Corporate Performance Management (Private Sector) - Senior Management Consultant - Manchester

Corporate Performance Management (CPM), Management Consultants required at Senior Management/ Senior Consultant level for our growing Consulting practice based in Manchester.
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)is one of the world’s leading professional services firm. Our Consulting practice is focussed on working in partnership with clients to deliver real business transformation and making change stick.

Finance Effectiveness is one of our key competency areas providing finance advisory and change support to industry leading clients across a range of topics including CPM, Shared Services/ Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) advisory and Corporate Treasury (CT).

PwC is a world leader in CPM. Our team service the change needs of the world's leading multinational corporations within the private sector, often required to co-ordinate projects on a global basis. Our work is focused on providing clients with better, faster and more cost effective information, both financial and non-financial.

We are seeking to recruit individuals with CPM skills and experience to focus on delivering change projects with a focus on Finance transformation as part of a senior PwC/Client team. This opportunity is focusing specifically on Consumer and Industrial Products and Services (CIPS) and Technology, Info-Comms, Entertainment, Energy & Utilities industry sectors (TICE-E).

You will be part of a highly skilled, specialist team within a wider group of finance change professionals. At the same time, you will be encouraged to initiate and develop new ideas. Our highly motivated team have an excellent track record of delivering high quality work to major international clients and has ambitious growth plans for the next few years.

For more information about what we do in this space, please visit:
http://www.pwc.co.uk/eng/services/performance_improvement_consulting_finance.html

Joining our team as a Senior Consultant, we would expect you to have considerable experience of leading large change projects and performance management programmes, preferably within a major blue chip or consulting environment.

You will have been supporting decision making at a senior level (CFO level) and be able to demonstrate a track record of implementation success, achieving savings and overcoming various challenges.

At least some relevant CIPS or TICE-E industry sector experience is essential so please detail this on your application/ CV. We are also looking for wider international exposure, preferably but not exclusive in Europe and Asia.

In addition, we require all candidates to have:

• Education to Degree level. Additional qualifications such as ACA/ACCA/CIMA/MBA are valued but not essential.
• Experience of leading projects in one or more of the following areas: Budgeting and forecasting, Financial Consolidation, Management reporting or Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)/ Balanced scorecard.
• Demonstrable experience of managing a programme throughout the full lifecycle – design, build and implementation.
• Demonstrated ability to advise senior management on alternative solutions and risks with experience of presenting and influencing at a senior level.
• Deep understanding of finance operating models, key business drivers and commercial information reporting systems in a multi-national corporate environment.
• A Knowledge of CPM and Business Intelligence (BI) systems and other relevant software.
• Confident approach, self motivated with excellent interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written).
• A flexible and team focused working style within a multi-functional team.
• Preference will be given to candidates with well demonstrated external consulting experience.
• Experience of working in an international environment is highly desirable but not essential.

This role will be mainly client-based, developing teams and leading/ supporting transformational work and change engagements as well as some business development responsibilities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Delivering change projects with a focus on Finance transformation as part of a senior PwC/Client team.
• Contributing to our continued thought leadership to ensure that appropriate solutions are developed for clients.
• It is probable that your work will be part of wider transformational programmes and hence exposure to other finance and non-finance processes is desirable.

As a Senior Consultant, your direct reporting line will be to a Director or Partner. You will work as a senior member of our team and be expected to lead engagements (team sizes will vary depending on client/project).

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