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

· Minimum of 10 years experience within Advisory / Consulting with business industry experience preferable

· Knowledge of leading practices in group and business services / support services with specific expertise in Finance Transformation, Finance Processes, Operating Model Design and Implementation, Shared Services and Enterprise Performance Management

· Microsoft applications (Powerpoint, Excel, Word and MS Project)

· ERP systems (SAP / Oracle)

Qualifications

► B.Comm / B.Compt / B.Acc Hons (essential)

Professional Affiliations:

► CA / ACMA accreditation (essential)

CPD / Specialisation:

► Advantageous

Competencies /Attributes

► Building and sustaining relationships

► Managing diverse teams

► Being passionate about customer service

► Being curious – learning, sharing and innovating

► Leading and contributing to team success

► Communicating with impact and empathy

► Developing self and others through coaching

► Demonstrating courage and integrity

► Acquiring and applying commercial and technical expertise

► Managing projects and economics

► Being open-minded, practical and agile with change

► Motivated self-starter

► Dedicated individual who is team player

► Passionate about making a difference – embrace change

► Articulate, but innovative thinker who can think outside current paradigms

► Confident individual comfortable in challenging the status quo

► Gravitas

► Multi tasker

Travel Required

Frequent

Overtime Required

Yes

Drivers License

Yes

Own car required

Yes

Areas of experience:

· Finance operating models

· Finance benchmarking

· Finance function assessments

· Shared Service design & implementation

· Finance processes (R2R, P2P, H2R, O2C)

· Planning / budgeting / forecasting

· Stakeholder management

· Performance management

· Decision support

· Risk Management

· Governance, compliance and controls

· Tax management

· Asset management

· Working capital management.

Travel Requirements

Up to 20%

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No

Job Posting End Date

August 21, 2026