Finance Consulting - Senior Manager - Government & Healthcare

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A career within Finance Consulting services, will provide the opportunity to work alongside CEOs, CFOs, controllers and treasurers to optimise the structure of their finance functions and improve their contribution to the business. We support our clients by addressing the challenges of achieving appropriate standards of control, efficient back office opportunities and support to the business through insight and challenge.

Responsibilities 

As a Senior Manager, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience, helping our clients solve their complex business issues from strategy to execution. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to

Proactively assist in the management of a portfolio of clients, while reporting to Directors and above

Be involved in the financial management of clients

Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients

Develop project strategies to solve complex technical challenges for our clients

Manage and deliver large projects by developing the project team, assessing engagement risks throughout, driving conclusions, and reviewing / challenging the output produced by the team

Shape and deliver projects to meet and exceed the expectations of our clients and our own quality criteria

Train, coach, and supervise team members

Continue to develop internal relationships and developing your PwC brand

You will primarily work on the delivery of client engagements and leading Finance change projects; you will also spend time supporting the development of the Finance team and contributing to sales origination.

Delivery

Successfully managing projects with PwC and client teams;

The quality and timeliness of project deliverables;

The sustainability of project benefits;

Managing the project economics through on-going review and communication with the project team;

Providing general advice to clients on core areas of operational Finance;

Identifying further service opportunities, while client side, based on good understanding of the client's needs, combined with a knowledge of PwC's capabilities.

Development

Contributing to our continued thought leadership around Finance function design, processes, policies, strategy, governance, reporting and systems

Supporting on business development activities, leveraging our strong existing client relationships, multi-disciplined colleagues and intellectual collateral to develop appropriate solutions to assist clients;

Building and maintaining strong relationships with senior staff at our key clients.

At Senior Manager level, we expect you will be contributing to generating incremental sales of work - whether that is with an existing client or to a new client.

Essential skills

Managed projects or single workstreams within complex change projects in the government or healthcare/pharmaceuticals sector

Consulting /professional services experience

Finance transformation experience such as target operating model, shared services, outsourcing, system change or RPA

Ability in stakeholder management and relationship building;

Previous experience in Finance departments or consulting to them;

Strong understanding and knowledge of the Finance function, it's process and the key issues and challenges;

Desirable skills:

Education to degree level plus either formal accounting qualification or equivalent understanding of accounting principles.

An understanding of Finance technology such as EPM, ERP and PB&F;

Supported the development of solutions to Finance function challenges;

Previous experience in a management or a senior role gained from within a Finance department;

Used a Lean approach to process / cost optimisation.

Consulting

In Consulting we deliver practical, far-sighted advice that gets straight to the heart of clients' business issues and delivers amazing results by helping our clients improve the way they operate, reduce costs, manage risks, leverage talent or fundamentally change the way they do business, the work you do will be all about helping organisations of all shapes and sizes work smarter and grow faster. You could find yourself working with household names in a diverse range of industries - everyone from big-name broadcasters and high-street banks to multinational telecoms operators and energy companies.

The skills we look for in future employees

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional' and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

Learn more here www.pwc.com/uk/careers/experienced/apply

Diversity

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.

Learn more here www.pwc.com/uk/diversity