CMAAS - Manager

Job description / Role

As a member of the Capital Markets and Accounting Advisory (CMAAS) practice, you will help clients navigate through complicated transactions and events, from evaluation through integration, in a multifaceted business environment. PwC helps clients negotiate with confidence.

Some of the world's most prestigious companies rely on our buy-and-sell side due diligence capabilities and turn to us for advice on financial reporting, valuation and tax issues.

We also provide advice and project management for capital raising events such as initial public offerings, secondary listings and private placements. For companies in distressed situations, we advise on crisis avoidance, financial and operational restructuring and bankruptcy. Clients rely on PwC to help them make informed and empowered decisions to invest, divest, raise capital or reorganise. As our clients execute on their chosen strategy, our focus turns to helping them extract value.

Requirements

- Minimum academic qualifications requierment of professional qualification in Accounting with a recognized professional accountancy body such as CPA, ACA, ACCA.
- 5 years of work minimum required experience, with a big four company.
- Have worked in IFRS framework environment.
- Demonstrates a willingness to conduct business travel, approximately 40-60% of the time.

Specific technical expertise:
- Demonstrates extensive knowledge of, and/or a proven record of success with performing in a role as an assistant manager/ manager on complex accounting- and financial reporting-related project teams within, a professional services environment or transaction-related advisement to external clients.
- Demonstrates extensive knowledge of, and/or a proven record of success in a project engagement role related to, advising multi-national, publicly-traded companies and private equity firms on a broad range of technical accounting, financial reporting, and capital markets accounting topics.
- Demonstrates extensive knowledge of IFRS and related financial reporting concepts and rules to resolve client issues, for example such as relating to:
- Financial instruments;
- Leasing;
- Consolidations;
- IFRS conversions;
- Fair value assessments;
- Revenue recognition; and/or
- Business combination regulations.

Specific skills required:
- Good English report writing and communication skills;
- Strong analytical skills;
- Demonstrates extensive abilities and a proven track record of success managing efforts with identifying and addressing client needs: building, maintaining, and utilizing networks of client relationships and community involvement; communicating value propositions; managing resource requirements, project workflow, budgets, billing, collection; maintaining project economics while maintaining flexibility for unanticipated issues; and preparing complex written and verbal materials.
- Demonstrates extensive abilities and/or a proven record of success in a role managing a wide range of Capital Markets accounting and advisory-related projects, consistently demonstrating creative thinking and individual initiative.
- You should be able to lead and serve as a member of multiple client engagement teams. You will be able to deliver within short deadlines. You will be required to analyze the Target's prospective financial statements as well as participate in client meetings and site visits. And also, identify issues and propose strategies related to the procedures executed. Actively contribute to report generation. You should maintain positive, productive and professional relationships with client personnel and colleagues. Youll want to evolve your capabilities and take your next steps in a firm thats committed to helping you achieve your potential.
- Demonstrates extensive abilities and a proven track record of success, as a team leader: supervising teams to create an atmosphere of trust and seeking diverse views to encourage improvement and innovation; contributing to a positive working environment by building solid relationships with team members; and participating in various staff recruitment and retention activities.
- Demonstrates team leadership through creating a positive working environment while meeting client expectations; coaching staff including providing meaningful written and verbal feedback in a timely manner; keeping leadership informed of progress and issues; answering questions and providing direction to less-experienced staff.
- Demonstrates a proven thorough ability to write and communicate cogently to clients and industry audiences, including, practice methodologies and tools, and writing and presenting whitepapers.
- Demonstrates a proven track record of success and extensive ability to maintain relationships with key executives and a network of professional organizations or affiliations.

Specific competencies:
- IFRS knowledge;
- Preferred but not required: Knowledge in the following areas within a client services environment is also preferred:
- SOCPA
- IPOs;
- Working capital review;
- Carve-outs and/or spin-offs;
- Business combinations and/or purchase price allocations;
- Private placements;
- Debt offerings

About the Company

At PwC Middle East, we've set out an ambitious purpose and strive to live it everyday: to solve important problems and build trust in society.

We're a community of solvers that come together in unexpected ways to build trust and create sustained outcomes. We solve important problems, support one another as we grow, develop and build fulfilling careers.

PwC provides industry-focused services for public and private clients across Assurance and Audit, Deals, Consulting, Tax and Legal. We draw on our development legacy that brings together the collective experience of over 7,000 people in our region with offices across 12 countries to solve for tomorrow.

We're striving to consistently deliver innovative work that builds trust and delivers sustained outcomes. And we're proud of the strength that comes from all our different backgrounds and experiences and we value everyone's uniqueness. We thrive in uncertainty, operate with integrity and leverage the diverse perspectives of our teams.

If you're looking for a place that fuels your ambition to make a difference, that matches your curiosity with continuous learning opportunities and reimagines ways of working to enable you to lead a more balanced life, then you're a future PwCer.