Finance Change & Controls Manager
PWC
2021-12-03 08:51:48
London, Greater London, United Kingdom
Job type: fulltime
Job industry: Accounting
Job description
About the Team
A career within our Finance Change and Controls team will provide you with the opportunity to help companies on their risk and control frameworks, general accounting and finance advisory, IFRS 9 and 17 account standards, managing finance change programmes. We form part of a big team with over 70 people and offer a broad range of services. Our team are self-starting, agile and thrive on bringing past experiences to new and diverse challenges. They are happy to work as individuals or as part of multi-disciplinary teams to provide hands on, client facing services to our clients across the Insurance, banking, brokerage, and several other financial sectors - depending on your previous skills and experience.
About the role
As a 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 several clients, while reporting to Senior Managers and above
Train and lead staff
Establish effective working relationships directly with clients
Contribute to the development of your own and team's technical acumen
Keep up to date with local and national business and economic issues
Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients
Continue to develop internal relationships and your PwC brand
Essential skills and experience
Significant experience of working within established professional services/consulting organisations or banks specifically focussed on regulatory/business change and/or front to back trading governance, risk and controls.
A proven track record of successfully supporting work-streams within change/client engagements
Strong client relationship, stakeholder management and interpersonal skills, with a good track record of dealing with stakeholders
Good commercial awareness, sound reporting skills and the ability to work under your own initiative
Strong oral and written communication skills (ie report writing)
The ability to apply good judgement during engagements and to support conclusions reached to more senior level personnel both internally and externally
Very strong attention to detail
Project management
Agility - an interest in working in a dynamic environment and on different types of projects in the capital markets arena
Desirable skills
Ability to work under pressure within an ambiguous environment
Relevant qualification - ACA, CFA etc
Programme Management experience
Risk
We're a leading provider of trust in the digital world - in the eyes of our people, our clients and our stakeholders. Today's business environment is different. More complex. More connected. Companies not only face new and unknown risks, but also new and untapped opportunities. Our team is at the forefront of this change, join us to be a part of transforming how risk is perceived and capitalised on.
Not the role for you?
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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:
The Deal
We want all of our people to feel empowered to be the best that they can be, which is why we have 'The Deal'.
Find out more about our firmwide Employee Value Proposition:
Diversity
Valuing Difference. Driving Inclusion.
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 because creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business, enabling us to solve important problems and deliver value to our clients. We encourage an inclusive culture where people can be themselves, are valued for their strengths and are empowered to be the best they can be. As an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we also support different ways of working offering flexible working arrangements. Learn more here about our work to support an inclusive culture.