Manager - Finance Transformation

Management Level Manager Job Description & Summary At PwC, our people in finance consulting specialise in providing consulting services related to financial management and strategy. These individuals analyse client needs, develop financial solutions, and offer guidance and support to help clients optimise their financial performance, improve decision-making, and achieve their financial goals. As a finance consulting generalist at PwC, you will possess a broad understanding of various aspects of finance consulting. Your work will involve providing comprehensive guidance and support to clients in optimising their financial performance, improving decision-making, and achieving their financial goals. You will be responsible for analysing client needs, developing financial solutions, and offering recommendations tailored to specific business requirements. Enhancing your leadership style, you motivate, develop and inspire others to deliver quality. You are responsible for coaching, leveraging team member’s unique strengths, and managing performance to deliver on client expectations. With your growing knowledge of how business works, you play an important role in identifying opportunities that contribute to the success of our Firm. You are expected to lead with integrity and authenticity, articulating our purpose and values in a meaningful way. You embrace technology and innovation to enhance your delivery and encourage others to do the same. Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to: Analyse and identify the linkages and interactions between the component parts of an entire system. Take ownership of projects, ensuring their successful planning, budgeting, execution, and completion. Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables. Develop skills outside your comfort zone, and encourage others to do the same. Effectively mentor others. Use the review of work as an opportunity to deepen the expertise of team members. Address conflicts or issues, engaging in difficult conversations with clients, team members and other stakeholders, escalating where appropriate. Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements. Purpose of Job 1. Business development – growing and delivering on a client target portfolio 2. Solution / proposition development – developing a response to client / market / industry issues 3. Engagement delivery - managing project deliverables and teams. Key Outputs Business development · Client targeting / Leveraging personal and business networks · Issue identification · xCompetency collaboration · Leading key account programmes · Leveraging research (internal and external knowledge) and trends to develop thought leadership. Solution development · Collaboration in developing answers to complex client issues and developing tailored solutions · Response to client requests and RFPs · Developing and leading proposals and development of hypothesis / business cases · Providing advise to client and team as subject matter expert · Research and alignment of firm service offerings and expertise · Developing industry / solution knowledge. Engagement delivery · Managing projects of high complexity (locally, on the African continent & participation in global engagements) · Managing alliance partners and joint business relationships (contactors and sub-contractors to projects) · Managing engagement economics of projects · Defining the objective and project deliverables · Preparing and monitoring project plan · Allocating tasks to individuals · On-site quality control and team management · Reporting progress against the project plan · Conducting post implementation quality review · Leading client meetings at a higher level · Report writing. Experience ·