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: ○ 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.

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