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About us:
PwC's Finance Business Partnering teams work hand-in-hand with our employees across the firm, informing our leaders on the key decisions that drive the business forward. We entrust our Finance Business Partnering teams to be proactive and honest, to build relationships, influence, understand, challenge, and to translate the numbers into a business story.
This role sits within the Firmwide Business Partnering team at the centre of Finance. The team directly supports firmwide stakeholders including the UK Finance Partner, Executive Board, Clients & Markets Executive, Regional Leaders, Leaders of Industries and Growth Accelerator Leaders.
About the role:
The Manager within the Business Partnering Team is the team's first port of call for general Finance and business decision support. Working closely with the Senior Finance Business Partner and in some cases coordinating a team of Senior Associates/Associates. This is a collaborative, diverse and engaging role, and a vital function to the business.
As a Firmwide Finance Business Partnering Manager, you will work closely with business leaders to help drive business performance, identify and drive financial improvements, prepare ambition plans, 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.
The individual in this role can expect to be exposed to a variety of critical Finance functions, depending on their skills and aspirations. They will also 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 Firmwide Finance Business Partnering team operates across, which the candidate may gain experience in and choose to further develop, include:
Business Strategy and Planning:
- Driving sustainable, profitable growth and determining relevant metrics for industry sectors, large client accounts and x-Line of Service propositions to maximise financial performance.
- Tech enabled - delivering commercial and trend analytics, interpretation, visualisation and modelling.
- Providing actionable insights on an industry's strategic direction and go to market plans, working in close collaboration with Business stakeholders and Finance teams to ensure broader business plans are consistent and aligned with financial goals.
- Lead for a defined part of the Industries business structure including being the first point of contact for the leadership team
- Provide ad hoc support on X Industry and X Firmwide Business Partnering projects.
- Provide depth of insight to the relevant Industry Leadership team shaping and enabling key strategic decision making. Demonstrating an understanding of the business issues and applying market, industry and firm knowledge.
- Ownership of revenue forecasting.
- Providing the business area with additional insight to the key MI in existence and support the development of new MI by understanding the business needs.
- Providing actionable commercial insight by providing performance improvement advice to the business and working closely with the Commercial Team on complex material engagements.
Budgeting and Forecasting:
- Working with the Strategy & Planning Lead and Industry Drivers in the preparing of budgets, plans and forecasts at Industry, Sector, Region and large client account levels.
- Delivering forward looking and insight driven reporting for the business, and providing forward-looking commentary to help the business plan, prepare and manage future performance.
- Providing an in-depth knowledge of the markets which the business operates in.
Performance Management & Commercially Orientated Solutions:
- Provides and communicates interpretation of the monthly financial results and commentary to Industry leadership.
- Responsible for monitoring areas of financial performance against Key Performance Indicators (KPI's), escalating issues where action is required, with supporting analysis.
- Work closely with the wider business support teams to develop relationships and understand the strategic imperatives of the Industry.
Financial Control and Compliance:
- Provide data analysis and support to delivery teams from the bid stage to through the life of engagements.
- Providing relevant Financial Control and Data Integrity expertise.
Complex Engagement Support (where applicable):
- Provide ongoing commercial advice to complex engagements.
- Drive and challenge engagement performance through analysis and presentation of financial information to senior decision makers.
- 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 ensure benefits are delivered and maximised.
- 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.
Essential skills and experience:
In addition to the above, we are looking for our successful candidate to demonstrate the following:
- A relevant finance qualification such as ACA, ACCA or CIMA.
- Commercially minded individual with a deep business understanding.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills with good attention to detail.
- Action orientated and a self-starter.
- Focused on continuous improvement in all areas of their work.
- A strong relationship builder who builds trust in their key stakeholders.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Intermediate to advanced level in Alteryx, Power BI and Excel/Google sheets.
- Technology enabled mindset and able to identify and drive change through technology adoption.
If this sounds like you, and you would like to be on this exciting journey with us, we would love to hear from you!
