Finance LOS Business partner – Consulting and Risk Services

This role supports the Consulting and Risk Services Finance lead on delivery of Line of Service business strategy, while being effective and demonstrating proficiency across financial performance management, decision support and business planning and forecasting. Responsibilities include planning, budgeting and forecasting at sub-LoS and Cost Centre level, providing support on opportunity pricing and budgeting, liaising with the CoE (Centre of Excellence) and/or In-country finance lead on complex and cross border transactions such as withholding tax, exchange control, etc., providing commentary and analysis on LoS management and engagement reports e.g., Operating Statements, WIP (Work in Progress), Debtors, etc., acting in the capacity as the liaison for billing and project setup, maintenance, provisions and adjustments for the assigned LoS(s), and acting as a subject matter expert and consultant to the LoS on issues such as contract and project creation, WIP valuations and general NIC management. Other responsibilities include updating project budgets in Oracle, overseeing the local finance project support role to ensure procurement and region/cost centre specific financial administration is up to date, driving communication and collaboration between the Line of Service and the different finance teams, reporting and analysing on project, contract, Partner, LoS, Cost centre and client levels, conducting ad-hoc tasks/projects to support business requirements, developing an intermediate knowledge of the financial reporting systems, controls and processes that operate across business within the business at LoS and Cost Centre level, developing an understanding of the business’s financial reporting policies and risk management frameworks in order to assess compliance and guide interpretation and training in relevant areas, ensuring alignment of processes with organisational strategy and taking accountability for relevant processes within the area of responsibility and ensuring delivery and maintenance of standardised processes and controls, supporting engagement teams on finance aspects throughout the engagement life cycle from pricing of project through to collections, supporting engagement teams with and resolving complex Oracle queries (Projects, Contracts & Invoicing), supporting LoSFL with generation & distribution of Business Unit, Network(Competency/Industry),Regional & Country Schedules, supporting engagement teams with WIP & AR Management (Set up meetings with EPs/EMs), supporting staff in business with Timesheet management (Outstanding timesheets, Charge out Rates, etc.), supporting engagement teams with Days in Investment Management, monitoring and reporting on collections & Billings, supporting with on-boarding Basic Oracle Training, supporting with completion of bulk upload templates, supporting with Client & Employee Data Quality & Maintenance (Peoplesoft, Salesforce, Oracle and rate card management), conducting ad-hoc tasks/projects to support business requirements, initiating, obtaining approval and processing of charges between chargeable and non-chargeable project codes where relevant.