At PwC, our people in finance consulting specialise in providing consulting services related to financial management and strategy. These individuals analyse client needs, develop financial solutions, and offer guidance and support to help clients optimise their financial performance, improve decision-making, and achieve their financial goals. In financial operations at PwC, you will specialise in improving the efficiency and effectiveness of financial operations within organisations. Your work will involve assessing financial processes, identify areas for improvement, and design and implement solutions to streamline financial operations, enhance controls, and reduce costs. You will be responsible for providing guidance on financial systems implementation, process automation, and financial shared services.
The Opportunity: Manager - Finance Transformation
Our Finance Transformation practice helps our clients’ finance functions improve their performance across a broad spectrum. As the role of finance evolves within an organization, balancing the need to be both a strategist and a steward, finance organizations will need to transform their processes, people, and analytic tools in order to manage these changes effectively. These changes include streamlining finance operations by increasing the efficiency of the finance organization and improving the effectiveness of finance by integrating performance management and analytic applications, such as performance score carding, reporting, budgeting, and forecasting capabilities.The PwC Consulting group is presently seeking to fill the position of Manager, Financial Data Scientist within the Finance Transformation Practice.
Key Responsibilities
As a team member, you will:
- Develop and implement GenAI-based solutions (LLM applications, RAG pipelines, multi-agent systems) tailored for Finance Transformation.
- Work on proof-of-concepts and accelerators that apply AI to finance processes such as reconciliations, journal entry automation, anomaly detection, reporting, and treasury.
- Partner with global client teams to translate business problems into AI-driven solutions.
- Support end-to-end project lifecycle: problem definition, solution design, prototyping, testing, deployment, and adoption.
- Contribute to thought leadership, proposals, and business development for GenAI offerings.
- Stay updated with the evolving AI/ML ecosystem and assess applicability for PwC clients.
Knowledge & Skills Required
- Strong programming expertise in Python is a must.
- Hands-on experience with Generative AI frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, AutoGen, CrewAI, LangGraph) is good to have
- Experience in working with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, etc.) or open-source models (LLaMA, Falcon, Mistral).
- Proficiency in AI/ML model development: prompt engineering, fine-tuning, evaluation, deployment.
- Exposure to finance processes (R2R/O2C/P2P) is good to have.
- Working knowledge of data visualization & reporting tools (PowerBI, Tableau, Alteryx) is a plus.
- Strong problem-solving, communication, and client-facing consulting skills.
- Experience with Microsoft tools (Power Platform, PowerApps, SharePoint List) and Data modeling/Database setup (including SQL) is good to have
Desired Attributes
- Strategic thinker with a consulting mindset and ability to link AI solutions to business value.
- Strong analytical and numerical skills.
- Effective storytelling and communication skills to various audiences.
- Proactive, self-driven, and collaborative team player.
Educational Background
- Bachelor’s/Master’s in Computer Science, Data Science, AI/ML, or related fields.
- Additional qualification in Finance/Accounting (MBA Finance /CA ) is good to have.
Additional Information
- Travel Requirements: May require travel to client locations as per project needs.
- Line of Service: Consulting Solutions
- Horizontal: Finance Transformation – AI/GenAI
- Selection Process: Candidates will be given a technical homework assignment (AI/DS task), which will be reviewed and discussed during interviews.
Hiring
Experience & Level: 8+ years | ManagerLocation: Bangalore / Hyderabad / MumbaiCompetency Overview: Finance Solutions – Artificial Intelligence & Data Science
Why Work for PwC
Join a thriving Finance consulting practice and grow your career! Get the opportunity to work on global challenging and complex projects with top clients across a variety of industries. Collaborate on large-scale finance transformation projects that integrate process improvement, system implementation and change managementWhether you’re an accomplished professional or a promising new talent, you’ll have opportunities to continuously learn, grow and advance in your career within our network.
PwC is committed to building a diverse workforce representative of the communities we serve. We encourage and are pleased to consider all qualified candidates, without regard to race, colour, citizenship, religion, sex, marital / family status, sexual orientation, gender identity, aboriginal status, age, disability or persons who may require an accommodation, to apply.
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