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Pwc vacancy details:
Experience:7 – 10 years
Location: Kolkata, Hyderabad, Bengaluru
Openings:01
Education: CA,Any Graduate
Job description
As a Senior Manager, youll 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 firms code of ethics and business conduct.
Job Description
Senior Manager – AC Operations – Finance Lead
- Join our AC Operations team as a Senior Manager and play a crucial role in transforming our AC finance operations
- This position is ideal for a driven and experienced leader passionate about creating transparency in the costing of our AC resources
- You will be at the forefront, working within a dynamic team of problem solvers focused on sustainable, outcome-oriented strategies to advance our AC operations objectives
Responsibilities:
- Act as the communication bridge, conveying the financial impacts and changes to stakeholders effectively.
- Engage directly with AC to anticipate and understand shifts in resource rates, deepening transparency in resource costing.
- Conduct thorough reviews of reconciliations between AC invoices and budgetary expectations.
- Oversee the alignment of AC resources accurately within the appropriate cost centers, ensuring standard costing practices are applied efficiently.
- Analyze grade codes for accuracy and manage actual costs versus budget, providing clear explanations for variances.
- Partner with the AC Operations reporting team to forecast future AC expenses and
- Collaborate with the onshore finance team for precise month-end accruals of AC resources.
- Collaborate with the onshore finance team to oversee the financial aspects of our AC recognition program, ensuring alignment with our strategic goals.
- Collaborate coordinate with the TIF Owners and Chief Investment Officer (CIO) and onshore finance team to manage quarterly and annual reporting on our various Territory Investment Funds (TIFs).
- Support the review of business cases and economic models which are submitted as part of the annual TIF approval process and bring insights and recommendations to TIF leadership to support strategic decisions.
- Provide recommendations to support the improvement of the TIF process overall, including how we track and measure Return on Investment (ROI) and other relevant Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and how the TIFs are generating value for the firm.
Requirements:
- A Certified Public Accountant (CPA)/ Chartered Accountant (CA) designation is recommended.
- Demonstrated expertise in financial operations, with a strong focus on standard costing and budgeting.
- Knowledge of the unique challenges and complexities of AC finance operations an asset.
- Ability to effectively collaborate with and lead diverse teams across various geographies.
- Skilled in stakeholder engagement, with a proven track record of effective communication.
- Strategic and analytical thinker with robust problem-solving skills.
- Comfortable analyzing financial models and understands finance and investment concepts.
- Familiarity with PowerBI dashboards would be an asset.
- Willingness to learn and spend the time with the onshore and AC finance teams to understand the internal workings of the PwC financial and reporting methodologies systems (eg: standard cost, operating units, Salesforce Opportunities etc.)
- Exceptional communication abilities, capable of simplifying complex financial concepts for a broad audience.
- A commitment to diversity and inclusion, valuing diverse perspectives and fostering an inclusive environment.
- Self-motivated individual with a strong sense of initiative and a passion for collaborative work.
- Outstanding multitasking and project management capabilities.
