Private Equity Senior Associate
Employer Location Belfast, United Kingdom Salary Competitive Closing date 15 Jun 2026 View more categoriesView less categories Sector Salary band Contract type Hours Where will they be working You need to or to save a job.
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About the role
This role sits within PwC UK's Private Equity Independence team, supporting partners and engagement teams in applying audit independence requirements across complex Private Equity structures. You'll work with large, global PE groups, helping to analyse fund, portfolio and holding‑company hierarchies to ensure the correct independence restrictions are identified and applied.
A core part of the role is maintaining high‑quality data within PwC's Client Entity System (CES), a critical firm‑wide system underpinning independence compliance globally. By ensuring CES accurately reflects client structures, you'll play a key role in enabling the firm to serve its clients confidently while meeting regulatory independence obligations.
What your days will look like:
1. Ensure client entities are correctly structured and classified in CES and evaluating the restriction status of entities within the hierarchy
2. Assess and monitor independence risks across private equity groups, including ongoing changes due to investments, divestments, and restructuring. Evaluate the impact of these changes on the firm's ability to provide audit and non-audit services
3. Initiating independence assessments to maintain the firm's independence of its clients in the context of constantly changing hierarchies
4. Maintaining organisational structures and hierarchy, designing, updating, and managing trackers for accurate monitoring of timelines, tasks, and independence issues
5. Collaborate with internal teams to resolve hierarchy-related queries and support onboarding of new entities.
This role is for you if:
6. Ability to manage and interpret detailed information, ensuring accuracy in independence assessments and documentation.
7. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to interact at all levels and deliver clear, sometimes challenging, messages.
8. Working knowledge of the PwC's CES system in desirable. Knowledge of private equity structures and independence regulations (FRC, SEC, GIP, etc.) is also desirable, but a willingness to learn and adapt is essential.
9. A conscientious, ambitious team player with strong self-management skills and the ability to take initiative.
10. Comfortable working in a fast-paced, changing regulatory environment and able to adapt to new challenges and priorities
What you'll receive from us
No matter where you may be in your career or personal life, our benefits are designed to add value and support, recognising and rewarding you fairly for your contributions.
We offer a range of benefits including empowered flexibility and a working week split between office, home and client site; private medical cover and 24/7 access to a qualified virtual GP; six volunteering days a year and much more
Company
In order to be the leading professional services firm it's important we have the right values, culture and behaviours embedded throughout our organisation, so our work reflects our purpose and we can successfully deliver our strategy.
Our set the expectations for the way we interact with each other, our clients, and in the communities in which we operate. These values, and the behaviours that they require from us, are relevant to all our people regardless of grade.
They support a culture that empowers our people to be the best they can be, through challenging experiences and encouraging our people to speak up to make the firm a better place. We want all our people to understand and embrace the culture and personally feel part of the legacy this will create for our future employees.
We’re a hugely diverse business, bound together by our purpose - to build trust in society and solve important problems for our clients and the communities in which we operate. We believe we can make the biggest impact when our purpose is embedded within everything we do.
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