Employment: Full Time
Deals – MERC – Senior Finance Manager – Dubai
Management Level
Senior Manager
Job Description & Summary
We are looking for an experienced Senior Manager to lead a finance team, providing decision support to business units within the Deals Line of Service. The Deals business units work across a broad spectrum of products advising clients often around buying/selling businesses and other services before/after deals including Due diligence, Valuations and Data & Analytics, in addition to Capital projects services and Forensics services.
You will need to draw on commercial and technical knowledge and have excellent interpersonal skills to drive, influence and challenge the business to achieve short and long term financial objectives.
You will head up a team of 6 finance professionals across Dubai and Lebanon and report to the Deals Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Deals Leader.
Working closely with the business unit leadership team, you will provide commercially focused solutions and insight in support of the business unit’s financial strategy. You will participate in leadership meetings to provide support and where appropriate, challenge to the business from a financial perspective. You will oversee the financial aspects of a large portfolio including complex assignments, understanding the risks involved, the expected cash flows and opinion on the appropriate valuation of WIP.
The Finance Senior Manager will collaborate with wider Operations teams, working closely with the Human Resource, Resourcing and Digital transformation leaders, to provide congruent operational support to the business unit leadership.
As a Finance Senior Manager you will work alongside other finance functions, developing a network of key finance contacts across the firm. You will have the opportunity to build strong relationships; developing new skills. You will also play a key role in change management, leading on projects where required.
The Senior Manager will play a key role in the design and implementation of the following areas:
– Business strategy and planning
– Budgeting and forecasting
– Interpretation of the monthly financial results; recommending actions
– Performance management and improvement
– Financial control and compliance
– People management and development of others
Essential skills & attributes:
– 3 years similar experience, Minimum 8 years overall experience
– Experience in a professional services organisation is desirable.
– Strong analytical skills
– Commercially minded with a deep business understanding
– 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
– Ability to communicate with impact and empathy – both written and verbal
– Takes responsibility for their own personal development
– Intermediate to advanced excel and an early adopter of new technologies
Travel Requirements
0%
Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?
Yes
Government Clearance Required?
Yes
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In our 3 key areas of business or Lines of Service Assurance, Tax, and Advisory we work with our clients from business start ups to the worlds leading organizations to measure, protect and enhance the things that matter most to them.
We help our own people to learn, discover, develop and make a real difference all the way through their working lives. And we have big ambitions to grow.
PwC Middle East Region is part of what we call the Central Cluster and includes the UK, Europe and Africa as well as the Middle East. The region consists of 12 markets – UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Libya, Iraq and Palestine.
PwC has been established in the region for over 40 years, we already employ over 4500 people and we are on course to become the Middle East number one professional service firm.
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