Business areas

Which business area do I fit into?
The huge diversity of our clients, and the range of their individual needs means there are enormous opportunities to work on projects which challenge and appeal to you. PwC is structured into the following business areas – Advisory, Assurance, IFS, Private Clients and Tax & Legal.

Advisory

Businesses need help with a myriad of complex situations: from major transactions and organisational change to strategic decisions about their future. Our Advisory team works closely with clients to listen to their needs and expectations, and provide advice, guidance and creative solutions to help them negotiate the most challenging of questions and environments. Advisory activities fall under two major streams, Deals and Consulting - each with their own areas of specialist expertise.

Deals

Successful growth requires creativity, experience, insights and deep relationships. Our Deals team works with clients from inception through execution to realise each deal. As lead or financial adviser on mergers and acquisitions, both in the private and public sector or corporate recovery, we bring together a combination of insights and services including due diligence, value advisory, debt and capital advisory, and infrastructure advisory.

Consulting

Our Consulting practice helps clients to design strategies, execute them, and make change stick. Our Consulting team works with clients on an array of engagements, which may include setting strategies, implementing performance improvements in areas of sourcing, process and customer experience as well as advising on IT architecture and the management of cost, talent, risk and regulation. In doing this, we help businesses innovate and grow in a complex environment.

Assurance

Assurance is the largest of our business areas. Our people in Assurance work with their clients to analyse aspects of their activities, advise them on whether their financial accounts are true and fair, ensure they are meeting their regulatory responsibilities, and find out if there are any ways to improve their performance. To offer advice that is genuinely informed, it is important to understand every aspect of a client's business.

Base Camp is a new and innovative program within Assurance that offers our graduates in Sydney and Melbourne the opportunity to work across all our major business units, service teams, and industry groups within the Assurance team. Base Camp provides an experience for our people to work across a broad range of clients, while experiencing an energetic working environment.

Our Assurance team comprises of two main areas: Financial Assurance and Risk and Controls Solutions (RCS), each with their own areas of specialist expertise.

Financial Assurance

This group is made up of accountants, auditors and financial analysts who work with our clients to understand their business needs and service offerings. This helps project teams provide financial statement assurance and related advisory services to some of the biggest listed and non-listed entities in Australia, including those with global businesses.

In addition to the provision of statutory audits, the team also provides regulatory and compliance attestation for regulated entities and S404 controls attestation for Australian SEC registrants and foreign subsidiaries.

To provide optimal service to its wide-ranging clients, Financial Assurance builds knowledge in particular industries:

  • Consumer & Industrial Products and Technology, Information, Communication & Entertainment (CIP-TICE)

    A specialist industry group working with fast-moving consumer goods companies, information and communications, entertainment and media.

  • Resources, Services and Government (RSG)

    A specialist industry group providing services to the resources, energy and government sectors.

  • Financial Services (FS)

    A specialist industry group that brings insight to all areas of financial services, such as financial and capital markets, derivatives, investment strategies, insurance, infrastructure, finance, real estate, corporate and investment banking.

Risk & Controls Solutions

Our Risk & Control Solutions (RCS) team offers an integrated approach to risk and work with our clients, to help them build a successful and resilient business. This involves identifying and maximising opportunities, protecting reputation, mitigating downside threats, and designing and implementing an optimised control environment. Our people's diverse backgrounds within RCS (from IT and accounting through to engineering and state and federal law enforcement backgrounds) contribute to the vibrant and dynamic nature of the team.

Our core services include:

  • Internal Audit (IA)

    Assisting organisations to improve the quality and effectiveness of their internal audit function.

  • Systems Process Assurance (SPA)

    Working with people, systems and processes to build better controls solutions delivering timely and accurate information to improve the client's business.

  • Fraud and Forensics (F&F)

    Investigating financial loss and recovery options through the use of computer forensic experts, investigators, forensic accountants and insurance claims specialists.

  • Risk and Capital Management (R&CM)

    Assessing, designing and delivering enhanced risk strategies and frameworks along with risk management functions and capabilities, to help our clients understand the complexities associated with risk.

Internal Firm Services

Internal Firm Services (IFS) provides PwC with the support to function effectively and efficiently now and into the future.

Teams in IFS include Markets (our business development), Human Capital (our people), Finance (our accounting), Information Technology (our technology systems and services), Legal, Risk & Quality, and Strategic Marketing & Communications.

While a vast majority of our graduate and vacationer opportunities lie outside of IFS, we do offer graduate and vacationer roles in both information technology groups: Enterprise Performance Solutions (EPS) and Australia Information Technology (AUiT).

Enterprise Performance Solutions

The Enterprise Performance Solutions (EPS) team is made up of our global software application specialists who work on business applications such as our practice management system, client relationship management system, and risk and quality system - all of which are supported by an extensive business intelligence suite. EPS applications have been adopted by PwC firms around the world, and currently support more than 70,000 PwC professionals in over 80 countries across Asia, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and North America.

Australia Information Technology

Our Australia Information Technology (AUiT) team helps PwC build relationships and deliver value by embracing new industry and market directions, and leveraging global partnerships. In collaboration with our business partners, the AUiT team delivers value through the entire technology lifecycle, from inception to decommission. AUiT provides services with our Client Experience, IT Operations, Relationship Management/Consulting, IT Development, and Strategy and Architecture teams.

Private Clients

Private Clients is a unique, exciting and growing part of the firm. Our clients are entrepreneurial and have a real passion and enthusiasm to succeed, and we attract people who would like to do the same with their careers.

Our people are passionate about helping private business owners, individuals and families grow their business and personal ambitions.

As trusted business advisers, we add value to our clients through broad personal and business conversations to understand their goals, and provide advice and insights through our deep technical expertise.
Our people enjoy a diverse range of experience and personal development. They tell us they value opportunities to work at a global firm - including access to leading-edge thinking, development and secondment opportunities - while also getting to roll up their sleeves and work side-by-side with iconic private business owners and high net wealth individuals.

In Private Clients, we work with a range of businesses. One day we could be talking to a business owner about their plans to expand into China, the next about their personal estate planning and taxation needs. We provide a broad range of services including: Personal & Business Taxation, Financial Assurance, Business Funding & Structuring, Personal Estate Planning & Wealth Management, Succession Planning, Personal & Business Mentoring, Deals, Strategy, Operations Improvement and Emerging Company Services.

The Private Clients team has more than 600 people who have business and commercial skills as well as qualifications in fields as diverse as engineering, communications and of course, accounting. Our people have access to a range of development programs to enable them to grow and add long-term value to our clients. This also includes the opportunity to move within Private Clients, domestically and globally.

Tax & Legal

The Tax & Legal business works across a range of industries and organisations, from Australian owned and operated companies, through to large multinationals. Leveraging our local expertise and international networks, we provide our clients with tailored solutions, ranging from understanding and meeting their compliance and risk management obligations, through to strategic planning, structuring and transactional advice to support their organisational strategy and objectives.

Our national team is made up of dedicated and highly skilled professionals, who combine industry expertise with deep
technical skills in a diverse range of areas, such as taxation, law, economics, and a range of specialist fields including science and international trade.

In Tax & Legal, you'll have the opportunity to work with a diverse range of people from across our national and international network, as well as clients from a broad range of services and industries. Our environment is fast-paced, and our team proactive, hands on, and agile in the way they approach situations and their work.

All of our people have a dedicated coach who supports and guides their development. This development includes on the job coaching and exposure to a range of situations and experiences, combined with structured technical training and development throughout their careers.

In Tax & Legal, our primary focus is to fully understand our clients and their business. This is so we can develop and deliver customised solutions that support their immediate business needs, as well as longer term strategic goals.

Corporate Tax

Our Corporate Tax team works closely with clients in the areas of meeting tax compliance obligations; local and cross border / international tax planning; risk management and reporting; tax controversy and litigation; mergers, acquisitions, financing and structuring; and tax accounting.

Specialist Taxes

Our Specialist Taxes team identify opportunities and risks for our clients within their specific areas of expertise, and assist clients in implementing effective solutions in line with these. The focus of this team includes employment taxes, goods and services tax (GST), customs and excise, research and development (R&D), stamp duty, transfer pricing, international assignment solutions and legal advice.