PwC Internship

Placement Program
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In the meantime, feel free to grab a drink

before we get started!

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 Today’s Agenda

1. Introduction of Mentors, Lecturers & PwC

2. Placement Program Roadmap

3. Business Case Study Overview

4. Team Allocation

5. Housekeeping

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Introduction

Henry Chan
Management Consultant, Accenture
Business Mentor, Crimson Education

Born and raised in New Zealand and now based in Sydney, Henry works as a Management
Consultant at Global Fortune 500 company Accenture.

Working within the Strategy & Consulting division, Henry is primarily aligned to the Banking
Practice whom clientele include 84% of the top 50 banks worldwide. Projects conducted by
Accenture have included Market Entry Proposals, Business Strategy overhauls, transformation
projects and Mergers & Acquisitions. 

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Introduction

Shirley Yin
Research Consultant, InSites Consulting
Business Mentor, Crimson Education

Based in Sydney, Shirley is a hybrid research consultant at the global market research agency,
InSites Consulting.

Specialising in both qualitative and quantitative research, Shirley has experience in projects across
many different sectors, including FMCG, food and beverage, pharma and banking and financial
services. Her core field of expertise lies within the FMCG sector, where she works for renowned
brands such as Ferrero, Nestle, Arnott's and Pernod Ricard Wines.

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Introduction

Catherin Chen
Investment Banker

Based in Sydney, Catherin has had various work experiences ranging from investment banking to
consulting. She has experience in areas such as asset management and consulting at PwC and
experience as an investment banking and market analyst at JPMorgan and Macquarie Capital.

For your upcoming internship, she will primarily be facilitating the running of the case study.

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Introduction

Janice Lim Jun Jing

Portfolio Manager

Janice is a former investment banker, corporate finance professional with more than 5 years of work
experience in mergers and acquisitions finance. She is currently a portfolio manager in a private
equity hedge fund, focusing on capital markets and trading various financial instruments.

In 2021, Janice joined Crimson Global Academy as the first extracurricular club advisor and trainer
for Investments, organizing the annual Crimson Stock Market Global Challenge. Janice enjoys
mentoring high school students and has been tutoring high school and GCSE A Level Math for more
than 10 years.

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Introduction

Jamie Beaton
CEO, Crimson Education

Jamie Beaton is the co-founder and CEO of Crimson Education, the world’s leading US and UK
university admissions support company.

Jamie Beaton founded Crimson in 2013 after applying to 25 of the world’s best universities and
being accepted to all of them. What began as Beaton’s desire to help his friends achieve similar
college admissions success grew into a global education technology company with some of the best
student admissions success rates in the world.

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Let’s welcome Jasmin & Akash

Jasmin Kaur
Managing Director at PwC Australia
PwC Private Clients helps private business owners and individuals grow their personal and business
ambitions. I am part of the national team of partners and staff who are committed to working with
small to medium enterprises, including private businesses, family businesses, entrepreneurs and
high net wealth individuals.

Akash Saraf
Audit Director at PwC Australia
Akash is a qualified Chartered Accountant and Company Secretary with significant experience in
the area of auditing, financial reporting matters and corporate governance of various public and
private companies with primary focus on Technology, Oil and gas, Retail and Manufacturing
Industry.

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Placement Program Roadmap
INTERNS - PLEASE CHECK YOUR CALENDAR FOR THE TIME OF THE SESSION IN YOUR TIMEZONE AND THE ZOOM DETAILS

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SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

8 9 10 11 12 13 14

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(1): Intro
(2): PwC intro
(3): Teams and project
release
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Crimson Interns
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(1) Skills Training 1
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Networking
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
Skills Training 2 Emerging

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Technologies Insight
Session
29 30 31 1 2 3 4

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Careers discovery Mentor Checkup/
Panel review/ feedback

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5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Mock Pitch night
presentations PwC judging panel
Awards/ Closing

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Business
PwC Internship
Case Study
Placement Program
Brief
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Case overview

• Context
• Case question - divided in 2 parts:
• 1. Sustain -”How can Tesla remain a market leader in the electric vehicle (EV)
market from a strategic perspective?”
• 2. Grow -”What future technologies can you recommend for Tesla to remain
competitive and achieve its strategic goals”

• Resources available - internship materials, case brief and external research

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Judging criteria

Diagnoses and analysis of

1 issues

Creativity and uniqueness of recommendations,

2 keeping practicality in mind

Quality of financial analysis and use of metrics to validate

3 strategy

4 Quality of presentation and presentation materials

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General information

• Judges will be from PwC

• Teams will be randomly allocated by the end of this session
• Presentations should be no longer than 9 minutes; followed by ~3 minutes of
Q&A
• Presentations should be no longer than 12 slides (excluding appendix, title pages
and dividers)
• Presentation slides to be submitted in PDF format; models must be submitted in
excel format
• Any further questions can be addressed to your business mentors
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Tips for creating your deck

• Maximum of 12 slides
• Avoid using font sizes smaller than 11 pt
• Make sure there is no overflow outside of the slide
• Try to keep formatting consistent throughout your deck
• File name should be saved as team name
• Back up your arguments with evidence - take data and craft it into effective
visuals to support your points
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TeamInternship
PwC Allocation
Placement Program
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 Groups

Team 1 Team 2 Team 3 Team 4 Team 5

Jimmy Liao Emily Li Bowen Wang Vivian Weng Amy Shi
Raj Jadeja Selina Weng Rohan Srivastava Amulya Jayarajan Shivani Ashyanth
Satvik Kapoor Shaurya Bhalla Kavya Verma Edgardo Sasetia Grace Jiaravanon
DaJing Aw Mariko Mita Jerral Chan Tiara Siregar Andrew Ohn

Team 6 Team 7 Team 8 Team 9 Team 10

Charlie Allen Corey Koh Dmitry Latypov Alina Veshchitskaya Shyam Subramanyam
Yui Nakagawa Sara Ikeda Karina Patel Anton Bakhurov Haruka Ogawa
Nikolay Akimenko Mikhail Bortsov Constanza Capriles Humphrey Mwanza Youngtak Seo
Hiya Ray Wakan Sekikawa Nick Gianoukos
Daniel Lu Anuar Burkitbayev
Sophie Kehayoglu

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Housekeeping

● Slack
○ Profile pictures
○ Channels
■ General
■ Questions
■ Report Submissions
■ Individual Team Channels

● Office Hours

● Intern Networking (tomorrow)