Line of Service

Internal Firm Services

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

IFS - Finance

Management Level

Manager

Job Description & Summary

At PwC, our people in finance focus on providing financial advice and strategic guidance to clients, helping them optimise their financial performance and make informed business decisions. These individuals handle financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and risk management.

In financial operations at PwC, you will focus on managing financial processes and confirming compliance with regulations. You will handle tasks such as financial reporting, budgeting, and risk management.

Role: Finance Business Partner - Manager

Location: Jersey

Line of Service: Business Enablement

Grade: Manager

Contracted Hours per Week: 37.5/hours for role

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

As a Manager in the Finance Business Partnering team, you will be the team’s first port of call for general finance and business decision support. 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. With an interest in Finance Tech, 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:

Responsibilities include:

Management Information and Finance Tech

• Deliver the Finance MI & Tech agenda through high quality reporting, driving continuous improvement and fostering excellent working relationships with stakeholders in the local business and in the UK.

• Meet regularly with UK key stakeholders to discuss improvements including standardisation, automation, self-service uptake, consolidation and best practices.

• Work collaboratively with the Business to ensure reporting remains relevant and insightful, and aligned with the firm’s financial objectives.

• Understanding and prioritising the management information needs of the business and working on the design and implementation of PowerBI dashboards, and other finance tech, to satisfy these needs.  

• Help drive and ensure new tools and technologies are being designed, implemented, and used appropriately throughout the Finance team including PowerBI & Finance AI.  

• Challenge existing norms and proactively identify ideas for automation, reporting and analysis improvements. 

Management Reporting:

• Preparing the monthly management accounts by interpreting the monthly financial results and providing commentary to the Finance Business Partnering Lead and firm’s leadership.

• Monitoring areas of financial performance against Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) and escalating issues where management action is required.

• Identifying and driving financial improvements through pricing, efficiency, resource allocation or cost management.

Budgeting & Planning:

• Working with the business to prepare 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.

• Providing a depth of insight to the leadership team enabling key strategic decision making and suggesting corrective action where required.

• 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 with the year-end external audit.

Team Development:

• Driving the Finance Digital & Innovation agenda in the Finance Pillar and throughout the firm.

• And other tasks as assigned by the Finance Business Partnering Lead.

Direct Reports:

● This role reports to:

• Finance Business Partnering Lead

● Reporting to this role:

• There are no direct reports into this role.

Qualifications & Certifications:

• Qualified accountant with recognised accounting body.

Skills & Experience Required:

Essential skills:

• Understands and applies principles of data to reporting, such as quality, model, confidentiality, definition and management.

• Commercially minded individual with strong 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.

• People management skills and ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Desirable skills:

• PowerBI experience

• Project management skills

Travel Requirements

You will be required to make short trips from time to time to the firm’s office in Guernsey and the UK Firm’s offices in London and/or Belfast.

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. https://pwc.to/2vY6KZm.

Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)

Degrees/Field of Study required:

Degrees/Field of Study preferred:

Certifications (if blank, certifications not specified)

Required Skills

Optional Skills

Accepting Feedback, Accepting Feedback, Accounting Policies, Accounting Practices, Active Listening, Analytical Thinking, Balance Sheet Analysis, Budgetary Management, Cash Flow Analysis, Coaching and Feedback, Communication, Creativity, Embracing Change, Emotional Regulation, Empathy, Escalation Management, Financial Budgeting, Financial Close Process, Financial Data Mining, Financial Forecasting, Financial Management, Financial Policy, Financial Reporting, Financial Statement Analysis, Generating Financial Reports {+ 14 more}

Desired Languages (If blank, desired languages not specified)

Travel Requirements

Up to 20%

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No

Government Clearance Required?

Yes

Job Posting End Date