Finance Managed Services - Financial Planning & Analysis - (Transport & Logistics)

Description

Established in the region for 40 years, PwC has around 8,000 people in 12 countries across the region: Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, the Palestinian territories, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Our regional team operates across the Middle East bringing international experience delivered within the context of the region and its culture. We can bring the collective knowledge and experience of more than 328,000 people across the entire global PwC network in advisory, assurance and tax to help you find the value you are looking for.

Job Description & Summary

Managed Services is the delivery and execution business within PwC, providing operational solutions for clients. It brings the best of PwC’s advisory capabilities, our technology expertise and our operational delivery to help clients solve complex problems.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Daily tasks and delivery expectation

Budgeting

• Support budget preparation
• Update template
• Receive and consolidate inputs from functions
• Upload budget code in Oracle
• Track and validate PR against budget
• Support special events and budget
• Perform allocation and reallocation
• Perform variance analysis and reporting
• Prepare Periodic rolling forecast

Management and financial reporting

• Define reports templates and prepare report calendar and schedule
• Analyze business performance and financial data
• Produce and report timely and accurate financial analyses at the appropriate level of detail to enable business decisions
• Analyze reports and update commentary
• Agree and track actions coming from management reports

Planning & Forecasting

• Understand the planning, budgeting and forecasting processes, objectives, inputs, outputs and process business rules
• Use technical applications to produce management reporting
• Understand relevant data models
• Ability to analyze and mine insights from large amounts of quantitative and qualitative data using available tools & techniques
• Consider historical, driver-based and known future business events and data to accurately provide information on a consistent and timely schedule
• Adjust, model and review predictive and advanced analytical models, techniques and data to produce baseline planning, budgets, and forecasts
• Perform initial quantitative variance analysis and learn to detect patterns over time
• Create and maintain technical documents to describe programmed development, logic, coding, testing, changes and corrections.
• Ability to analyze system logs and perform bug fixing

Delivery

• Perform tasks and projects as assigned by Supervisors
• Communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders to ensure clear understanding of financial information
• Ensure adherence to agreed-upon deadlines and performance metrics (SLAs)
• Propose and implement initiatives to enhance financial processes and drive continuous improvement.

Preferred skills

Expected Skills:

Specific learned abilities or technical skills

• Knowledge of IFRS or Local GAAP for management, financial & statutory would be beneficial
• Validated skills and experience in handling various aspects of Financial Planning, Budgeting and Analysis
• In depth process knowledge in central finance reporting, management reporting and reports
• Prior exposure in ERP tools in FP&A environment (e.g., SAP, Oracle, Hyperion)
• Strong Analytical Skills to interpret complex financial data and provide meaningful insights
• Technical Proficiency in financial modeling, Excel, and financial software tools
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail in financial reporting and analysis
• Ability to identify issues, analyze root causes, and implement effective solutions
• Ability to engage effectively with multiple customers and handle critical issues
• Focus on implementation - essential for delivery as per the client strategy
• Ability to communicate effectively and influence people including internal/external customers, operations and Finance partners
• Ability to manage change and has proven time management skills

Expected Competencies:

Values, behaviors & attitude

• Ambitious individual who can work under their own direction towards agreed targets/goals and with a creative approach to work
• Proven interpersonal skills and is a strong team player
• Communicates with impact
• Results driven
• Drives organizational excellence

Required Language Skills:

• Proficient in written and spoken English and Arabic

Minimum Education and Specific Qualification:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance and accounting, Business Management / Administration or equivalent
• Master’s degree in finance, Business Management / Administration or equivalent from an accredited university is advantageous
• Certifications in relevant fields (e.g., ACCA, CA, CFA, CMA, etc.) would be advantageous
• 4-6 years of relevant experience for a Senior Associate, ideally having worked with a diverse portfolio of people, process and technology with a leading firm, preferably in the Middle East or GCC region

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