Finance and Accounting Managed Services Manager

At PwC, our managed services team focuses on outsourced solutions, supporting clients across various functions. As a Finance and Accounting Managed Services Manager, you will lead projects from planning to completion, ensuring quality and timely deliverables. You will analyze system interactions, mentor team members, and address conflicts. The role requires extensive accounting or finance experience, knowledge of Canadian accounting standards, and proficiency in digital tools. You will review financial statements, perform variance analysis, and support client insights, contributing to a high-performing, inclusive environment.

Must Have

• Lead projects, ensuring planning, budgeting, execution, and completion.
• Partner with leadership for quality, timelines, and deliverables.
• Analyze and identify system linkages and interactions.
• Mentor team members and deepen their expertise.
• Address conflicts with clients, team members, and stakeholders.
• Uphold professional and technical standards, code of conduct.
• Extensive experience in accounting or finance.
• Strong track record in financial reporting and/or management accounting.
• CPA or equivalent is highly preferred.
• Knowledge of Canadian accounting standards (ASPE/IFRS).
• Proficiency in digital and/or data analysis tools.
• Effectively juggle multiple projects and teams under pressure.
• Proactive approach to work.
• Dive into details for complex or challenging engagements.
• Demonstrate coachability by actively seeking feedback.
• Actively mentor and support engagement team members.
• Ability to clearly present findings and recommendations.
• Proactively engage with existing clients.
• Review monthly, quarterly, and annual consolidated financial statements.
• Review variance analysis, account reconciliations, and financial modeling.
• Drive accountability for the team's execution of a robust financial close process.

Good to Have

• Experience with enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and/or cloud accounting software.

Perks & Benefits

• Competitive compensation package
• Inclusive benefits
• Flexibility programs
• Continuous development environment

Line of Service

Assurance

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

Conduct and Compliance

Management Level

Manager

Job Description & Summary

At PwC, our people in managed services focus on a variety of outsourced solutions and support clients across numerous functions. These individuals help organisations streamline their operations, reduce costs, and improve efficiency by managing key processes and functions on their behalf. They are skilled in project management, technology, and process optimization to deliver high-quality services to clients.

Meaningful work you’ll be part of

As a Finance and Accounting Managed Services Manager you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Take ownership of projects, ensuring their successful planning, budgeting, execution, and completion
• Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables
• Analyse and identify the linkages and interactions between the component parts of an entire system
• Develop skills outside your comfort zone and encourage others to do the same
• Effectively mentor others
• Use the review of work as an opportunity to deepen the expertise of team members
• Address conflicts or issues, engaging in difficult conversations with clients, team members and other stakeholders, escalating where appropriate
• Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements

Experiences and skills you’ll use to solve

• Extensive experience in accounting or finance, with a strong track record in financial reporting and/or management accounting
• CPA or equivalent is highly preferred
• Knowledge of Canadian accounting standards (ASPE/IFRS) and ability to proactively and independently research guidance
• Experience with enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and/or cloud accounting software is considered an asset
• Proficiency in digital and/or data analysis tools
• Effectively juggle multiple projects and teams under pressure with a proactive approach
• Senior team members are expected, when needed, to dive into the details to ensure complex or challenging engagements are completed on time and with quality
• Demonstrate coachability by actively seeking feedback, embracing growth opportunities, and pursuing continuous development
• Actively mentor and support engagement team members by sharing expertise and feedback, helping them grow and contribute to a collaborative, high-performing, and inclusive environment for their engagements
• Actively coach specific individuals and collaborate around their professional growth
• The ability to clearly present findings and recommendations, both written and verbally, is vital
• Proactively engage with existing clients to understand their evolving needs and identify opportunities for increasing scope or other services
• Review monthly, quarterly, and annual consolidated financial statements across multiple entities
• Review variance analysis, account reconciliations, and financial modeling to support decision-making
• Support the sharing of insights with clients on a regular basis
• Drive accountability for the team's execution of a robust financial close process
• PwC Canada is committed to cultivating an inclusive, hybrid work environment. Exact expectations for your team can be discussed with your interviewer

Why you’ll love PwC

We’re inspiring and empowering our people to change the world. Powered by the latest technology, you’ll be a part of diverse teams helping public and private clients build trust and deliver sustained outcomes. This meaningful work, and our continuous development environment, will take your career to the next level. We reward your impact, and support your wellbeing, through a competitive compensation package, inclusive benefits and flexibility programs that will help you thrive in work and life. Learn more about our Application Process and Total Rewards Package at: https://jobs-ca.pwc.com/ca/en/life-at-pwc

PwC Canada acknowledges that we work and live across Turtle Island, on the land that is now known as Canada, which are the lands of the ancestral, treaty and unceded territories of the First Nations, Métis and Inuit Peoples. We recognize the systemic racism, colonialism and oppression that Indigenous Peoples have experienced and still go through, and we commit to allyship and solidarity.

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

• Accepting Feedback
• Active Listening
• Analytical Thinking
• Automation
• Automation Framework Design and Development
• Automation Solutions
• Budgetary Management
• Business Process Automation (BPA)
• Business Process Improvement
• Business Process Outsourcing
• Business Transformation
• Coaching and Feedback
• Communication
• Continuous Process Improvement
• Creativity
• Data Quality Automation
• Deliverable Planning
• Delivery Excellence
• Design Automation
• Digital Transformation
• Embracing Change
• Emotional Regulation
• Empathy
• Inclusion

Optional Skills

Desired Languages (If blank, desired languages not specified)

Travel Requirements

Not Specified

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No

Government Clearance Required?

No

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