Finance Consulting Public Sector Senior Manager

Recruiter
PWC-1
Location
Belfast
Salary
Competitive
Posted
12 Jan 2019
Closes
28 Jan 2019
Sectors
Public Sector
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time

About the role

Our public sector practice covers a wide range of areas including Central, Regional and Local Government departments, their arms length bodies, educational establishments, all areas of the NHS and not-for-profit organisations.

Our Finance Consulting team supports the agenda of the CFOs in those organisations. This can be in a functional capacity as they seek to drive the efficiency and control of their Finance functions and improve the effectiveness of Finance's contribution to the business through insight and challenge. It also though extends to their organization-wide role of making sure the organization delivers on its strategy whilst optimizing the value it gets from its resources, underpinned by strong financial management and robust commercially based decision making.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Manager, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience, helping our clients solve their complex issues from strategy to execution. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to

  • Proactively assist in the management of a portfolio of clients, while reporting to Directors and above
  • Be involved in the financial management of clients
  • Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients
  • Develop project strategies to solve complex technical challenges for our clients
  • Manage and deliver large projects by developing the project team, assessing engagement risks throughout, driving conclusions, and reviewing / challenging the output produced by the team
  • Shape and deliver projects to meet and exceed the expectations of our clients and our own quality criteria
  • Train, coach, and supervise team members
  • Contribute to the development of your own and the team's technical acumen
  • Continue to develop internal relationships and developing your PwC brand

You will primarily work on the delivery of client engagements, contributing to and leading change projects, but you will also spend time supporting the development of the team and will be expected to contribution to sales origination.

Essential skills and experience

  • Public Sector experience, either directly or through a Professional Services organisation
  • A delivery track record on large change projects
  • Experience of leading and developing teams
  • Ability in stakeholder management and relationship building;
  • Demonstrated ability to advise senior management on alternative solutions and risks with experience of presenting and influencing at a senior level
  • Commercial acumen
  • Supported the development of solutions to Finance challenges in one or more of the following areas
    • Finance vision, strategy and operating models
    • Finance process redesign and optimisation
    • Organisation wide Cost reduction solutions, including benefits realization approach
    • Investment Business Cases
    • Finance system design and implementation - EPM, ERP, MI Visualisation tools etc,
    • Cultural change and continuous improvement

Desirable Skills & Experience

  • Education to degree level plus either formal accounting qualification or equivalent understanding of accounting principles.
  • Understanding of back office transformation approaches outside of pure finance such as HR, IT or Procurement transformation
  • Understanding of Treasury Green Book
  • Understanding of government's fiscal policy and processes
  • Finance Systems architecture, Data architecture and data management
  • Exposure to robotics process automation and other disruptive technologies
  • Experience of a lean approach to process/cost optimization


Consulting

In Consulting we deliver practical, far-sighted advice that gets straight to the heart of clients' business issues and delivers amazing results by helping our clients improve the way they operate, reduce costs, manage risks, leverage talent or fundamentally change the way they do business, the work you do will be all about helping organisations of all shapes and sizes work smarter and grow faster. You could find yourself working with household names in a diverse range of industries - everyone from big-name broadcasters and high-street banks to multinational telecoms operators and energy companies.

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.

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Diversity

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, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.

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