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: Financial Risk and Reporting 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.
Job Summary:
We are looking for a Financial Risk and Reporting Senior Associate to join our high performing internal finance team at PwC CI. You will act as a key support for financial reporting and financial operations.
Our Financial Risk and Reporting team is an integral part of the Finance and Procurement function. They ensure robust financial management and compliance, oversee financial reporting and mitigate financial risks. They also support maintaining the integrity of financial operations, are proactive, honest and collaborative. This role is a great opportunity to build a meaningful career that helps you connect, grow and make an impact.
Responsibilities:
Working closely with the Financial Risk and Reporting Lead, you will be responsible for overseeing outsourced activities related to accounts payable and receivable, support calculations of accounting estimates, financial reporting and annual audits, both external and internal.
Accounts Payable:
• Oversee outsourced Accounts Payable function, including invoice management, supplier onboarding, compliance and payments.
• Manage payment authorisation process.
• Manage dispute resolutions.
• Manage staff expenses reimbursements processes and payments
Accounts Receivable:
• Oversee outsourced Accounts Receivable function, including the management of daily cash receipts.
• Manage return of funds.
• Manage cash flow forecasting.
Financial reporting:
• Oversee financial bookkeeping for both main LLP and subsidiary companies
• Assist in preparation of monthly accruals and prepayments schedules and other accounting estimates
• Perform monthly and quarterly reconciliations including bank, balance sheet and credit cards.
• Assist in the preparation of annual financial statements (IFRS) and accompanying working papers for both main LLP and subsidiary companies.
• Oversee fixed assets management.
• Performing other tasks as assigned by the Finance Risk and Report Lead.
Direct Reports:
This role reports to:
• Financial Risk and Reporting Lead
There are no direct reports into this role.
Qualifications & Certifications:
• Qualified accountant with recognised accounting body.
Skills & Experience Required:
Essential skills
• Able to demonstrate application of accounting standards with focus on financial reporting and analysis.
• Technology minded individual with strong commercial awareness and analytical and problem-solving skills.
• 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
• Familiarity with accounting softwares including SAP and Sage
• 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.