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PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

FS - Finance Effectiveness Senior Consultant - Banking

 
recruiter : PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)
salary : Competitive plus benefits
location : UK wide (flexible location)
job term : Permanent/Full-time
reference : ADV01491
contact : PricewaterhouseCoopers
posted on : 15/08/08 at 12:06
deadline : 30/12/2008
 

 
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  Job Description
Without doubt, the economic outlook is improving and organisations are increasingly turning to PricewaterhouseCoopers for advice as to how to develop their business operations to respond to the new market environments. For finance functions this means meeting the changing needs and expectations of the business whilst addressing the ever-increasing regulatory requirements.
We need to be confident that we have the experts in place to help our clients to meet those challenges across the financial services industry. Advisory Business Solutions has a global network of 6,000 professionals working together to help organisations develop.
We have high growth targets and part of the strategy for this growth is to bring in experienced hires in the position of Consultant. The position offers:

- A challenging working environment
- Opportunities for personal and career progression
- Access to high spending and high profile financial services organisations
- We offer competitive salaries and a flexible benefits scheme that allows you to structure a package to suit your own circumstances.
Requirements
You will be a person who enjoys a challenging, fast moving environment and is flexible to change. You will have excellent time management skills, be able to manage others and be very comfortable working in a highly team oriented environment.
Successful candidates will possess the following attributes:

Industry and technical

- Experience within the financial services industry. This experience will have been gained via working for a financial services company and/or via consulting for them or through an audit role.
- Familiarity with the industry and technical issues and challenges facing CFO's today
- Ability to quickly identify and understand the systems, processes and risks relevant to clients and their goal
- Practical experience of leading change within a financial services finance function
- Truly understand the interaction between IT and the business in a finance context and the importance of changing behaviours as well as changing processes.
- Knowledge and experience of Management Information.
- Experience in developing and implementing Finance Operation models is desirable, but not essential.Professional and interpersonal

- Initiative and motivation
- Intellectual curiosity and professional judgement
- The ability to lead and motivate teams and individuals and to coach and develop the staff around them
- Be comfortable and confident in dealing with the senior management of major blue chip financial services organisations
- Flexibility in working in different environments
- Strong interpersonal and communications abilities, including negotiation and influencing skills
- A real desire to operate as an agent of change.
The Individual
Candidates should indicate and be able to demonstrate the depth and breadth of experience that they have in each of above areas.

In addition, we expect you to be able to perform the following activities:

- Run the team out at the client - dependent upon the size of the project
- Manage the day to day client relationship
- Demonstrate a good degree of commercial awareness and an ability to quickly identify and understand the systems, processes and risk relevant to clients and their goals.
- Identify and convert business development opportunities evidenced by a high involvement in the proposal process
- They will set high professional standards for themselves and those around them
- All consultants will have delivery and business targets.



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