PwC Australia
2021 Strategy& Winter Intern Program - Canberra
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Opportunity details
- Internship, Clerkship or Placement
- Apply by 15 Mar 2020
About Strategy&
At Strategy&, we bring together the very best strategic and operational thinking to help Australian businesses solve their toughest problems, gain competitive advantage and seize their greatest opportunities. As part of the PwC network and with more than 100 years of industry recognised experience in strategy consulting, we harness the skills and expertise of people from a wide range of teams and backgrounds to help businesses create their point of difference and realise their potential.
About the Role
As a Winter Intern, you will join Strategy& as an Associate in our Sydney, Melbourne or Canberra office. Winter Interns provide support on client assignments that help to develop and execute a strategy that helps solve important problems.They consult with clients to identify, clarify, and resolve complex issues critical to clients' strategic and operating success by thoroughly, gathering required data, executing required analyses, identifying issues and problems and recommending approaches to address them. Associates serve as an effective support resource to teams in client meetings.
By joining Strategy& as a Winter Intern you will have the opportunity to work across a variety of industries, including:
- Consumer & Retail
- Telecommunications, Media & Technology
- Digital Business & Technology
- Energy, Utilities & Resources
- Higher Education
- Financial Services
- Healthcare
About you
You're in your penultimate year of undergraduate study, embrace technology and the disruption it brings, and thrive in an environment that's ever evolving. Regardless of what or where you studied, you're ready to work hard and create meaningful change. You are a high achiever, pride yourself on excellence and have developed key leadership skills through your experiences to date. You are creative, have strong analytical skills and enjoy working collaboratively with others to solve problems. You are curious, agile and not afraid to challenge the status quo.
The skills, talents and working requirements you need to be considered as a Winter Intern are as follows:
- Intellectual curiosity complemented by excellent academic achievement at undergraduate level
- Demonstrated leadership skills that may be acquired through internships, study abroad programs, volunteering or work experience
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- IQ/EQ balance and relationship skills that enables effectiveness with clients and growth into senior roles
- Outstanding oral and written communication skills
- Strong client and team orientation – active listening, commitment to others' success
- Ambition to build client capabilities that deliver lasting impact
- Right to work in Australia and fluency in English
Applications close – 11:59pm AEST on Sunday, 15th March, 2020
Additional Information
You must be available to interview on 1st May, 2020 (All locations)
Our winter internship program will run for 4 weeks in June-July 2020
If you've also submitted an application to the PwC Vacation Program and completed the online assessment, you will need to click on the invitation link in the Strategy& invite to login and submit your results for this role.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Reviews
Varies from project to project. On my current project this involves creating business and technical requirements, hosting standups, communicating progress to the client, managing the sprint cadence (creating the meetings on outlook), liaising with the QA on test estimates , providing testing assistance when needed and explaining the business requirements to the developers to get the solution design created.
Assisting in conducting internal audits and compliance reviews.
Mainly involved in investment research and operations for providing clients with investment advice.
About the employer
PwC Australia
3.8
> 100,000 employees
Accounting & Advisory
PwC takes a human-led, tech-powered approach, combining diverse perspectives, expertise and relationships with tech to solve important problems.
Pros and cons of working at PwC Australia
Pros
The people here are all genuine and open... I enjoy working in a high-performing environment where I feel that my skills are developing every day.
The support and growth opportunities from the team of individuals with different experiences.
From the day I started, I felt incredibly welcomed and supportive. No matter how high up in the company someone was they still would give me the time to help me with any questions I had. My team made work fun and enjoyable.
The office itself is great, especially the access to the cafe where free warm drinks are available before 12. The company has a flexible 'dress for your day' dress code, so people can often come in relaxing clothing, although many still prefer business wear
Our managers are highly accessible and make excellent mentors.
Cons
The working hours can be quite demanding
I think everyone, not just PwC, would like to be paid more for what they do and when compared with other graduate roles we are paid to a similar standard.
Time in grade is the main driver for promotion.
The pressure at times to meet deadlines that may not necessarily be that realistic and the billable hour demands.
There should be more formal training programs for technical skills here.