Finance Business Partner – Financial Control Manager - Risk

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

12/1/2024

About The Role

PwC’s Finance Business Partnering teams work hand-in-hand with our employees across the firm, informing our leaders on the key decisions that drive the business forward. We entrust our Business Partnering teams to be proactive and honest, to build relationships and influence, to understand, challenge, and hold a mirror to the business, and to translate the numbers into a business story.

This role will be responsible for key areas of Financial Control for the Risk LOS, driving depth of expertise and leveraging best practice across the business, acting as a regular point of contact to the leadership in driving the firm’s control agenda – delivering crucial insight to the Finance Director, the COO, and wider business leadership. The FC Manager will be a specialist to an entire Finance Business Partnering team within the business.

What Your Days Will Look Like

This position reports directly to the FC Lead in the Risk LOS, providing support to them and the Risk FD in their ownership of the integrity and accuracy of all relevant aspects of their P&L and balance sheet and to ensure that the firm’s accounting policies defined by the Financial Control Centre of Excellence (FC CoE) are implemented and monitored within their part of the business.

The Specific Responsibilities Of The FC Manager Will Include

• Works with the FC Lead for Risk, the FC CoE, the other FC Leads and the Finance Leaders within the LOS to ensure appropriate financial controls are implemented and monitored within the business, including adherence with the firm’s relevant accounting policies and procedures.
• Acts as a subject matter expert in the application of the firm’s accounting policies and procedures within the business, seeking advice from the FC CoE when necessary on matters of a more complex or technical nature.
• Works with Business Unit Finance Leaders to drive early involvement in the bid/contract review process to identify issues and to provide policy and contract code structuring advice to avoid unanticipated revenue recognition implications during the project lifecycle. You will also drive best practices across all aspects of Investment in Client management (including billing and cash) and IIC risk
• Collaborates with the FC CoE, the wider Finance Business Partnering team and engagement leaders to carry out reviews of large and high risk engagements to ensure that the correct accounting treatment is achieved in line with the firm’s revenue recognition accounting policy and IFRS.
  
  

This Role Is For You If

• Experience in designing and implementing financial controls
• Experience in managing month-end and year-end financial reporting processes in a professional services firm is highly desirable
• Strong technical accounting knowledge / application of relevant accounting standards, particularly IFRS15
• Independent and unbiased mindset and able to challenge senior stakeholders on inappropriate accounting treatment.
• Experience in facilitating and participating in external audit process
• Must possess an ACA, ACCA or CIMA or international equivalent
  
  

What You’ll Receive From Us

No matter where you may be in your career or personal life, our benefits are designed to add value and support, recognising and rewarding you fairly for your contributions.

We offer a range of benefits including empowered flexibility and a working week split between office, home and client site; private medical cover and 24/7 access to a qualified virtual GP; six volunteering days a year and much more.