Does anyone have any views on PwC Performance Improvement Consulting practice?What are their strengths, size etc. Not much about them on the web site.Thanks

They are about 200 strong in the UK IIRCThey are still very much risk management based and if joining them you will end up doing audit support work at some point in time. The staff are generally very good & the proper consulting work is interesting if you can get on it. When I left a few months ago they seemed to be getting better jobs as they build the practice. One thing to note is that for all big4, their consulting scope is reduced due to conflict of interest stuff with existing audit clients. Being the biggest auditor PwC does suffer from this.I've worked with & for all the big4 over the last 7 years & PIC would be my choice if I was to return to consulting

Sorry Tarquell, but absolute rubbish.PwC Performance Improvement Consulting are the reconstituted consulting arm of PwC, and are part of the Advisory practice.Market units are Financial Servives, CIPS, TICE, Gov't and Public Sector and Northern Ireland (the NI practice was not sold to IBM). Competency groups within the market units are Change and Programme Management, Governance Risk and Compliance, IT Effectiveness, and Operational Effectiveness. Most of the work is bread and butter change management, although the IBM non-compete expires in 15 months and so IT effectiveness work is beginning to take on a greater importance.As you can see risk management is only a small part of the work undertaken. Being in the Advisory practice, no audit support work is undertaken. Very few individuals in PIC are qualified accountants of any ilk. This is a consulting firm attached to an audit firm, but very different in culture and style to the Audit parent.

Forgot to say - now about 400 strong with £110m revenues. Growing rapidly....

I disagree with your assertion that PIC/Advisory staff are not currently doing audit support work. Depending on the competency group a new joiner is aligned to, it would not be fair to say they would not have to do any audit support & it irked a number of experienced hires that I worked with there.I'm glad to hear PIC is developing & I wish them lots of success, but joiners should be aware of what they could be getting into.