At PwC, our people in finance focus on providing financial advice and strategic guidance to clients, helping them optimise their financial performance and make informed business decisions. These individuals handle financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and risk management. In financial operations at PwC, you will focus on managing financial processes and confirming compliance with regulations. You will handle tasks such as financial reporting, budgeting, and risk management.
Role: Manager Financial Control. Location: Guernsey. Line of Service: Business Enablement, Finance. Grade: Manager. Contract Type: 9-month Fixed Term Contract. Contracted Hours per Week: 37.5.
PwC Channel Islands Overview: At PwC CI, we help you build, accelerate, and sustain momentum in a world that never stops moving. With our tech-forward and people-empowered network, we provide expert assurance, tax and advisory services to turn challenges into opportunities. Leveraging deep expertise and advanced capabilities, we ensure you’re ready for any future, helping you act boldly and achieve real results.
Job Summary: The Manager, Financial Control is a key role within the internal Finance team on a 9-month fixed term basis, responsible for maintaining strong financial control, high quality financial reporting, and a robust risk and control environment across PwC Channel Islands. The role leads core financial control activities, including month end and year end close, balance sheet governance, statutory reporting, and audit coordination. Working closely with the Finance Operations & Control Manager, and the Finance Control, Client Delivery Support and Finance Business Partnering teams, the Manager, Financial Control ensures the integrity of the firm’s financial records while supporting continuous improvement in processes, controls, and reporting during a period of ongoing change and delivery focus.
Eligibility / Qualification Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field.
- Fully qualified accountant with a recognised UK professional designation.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in finance, with post qualification experience in financial control, reporting or a related finance role.
Essential Skills:
- Strong technical accounting and financial reporting knowledge.
- Experience delivering month end and year end close processes.
- Experience coordinating audits and working with external auditors.
- Strong attention to detail with the ability to prioritise and meet deadlines.
- Clear communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience operating within a controlled, regulated, or professional services environment.
- Demonstrated people management or supervisory experience.
Desirable Skills:
- Experience within regulated, partnership based, or professional services environments.
- Exposure to finance system upgrades or process change initiatives (e.g. ERP, procurement or accounts payable systems).
- Experience supporting finance transformation or control enhancement programmes.
PwC Professional Skills:
All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, Evolved PwC Professional. The Evolved PwC Professional focuses on two core behaviours: Trusted Leadership and Distinctive outcomes. Trusted Leadership is underpinned by core behaviours that Inspire, Empower and Evolve, and Distinctive outcomes is underpinned by behaviours that Champion, Build and Deliver.
Additional Skills & Certifications:
- Required Skills: Accepting Feedback, Accounting Policies, Accounting Practices, Active Listening, Analytical Thinking, Balance Sheet Analysis, Budgetary Management, Cash Flow Analysis, Coaching and Feedback, Communication, Creativity, Embracing Change, Emotional Regulation, Empathy, Escalation Management, Financial Budgeting, Financial Close Process, Financial Data Mining, Financial Forecasting, Financial Management, Financial Policy, Financial Reporting, Financial Statement Analysis, Generating Financial Reports.
- Certifications: Not specified in detail, but a recognised UK professional accounting designation is required.
General Conditions:
- Travel Requirements: Travel between the Channel Islands is expected. Occasional travel to the UK and Operation Centres in Europe may be required.
- Available for Work Visa Sponsorship? No.
- Government Clearance Required? Yes.
- Diversity: PwC encourages a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their unique strengths, attracting and employing the best people from the widest talent pool, reflecting the diverse nature of society. Creating value through diversity is what makes PwC strong as a business.
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