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PwC - Biggest provider of audit, accounting and tax services to the companies listed in the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Also provides internal audit, forensic audit, corporate finance, corporate governance services, sustainable assurance services and others.
Job Description & Summary
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.
To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.
As a Senior Manager, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:
- Encourage everyone to have a voice and invite opinion from all, including quieter members of the team.
- Deal effectively with ambiguous and unstructured problems and situations.
- Initiate open and candid coaching conversations at all levels.
- Move easily between big picture thinking and managing relevant detail.
- Anticipate stakeholder needs, and develop and discuss potential solutions, even before the stakeholder realises they are required.
- Contribute technical knowledge in area of specialism.
- Contribute to an environment where people and technology thrive together to accomplish more than they could apart.
- Navigate the complexities of cross-border and/or diverse teams and engagements.
- Initiate and lead open conversations with teams, clients and stakeholders to build trust.
- Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.
Purpose of Job
Business development – growing and delivering on a client target portfolio
Solution / proposition development – developing a response to client / market / industry issue
Engagement delivery - managing project deliverables and teams
Key Outputs
Business development
- Client targeting\Leveraging personal and business networks
- Issue identification
- xCompetency collaboration
- Leading key account programmes
- Leveraging research (internal and external knowledge) and trends to develop thought leadership
Solution development
- Collaboration in developing answers to complex client issues and developing tailored solutions
- Response to client requests and RFPs
- Developing and leading proposals and development of hypothesis / business cases
- Providing advice to client and team as subject matter expert
- Research and alignment of firm service offerings and expertise
- Developing industry / solution knowledge
Engagement delivery
- Managing projects of high complexity (locally, on the African continent & participation in global engagements)
- Managing alliance partners and joint business relationships (contractors and sub-contractors to projects)
- Managing engagement economics of projects
- Defining the objective and project deliverables
- Preparing and monitoring project plan
- Allocating tasks to individuals
- On-site quality control and team
- Reporting progress against the project plan
- Conducting post implementation quality review
- Leading client meetings at a higher level
- Report writing
Experience
- Minimum of 10 years experience within Advisory / consulting / business / industry experience
- AGSA Experience,
- Public Sector Audit Manager exposure
- Knowledge of leading practices in group and business services / support services with specific expertise in Finance Transformation, Finance Processes, Operating Model Design and Implementation, Shared Services and Enterprise Performance Management
- Microsoft applications (Powerpoint, Excel, Word and MS Project)
- ERP systems (SAP / Oracle)
Qualifications
- B.Comm / B.Compt / B.Acc Hons (essential)
Professional Affiliations:
- CA / ACMA accreditation (essential)
CPD / Specialisation:
Competencies / Attributes
- Building and sustaining relationships
- Being passionate about customer service
- Being curious – learning, sharing and innovating
- Leading and contributing to team success
- Communicating with impact and empathy
- Developing self and others through coaching
- Demonstrating courage and integrity
- Acquiring and applying commercial and technical expertise
- Managing projects and economics
- Being open-minded, practical and agile with change
- Motivated self-starter
- Dedicated individual who is team player
- Passionate about making a difference – embrace change
- Articulate, but innovative thinker who can think outside current paradigms
- Confident individual comfortable in challenging the status quo
- Gravitas
- Multi tasker
Areas of speciality:
- Finance operating models
- Shared services
- Finance processes (R2R, P2P, H2R, R2R)
- Planning / budgeting / forecasting
- Stakeholder management
- Performance management
- Decision support
- Risk Management
- Governance, compliance and controls
- Tax management
- Asset management
- Working capital management
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