Are you interested in building a career in the field of M&A or Management Consulting? Every year we provide several positions in our different Deals and Consulting teams for talented young professionals ready to launch their careers.
PwC Finland's Advisory Trainee
Trainee positions in our Deals and Consulting teams
We are now looking for Trainees to both our Deals and Consulting groups. Within these groups, we have several specialised teams providing different services. Trainee positions are available in all of these teams. You can find more information about the teams and the trainee positions available on the following pages.
With the same application you can apply to several teams, however, please indicate clearly the ones you’re primarily interested in. By reading through the following pages, you will gain a better understanding of the positions available and the competencies the teams are looking for. All applications will be read by both Deals and Consulting recruitment teams, and your preferences will not exclude you from other (sub)teams’ recruitment process unless you specifically wish so.
The application period for this opportunity is from 25 August to 14 September 2025. The initial stage of the recruitment process involves participating in the Advisory Day, which will take place on 23 September 2025, starting at 14:00. During this session, you will have the chance to familiarise yourself with our services, meet our team members, and ask any questions in a relaxed environment. The day will also include a group case study. The official activities will conclude at 17:30, followed by an evening gathering at a restaurant where dinner will be served.
Being part of PwC Advisory
Working as a Trainee in PwC Deals or Consulting will offer you:
- A team with strong expertise, varying backgrounds and experiences to learn from
- Practical, hands-on work experience
- Opportunity to interact with clients and the global network
- Competitive compensation, benefits and opportunity to participate in various social events
Deals Trainee
The PwC Deals practice focuses on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and capital market transactions. Originating deals, creating deals, executing deals and realising results from deals is what we do everyday. In addition, we advise our clients through challenging times, such as financial distress. To find more about our four Deals focus teams, jump on to the following pages.
We are looking for young professionals with drive to join us for internships primarily spring 2024. As a PwC Deals Trainee, you will join one of the Deals subteams and work with various assignments as a full member of the team from day one.
To prosper, you ideally:
- Have genuine interest towards business and delivery of high quality financial advisory
- Are an analytical thinker with an open mind and ability to learn quickly
- Are comfortable with working both independently and in teams
- Have strong interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Are currently pursuing an academic degree within the field of Business, Economics or STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), or other relevant area Our Trainees typically are within their 3rd-5th year of studies
- Are fluent in English, fluency in Finnish and/or Swedish is considered as an advantage.
Relevant earlier work experience, such as experience in M&A transaction advisory, private equity sector, management consultancy, business development, audit or working as a controller in a finance department is considered as an advantage but is not a prerequisite.
The duration and starting dates of traineeships will be agreed personally with each individual selected. Most trainee positions now available will take place in spring 2026.
We are looking for enthusiastic and driven Deals Trainees to join us for 3-4 months internships
Transaction Services, Financial Due Diligence (“FDD”)
At Transaction Services we help companies make acquisitions, divestitures and strategic alliances, and to access the global capital markets. In each case we have the same overriding objective: to ensure clients maximise the return on their deal.
Our team of ~40 dedicated FDD professionals is based in Helsinki and works with clients ranging from listed corporations to private equity companies and family-owned businesses. We are involved in most of the large M&A transactions that take place in the Finnish market.
Our main service offering consists of buy and sell side financial due diligence, but we also offer other types of services, such as IPO due diligence, working capital reviews, Vendor Assistance services and Independent Business Reviews for creditors. In FDD projects, we analyse financial information to gain an understanding of the target business and to provide our clients information on key issues impacting the contemplated deal. In most projects we analyse net debt, net working capital and recurring EBITDA to assist our clients in their valuation of the target company. Our work typically also includes analysis of the drivers behind sales and margin development as well as analyses on cash flows, forecasts and company-specific accounting topics.
As a Deals Trainee in FDD, you will typically get to:
- Participate in hands-on project work in teams of 2–5 FDD professionals
- Conduct financial analysis in Excel, Power BI, Tableau and Alteryx
- Prepare for and attend interviews with management
- Assist in drafting reports and recommendations to clients
Corporate Finance
Measured by deal volume, PwC is the leading Corporate Finance advisor in Finland, across Nordics and Globally. In Finland, we are based in Helsinki and our team comprises over 40 dedicated professionals of which around 25 are based in Helsinki.
The Corporate Finance team acts as the lead financial adviser in M&A deals. We take the overall project responsibility for the transaction. We prepare process documentation and valuation, advice on tactics, manage communication with counterparties, support in transaction negotiations and decision making and co-ordinate the process and other advisors’ work. We also assist with evaluation of synergies, providing comments on due diligence reports commissioned, transaction financing and selecting the optimal purchase price. Our clientele ranges from corporations to private equities and family-owned businesses.
As a Deals Trainee in Corporate Finance, you will typically get to:
- Prepare both project and pitch material
- Conduct target company information gathering and analysis
- Conduct target company competitive landscape and market analysis
- Conduct valuations and financial modeling
- Attend and present your work in both internal and client meetings .
Valuation, Debt & Capital Advisory
Valuation, Debt and Capital Advisory is the largest and leading independent Debt Advisor in Finland. The Finnish team consists of ~20 dedicated professionals in Helsinki.
Valuation, Debt & Capital Advisory provides extensive support in creating funding strategies both for companies and when establishing new investment products, such as funds, as well as support related to different types of debt and capital assignments. We conduct, among other things, various valuation assignments, debt structure analysis, financing strategies, and tendering debt arrangements. Our clientele ranges from corporations to private equities and family-owned businesses.
As a Deals Trainee in Valuation, Debt & Capital Advisory team, you will typically get to:
- Prepare both project and pitch material
- Conduct target company information gathering and analysis
- Conduct target company competitive landscape and market analysis
- Conduct valuations and financial modeling
- Attend and present your work in both internal and client meetings
M&A Integrations and Carve-outs
We implement our clients M&A strategies, extending from defining strategies to plan execution. Our experienced team in Finland comprises of 17 individuals with diverse educational backgrounds and knowledge.
Our work entails identifying the drivers of value creation and ensuring that it is captured in the pre-deal phase (strategy) as well as in the post-deal phase (implementation) of acquisitions or divestitures. Our client’s range across various industries and countries, necessitating international collaboration. We assist our clients in strategic, financial, and operational questions whilst leading them through complex deal processes and coordinating with multiple stakeholder groups. Our engagements range from carve-out design, synergy assessments, and due diligence to integration planning, integration/ separation program management and value capture. An internship within our team offers a unique role in mergers & acquisitions and strategy consulting, with the possibility to be involved throughout the life-span of a deal from strategic planning to actual implementation.
As a Deals Trainee in M&A Integrations and Carve-outs team, you will typically get to:
- Gain practical project experience and exposure to client engagements in various stages of the deal cycle
- Collaborate with other PwC teams in Finland and globally
- Prepare client materials, analyses, valuations and participate in client meetings
- Prepare pitches, discussion papers and other materials to help win engagements
- Participate in other work such as developing our service offering and other ad hoc tasks
Consulting trainee
At PwC Management Consulting, our daily purpose is to create value for our customers by helping them solve the most critical issues on their agenda. Our clients are mostly Finnish listed companies and PE companies acting across different industries. We provide our customers with business analysis from a strategic point of view, and also assist them implementing changes.
As a member of our talented junior team, you will work as a full team member on client projects (typically 3–5 projects per year) related to any of our competence teams (details on the following pages). You can demonstrate interest in one or many of them – the junior team offers you an opportunity to explore new things and rapidly develop your skills in business development at the beginning of your consulting career.
To prosper, you ideally:
- Are going to graduate within ~6–12 months, or have already graduated (you have a possibility to work full-time and continue permanently after the Trainee period)
- Have or are pursuing an academic degree e.g., in the field of Business, Economics, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) or other relevant field
- Have competences in logical thinking, understanding of business, passion to learn new things and bring new ideas to the table
- Are fluent in English, fluency in Finnish and/or Swedish is considered as an advantage
- Have relevant earlier work experience, such as experience in consulting, other advisory, business operations, or business development (considered as an advantage but is not a prerequisite)
As a Consulting Trainee, you will typically get to:
- Work on different client projects
- Participate and contribute to client meetings
- Actively solve client problems and contribute by bringing own solutions and ideas
- Prepare client materials (final reports, workshop materials, status reports, etc.)
- Participate in sales projects (e.g., by preparing proposal materials)
- Conduct data, process, and business analysis
- Support in project and/or program management
- In addition, typically young consultants will get responsibility on some specified business development topic within Consulting
The starting dates will take place in spring 2026. Detailed dates will be agreed personally with each individual selected.
We are now looking for enthusiastic and driven young professionals to join our ‘Foundation for the Future’ team starting in spring 2026.
Performance Management Consulting
Our Performance Management Consulting team members provide insightful consulting services, such as finance function’s strategy and operating model development, improving of financial steering, and create data driven solutions to key issues on CFO’s agenda. We are a team of ~25 professionals with varying backgrounds based in Helsinki, providing services to clients both domestically and globally.
We show our clients how to improve their performance, optimise their processes and prepare their company to meet all the challenges of the future. In finance transformation projects we evaluate and develop the finance strategy and target operating model which can include an assessment of shared services and outsourcing possibilities, but also improving the client’s business finance capabilities.
We also have experts in end-to-end process transformations who ensure that our clients’ processes are up-to-par with the industry benchmarks and use the modern technologies such as process analytics, automation and process management. We often work together with our Deals colleagues in finance integration and post-deal development projects. Our work is not only limited to finance, and team members can also work in other large business operation development projects.
Financial Services Consulting
Our experts in Financial Services Consulting team advise all the major financial services companies in navigating regulatory change, risk management, compliance, risk modelling, operational and digital transformation related topics. We collaborate closely across our global network, including developing client offerings with PwC’s strategic alliance partners such as Microsoft, Google, Salesforce and Guidewire. We are comprised of two competence teams:
Risk & regulatory transformation: We focus on advising our clients on regulatory, compliance, and risk management issues. We specialise in operational improvement driven by regulatory requirements and risk management initiatives, and typically assist our clients with assessing the impact of regulatory requirements on their business, developing efficient and effective strategies and solutions to meet those requirements, and help in implementation of operational and technical changes. Examples of themes we work on include Resolution Planning, risk and control assessments, ESG topics, supervisory oversight, and M&A. Additionally, we focus on driving business transformation and digitalisation of capabilities, processes through collaboration with PwC’s strategic alliances.
Risk Modelling: We focus on credit risk modelling for banks, actuarial modeling for audit, valuation and insurance risk analysis, balance sheet risk and income statement risk analysis, capital adequacy and solvency analysis and assessments. Project examples include insurance claim size assessments, hedging interest rate risk within Solvency II, M&A, assessment of Solvency Capital Requirement and IFRS 17 implementation.
Cybersecurity and Privacy Consulting
Our Cybersecurity and Privacy team helps our clients transform from value protectors to value creators by building trust, promoting resilience and enabling the business. We are here to help our clients transform their organisation and drive growth, while staying resilient and preparing for the unexpected. Our delivery model enables using our local competences but also leveraging our global network of professionals when needed. We are a team of ~10 professionals based in Helsinki.
On the high-level our core competences can be divided into 3 main domains, information and cyber security management, offensive security and in a global level managed security services. In general, our services can be applied to both IT and OT environments.
In the information and cyber security management area, we help our customers building and assessing their management system, providing due diligence support in merger and acquisition transactions, advising best practices to enhance resilience such as business continuity and if there is a need to meet requirements in order to achieve an industry recognised cyber security certifications, we are there to help and support.
Our offensive security services include red teaming, assessment of external attack surface, technical cyber security testing (i.e. penetration testing) and threat management allowing our customers to simulate real-time cyber-attacks within their environments.
Globally we also provide end-to-end managed security services for example security operations center, vulnerability management, incident response and digital forensics as well as third-party cyber security risk management to decrease the number of operational tasks and activities and related needed internal resources from our customers. By utilising PwC managed services, our customers can trust that there is 24x7x365 partner helping them.
Good written and spoken Finnish language skills are required within this team.
Sustainability Advisory
Our experts in Sustainability Advisory work on exciting and topical projects related to Sustainability Reporting Advisory, Sustainability Strategy & Transformation, Value Chain Transformation, and Deals & Capital Markets. Our Sustainability consultants collaborate closely with other experts across PwC Finland and the global PwC network to deliver high quality projects for our client's top management. Our rapidly growing team of ~15 professionals has varying backgrounds and expertise in both broad business-relevant implications of Sustainability as well as technical Sustainability subject matters.
At PwC, our ambition is to build trust in the climate transition and help our clients create sustainable value to meet Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) goals. We do this by helping our clients transform sustainably, developing and implementing strategies for the future while supporting their people through the transition, and building credible and compliant reporting capabilities. Working in Sustainability Advisory, you will maximise opportunities to change and create value for our clients and our communities.
A few recent client cases of ours include net zero strategy for a globally operating industrial manufacturing & assembly client, CSRD reporting development for a conglomerate, and EUDR reporting & process development for a retailer.
If you are interested to work in Sustainability Advisory, experience or knowledge in decarbonisation strategies across the value chain, sustainability data, sustainability reporting technologies and/or relevant sustainability frameworks, such as GHG Protocol, SBTi, CSRD/ESRS, EU Taxonomy, CSDDD, or EUDR is considered an advantage.
Operations Consulting
Our Operations Consulting team is dedicated to helping businesses enhance their performance across the entire value chain. We work with clients locally and globally, leveraging our local expertise and our broad international network of professionals. Based in Helsinki, our team comprises around 30 consultants from various backgrounds, ready to tackle challenges related to enterprise transformation, supply chain management, and change management & culture.
In enterprise transformation, we support clients in improving and implementing organisational roles and management strategies that integrate seamlessly into everyday operations. With proven solutions and methods, we have helped numerous clients with effective strategy implementation and building capabilities that promote growth and improve operational efficiency.
Our supply chain consulting emphasises operational excellence, cost optimisation, and agility in today’s competitive business environment. We work with clients to improve plant capacity and productivity, achieve cost savings, and manage supplier risks. By leveraging new technologies, we help build sustainable competitive advantages for our clients.
Our change management and culture experts guide companies through transformations to meet strategic goals, focusing on essential people changes. We aim to make culture a competitive advantage that aligns with business strategy and supports operational models, ensuring strategic success.
Technology Strategy Consulting
Our Technology Strategy consulting team is committed to guiding Finland's leading companies through their digital transformation journeys with expert advisory services. As a dynamic and growing team of over 10 consultants based in Helsinki, we share a passion for innovation and excellence, addressing the key challenges companies face in the evolving technological landscape. While we work locally, our impact is global. We combine local expertise with insights from our international network to deliver tailored solutions.
Join us in empowering businesses to craft and implement effective digital strategies within complex technology ecosystems. Our team members come from diverse backgrounds, bringing a wealth of perspectives and expertise to our collaborative environment.
We provide a broad range of technology strategy advisory services, which can encompass but not limit to Enterprise architecture design, system selection, operation and organisational design, cost optimisation, and serving as IT experts in large business transformations and M&A activities.
Ideal candidates will possess a passion for technology, along with some IT experiance and strong interest in AI and modern technologies, technology strategy, enterprise architectures, IT operations and/or IT program management. As a member of our forward-thinking team, you will be instrumental in guiding companies to harness advanced technologies effectively, enabling them to optimise their operations, identify growth opportunities, and succeed in today’s dynamic business environment.
SAP Consulting
Our SAP consulting team provides expert advisory to guide clients through complex digital transformations. We are a team of highly experienced experts guiding our clients through their SAP S/4HANA journey, from strategic roadmap development to implementation support, ensuring alignment between business objectives and system requirements. Globally, we are connected to over 20,000 SAP consultants, making us one of the world’s leading SAP service providers.
We offer a comprehensive suite of services, including advisory, implementation, and change management support. Our offerings encompass SAP strategy and architecture consulting, program planning, sourcing strategy support, and PMO staffing. By leveraging SME expertise, we ensure project excellence and streamline change management processes, tailoring solutions to meet unique client needs.
Our recent client projects include major SAP S/4 implementations, where we have acted as both a business integrator—providing business process design, SAP architecture, PMO, and change management services—and a system integrator, responsible for designing and delivering the global SAP S/4 solution.
Ideal candidates for our SAP consulting team should have a keen interest and/or experience in SAP/ERP-related program management, SAP modules and features, and end-to-end processes like order-to-cash, record-to-report, and purchase-to-pay.
Join us to make a significant impact and help shape the future of SAP consulting in Finland.
Ota yhteyttä
Tuomas Nuotio
Tax & Legal recruitments, Trainee recruitments, PwC Finland
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