Entry Level Deals opportunities
Help organizations navigate transactions and create value at every stage of the deal lifecycle.
What is Deals?
Organizations pursue deals to grow, transform and unlock new value. As a Deals professional, you'll help clients navigate mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, capital markets transactions and other strategic business decisions in a fast-paced environment where timelines are tight and the stakes are high.
You'll work alongside professionals across disciplines, using industry knowledge, data and technology to analyze opportunities, identify risks and develop insights that help clients act with confidence. Your work can extend beyond the transaction itself, helping clients turn deal strategy into action and identify opportunities to realize value after the deal closes.
You'll work alongside professionals across disciplines, using industry knowledge, data and technology to analyze opportunities, identify risks and develop insights that help clients act with confidence. Your work can extend beyond the transaction itself, helping clients turn deal strategy into action and identify opportunities to realize value after the deal closes.
A sense of mutual respect and mindfulness permeates our culture-in fact, it’s the key to our success.
Explore Deals opportunities
Our Deals professionals specialize in a variety of disciplines across the deal lifecycle. Explore each area below to learn about the work you'll do and where your interests may align.
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PwC Corporate Finance provides a broad range of investment banking services to a global group of clients, including private and public companies, private equity funds, entrepreneurs, and other organizations. Working within this group, you’ll help clients navigate critical financing and strategic considerations while supporting complex financial analysis, creative storytelling, and transaction execution.
You might enjoy this if you like:
You might enjoy this if you like:
- Working with numbers and financial modeling
- Multi-tasking in a fast-paced setting
- Working in a dynamic environment
- Communicating complex ideas clearly and building strong relationships
Help corporate and private equity clients evaluate mergers, acquisitions and divestitures across a vast array of industry segments. As part of our Financial Due Diligence (FDD) team, you'll analyze financial performance, identify key business drivers, and evaluate the assumptions behind transactions. Your insights will help clients make informed investment decisions and maximize value in some of the market's most significant deals.
Candidates interested in FDD must be pursuing a degree in accounting and be on the path to pursuing the CPA exam.
You might enjoy this if you like:
Candidates interested in FDD must be pursuing a degree in accounting and be on the path to pursuing the CPA exam.
You might enjoy this if you like:
- Accounting
- Finance
- Financial analysis
- Investigating business performance
Help clients use technology, data and analytics to identify, protect and realize value from deals. DT&DS has two groups, Analytics and Contracts.
DT&DS Analytics:
At the intersection of M&A and cutting-edge technology, you'll turn complex deal data into the insights that drive high-stakes investment decisions. You'll work alongside leading private equity clients, harnessing Generative AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics to uncover value, assess risk, and accelerate deal execution — at the speed deals demand. This is where data and technology meet dealmaking.
DT&DS Contracts:
Help clients turn complexity into deal leverage through technology, data, AI, and commercial insights. You'll support every stage of the deal lifecycle-from diligence through post-close value creation-helping clients uncover opportunities, manage risk, and make smarter decisions faster. You'll also leverage contract intelligence to identify commercial risks, obligations, and value creation opportunities that inform transaction strategy.
You might enjoy this if you like:
DT&DS Analytics:
DT&DS Analytics:
At the intersection of M&A and cutting-edge technology, you'll turn complex deal data into the insights that drive high-stakes investment decisions. You'll work alongside leading private equity clients, harnessing Generative AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics to uncover value, assess risk, and accelerate deal execution — at the speed deals demand. This is where data and technology meet dealmaking.
DT&DS Contracts:
Help clients turn complexity into deal leverage through technology, data, AI, and commercial insights. You'll support every stage of the deal lifecycle-from diligence through post-close value creation-helping clients uncover opportunities, manage risk, and make smarter decisions faster. You'll also leverage contract intelligence to identify commercial risks, obligations, and value creation opportunities that inform transaction strategy.
You might enjoy this if you like:
DT&DS Analytics:
- Solving complex, high-stakes problems at speed
- Turning messy data into a compelling story
- Generative AI, machine learning, and emerging technology
- Working directly with private equity and M&A deal teams
DT&DS Contracts:
- AI and Machine Learning
- Spreadsheets and financial analysis
- Technology-enabled transformation
- Data analytics and visualization
Advises corporate and private equity clients realize transaction value through operational diligence, synergy assessment, integration, separation, and post-close value creation.
You might enjoy this if you like:
You might enjoy this if you like:
- Strategy
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Cross-functional problem solving
- C-suite Advisory
Use accounting, financial, and transactional data to help clients evaluate complex business opportunities. You'll apply analytical and statistical methods to uncover insights that support major investment and transaction decisions.
You might enjoy this if you like:
You might enjoy this if you like:
- Data analytics
- Finance
- Statistics
- Finding insights in complex data
Help clients understand the value of businesses, assets and financial instruments. You'll support clients with complex questions related to strategic decision-making, value creation, financial reporting, and tax structuring by applying valuation, finance, economic and accounting concepts.
You might enjoy this if you like:
You might enjoy this if you like:
- Accounting
- Finance
- Quantitative analysis
- Understanding business value
Help Private Equity (PE) and corporate clients in developing investment perspectives and value creation strategies that can make a difference in the highly competitive M&A market.
You might enjoy this if you like:
You might enjoy this if you like:
- Business strategy
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Finance
- Market analysis
Help PE clients evaluate technology during mergers, acquisitions, and other strategic transactions. You'll analyze technology capabilities, identify opportunities for value creation, and support technology strategies that drive business growth.
You might enjoy this if you like:
You might enjoy this if you like:
- Private equity
- Technology strategy
- Digital transformation
- Emerging technologies
- Business innovation
Help private equity clients identify opportunities to improve business performance before, during and after acquisitions. You'll analyze operations, evaluate risks and support initiatives that create measurable value throughout the deal lifecycle.
You might enjoy this if you like:
You might enjoy this if you like:
- Private equity
- Finance
- Business performance
- Strategic problem solving
Help organizations turn data into decisions that create measurable value. You'll work with private equity firms and corporate clients to answer their hardest commercial questions - where growth is coming from, whether it's durable, and how to accelerate it - during acquisitions, investments and business transformations.
Alongside multidisciplinary teams, you'll combine analytics, business strategy and financial insight to help clients move quickly and confidently when the stakes are high.
You might enjoy this if you like:
Alongside multidisciplinary teams, you'll combine analytics, business strategy and financial insight to help clients move quickly and confidently when the stakes are high.
You might enjoy this if you like:
- Business strategy
- Data analytics
- Private equity
- Financial analysis
- Problem solving
- Working with new AI tools
- Fast-paced environments
A sense of mutual respect and mindfulness permeates our culture-in fact, it’s the key to our success.
Is Deals right for you?
No matter your major, curiosity, collaboration and problem-solving are key to success.
You'll enjoy this work if...
- You like solving complex business problems
- You're curious about how organizations grow and transform
- You enjoy working with financial, operational or technology data
- You like analyzing information and identifying insights
- You enjoy collaborating with teams and communicating ideas
Areas of study
Professionals in this area come from a wide variety of academic backgrounds. Depending on the opportunity, students pursuing the following areas of study may be well aligned:
- Accounting
- Applied Mathematics
- Computer Science
- Data Analytics
- Data Science
- Engineering
- Finance
- Management Information Systems
- Mathematics
- Statistics
Skills you'll build
As a Deals professional, you'll develop skills that help you grow throughout your career, including:
- Financial and business analysis
- Strategic thinking
- Problem solving
- Data analysis
- Client communication
- Project management
- Team collaboration
- Executive presentation skills
What you'll do
Depending on your team and project, you may:
- Analyze financial, operational and transactional information
- Support mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and other transactions
- Use data and technology to develop insights
- Help clients identify opportunities to create and protect value
- Collaborate with professionals across different disciplines
- Present findings and recommendations to clients
A sense of mutual respect and mindfulness permeates our culture-in fact, it’s the key to our success.