IFS - Finance - FP&A Manager

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Dubai, UAE

Ref: HP639-1532

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Line of Service
Internal Firm Services

Specialism
IFS - Finance

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 Financial Analysis and Reporting team is responsible for managing PwC's financial risk through financial planning and reporting, data analysis, and tactical consulting. As part of the team, you'll help with budget management, cost benefit analysis, forecasting, shared services and financing.

The FP&A team is tasked to support the business with regular local and global reporting, managing the budgeting process, and provide relevant analysis to give more insights about the performance and the trend that helps the leadership to make timely decisions. The FP&A business analysis manager has primary responsibility to support the business and the Finance leadership through analysing the monthly reports and providing commentary and insights on the performance from different aspects by LoS, by country, by function, etc.

Primary duties and responsibilities

Core
• Review monthly results & performance and prepare variances and trend analysis summaries covering the different angels from Line of
• Services, Business Units, countries, legal entities, platforms, products, etc.
• Review Balance sheet, Net Investment & WIP movements highlighting any key issues or risks.
• Provide support in budgeting & forecasting processes through preparing historical analysis as well as future projection based on the trend and the agreed assumptions.
• Liaise with different functions and work on supporting analysis for the different areas (cashflow with Treasury, effective tax rates with Firm Tax, etc)
• Understand the business requirement for the different teams and liaise with the data modeling and the internal reporting teams within the FP&A function to bring sustainable solutions for reporting and data visualisation.
• Provide support in annual reporting to leadership
• Provide support in preparing monthly performance summary
• Support with ad-hoc analysis requested by Business or Finance leadership.

Customer
• Business partner with LoS - IFS - OneFinance, and maintain ongoing open channels of communication for business discussions.
• Liaise with ICV team on improvement plans, and provide the supporting analysis
• Liaise with global teams and align on standard reporting & data visualisation for leadership

Internal Process
• Documentation of regular processes and engage with the Financial Controls team to update and implement the policies, procedures relevant to the FP&A - BA section.
• Conduct a monthly check list of all carried activities and ensure all completed on time.
• Support all period end closing analysis as appropriate

Learning & Growth
• Keep self updated with all changes in the data visualisation area
• Ensures adherence to policies and procedures
• Responsible for the continuing professional development of self and junior team members
• Support internal knowledge management best practices, creating communities of practice both within own team and across wider function
• Act as a key liaison to other functional areas of the business, building cross-functional relationships as needed
• Establish a healthy working environment for employees

Requirements

Education
• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance or related field required
• Professional qualification, CPA, CMA certification or similar required

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

Overall Experience
• 5+ years of experience in a Finance / Business analysis of which at least 2 years are in a management role

Specific Experience
• Demonstrated experience with financial accounting reporting and analysis.
• Experience in building visual analysis and demonstrate areas of strengths and weaknesses
• Exposure to global best practices and trends in the Finance domain

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
• Excellent digital reporting and presentation skills (Power BI,etc)
• 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
• Ability to influence senior management and to maintain a strong working relationship with managers across the organization
• Organization, thoroughness, eye for detail, time management skills and proactivity needed
• Skilled in maintaining client relationships
• Strong liaison skills, with the ability to maintain geographical relationships
• Strong problem solving skills
• Excellent customer service 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.

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