Consulting, Finance Function (FS Sector) - Senior Manager

Company Name: PwC Middle East
Location: UAE

Within Consulting, you will be working with Finance Function Effectiveness competency, which provides advisory services focused on the CFO's agenda, such as:

• Finance operating model and finance transformation
• Strategic planning, financial planning, budgeting and reporting
• Corporate treasury and cash management
• Public Financial Management, including Treasury Single Account, GFMIS and Cash2Accrual
• Effective financial control, reporting and consolidation
• Shared services finance and transactional efficiencies
• Robotic Process Automation
• Costing and Cost Optimization Opportunities
• Leveraging Cloud / On Premise ERP, Treasury, EPM and Digital technologies
• Supporting adoption of new accounting standards (eg. IFRS)  
  
  

Financial Services Industry Sector Alignment
We expect you to have a thorough understanding of Financial Services  industry trends and how it impacts finance function. In particular, we would like you to bring in depth understanding of the following:

• FS Products and Services
• Knowledge of CRM / Order Management to Provisioning to Billing and its integration with Revenue Accounting in context of IFRS15
• Knowledge of FP&A processes and key drivers for Planning / Budgeting and Forecasting
• Business Finance roles like development of business cases
• Revenue assurance and Billing assurance
• Costing in Financial Services sector (fully allocated costing, marginal costing, economic costing and regulatory costing)
• Knowledge of and overall trends in operational finance and how digital is driving changes to operation finance

Responsibilities

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be an authentic and inclusive leader, at all grades/levels and in all lines of service. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

As a Senior Manager, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Expertise in and experience in Financial Services consulting is mandatory.

• Fluency in English is essential and Bilingual skills in Arabic language is preferred.

• You will be achievement oriented with the ability to be flexible and adaptive on a daily basis. You will be able to manage multiple work-streams in parallel and full projects, whilst demonstrating strong leadership skills to engage diverse internal and external stakeholders and manage a high-performing team.

• Client-focused approach.

• Self-motivated and confident, with a strong work ethic.

• Interest and passion for developing, growing and leading a team through coaching and mentoring, as well as proactive knowledge sharing.

• Experience of driving and reporting on progress of large transformation projects.

• Excellent organisational skills, having the ability to prioritize workload whilst being resilient and being able to cope well under pressure and meeting tight deadlines.

• Proven IT skills in the following programs Microsoft Project, Excel and PowerPoint.

• Language Skills: Excellent communication skills (verbal and written).  

• The ability and willingness to travel within the Middle East and worldwide where the project requirement dictate.
  
  

Minimum years experience required

• 8-12 years of relevant experience in a similar role, out of which a minimum of 5 years must be within consulting focus on finance transformation and broader finance consulting.

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

• Employment type

  Full-time

• Job function

  ConsultingManagementFinance

• Industries

  Management Consulting