Advisory - Deals - Forensic - Data Analyst - Associate 2 - Kolkata

Line of Service

Advisory

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

Deal Strategy

Management Level

Associate

Job Description & Summary

A career within Deals Business Recovery Services, will provide you with the opportunity to support our clients survive an imminent crisis or simply fix gaps in their organisation. We help clients, reduce balance sheet stress, generate cash and reduce costs or refinance to find the best source of capital to support their business objectives. Whatever the solution, we help them manage challenges until the job is done.

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

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:

• Use feedback and reflection to develop self awareness, personal strengths and address development areas.
• Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities, coaching them to deliver results.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.
• Use a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current industry or sector trends.
• Review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance.
• Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.
• Seek and embrace opportunities which give exposure to different situations, environments and perspectives.
• Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.
• Able to read situations and modify behavior to build quality relationships.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Introduction

PwC’s Market Abuse team is expanding its capabilities to support clients participating in financial markets.

We work with our clients to investigate and remediate issues, and transform surveillance functions to prepare for, and respond to, regulation and regulatory scrutiny. 

A career in our team will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients navigate through complex challenges. The team brings together data and technology capabilities with regulation and risk expertise to help clients prevent, detect, respond to and remediate market abuse threats. We use a wide range of technology tools and analytics techniques in our work, often working with very large data sets and complex surveillance software.

All team members are encouraged to continue developing their own skill sets, and we support continuing professional development in areas and capabilities suitable for each individual.

What you’ll do

We are currently looking for Associates or Senior Associates with technical expertise and a keen interest in the domain of market abuse and surveillance to join our team.

Join us and you'll get to work alongside leading professionals in Market Abuse and Surveillance, using tools and techniques in the fields of Data Analytics, Algorithm Design and Implementation, Machine Learning and Data Visualisation to assist clients in preventing and detecting market abuse. 

We support our clients with a range of services:

• Market abuse surveillance implementation and calibration (e.g. detection scenarios, instance identification, parameter setting and tuning, lexicon refinement, model tuning).

• Data driven surveillance effectiveness review and optimisation.

• End-to-end data and process flow reviews, supporting surveillance implementations.

• Surveillance vendor evaluations and support for surveillance strategic roadmaps.

• Market abuse risk assessments.

• Development of robust governance structure and procedures.

• Assistance in responding to regulatory enquiries.

In this role, a successful candidate will be expected to work on different client engagements across multinational financial services and commodities clients, using a range of technology tools. The candidate will primarily work alongside colleagues in the UK Market Abuse and Surveillance team and in Kolkata. 

Required skills and experience

Our work is technical and successful candidates should be able to evidence experience in at least one of the following areas through previous work experience, personal work projects, or university:

• Programming or coding experience (for example using SQL/Python)

• Data analysis and data visualization experience (for example using PowerBI/Alteryx)

• Data modeling and / or data science

Successful candidates should also be able to demonstrate the skills and / or experience of the areas set out below:

• Ability to clearly articulate technical approaches and complex concepts to clients and non-technical audiences

• Logical thinking and ability to problem solve

• An understanding of financial markets and the types of market abuse that may appear

• An understanding of financial products and their use cases (e.g. equities, FX, commodities, derivatives)

• A keen interest in regulation and / or technology related to market abuse and surveillance

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

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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