Finance Business Partner

About Us:
We are looking for a Finance Business Partner to join our high performing internal finance team supporting the Consulting Business at PwC.
Our Business Partnering teams work hand-in-hand with our employees across the business, informing our leaders on the key decisions that drive the business forward, and shape their engagements. We entrust our Business Partnering teams to be proactive and honest, to build relationships and influence, to understand, challenge, and hold a mirror to the business, and to translate the numbers into a business story.
To facilitate our exciting growth, PwC is evolving to future-proof our Business Partnering teams. To empower our people to focus more on insight, collaboration, and commerciality, we are placing new specialised lead roles within our Business Partnering teams, and refocusing the efforts of our core Business Partners. This refocusing is being accompanied by a renewed investment in technologies to drive our ways of working forward, freeing up time to let our people focus more on providing insights to people in the business, driving our growth agenda, and working together to solve complex challenges.
About the Role:
As a Manager within the Business Partnering Team, you will be the team's first port of call for general Finance and business decision support. Collaborating closely with the Finance Leaders and coordinating a team of Senior Associates and Associates, this role is, diverse, engaging, and a vital to the business.
Our Finance teams are an integral part of each business unit, working closely with business leaders to help drive business performance, identify and drive financial improvements, prepare plans and budgets, and report on the performance of the business - commercially, and functionally. PwC takes a people-first approach to Finance, and empowers its Business Partnering teams to be collaborative and value-adding.
About You:
If you are a proactive and strategic financial professional seeking an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact, we invite you to apply for this role. Join our dynamic team and contribute to the achievement of our short and long-term financial objectives.
As a Finance Business Partner, you will be exposed to a variety of critical Finance functions, depending on your skills and aspirations. You will build working relationships with other Business Partnering teams, the Finance Directors, business leaders, and PwC's Centres of Excellence.
Key Responsibilities:
The primary responsibilities and areas the Finance Management team operates across, which the candidate may gain experience in and choose to further develop, include:
Team Development:
Collaborate with the Finance Leader to ensure Senior Associate and Associate team learning and development is identified and actioned
Mentor team members across Business Partnering
Business Strategy and Planning:
Use business insights and detailed analysis to provide the business unit and Finance Leads with support and guidance on Profit & Loss (P&L) management
Own and lead a defined part of the business structure including being the first point of contact for the leadership team for the component parts of that business
Provide ad hoc support to the Finance Leader, responsible for sourcing information and providing quality analysis of information
Provide depth of insight to the relevant Leadership team enabling key strategic decision making
Ownership of revenue and cost forecasting
Provide the business area with additional insight to the key MI in existence and support the development of new MI by understanding the business needs
Demonstrate an understanding of the business issues and applying market, industry and firm knowledge
Offer commercial insight for performance improvement and complex engagements
Budgeting and Forecasting:
Collaborate with the Strategy & Planning Lead and business Finance Leaders in preparing budgets, plans and forecasts
Deliver forward looking and insight driven reporting for the business, and provide forward-looking commentary to help the business plan, prepare and manage future performance
Provide an in-depth knowledge of the markets which the business operates in, using this to build insight for helping the business determine investments, and growth opportunities
Performance Management and Commercial Oriented Solutions:
Provide and communicates interpretation of the monthly financial results and commentary to the Finance Leader and Business Area leadership
Responsible for monitoring areas of financial performance against Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) held in the financial scorecard, escalating issues where management action is required, with supporting analysis
Work closely with the wider business support team to develop relationships and understand the strategic imperatives of the Cluster interpretation and communication of financial performance
Financial Control and Compliance:
Provide Partners with relevant accounting advice from the bid stage to through the life of engagements
Provide the business area with relevant Financial Control expertise to ensure revenue recognition and accounting standards are achieved throughout
Provide local financial risk knowledge to the Financial Control centre of excellence and support the central team with complex queries that require local business insight
Work in close partnership with the Financial Control centre of excellence to encourage a culture of strong financial discipline and adoption of One Firm financial policies and procedures within the business unit
Support the year end Audit process with the Finance Leader and Financial Control Centre of Excellence
Complex Engagement Support: Provide ongoing commercial advice to complex engagements
Undertake revenue recognition, forecasting, performance variance activities as required by engagements
Provide tax, immigration, or inter-territory advice as required supported by specialist finance teams
Drive and challenge engagement performance
Proactively highlight risks and opportunities to financial performance and develop actions to mitigate, correct or exploit as appropriate with senior decision makers
Ensure alignment of top down targets to operational plans
Actively influence idea generation with respect to commercials, leveraging specialist team for production
Work with engagement leaders to understand lessons learnt and take corrective actions as necessary
Monitor and challenge complex engagements on control effectiveness
Ensure that financials are created or validated by appropriate areas of finance
If you're ready for an exciting challenge and want to contribute to the success of our Finance team, apply now!
Skills & Requirements:
Relevant finance qualification such as CA, ACA, CIMA or ACCA
Commercially minded individual with a deep business understanding
Able to demonstrate application of accounting standards, including IFRS 15
Strong analytical and problem solving skills with good attention to detail
Action orientated and a self-starter, focused on continuous improvement and developing their team
A strong relationship builder who builds trust in their key stakeholders
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Intermediate to advanced excel
Technology enabled mindset and able to identify and drive change through technology adoption