Ref: HP639-3318

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Line of Service
Advisory

Specialism
Deals

Management Level
Manager

Job Description & Summary
In this role, you'll report predominantly to the Finance Lead and Business Unit (BU) Chief Operating Officer who form the Business Unit's leadership team, and the Partners & Directors within their business unit. You will also report to the Advisory Finance team leader, providing updates which will go directly to the Middle East Deals Leadership Team. Your Local Finance Lead will provide guidance regarding compliance with relevant territory policies and procedures.

What to consider before applying

- This role has the option of being based out of our KSA, UAE or Jordan offices

The Role

As a Finance Manager within our Deals practice, your responsibilities will include:

- Analyze and report (vs budget) project revenue across territories for each Partner and Business Unit (BU)
- Maintain billing, provisions and adjustments as necessary and to contract/policy
- Keep an open dialogue with the Finance team in order to reconcile and verify reported data
- Maintain accurate records of backlog, reconcile and report to Finance monthly
- Offer strategic support and handle operations for practice financials and account management in liaison with the BU's Senior Leadership
- Monitor BU performance reporting any issues to the relevant Partners (e.g. backlogs and potential consequences)
- Share knowledge within one's own team and across Business Units and promote best practices in respect of the firm's business systems and processes
- Liaising with the regional and global teams to improve individual working relations and understand the processes that are undertaken as part of an international team's involvement
- Provide data, information, reports and particularly KPIs relating to the BU
- Support the BU Leadership as required in addressing business opportunities and development
- Contribute improvement, development ideas, and proposals
- Set up new opportunities, engagements and contracts and maintain existing ones using the firms iPower CRM (no longer Client Stream) and finance systems
- Plan and prepare quarterly business review meetings, practice meetings, and monthly team meetings to include logistics, agenda creation, meeting support, and report creation
- Ensure all compliance requirements for new engagements and contracts are met fully and exceptions reported
- Provide training, coaching and support to other team members as needed
- Obtain new job codes and ensure correct use throughout the life of engagements
- Monitor and review net investment with Partner(s) across the portfolio monthly

Requirements

The Requirements

- Significant hands on experience preferably within a professional services firm
- Strong background in Finance or Accounting preferred
- Extensive knowledge of relevant computer software (e.g., Microsoft Office), Excel, PowerPoint and Lotus Notes
- Comfortable working with numerous internal support departments
- Affinity to work with quantitative data, good analytics
- Ability to work within a fast-paced & unstructured environment
- Confident to multitask and prioritize
- Service-oriented attitude, proactive thinker, networker, information seeker, team player
- Willingness and interest to frequently interact with and reach out to Partners, Principals and the team and to engage in limited travel for team meetings, training, etc.
- Ability to interact efficiently with senior members of the firm across multiple time zones
- Excellent oral, written, and presentation communication skills

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.

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Finance Manager salaries in UAE

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AED 21,000

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