In an M&A team at PwC you'd prepare reports to help a company get sold. This kind of work is much more like be an estate agent than what would traditionally been thought of as a bean counter.
As a junior team member in such a team you are typically responsible for creating the reports. And this means you spend your time compiling data in Excel and then putting this into a PowerPoint deck and essentially colouring it in.
This production of a PowerPoint deck is a combination of graphic design and narrative. And this is why working in M&A is arguably more like working in a graphic design agency than working in the finance department of a company.
A cynical view on design and colour schemes would be that these M&A reports are essentially just window dressing. However a more nuanced viewed is that key elements in an M&A report would be that it is:
And to achieve these things you need careful design.
At TechFranklin we don't just focus on our backend systems for:
We also design our user interface to make our application user friendly and try to make complicated things, as simple as possible.
That's why we:
Fundamentally, at TechFranklin design is not a luxury.