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.
Posting Title: Finance Data Analyst / Architect, Manager – Finance Consulting
A career in our Finance Transformation practice, within Consulting services, will provide the opportunity to work alongside Finance leaders to optimize the structure of their finance functions, re-architect finance processes and implement best-of-breed technology to enable their transformation journey. Join a team of business professionals who work with clients to solve complex problems while utilizing tools to digitally upskill Finance teams. By working with clients to establish and deliver on their transformation roadmap to create value for Finance and beyond. Working in a diverse team, you will help our clients identify process, performance and people and lead the development of meaningful solutions to deliver sustainable change.
Meaningful Work You’ll Be Part Of
Working with clients and data engineering teams to help clients establish information models designed to support finance across multiple domains including statutory, management, regulatory, treasury and planning, budgeting and forecasting (PB&F). Be a part of the trend of integration between modern ERP and EPM toolsets and hyper scalar platforms like Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform.
Engagement Delivery
- Work and lead on engagements with multidisciplinary teams, primarily focused on leading/supporting data migration / transformation or EPM / ERP implementations projects
- Serve key resource to bring technology and Finance processes together during the above mentioned initiatives / projects.
- Finance transformation (including within an ERP or EPM tool implementation)
- Conduct organizational diagnostics across all finance processes
- Conduct analyses in support of improvement initiatives (e.g. costing, cost-benefit, benchmarking)
- Analyse financial and operational data;
- Establish credibility with existing and new clients by demonstrating subject matter expertise and knowledge in finance, strategy and EPM
- Vendor and software selection (including business requirements gathering)
Engagement Management
- Support the engagement director / partner in managing engagement risk and project economics
- Work to define and manage scope and objectives
- Develop and foster relationships with client leaders and stakeholders
- Identify, monitor and help resolve project issues and risks
- Coach and train junior team members on technical and project management aspects of engagement
- Prepare deliverable content
- Review and ensure engagement deliverables meet PwC and client quality expectations
Business Development
- Participate in aspects of the proposal development process
- Proposal writing and collaboration
- Team with PwC colleagues in other lines of services in support of client needs for Finance Consulting services
- Support the development of "thought leadership" and "point-of-view" documents
People Development
- Share knowledge across the global PwC network
- Provide input and guidance into the firm’s staffing/resource management process
- Actively participate in staff recruitment and retention activities
- Coach others, recognize their strengths, and encourage them to take ownership of their personal development
Experience And Skills You’ll Use To Solve
- 7-12 years of professional experience (a combination of management consulting and/or EPM implementation)
- Experience working in financial services industries (banking, insurance and / or asset & wealth management)
- Experience managing complex projects within a professional services environment and a global delivery model is ideal
- Experience in handling and building financial data models (or finance information models) to support finance and risk data.
- Understand dimensional data modeling. Can design and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure data models align with business rules and data governance standards.
- Understanding of enterprise cloud platforms AWS, GCP or MS Azure capabilities relating to data staging, normalization and transformation
- Experience in interfacing modern ERP (SAP S4/Hana, Workday Financials, Oracle FSDF or AFCS. Microsoft F&O) and / or EPM (OneStream, Anaplan, Adaptive) tools with enterprise cloud platforms
- In addition, the candidate(s) must have experience in one or more of the following fields:
- Understanding of the core Finance areas
- Experience leading both external and internal teams on medium or large-scale finance transformations
- High level of client service orientation such as building solid relationships with clients and vendors; approaching clients and vendors in an organized manner, demonstrating flexibility in prioritizing and completing tasks
- Excellent team player with strong leadership skills and an understanding of personal and team roles; contributing to a positive work environment and proactively seeking guidance and feedback.
- Superior project management skills
- Excellent communication skills – oral, written, presentation
- Strong problem-solving orientation and analytical skills.
- When applying to a Quebec based opportunity, fluency in French and English is required. Outside of Quebec, fluency in French is an asset
- The position requires regular communication with clients and stakeholders located outside Québec, primarily in English.
