbeing, through a competitive compensation package, inclusive benefits and flexibility programs that will help you thrive in work and life. Learn more about our Application Process and Total Rewards Package at: https://jobs-ca.pwc.com/ca/en/life-at-pwc

PwC Canada acknowledges that we work and live across Turtle Island, on the land that is now known as Canada, which are the lands of the ancestral, treaty and unceded territories of the First Nations, Métis and Inuit Peoples. We recognize the systemic racism, colonialism and oppression that Indigenous Peoples have experienced and still go through, and we commit to allyship and solidarity.

At PwC Canada, our most valuable asset is our people and we grow stronger as we learn from one another. We’re committed to creating an equitable and inclusive community of solvers where everyone feels that they truly belong. We understand that experience comes in many forms and building trust in society and solving important problems is only possible if we reflect the mosaic of the society we live in.
We’re committed to providing accommodations throughout the application, interview, and employment process. If you require an accommodation to be at your best, please let us know during the application process.