Employment:
Full Time
Line of Service
Tax
Specialism
General Tax Consulting
Management Level
Manager
Job Description & Summary
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.
Our Finance Operations team manages PwC’s financial risk through financial planning and reporting, data analysis, and tactical consulting. As a part of our team, you’ll assist us with budgeting, reporting, business operations, domestic and international accounting operations, and finance strategy.
– Support the Tax and Legal Services (TLS) Finance lead and take ownership of managing the end to end planning, budgeting and forecast process, including liaising with the business, budget holders and FP&A team.
– Control over TLS costs, ensuring adherence to budget, exploring opportunities of cost control, and prepare monthly actual versus budget analysis.
– Manage, coach, and guide team members.
Primary duties and responsibilities
Financial
– Identify and implement cost optimization initiatives across TLS
– Ensure adherence to budgets, highlighting variance and mounting challenge as appropriate
– Overseeing of all internal cost codes for all charge types, monitor and clear as appropriate, ensuring a proactive approach to internal job code management across TLS.
Customer
– Interface between Finance team across TLS & Central finance for escalated issues to ensure proper control over costs
– Act as a single point of contact for Budget holders
– Ensure a high quality, timely, consistent delivery of service across TLS
– Build a strong business relationship with Finance and Operation teams across ME and act as a key resource and liaison with budget holders
Internal Process
Budgeting, Planning & forecasting
– Full responsibility of process
– Confident in using systems & tools
– Lead in discussions with business
– Consolidation, review & validation of budgets
– Agree targets and communication
– Liaise with business leaders and central finance
Cost Control
– Monthly cost analysis against budgets, investigate and follow-up on any variances (pre & post final)
– Direct Cost forecasting and planning
– Monthly analysis in depth of all costs pools
– Staff headcount and team performance review (Utilisation/Joiners/Leavers/staff movement)
– Ensure all costs are correctly accounted for against the correct account codes
– Support in the TLS Recruitment approval process
Monthly Performance Reporting
– Provide a monthly commentary on costs against budgets
– Support & Liaise with the Regional TLS Finance and Operation team
– Ad hoc reporting
Learning & Growth
– Act as a key resource and liaison to other areas of the business, building cross-team relationships as needed
Knowledge, skills, and abilities
Education
– Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance or related field required
Language
– Fluency in spoken and written English and Arabic
Overall Experience
– 5+ years of experience in financial business control or business operations role including at least 3 year experience in budgeting and forecasting
Specific Experience
– Demonstrated experience with financial accounting, management accounting, financial control a senior leadership position
– Experience in enforcing cost control across a region
– Ability to influence others while maintaining a strong working relationship with managers across the business
Technical Skills
– Strong financial, analytical and accounting skills
– Excellent level of accuracy to a high level of detail
– Excellent calculation and analytical skills
– Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
– In depth knowledge of financial operations and processes, including accounting, reporting and financial control activities would be advantageous
Soft Skills
– Ability to influence senior management and to maintain a strong working relationship with managers across the organization
– Good organisation and office management skills to ensure coverage of workload
– Excellent project management and change management skills
– Organization, thoroughness, eye for detail, time management skills and proactivity needed
– Skilled in maintaining relationships
– Strong liaison skills, with the ability to maintain geographical relationships
– Excellent people management skills
– Excellent negotiation skills
– Excellent customer service skills
– Strong decision making skills
– Strong work ethic
– Ethical Conduct
PwC firms help organizations and individuals to create the value they’re looking for.
We’re a network of firms in 158 countries with close to 169,000 people who are committed to delivering quality in assurance, tax and advisory services. PwC is the brand under which member firms of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited (PwCIL) operate and provide services. Together, these firms form the global PwC network.
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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