Senior Consultant - Consulting (Finance Function - FF)

Reference # 10-ADV-0022

Location: Dubai

Description

PricewaterhouseCoopers is seeking experienced consulting professionals for its Finance Function Advisory practice. PwC’s Finance Consulting practice provides a range of services to the Finance functions within large organisations focusing on the CFO’s agenda.  The key services include Operational finance improvement, Corporate Performance Management, Treasury effectiveness and Finance function shared services.

You will operate at Consultant/Senior Consultant level and be capable of providing high quality advice and experience to our clients in these areas, while working as part of a project delivery team.

You will be part of a highly skilled, specialist team of finance change professionals while at the same time you will be encouraged to initiate and develop new ideas. Our team have an excellent track record of delivering high quality work to major international clients and has ambitious growth plans for the next few years.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Consultant you will be reporting to the Managers/Senior Managers / Directors. Your responsibilities will include:

• Working as a strong team member on delivery of assignments with ability to take ownership of own areas of the project.  
• Service a variety of clients, getting to know and understand  their unique business issues and needs
• Collaborative working style, with a focus on knowledge sharing and innovative thinking with the team
• Should be outcome focused and result oriented
• Stay abreast of current business and economic developments relevant to the client’s business; and use current technology and tools to enhance the effectiveness of services provided.

Qualifications / Skills

• Ability to provide input to best practice approaches within a finance function across multiple dimensions including processes, people, systems and operations.
• Ability to work with Finance professionals within clients and demonstrate ability and understanding of Finance needs and challenges.  
• Should have a consulting mindset and experience.
• Strong verbal, presentation and business writing skills
• Should be a self-starter with excellent commercial insight and have familiarity with the Finance environment
• Excellent analytical, communication, organizational, interpersonal, and teaming skills
• Proven ability to work independently
• Proactive nature and be able to demonstrate initiative.
• Relationship- focused (with clients, peers, management, etc.)
• Shows creativity in problem solving
• Self-motivation to take initiative for personal growth and development
• Educational background:
  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Economics or other related major field
  • ACA, ACCA, CIMA or MBA qualified or part qualified

Experience Requirement

• 3 to 5 years experience in a similar role; significant experience in the financial function with experience in transformation and change roles.
• Previous experience of working on change or implementation programs within a finance function, either process or software related.
• Experience working on projects which support decision making at a senior level (CFO level) and be able to demonstrate a track record of implementation success on relevant projects.
• Good understanding of finance operating models, key business drivers and commercial information reporting systems.
• Knowledge of business processes in one or more core industries
• Some experience of Relationship and business development skills
• Some experience of Corporate Performance Management functions with ability to contribute to CPM implementation and improvement programs (experience with implementation of key CPM software tools such as Hyperion, Cognos is desirable)

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