service line
tax
Specialization
General tax advice
management level
boss
Job description and summary
A career in finance, within internal corporate services, will provide you with the opportunity to assist the PwC with all aspects of our internal financial function including financial planning and reporting, data analysis, and leadership assistance in the overall strategy. You will focus on recording and analyzing financial transactions, paying and receiving invoices, maintaining ledger accounts for financial statements, and preparing analysis and billing reconciliations for fraud detection.
Our Financial Operations team manages PwC’s financial risk through financial planning, reporting, data analysis and tactical consulting. As part of our team, you will assist us with budgeting, reporting, business operations, domestic and international accounting operations, and financing strategy.
Support the Financial Tax and Legal Services (TLS) leadership and take responsibility for managing the end-to-end planning, budgeting and forecasting process, including liaison with business, budget holders and the FP&A team.
Control TLS costs, ensure budget adherence, explore cost control opportunities, and prepare actual monthly analysis against budget.
– Managing, training and mentoring team members.
Basic Duties and Responsibilities
Financial issues
Defining and implementing cost improvement initiatives via TLS
Ensure adherence to budgets, highlight variance and escalate challenge as appropriate
Oversee, monitor and clear all internal cost codes for all fee types, ensuring a proactive approach to managing internal job code via TLS.
Client
Interaction between Finance team via TLS & Central Finance for escalating issues to ensure proper cost control
Acting as a single point of contact for budget holders
Ensure high quality, timely and consistent service delivery via TLS
Build a strong working relationship with Finance and Operations teams across the Middle East and act as a key supplier and liaison with budget holders
internal process
Budgeting, Planning and Forecasting
Full responsibility for the process
Confidence in the use of systems and tools
– Leads in discussions with entrepreneurs
Consolidate, review and verify budgets
Agreeing on goals and communicating
– Liaising with business leaders and central finance
cost control
Analyze monthly cost against budgets, investigate any variances and follow up (before and after final)
Direct cost planning and forecasting
– Monthly in-depth analysis of all cost pools
– Headcount and team performance review (recruitment/carpenters/backward/staff movement)
Ensure that all costs are calculated correctly against the correct account codes
Support in the TLS recruitment approval process
monthly performance reports
Provide monthly comment on costs versus budgets
Support and liaison with the TLS Regional Operations and Finance team
– Custom Reports
learning and growth
Act as a key resource and liaise with other areas of the business, building relationships across the team as needed
Knowledge, skills and abilities
education
– Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance or any related field required
language
– Fluency in both Arabic and English, both spoken and written
Comprehensive experience
5+ years of experience in a financial business control or business operations role including at least 3 years experience in budgeting and forecasting
specific experience
Demonstrated experience in financial accounting, management accounting and financial control in a senior leadership position
Experience in enforcing cost control across the region
Ability to influence others while maintaining a strong working relationship with managers across the business
technical skills
– Strong financial, analytical and accounting skills
– Excellent level of accuracy to a high level of detail
– Excellent arithmetic and analytical skills
Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel
In-depth knowledge of financial operations and operations, including accounting, reporting and financial control activities would be beneficial
soft skills
Ability to influence senior management and maintain a strong working relationship with managers throughout the organization
Good organization and office management skills to ensure workload coverage
– Excellent project management and change management skills
Organization, accuracy, eye for detail, time management and proactive skills needed
Skilled at maintaining relationships
Strong communication skills, with the ability to maintain geographical relationships
– Excellent people management skills
– Excellent negotiation skills
– Excellent customer service skills
– Strong decision making skills
Strong work ethic
– Ethical behavior
PwC companies help organizations and individuals create the value they are looking for.
We are a network of companies in 158 countries with approximately 169,000 people committed to providing quality assurance, tax and advisory services. PwC is the brand under which the member firms of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited (PwCIL) operate and provide services. Together, these companies make up the global PwC network.
In three key areas of business or service assurance, tax and advisory lines, we work with our clients from start-ups to the world’s leading organizations to measure, protect and enhance the things that matter most to them.
We help our people learn, discover, develop and make a real difference throughout their working lives. We have great ambitions for growth.
The Middle East region of PwC is part of what we call the central bloc and includes the United Kingdom, Europe, Africa as well as the Middle East. The region consists of 12 markets – UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Libya, Iraq and Palestine.
Established in the region over 40 years ago, we already have over 4,500 people on our way to becoming the number one professional services company in the Middle East.