Finance Business partner

Job Description & Summary

The Finance Business partner role serves as the strategic finance partner to leadership, converting financial, commercial and operational data into forward-looking insight and disciplined action. The role supports execution of line of service strategy, profitable growth, cash conversion, engagement economics and operational excellence across countries, business units and cross-border engagements.

Job description

Provide financial input into line of service (LoS) strategy, annual plans, budgets and forecasts at LoS, business-unit, country and cost-centre level.

Maintain strategy and KPI tracker covering financial and operational priorities, and highlight exceptions requiring leadership intervention.

Prepare clear weekly, monthly and quarterly management insight on net revenue, production, utilisation, realisation, engagement margin, CSS cost, direct costs, controllable margin and net income.

Translate performance movements into business implications, options and recommended actions

Undertake country, business-unit and thematic deep dives when requested by leadership.

Analyse pipeline, secured work, win targets and win/loss trends by business unit, sector, country and priority account, working with the relevant functional owners.

Support opportunity pricing and engagement budgeting, including recovery, margin, resourcing and cross-border commercial considerations.

Coordinate finance input to bids and multi-country opportunities, escalating tax, legal-entity, exchange-control or policy matters to the appropriate specialists.

Provide leadership with scenario analysis on revenue conversion, capacity, cost and margin implications.

Act as the principal Finance adviser on project and contract setup, project budgets, billing arrangements, WIP valuation, provisions, adjustments and general NIC management.

Monitor material engagements against commercial milestones and identify execution, revenue-recognition, margin, billing or recoverability risks requiring action.

Drive timely and correct job-code opening for local and cross-border engagements, including coordination of Internal Firm Agreements and inter-territory billing with the responsible teams.

Promote consistent accounting and reporting treatment across countries and business units.

Provide disciplined oversight of billings, collections, debtors, WIP, ageing, provisions and write-offs, with transparent ownership and escalation.

Analyse actual billings and collections against targets and distinguish timing issues, credit-term effects, tax deductions and genuine recoverability risks.

Partner with leaders improve the engagement-to-cash cycle.

Use dashboards and exception reporting to focus leadership attention on the most material balances and actions.

Build effective working relationships with leadership, business-unit leaders, country Finance teams, Finance Centre of Excellence (COE's), Shared Services and other IFS functions.

Coordinate regional allocations, inter-territory balances, cost-centre structures etc.

Apply finance policies, controls and approval requirements, and escalate complex or unusual transactions for specialist or leadership review.

Support business reviews, network requests and leadership forums with complete, reconciled and decision-ready analysis.

Identify opportunities to simplify, standardise and automate recurring finance processes and reporting.

Present concise, audience-appropriate financial narratives to leaders, clearly separating facts, assumptions, risks and recommended actions.

Constructively challenge the business where assumptions, targets or actions are not supported by available evidence.

Provide practical guidance and periodic training individuals and teams on relevant processes, reports and commercial disciplines.

Oversee and coordinate project-support activities within the assigned portfolio, maintaining clear hand-offs and service expectations.

Qualifications, experience and knowledge

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or a related discipline.

Relevant professional qualification, such as CPA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent is required

At least 4 years of relevant financial management or business-partnering experience; professional-services experience is highly desirable.

Demonstrated experience in budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, profitability analysis and working capital management.

Experience supporting senior stakeholders across multiple business units or countries and coordinating cross functional actions.

Working knowledge of engagement economics, revenue, WIP, debtors, provisions, utilisation and margin in a project-based environment.

Advanced Excel and PowerPoint capability; experience with Oracle, EPM, dashboards or comparable finance and BI tools is desirable.

Practical awareness of controls and the commercial, tax, legal and regulatory considerations affecting contracts and cross-border work, with appropriate reliance on specialists.

Minimum qualifications

BA/BSc/HND

How to apply

Interested and qualified? Go to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) on pwc.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com to apply

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