September 8, 2021

8 September 2021 / 7:45 PM / Webex

ATTENDEES#

Members and Eboard

AGENDA#

Last Meeting Follow-up#

  • First Meeting of the semester

New Business#

  • Meeting with PwC
  • Meetings with companies will be mostly online but we will hopefully meet in a hybrid setting and have club members together in one room
  • $10 semester due for food and T-shirt

NOTES#

  • PWC

    • Molly Sabol - UConn PWC recruiter
    • Can help connect you to PWC regardless of your permanent location
    • Coming up on 8 years at PwC
    • Transitioned into recruiting at PwC 3 years ago from Audit

  • Jason Mandel - Manager

    • Was an MIS major at UCONN

  • David Bigos

    • First-year at the first recent UCONN Grade

  • PwC The New Equation

    • Driven by value and purpose + The New Equation
    • Care
    • Make a difference
    • Reimagine the possible
    • Work together
    • Act with integrity
    • Additionally, by being human-led and tech-powered, client focus, keeping it simple and being a firm with a warm heart
    • More about the New Equation
      • Human led tech-powered and delivering quality
      • Transforming how Pwc Provide services

  • Trust Solutions and Consulting Solutions

    • Products and Technology
    • This is different from before COVID (audit, risk, etc.)
    • Carrer areas have not changed
    • Audit, consulting, tax, products and tech, business services

  • New office work plan

    • Virtual, Flex, and In-person options
    • Flex = 1-3 days in person at a local office (with local office requirement or no)

  • DAT team (Digital assurance and transparency)

    • Multiple groups underneath DAT
    • Newest addition ESG
    • Solutions and Services and Audit are the main groups in DAT

  • Digital Lab at PwC

    • Digital Academies
    • Digital Badges
    • Infinite learning model more simial to apprenticeship models rather than formal teaching and training

  • Some tools used by the DAT teams for data wrangling

    • Alteryx
    • Power BI
    • Microstrategy
    • Qlik Sense
    • Oracle Big Data

  • Some tools used by the DAT teams for data viz

    • Google data studio
    • Cognos
    • Power BI
    • Qlikview
    • SAP business objects

  • Ideal Skills for a PwC candidate

    • 5 dimensions of the PwC professional
    • Required education
    • Data wrangling
    • Data insights
    • Data viz
    • Project Management
    • Design Thinking

ACTION ITEMS#

  • Contact Information

NEXT WEEK’S AGENDA#

  • The Hartford