Overview
A career in Finance, within Internal Firm Services, will provide you with the opportunity to help PwC in all aspects of our Finance internal function including financial planning and reporting, data analysis, and assisting leadership with overall strategy. You’ll focus on recording and analysing financial transactions, paying and receiving invoices, maintaining financial statement ledger accounts, and preparing analysis and reconciliations of bills to detect fraud.
Role: Finance Business Partnering Senior Associate
Location: Jersey
Line of Service: Finance & Procurement
Grade: Senior Associate
Contracted Hours per Week: 37.5 hours
PwC Channel Islands Overview
PwC is a highly dynamic professional services firm offering Advisory, Tax, Audit and other assurance services to a large portfolio of international and local clients. The Channel Islands firm employs 600+ staff in offices across Jersey, Guernsey and Alderney and is part of an international network of 151 PwC firms employing over 364,000 staff.
About the team
We are looking for a Finance Business Partnering Senior Associate to join our high performing internal finance team at PwC CI.
Our Finance Business Partnering team is an integral part of the Finance & Procurement function. They work with the leadership across the firm on the key decisions that drive the business forward. They are trusted 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.
Job Summary
The Finance Senior Associate within the Business Partnering Team is a key support for general finance and business decision support. Working closely with the Finance Business Partnering Lead to produce the financial insights needed by our business. This is a collaborative, diverse and engaging role.
You will be a financial professional with good business, technical, analytical and commercial skills. As a strong communicator, you will work collaboratively and build strong relationships with stakeholders across the business. You will develop innovative solutions to support the businesses growth.
This role is an opportunity to build a meaningful career that helps you to connect, grow and make an impact.
Responsibilities
As a Finance Business Partnering Senior Associate, you will play a key role in the following areas:
Management Reporting
• Assistance in preparing the monthly management accounts by interpreting the monthly financial results and providing commentary and analysis to the Finance Business Partnering Lead.
• Monitoring areas of financial performance against Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s).
• Understanding the management information needs of the business and working on the design and implementation of PowerBI dashboards to satisfy these needs.
• Work closely with the wider business support teams to develop relationships and understand the strategic imperatives of the business.
• And other tasks as assigned by the Finance Business Partnering Lead.
Budgeting & Planning
• Working with the Finance Managers to assist with preparing revenue and cost budgets, plans and forecasts.
• Assisting with the production of forward looking and insight driven reporting to help the firm plan, prepare and manage future performance.
• Use business insights and detailed analysis to assist with support and guidance on P&L management.
• Demonstrating an understanding of the business’ issues and applying market and industry knowledge.
Financial Control
• Encouraging a culture of strong financial disciplines and embedding those behaviours.
• Assisting in the application, design and implementation of the firm’s accounting policies, procedures and controls within the business.
• Assisting with the year-end external audit.
Direct Reports
This role reports to:
• Finance Business Partnering Lead
There are no direct reports into this role.
Qualifications & Certifications
• Qualified accountant with recognised accounting body.
Skills & Experience Required
Essential skills:
• Technology minded individual with strong commercial awareness and analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Able to demonstrate application of accounting standards.
• Action oriented self-starter, focused on continuous improvement in process efficiency and driving change through technology.
• Evidence of building and sustaining strong relationships.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Desirable skills:
• PowerBI experience
Travel Requirements
You will be required to make short trips from time to time to the firm’s office in Guernsey and possibly also the UK Firm’s offices in London.
The skills we look for in our people
All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, Evolved PwC Professional.
The Evolved PwC Professional focuses on two core behaviours: Trusted Leadership and Distinctive outcomes. Trusted Leadership is underpinned by core behaviours that Inspire, Empower and Evolve, and Distinctive outcomes is underpinned by behaviours that Champion, Build and Deliver.
Diversity
We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. We aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their unique strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business.
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