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Our Consulting practice is focused on results, supporting our clients in solving important problems so that they can transform their business. We use our understanding of how business works and a knowledge of how the right technology in the right place can create competitive advantage.

Our clients’ needs are what lead our thinking and drive our ambition. Our goal is to be our clients first choice on the issues that matter most because we deliver outcomes that matter. Clients might want us to help them manage disruption and transform their business to adapt in an ever changing world, or draw up a sustainability strategy that aligns their commercial objectives with broader environmental and social concerns.

We work with clients across the Financial Services, Government and Health Industries and the Private Sector and include household names from Government Departments, NHS Trusts, retailers, banks, multinational telecoms operators and energy companies.

You’ll get to work closely with the best in industry, finance and Government in the UK and collaborate with clients and colleagues globally, bringing fresh insights and motivation to the problems they face.

Economics and Impact Consulting
Sitting within our growing Strategy business within Northern Ireland, you will work with predominantly public sector clients across two areas of work:

Economics: providing economic insights and evidence to help inform policy, business cases, and programmatic decisions, and providing economic commentary on macro issues affecting the Northern Ireland economy

Impact: supporting clients with programme evaluations, economic evaluations, and social impact assessment work across a wide range of sectors such as climate change, education, trade, health, and international development among others.

Programme

Our graduate training programme is underpinned by a development framework that broadens and deepens your knowledge. You'll learn from hands-on coaching and an outstanding variety of work, picking up business, personal and technical skills you can use across the network, and throughout your career.

What you'll do

As the team in Northern Ireland is growing, you’ll be able to both support the growth areas of the local team, as well as support a broader National team on a wider range of economic topics, including regulatory economics, impact assessment, macroeconomics, pricing economics, behavioural economics, financial economics, econometric modelling, and competition economics. There would also be opportunities to work on projects that span the broader areas of Strategy and Management Consulting.

You'll typically find yourself in project teams of anywhere from 2 to 15 or more people, often with teams from other areas of Consulting, Lines of Service, and even other countries. You’ll undertake cutting-edge economic analysis whilst engaging with executives from the world’s top organisations, learning how to present and communicate your findings with impact. You’ll also have the opportunity to work on public thought leadership pieces that focus on topics as diverse as quantifying the impact of increasing female participation in the workforce to assessing the possible future role of drones on the UK economy. Our work receives attraction and has been regularly featured in national newspapers and on the news.

The role will be based in Belfast, largely in our Merchant Square office. There may also be opportunities to also support our national work, including travel to London and other parts of the UK if required.

We’ll monitor your development so you know how you're doing. Throughout your graduate programme you'll be given guidance and support to help you be ready for the next step in your career.

What you'll gain

We’ll help you learn and improve every day with hands-on coaching, a dedicated mentoring scheme, regular ‘lunch and learn’ sessions, and seminars with academic and client speakers to build your technical economics understanding alongside core consulting skills. We also provide opportunities for formal training in technical skills (such as programme evaluation, machine learning, econometrics, business case appraisal, and the CFA programme), new technologies (such as Alteryx, Power BI and Tableau), and general consulting skills (such as writing and presenting with impact).

What you'll need

You will preferably have achieved or be on track to pass an undergraduate degree or above in an Economics related subject (with a minimum 50% Economics module coverage). We would also consider exceptional candidates with a social science or related background who can demonstrate a strong understanding of government policy and/or programme evaluation techniques.

We determine whether you're on course to pass based on the grades you achieved in your last completed year of academic study.

Do you need a work permit?
Please take some time to confirm your eligibility for the role. We welcome applications from all candidates but there are restrictions to some areas of our business and some points you should note on our website.

Please note that PwC is unable to sponsor any candidates for some roles as the Home Office’s eligibility criteria will not be satisfied. For a list of these roles, please review the ‘Important information’ section of the work permit page on our website.

The Deal
We want all of our people to feel empowered to be the best that they can be, which is why we have ‘The Deal’.

Find out more about our firmwide Employee Value Proposition: https://www.pwc.co.uk/careers/about-us/the-new-deal.html

Diversity
Valuing Difference. Driving Inclusion

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool because creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business, enabling us to solve important problems and deliver value to our clients. We encourage an inclusive culture where people can be themselves, are valued for their strengths and are empowered to be the best they can be. As an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we also support different ways of working offering flexible working arrangements. Learn more here about our work to support an inclusive culture.