Acceleration Center - Finance Trans - EPM - Anaplan - Senior Associate

Line of Service

Advisory

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

Finance

Management Level

Senior Associate

Job Description & Summary

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.

Focused on relationships, you are building meaningful client connections, and learning how to manage and inspire others. Navigating increasingly complex situations, you are growing your personal brand, deepening technical expertise and awareness of your strengths. You are expected to anticipate the needs of your teams and clients, and to deliver quality. Embracing increased ambiguity, you are comfortable when the path forward isn’t clear, you ask questions, and you use these moments as opportunities to grow.

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Respond effectively to the diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.
• Use a broad range of tools, methodologies and techniques to generate new ideas and solve problems.
• Use critical thinking to break down complex concepts.
• Understand the broader objectives of your project or role and how your work fits into the overall strategy.
• Develop a deeper understanding of the business context and how it is changing.
• Use reflection to develop self awareness, enhance strengths and address development areas.
• Interpret data to inform insights and recommendations.
• Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor Degree
• Minimum Years of Experience: 3+ years
• English Advanced Required

As a Senior Associate, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Use feedback and reflection to develop self awareness, personal strengths and address development areas.
• Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities, coaching them to deliver results.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.
• Use a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current industry or sector trends.
• Review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance.
• Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.
• Seek and embrace opportunities which give exposure to different situations, environments and perspectives.
• Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.
• Able to read situations and modify behavior to build quality relationships.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Demonstrates thorough levels of abilities and proven record of success with:

• Implementing solutions in Anaplan, including strong experience in key implementation activities:
  • Owning interactions with users and driving foundations, sprint activities, and UAT
  • Possessing the subject matter acumen to drive and shape user stories while providing leading practices
  • Building complex models with little guidance from solution architects
  • Building user stories of high complexity with junior model builders
  • Understanding data integration options and able to build or engage SMEs for development as needed
• Possessing the knowledge of the core Accounting/Finance areas:
  • Performance Management - executive dashboards management reporting, planning, budgeting & forecasting, analytics & decision support
  • Record-to-Report - financial close, consolidation, financial reporting, Fixed Assets, Inventory, Payroll
  • Order-to-Cash - order entry, customer credit, invoicing, accounts receivable, collections
  • Procure-to-Pay - procurement, accounts payable, invoicing
• Working in an agile project management environment for tool implementation projects
• Working in a professional services environment (a combination of industry, management consulting and/or software implementation).

Demonstrates thorough abilities and a proven record of success as a team member, identifying and addressing client needs:

• Building relationships with clients
• Developing an awareness of Firm services; communicating with the client in an organized and knowledgeable manner; delivering clear requests for information
• Demonstrating flexibility in prioritizing and completing tasks
• Communicating potential conflicts to a supervisor

Demonstrates thorough abilities and a proven record of success as a team leader, working with cloud based collaboration and project management tools.

Demonstrates proven communication through MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)

Degrees/Field of Study required:

Degrees/Field of Study preferred:

Certifications (if blank, certifications not specified)

Required Skills

Optional Skills

Accepting Feedback, Accepting Feedback, Accounting Practices, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable Management, Active Listening, Analytical Thinking, Budgetary Management, Communication, Creativity, Embracing Change, Emotional Regulation, Empathy, Ensuring Accuracy of Financial Statements, Financial Accounting, Financial Audit, Financial Data Mining, Financial Forecasting, Financial Internal Controls, Financial Management, Financial Modeling, Financial Record Keeping, Financial Reporting, Financial Services Operations, Financial Statement Analysis {+ 16 more}

Desired Languages (If blank, desired languages not specified)

Travel Requirements

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

Government Clearance Required?

Job Posting End Date

marzo 3, 2025