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We help our clients stay ahead of the changes that impact their business. Equipped with the scale of a seamlessly connected global network, we’re where they need us – delivering deep tax technical expertise, while providing the critical context to help make informed and compliant decisions that drive their operations forward. At a global and local level, we design best-in-class integrated tax and legal strategies that empower clients to move from complexity to execution.

Our expertise covers every conceivable area of taxation. Our tax experts proactively engage in the tax policy debate and are focused on leading views and new ideas. Your knowledge will help high-profile organisations, entrepreneurs and family businesses, understand complex rules and make informed decisions with significant impacts. Our people need to be flexible and ready to build strong relationships, networks and leadership skills.

People & Organisation
In People and Organisation (P&O) we help some of the leading UK and international employers make the most of their biggest asset – their people. It’s such a diverse area, where we work on projects helping business leaders define their HR strategy, through to advising clients on how to improve the effectiveness of their workforce. Or help senior executives understand their global personal tax obligations, to implementing cutting‑edge technology in the HR space. We work on projects across all sectors of the economy, providing vital support to clients. And whatever you work on, you'll learn about employment tax risk, employment cost reduction and employer social responsibility.

As part of your Women in Business placement you will gain experience in one of of Tax People Consulting Teams. These include:

Workforce Strategy & Culture (WS&C)

The team help organisations cultivate thriving workforces fit for the future. From strategy right the way through to execution, we are here to help organisations transform and enable their workforces to deliver business strategy.

We add value to our clients by supporting their leaders and people through change and optimising their workforce right across the organisation, not just within the HR function.

Together, we can take to our clients an integrated offer that includes:

– Organisation design
– Strategic workforce planning and people strategy
– Change, communications and culture
– Employee experience
– People data and analytics
– Inclusion and diversity
– Employee and talent enablers
– Leadership Development and Upskilling

Human Resource Transformation and Technology (HR T&T)

In HR T&T, you'll work on diverse projects across all sectors of the economy, providing vital support to clients to attract, retain and develop a productive workforce to ensure sustaining business growth.

You'll work with clients to maximise value by connecting people objectives with their business strategy.; working with HR Directors and business leaders we develop highly effective strategies and improved functions to help HR deliver their commitment of performance and growth to the business. Transformation services include support from the planning and design phases through implementation and deployment.

The team provides advice in a range of areas including:.
– Global HR transformation, including HR process improvement
– Developing future strategic direction of HR service delivery to meet business requirements
– Developing a new HR operating model and planning the transition for change including policies, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and technology enablers
– Evaluation of extending HR Business Process and Outsource opportunities
– Defining and agreeing future HR capabilities and undertaking assessment processes of the current state
– Driving and embedding cultural change through the people agenda.

People in Deals

The team advises on all of the people aspects of buying, selling or listing businesses both in the UK and internationally. Our work ranges from conducting due diligence for private equity, corporate and public sector organisations, to planning and implementing post-deal integration and business restructuring. Projects are both legally and operationally complex, varied, and very fast-paced.

We also come from a really wide range of backgrounds, both in-house and consulting, and half of us are pensions actuaries, so we work in a very inter-disciplinary way. Our work involves a wide range of other teams across PwC, from Financial Due Diligence and Deals Strategy, to Business Recovery Services and operational Delivering Deal Value, as well as collaborating regularly with Legal. Often, the Deals team also acts as a gateway for other HR consulting services at the firm, bringing in specialists to deliver both during and after the deal. Graduates in the team gain a broad generalist grounding across HR quickly, as well as an understanding of what makes businesses tick both financially and culturally.

You could be involved in the following:
– Investigating people issues in a target business to identify costs and risks for a potential buyer
– Helping the seller of a business tell a compelling HR story to potential buyers
– Project management of the carve out of a division for sale by a large corporate organisation
– Working with HR teams to plan and deliver major restructuring programmes
– Assessing likely flight risks following a deal, by looking at how incentives such as shares are affected
– Assisting an HR function prepare for the listing of a business on the stock market
– Supporting a public sector organisation in determining whether their business case for insourcing is robust.

The office location for this role is London.

Programme

During this three-day paid programme you’ll get an insight into what a career at PwC could look like, you’ll meet mentors and buddies who’ll represent the variety of opportunities available across PwC. You’ll meet some of our female colleagues to hear about their own personal career journeys, as well as from some of our networks focussed on Inclusion and Diversity. Through interactive sessions the programme will help you to develop confidence in a business setting and encourage you to bring your whole self to the workplace. At PwC, we nurture an environment where our people can be the best they can be.

Our Women in Business programme will be a 3-day paid programme which will be run in Spring or Summer 2023. You will need to be in the UK to complete this programme.

What you'll need

You'll need to have achieved or be on track to pass an undergraduate degree or above in any subject. We determine whether you're on course to pass based on the grades you achieved in your last completed year of academic study.

You'll need to be a first year undergraduate university student on a three-year degree course; or
You'll need to be a second year undergraduate university students on a four-year degree course

Recruitment Deadlines:

• Please submit your application by 24 February 2023

• Deadline to complete Career Unlocked, our behavioral based assessment is 27 February 2023

• Deadline to complete Career Conversation, our video interview is 13 March 2023

• If you're successful we will let you know by the end of March and you'll then be invited to the 3-day paid spring programme.

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.

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.