Finance Senior Associate - 12m FTC

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Job description

Job Description

PwC's internal finance team provides a centralised range of finance services across our business to drive sustainable profitable growth. They play a vital role contributing to budget-setting, stewardship of the firm's assets, managing financial risks, driving profitability, and business development. Our finance team provides insightful management information to the business, while managing important supplier relationships and educating all our staff on the effective use of internal financial systems.

Internal Finance currently has an opportunity for an Alteryx and PowerBI (or Tableau) enthusiast to join the Functions Business Decision Support (FBDS) team. FBDS provides decision support services to the central functions and parts of XLoS, which have a combined cost base of c.£0.5bn. Areas include Real Estate and Facilities Management, IT, Human Capital People teams, Risk and Quality, Finance, XLoS Sales and Marketing and XLoS Technology & Investments.

FBDS is strongly aligned to the firmwide PwC strategy of leveraging technology (assets and capability) to make a difference to how we solve our clients' most important problems and achieve better commercial outcomes. The aim of our strategy is to simplify how we identify, develop and access technology.

As a Senior Associate within the FBDS team you will be using technology such as Alteryx, Power BI and Tableau to prepare visuals and dashboards in order to present key financial information to senior stakeholders within the firm. Good IT skills are required in order to make efficient use of the Firm's financial systems.

The role will report to the OneFinance Digital Accelerator (Senior Manager).

Day to day role:

• Working with the OneFinance Digital Accelerator to map out and identify efficiencies in the current finance reporting processes
• Using technology (Alteryx, PowerBI, Tableau) to build dynamic value-add workflows, visuals and dashboards, for the reporting of finance information to senior stakeholders
• Engaging with the firm's SMEs on finance and reporting to leverage their knowledge, and implement best practices in the team
• Coaching the rest of FBDS on the digital automations and learnings that you will implement
• Providing ad hoc support on day to day financial management and projects

Essential skills:

• Strong IT skills including Excel formulae and modelling, and experience with data manipulation
• Ideally some previous experience using Alteryx and PowerBI (or Tableau) to present dashboards/visuals
• Strong organisational skills, including multi-tasking, a keen eye for detail and prioritising effectively
• Being proactive in identifying, flagging and offering solutions to potential issues or problems
• Strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
• Experience of coaching and developing other members of staff
• Ability to prioritise and adapt within a dynamic working environment
• A clear personal pride for delivering high quality services to clients, including the ability to consistently manage their expectations and anticipate their needs
• The role may suit someone studying for an accounting qualification such as ACA, ACCA or CIMA

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