Management Level
Manager
Job Description & Summary
At PwC, our people in software and product innovation focus on developing cutting-edge software solutions and driving product innovation to meet the evolving needs of clients. These individuals combine technical experience with creative thinking to deliver innovative software products and solutions.
In business analysis at PwC, you will focus on analysing and interpreting data to provide strategic insights and recommendations for improving business performance. Your work will involve strong analytical skills and the ability to effectively communicate findings to stakeholders.
Enhancing your leadership style, you motivate, develop and inspire others to deliver quality. You are responsible for coaching, leveraging team member’s unique strengths, and managing performance to deliver on client expectations. With your growing knowledge of how business works, you play an important role in identifying opportunities that contribute to the success of our Firm. You are expected to lead with integrity and authenticity, articulating our purpose and values in a meaningful way. You embrace technology and innovation to enhance your delivery and encourage others to do the same.
Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:
- Analyse and identify the linkages and interactions between the component parts of an entire system.
- Take ownership of projects, ensuring their successful planning, budgeting, execution, and completion.
- Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables.
- Develop skills outside your comfort zone, and encourage others to do the same.
- Effectively mentor others.
- Use the review of work as an opportunity to deepen the expertise of team members.
- Address conflicts or issues, engaging in difficult conversations with clients, team members and other stakeholders, escalating where appropriate.
- Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.
About PwC SATIC and the role
Our South Africa Delivery Centre is the latest part of PwC, a global brand delivering services for the biggest clients in the world. PwC leads the way in human led, technology-enabled professional services working with clients to transform their organisations and make them fit for the future.
We are looking for candidates who bring in-depth market experience, fused with outstanding technical capabilities, who want to be a part of a community of solvers to tackle the biggest challenges in society.
If you are looking for a career where every day is different, where challenges are complex and where you can make a real difference, then we want to hear from you. By choosing to join SATIC, you are choosing to work with teams all over the world, harnessing the power of world leading tech, and making a difference to real people’s lives. We are building one of the most innovative and exciting capabilities in the consulting industry. Taking the very best of our market leading approaches relating to business analysis, operating model design, change management, programme and project management, and transformation implementation.
We believe that taking an enterprise level approach to strategy and transformation has the power to unlock the biggest opportunities our clients have, to improve efficiency and effectiveness, and ensure they deliver the outcomes required for the people and places they serve.
Summary:
As part of a team of experienced problem solvers, you will support the design and delivery of enterprise-wide strategy and transformation programmes, helping clients solve complex business challenges through the development of powerful, data driven strategies, operating models and business architecture that harness internal and external capabilities, and supporting clients with the adoption of change to realise tangible benefits.
Qualifications /Certifications required:
- QF Level 7 and above (ZA)
- Ideally an industry recognised project or programme management qualification (e.g., Prince2 / MSP etc.)
Experience required:
It’s unlikely that any one candidate will possess all of the skill sets and experience this role might require, but we are looking for candidates who bring a combination of the below capabilities, and be able to demonstrate where they have applied these to drive tangible outcomes:
- Experience of supporting delivery of transformation programmes; industry agnostic.
- Experience in strategy development, or supporting clients with strategic planning
- Design and implementation of operating models or business architecture
- Experience in project; ideally in a change or transformation environment, including such capabilities creation of plans and RAIDD management.
- Experience in business analysis, transformation communications & liaising with stakeholders, and engagement change monitoring.
- Experience in change management techniques
- Experience in working with teams in interpreting clients’ strategic, operational, and external drivers for change into coherent and logic recommendations.
- Experience in creating high quality visual outputs to communicate status, progress, business analysis outputs, and recommendations to clients.
- Experience in research and creating compelling data analysis
- Consulting experience advantageous
Responsibilities of role:
The successful applicant will be working alongside teams in the UK to deliver outcomes for clients using their capabilities and experience. Each project of client need will be different, and the responsibilities below are meant as a guide:
Operating Model Design & Business Architecture
- Design and develop business architecture and operating models aligned to client objectives and transformation goals.
- Analyse data and generate actionable insights to support strategic decision-making.
- Ensure alignment and integration of key operating model components across functions and teams.
- Apply industry best practices and continuously improve methodologies for operating model design.
Transformation Delivery & Project Support
- Support the delivery team with large-scale, technology-enabled transformation programmes, particularly within the public sector.
- Contribute to implementation planning, execution, and embedding of transformation initiatives.
- Apply project and programme management disciplines, including:
o Risk and issue management
o Progress tracking and reporting
o Financial monitoring o Input into implementation planning
- Ensure safe and effective delivery of client engagements.
Stakeholder & Change Management
- Engage and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure alignment and successful implementation.
- Manage internal and external stakeholder relationships throughout the project lifecycle.
- Drive change management activities to support adoption of new ways of working.
Data Analysis, Reporting & Tools
- Use analytical tools and techniques (e.g., Power BI, Excel, Google Sheets, presentations) to perform analysis and reporting.
- Translate data and concepts into clear, high-quality visual and client-ready deliverables.
Team Development & Capability Building
- Contribute to the growth of the Enterprise Transformation team by providing input and developing tools, frameworks, and approaches.
- Support the evolution of multi-specialist capabilities to deliver improved outcomes for clients. Innovation & Continuous Learning
- Stay up to date with emerging industry, technology, and global trends.
- Continuously build business, technical, and consulting acumen.
- Demonstrate innovation, take calculated risks, and drive improvements in delivery approaches.
Firm Contribution & Brand Representation
- Contribute to PwC’s purpose of building trust in society and solving important problems.
- Act as an ambassador of the PwC brand, supporting its reputation locally and globally.
- Promote inclusive, diverse, and high-performance team culture.
Personal Effectiveness
- Produce high-quality outputs under pressure while maintaining attention to detail.
- Take ownership of deliverables and proactively contribute to team success.
Desirable skill sets include:
- Understanding of transformation opportunities and what the general factors to be considered while conducting complex transformation programmes are.
- Awareness of how such programmes need to leverage technology and an understanding of different approaches to enterprise transformation.
- Experience in conducting business analysis and developing requirements across process, people, organisation, operations, and technology and information
- Ability to articulate the business benefits of transformations and articulate the case for change.
- Practical and output focussed approach and a desire to make a difference.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills to create client recommendations and outputs with concise, clear, and coherent messaging
- Fluency in O365 tools (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc)
Role related attributes:
The following attributes are required:
- Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Proactive approach and a self-starter attitude.
- Ability to effectively prioritise and execute tasks in a high-pressured environment.
- Strong customer service orientation and relationship building skills.
- Ability to present ideas in business-friendly and user-friendly language.
- Keen attention to detail.
Travel Requirements
Up to 20%
Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?
No
Job Posting End Date
July 17, 2026
