SATIC - Project Manager - Real Estate Risk

Management Level

Senior Associate

Job Description & Summary

At PwC, our people in project portfolio management focus on optimising project portfolios to drive strategic business outcomes. These individuals oversee project selection, prioritisation, and resource allocation to facilitate successful project delivery.

In project management at PwC, you will oversee and coordinate various projects to facilitate successful delivery within budget and timeline. You will leverage strong organisational and communication skills to effectively manage teams and stakeholders.

Focused on relationships, you are building meaningful client connections, and learning how to manage and inspire others. Navigating increasingly complex situations, you are growing your personal brand, deepening technical expertise and awareness of your strengths. You are expected to anticipate the needs of your teams and clients, and to deliver quality. Embracing increased ambiguity, you are comfortable when the path forward isn’t clear, you ask questions, and you use these moments as opportunities to grow.

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Respond effectively to the diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.
• Use a broad range of tools, methodologies and techniques to generate new ideas and solve problems.
• Use critical thinking to break down complex concepts.
• Understand the broader objectives of your project or role and how your work fits into the overall strategy.
• Develop a deeper understanding of the business context and how it is changing.
• Use reflection to develop self awareness, enhance strengths and address development areas.
• Interpret data to inform insights and recommendations.
• Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.

About PwC SATIC and the role

Our new South Africa Delivery Centre is the latest part of PwC, a global brand delivering services for the biggest clients in the world. PwC leads the way in human-led, technology-enabled professional services working with clients to transform their organizations and make them fit for the future. We are looking for candidates who bring in-depth market experience, fused with outstanding technical capabilities, who want to be a part of a community of solvers to tackle the biggest challenges in society.

If you are looking for a career where every day is different, where challenges are complex and where you can make a real difference, then we want to hear from you. By choosing to join the SATIC team, you are choosing to work with teams all over the world, harnessing the power of world leading tech, and making a difference to real people’s lives.

We are building one of the most innovative and exciting capabilities in the real estate tax industry. Taking the very best of our market leading approaches relating to business analysis, operating model design, change management, project management, and transformation implementation. We believe that taking a detailed approach to transformation has the power to unlock the biggest opportunities our clients have, to improve efficiency and effectiveness, and ensure they deliver the outcomes required for the people and places they serve.

We are passionate about the work we do and the difference we make. We thrive when we are tackling some of the most complex problems our clients must contend with, and in turn helping to address some of the most pressing issues facing the world today.

We are a highly motivated, capable, collaborative, diverse, and caring team. We have grown significantly in recent years and have welcomed a wealth of talented individuals to the organization. However, we have bold ambitions and see an even greater opportunity in the market. We are looking for more brilliant people to join our brilliant team.

Summary:

The role will consist of being the central coordination contact for onboarding aspects between client engagement teams and the client onboarding function, facilitating swift progress and monitoring (via a tracker) of all onboarding checks.

Qualifications /Certifications required:

● NQF Level 7 and above (ZA)

● At least 2 years experience within consulting, or an industry business analysis/ operating model/ strategy/ fund, project, or programme management role.

● Ideally an industry recognised project or programme management qualification (e.g., Prince2 / MSP etc.).

Experience required:

· Experience of supporting delivery of transformation programmes. Experience in project and programme management—ideally in a change or transformation environment—including such capabilities in planning, scheduling, and RAID management.

· Experience in transformation communications & stakeholder management, and engagement change monitoring.

· Experience in interpreting clients’ strategic, operational, and external drivers for change into coherent and logic recommendations.

· Experience in creating high quality visual outputs to communicate status, progress, business analysis outputs, and recommendations to clients.

Responsibilities of role:

• As a Senior Associate within our Real Estate Deals Tax team, you will work as part of a team of specialists with extensive tax and Real Estate industry experience to support delivery of projects that help resolve complex risk issues and deliver client specific transformation. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:
• Help us to deliver our firmwide purpose of building trust in society and solving important problems.
• Support the design and delivery of iconic, technology-enabled risk programmes for some of the largest global Real Estate investment clients.
• Developing the tools and techniques that will help transform the current client onboarding processes.
• Support a safe delivery of risk engagements through project or programme management techniques incl. progress monitoring, implementation planning, finance monitoring, and communication & stakeholder management.
• Be innovative, take calculated risks, push yourself, and resist the temptation to take the easy option.
• Be an ambassador for the PwC brand and help us further develop our reputation in the UK and overseas.

Desirable skill sets include:

· Understanding of transformation opportunities in the wider risk and onboarding sector and what the general factors to be considered while conducting transformation programmes.

· Awareness of how such programmes need to leverage technology and an understanding of different approaches to transformation.

· Experience in developing requirements across processes, people, organisation, operations, and technology and information.

· Ability to articulate the business benefits of risk transformations and articulate the case for change.

· Practical and output focussed approach and a desire to make a difference.

· Excellent written and verbal communication skills to create client recommendations and outputs with concise, clear, and coherent messaging.

Role related attributes:

· The following attributes are required:

· Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities.

· Strong written and verbal communication skills.

· Proactive approach and a self starter attitude.

· Ability to effectively prioritise and execute tasks in a high-pressured environment.

· Strong customer service orientation and relationship building skills.

· Ability to present ideas in business-friendly and user-friendly language.

· Keen attention to detail.

Mental & Environmental Demands

Special work requirements:

Fast paced and deadline driven when on engagements.

· High level of complexity and problem solving required

· Hybrid working model with the UK

· Ad hoc travel might be required

Business change accountability:

· Leading process improvements or capability evolution

· Adapting to evolving delivery models or technologies

Finance/Resource accountability:

· Resource planning

· Commercial awareness or margin impact

· Budget input

Agencies please note: This recruitment assignment is being managed directly by PwC’s Talent Acquisition team. We will reach out to our preferred agency partners in the rare instance we require additional talent options. Any speculative or unsolicited CVs received will be treated as a direct application. Your respect for this process is appreciated.

Travel Requirements

Up to 20%

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No

Job Posting End Date

July 29, 2026