Description
& SummaryAt 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
Location:Jersey
Line of Service:Business Enablement –Finance Pillar
Grade:Manager
Contracted Hours per Week:37.5hours
PwC Channel Islands Overview
At PwC CI, we help you build, accelerate, and sustain momentum in a world that never stops moving. With our tech-forward and people-empowered network, we provide expert assurance,taxand advisory services to turn challenges into opportunities. Leveraging deepexpertiseand advanced capabilities, we ensureyou’reready for any future, helping you act boldly and achievereal results.
Job Summary:
We are looking for a Finance Business Partner 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.
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,analyticaland commercial skills. As a strong communicator, you will work collaboratively and build strong relationships with stakeholders across the business as their trusted advisor. Managing the planning function and 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:
As a Finance Business Partner, you will play a key role in the following areas:
Budgeting, forecasting & planning
1. Responsible for project managing the planning cycle, which includes preparing revenue and cost budgets, developing three- and five-year plans, and creating in-year forecasts.
2. Collaborates with the business and key UK stakeholders toidentifyimprovements and ensure budgets, plans and forecast activities are coordinated across the firm and delivered to a timetable.
3. Work collaboratively with the Business to ensure planningremainsrelevant and insightful, and aligned with the firm’s financialobjectives.
4. Assistingwith the production of forward looking and insight driven reporting to help the firm plan, prepare and manage future performance.
5. Providing a depth of insight to the leadership team enabling key strategic decision making and suggesting corrective action whererequired.
6. Demonstrating an understanding of the business’ issues and applying market and industry knowledge.
7. Embeds technology and automation, and drives efficiencies and consistencies into financial planning,budgetingand forecasting.
8. Provides forward-looking, market focused insightful presentations to Finance & the Firm’s leadership, delivering a full picture of the business through the consolidation of financial and performance analysis.
9. Owns the annual absorption cost rate setting exercise including commercial review of appropriateness of standard costingmethodologyand the pricing strategy.
10. Responsible for the continuous improvement of planning & analysis, working closely with the Planning & Reporting Centre of Excellence to drive process improvements including standardisation, automation, promotion of self service,consolidationand best practices.
Management reporting
11. Preparing the monthly management accounts by interpreting the monthly financial results and providing commentary to the Finance Business Partnering Lead and firm’s leadership.
12. Monitoring areas of financial performance against Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) and escalating issues where management action isrequired.
13. Identifyingand driving financial improvements through pricing, efficiency, resourceallocationor cost management.
Business decision support, finance tech & ad hoc analysis
14. Working with the firm’s leadership to prepare of analysis to support business decision making using a variety of Finance Tech tools including Alteryx andPowerBI.
15. Support the Finance Tech agenda through high quality planning & reporting practices, driving continuous improvement and fostering excellent working relationships with stakeholders in the local business and in the UK.
16. Challenge existing norms and proactivelyidentifyideas for automation, reporting and analysis improvements.
17. Encouraging a culture of strong financial disciplines and embedding those behaviours.
18. And other tasks as assigned by the Finance Business Partnering Lead.
Direct Reports:
This role reports to:
19. Finance Business Partnering Lead
There are no direct reports into this role.
Qualifications & Certifications:
20. Qualified accountant with recognised accounting body.
Skills & Experience Required:
Essential skills:
21. Understands and applies principles of data to reporting, such as quality, model, confidentiality,definitionand management.
22. Commercially minded individual with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
23. Able todemonstrateapplication of accounting standards.
24. Action oriented self-starter, focused on continuous improvement in process efficiency and driving change through technology.
25. People management skills and ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders.
26. Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Desirable skills:
27. PowerBIexperience.
28. Project management skills.
Travel Requirements:
You willbe requiredto 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 todemonstratethe 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. Weseekto 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..
Education
Degrees/Field of Study required:Degrees/Field of Study preferred:
Certifications
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
Travel Requirements
Up to 20%
Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?
No
Government Clearance Required?
No
Job Posting End Date