IFS - Finance - Cluster Finance Leader - Senior Manager

Job description / Role

Line of Service
Internal Firm Services

Specialism
IFS - Finance

Management Level
Senior 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.

The Cluster Finance Leaders are key individuals in the PwC Middle East Finance team. They are accountable for the finance activities of the countries in their cluster. Together with the Cluster Finance Team they provide a critical, country level, interface between the business and the wider PwC ME Finance team.
 

Financial
- Accountable for the day to day delivery of  country finance activities including timely and accurate month end closing and reporting
- Provide local oversight of statutory reporting, taxation and other regulatory requirements. Working with central functions to ensure timely and accurate compliance
- Provide financial analysis and insight to local leadership to support both strategic and operational decision making and assessment of local performance against KPIs
- Support regional strategic finance activities including planning, budgeting and forecasting
- Identify and implement cost optimisation initiatives in coordination with local leadership and other stakeholders

Customer

- Partner with country leadership and other functional leaders to deliver trusted financial insight and value
- Work closely with the wider ME Finance Team to deliver regional support to the ME business.

Internal Process

- Ensure finance activities are conducted in accordance with applicable law and regulation, PwC policies and procedures, accounting principles and standards.
- Responsible for the identification, management, mitigation and escalation of local finance risks
- Identify and implement process optimisation initiatives using innovative & digital solutions in coordination with the ME Finance Transformation Leader.

Learning & Growth

- Lead, motivate and inspire the Cluster Finance Team, driving their performance to a new level that is highly commercial, innovative and a true business partner
- Responsible for the continuing professional development of self and Cluster Finance Team members, including keeping up to date with local taxation, regulatory and statutory reporting requirements
- Focus on ongoing quality improvement, staff development and training, best practice sharing and greater team working
- Develop talent within the team by providing consistent direction and support
- Establish a healthy work environment for employees

Requirements

Education

- Bachelor's Degree in Finance or Accounting required
- Certified accountancy qualification (CPA, CFA, CMA) required

Language

- Fluency in spoken and written English with excellent communication skills, proficiency in Arabic is an advantage

Overall Experience

- 10+ years of experience in a Finance function of which at least 2 years have been in a senior management role

Specific Experience

- Demonstrated financial accounting, management accounting and financial control experience in a senior leadership position
- Experience in enforcement and continuous improvement of financial policies and procedures
- Exposure to global best practices and trends in finance

Technical Skills

- Strong financial, analytical and accounting skills
- Excellent level of accuracy to a high level of detail
- Excellent calculation and analytical skills
- Excellent Microsoft Excel skills
- In depth knowledge of financial operations and processes, including accounting, reporting and financial control activities
- In depth understanding of general/international accounting standards and practices

Soft Skills

- Excels in developing and maintaining strong stakeholder relationships across the business both locally and regionally
- Excellent leadership, team building and people management skills
- Proactive and organised with excellent time management and decision making skills
- Thorough with an eye for detail
- Passionate about client service
- Excellent negotiation skills
- Strong work ethic
- Ethical Conduct

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.