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Actuarial
This is a non-CPA program.
Our Actuarial professionals use complex financial and statistical theories to calculate the likelihood of events. As an actuary, you’ll work out what that means financially for clients. Our work makes a difference in determining insurance premiums, managing financial risks for banks and establishing a company’s retirement plan. It’s highly technical work that is also challenging and creative as you find new and innovative ways to distill complex findings into easy-to-digest information for clients. Our actuarial practice includes Actuarial Life, Property and Casualty (P&C) and Pensions.
Assurance
This is a CPA Pre-Approved program.
Our Assurance professionals understand how private and public businesses work from the inside. We help solve complex business issues faced by management and boards, and we serve the public interest by supporting the capital markets system through reliable financial reporting. We help clients navigate today’s complex business environment and manage the unknowns that can set them off course. We evaluate or implement a company’s governance procedures, processes, information and controls. You’ll get a unique perspective and practical hands-on experience in areas of our Assurance business, expert training and development, support as you study for the CPA and a structured and clear career path for the future.
Cybersecurity, Privacy and Financial Crime
These are Non-CPA programs.
In a digital and data-driven world, threats such as security, financial crime, safety, reliability, privacy and data ethics are becoming increasingly intertwined and complex. At PwC, our CP&FC professionals help organizations integrate, optimize and mature their traditionally siloed strategies and defenses against these converging threats. This enables our clients to innovate with speed and confidence to outpace their industry peers and create new value for their customers and society. You may experience working in Strategy, Transformation and Risk, Implementation and Operation or Crisis Management.
Deals
We offer both a CPA Pre-Approved program and a Non-CPA program.
Our Deals professionals focus on the deals and crisis elements of our clients, from strategic public office procurement advice to insolvency of underperforming businesses, from international takeover bids to economic crime investigations, and lots of other projects in between. Our client base is wide, including government offices, private equity houses, family businesses and multinational conglomerates. We help our clients complete favourable deals faster and resolve complex business issues by bringing in industry expertise.
There are many options and opportunities in Deals
Are you pursuing your CPA? The core of our Deals CPA pre-approved program is based on various placements across Corporate Finance, Transaction Services, Valuations Modelling and Disputes, and Corporate Advisory and Restructuring.
If you’re not pursuing your CPA, you may be interested in our Deal Value Creation program. When you join us, you’ll be engaged in a program that’s focused on ensuring your rapid success. You’ll be exposed to Deals partners and staff that focus on: Deal Strategy, Value Insights, Delivering Deal Value, People in Deals, and Operational Value Enhancement.
Management Consulting
This is a Non-CPA program.
Our Consulting professionals deliver practical, insightful advice that gets straight to the heart of big business issues and implementation services all the way from strategy to execution. You’ll be part of a team that helps organizations of all shapes and sizes reach their goals by navigating and thriving in a rapidly changing business environment.
Management Consulting Program
You’ll join as an Associate in the Foundations for the Future (FFTF) program, which is a 2-year program that will teach you how to become a great consultant. You’ll help organizations of all shapes and sizes grow faster and work smarter, helping to solve problems that matter. Whatever issues you’re resolving on their behalf, you’ll work with inspiring leaders who’ll help you achieve your goals and be your best. You'll quickly develop business acumen, as well as project management, coaching and core consulting skills.
When you join us, you’ll be engaged in a structured program that’s focused on ensuring your rapid learning and success. By aligning you based on your skills and abilities to one of PwC's core consulting teams which could include: Front Office Transformation, Digital Operations, HR Transformation, Finance Transformation, Digital Procurement, Workforce of the Future and Technology Strategy and Transformation you’ll have the opportunity to live your potential starting on Day 1. This will also ensure that you're part of a community with the potential to work across teams to allow you to work on a variety of projects. This alignment will be balanced with the firm’s business needs to make sure we provide new resources to those areas that are higher in need and are growing rapidly.
Risk Assurance
We offer both a CPA Pre-Approved program and a non-CPA program.
Our risk assurance professionals help our clients create proactive, preventative and holistic approaches to information risk, bringing a full range of expertise to address our clients’ business challenges. You’ll help clients navigate today’s complex business environment and manage the unknowns that can set them off course. You’ll evaluate or implement a company’s governance procedures, processes, information and controls and look at them with a fresh eye. We focus on areas like technology, finance, data analytics, projects and transformations, regulatory requirements, internal audit projects, sustainability/corporate social responsibility and the third parties on which our clients rely.
Tax
We offer both a CPA Pre-Approved program and a non-CPA program.
Our Tax professionals are on the cutting edge of one of the most challenging and intellectually rigorous fields, working and teaming with some of the world’s largest organizations on tax planning, global structuring and tax controversy. You’ll help us provide value to clients through analyzing and interpreting tax policy, advising corporations and high-net-worth individuals on intricate tax matters and helping companies comply with the growing and increasingly complex tax compliance requirements. We help people manage their money and run their businesses even better. Our Tax practice includes, but isn't limited to, Corporate Tax (CPA) and MySolutions.
Technology Consulting
This is a Non-CPA program.
With new developments emerging all the time, we’re helping our clients explore how they can harness technology and improve their business. Our size enables us to be transformative, foster innovation and test new technologies. We help our clients recognize the transformative nature of technology to help solve important problems and create value. There are three different areas you can join us in. You'll be asked to apply directly to only one of the following areas based on your area of interest:
Salesforce
As a global alliance partner with Salesforce, we deliver highly customized digital solutions to our clients that help create a sustainable, competitive advantage that revolutionizes their business.
SAP
SAP at PwC is a business integration team. We bring a mix of functional, technical, industry and business perspectives to our clients’ projects with a clear focus on transforming their business operations. We help our clients define their SAP strategy from start to finish.
Workday
We’re the largest Workday Services Partner in Canada. We help clients use mobile and cloud technology to drive business transformation, increase workforce effectiveness and make the most of powerful analytics applications.
Here's what our people have to say
Here's what our people have to say
“At PwC Canada, I have been able to work on large projects that allow me to try a variety of roles. This gives me the opportunity and flexibility to determine what I want my career path to be. I am surrounded with team members who encourage my growth and foster my development.”
“I joined PwC Canada right after my graduation. Over the past few years, I have had the opportunity to work on very interesting projects that have allowed me to learn and grow. PwC Canada has also been very deliberate about understanding my professional and personal goals and working with me to reach them!”
“It feels like yesterday when I went through the campus recruitment process to start my first full time job. It's now been three years since joining PwC and I've definitely grown as a communicator, team player, and tax professional. What I appreciate most about PwC are the connections I've made and the variety of opportunities I’ve been exposed to. I work with an amazing Tax team that created an environment for me to challenge myself and become a leader. I can't wait to see how my journey will continue.”
“The thing I love the most about PwC is the people I work with. I felt included from the minute I started and was provided with great learning opportunities, always accompanied with amazing coaching and support. In my short time at PwC, I already see how much I’ve grown as a professional, as a team player and as an individual, which makes me look forward to the years to come.”
“What I appreciate the most about PwC and my Tax team is their kindness and willingness to teach. I started this job worried about how difficult the work will be and what kind of team member's I'll be working with. However, the truth is that your teammates are always more than willing to act as a mentor and friend to guide me towards developing my skills as a Tax professional!”
“As an associate, I’ve felt incredibly supported by my peers and managers on every team I've worked on. I’m pushed out of my comfort zone in the best way possible on each project to learn and challenge myself, and I feel inspired by those around me to create positive outcomes for clients, the firm, and the people I work with.”
“I never expected to start my first full-time job during a pandemic. But I consider myself very lucky to have begun my professional journey in the Cybersecurity practice at PwC. Although everything has been virtual, I feel a sense of belonging within the team thanks to our socials, events and constant support from my coach and relationship leader. There are incredible opportunities to grow as an individual and as a consultant, and I’m very grateful to my team for their guidance.”
“Deals Value Creation has a collaborative culture which as an associate, has enabled me to expand my network and make meaningful connections with other team members as we work together to solve client problems. Working in a collaborative environment has also helped me develop my technical skills and aided in my professional development journey.”
We are a community of solvers combining human ingenuity, experience and technology innovation to deliver sustained outcomes and build trust.
It all adds up to The New Equation.
It all adds up to The New Equation.