Senior Finance Advisory Manager | Senior Manager | CFO Advisory

As a Senior Manager in the CFO Advisory team at PwC, you'll play a strategic role in leading transformative finance initiatives, delivering critical advisory services that balance commercial insight with risk management. You will make a significant impact across diverse sectors, including finance, technology, energy, and health, by driving high-quality outcomes for our clients. 

Why PwC? 

At PwC Australia, your skills meet purpose. We tackle important challenges across industries—giving you the chance to make a meaningful impact. Here, your growth is our priority. You’ll collaborate with talented teams, leverage cutting-edge technologies, and elevate your career. 

Join a global community of more than 370,000 people who value bold ideas, collaboration, and lasting change. Together, we’re building trust and shaping the future. 

What you’ll do: 

• Lead and oversee finance function modernisation engagements, driving the shift from transaction processing to data-led insights that enable trusted, strategic decision making. 

• Own end-to-end delivery of complex process optimisation and transformation programs, including activity analysis, risk & control framework design, continuous monitoring, and embedding sustainable improvements. 

• Provide strategic finance system implementation support across business cases, operating model design, chart of accounts, program governance, and control assurance. 

• Lead cost optimisation initiatives by defining operating models, identifying commercial benefits, and securing stakeholder alignment to fund modernisation programs. 

• Drive governance, accounting, integration, and synergy realisation in transactional change activities, including pre- and post-deal support. 

• Build and nurture strong client relationships, acting as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, understanding their strategic priorities, and tailoring solutions to meet evolving business needs. 

• Mentor and develop high-performing teams, fostering a collaborative and inclusive culture focused on innovation and excellence. 

• Contribute to business development activities, including proposal development, thought leadership, and market insights. 

What we’re looking for: 

Core skills: 

• Minimum of 8+ years of relevant experience in finance, accounting, external audit, consulting or a related field, with demonstrated progression to senior management roles. 

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification. 

• CA qualification or equivalent professional accounting designation. 

• Proven experience leading large, complex finance transformation, process optimisation, and finance systems implementation engagements. 

• Strong expertise in risk & controls, financial reporting, technical and management accounting, budgeting, and commercial finance. 

• Exceptional strategic and critical thinking skills, with the ability to distil complex issues, advise on risk and opportunity, and deliver actionable insights. 

• Outstanding leadership and people management capabilities, with experience leading multidisciplinary teams and developing junior staff. 

• Excellent client relationship management skills and a proven track record of managing engagement profitability and growth. 

• Strong attention to detail combined with an ability to deliver high-quality, client-ready reports and presentations whilst maintaining PwC’s Risk & Quality standards. 

Don't meet every requirement? We encourage you to apply. We value all forms of experience that may be transferable and relevant. 

What you’ll gain: 

• The opportunity to work with leading organisations and cutting-edge technology that challenge and expand your expertise. 

• Work within an inclusive environment committed to Inclusion and Diversity and First Nations Prosperity, ensuring diverse perspectives are at the forefront of our work. 

• Flexibility means trusting you to choose when, where, and how you work, balancing what’s best for you, your team, and your clients to grow and thrive together. 

• Clear paths for career progression supported by continuous learning and leadership development. 

• Generous leave entitlements to support your work-life balance - including floating public holidays, birthday leave, and the ability to purchase additional leave on top of your four weeks. 

• A world-class parental leave policy offering up to 26 weeks of leave for caregivers, supporting your family and personal life. 

We know that perks are as important as your financial rewards. Explore all the benefits that PwC has to offer here. 

Ready to grow here and go further? Join PwC Australia as a Senior Manager in CFO Advisory and make an impact that goes beyond expectations. Apply now and advance your career with a team shaping the future. 

We’re committed to treating all our job applicants fairly and with respect, irrespective of their actual or assumed background, disability, neurodivergence, or any other protected characteristic. We want you to have every opportunity to thrive in our selection process. In the application form, you can let us know what adjustments you require during our recruitment process and/or any workplace accommodations you anticipate needing to help you perform your role. 

No agencies please: We kindly request that recruitment agencies do not submit CVs in response to this advertisement. Applications are only accepted directly from individuals.