OneFinance - Financial Control - Deputy Financial Controller - London

OneFinance - Financial Control - Deputy Financial Controller - London

Location: London , South East Salary: Competitive Date posted: 05/04/2012 12:09 Job type:Permanent Company: PwC Contact: Recruiter Ref: Totaljobs/OPS03328 Job ID: 53127230

Who we are looking for

PwC require a Deputy Financial Controller to work within OneFinance. The individual has a key role to play in leading and shaping the financial control framework of the firm.

The successful candidate will be primarily a problem solver, working with teams across the business ensuring a robust control framework. The individual will be responsible for identifying, escalating and proposing solutions that require implementation. The individual will also support the Financial Controller in overseeing the firms financial accounting policies, procedures and processes.

About the role

Support the firm's Financial Controller across a broad agenda, focusing primarily on the control environment but also accounting systems and processes.Lead firm's risk assessment of the control environment, particularly dealing with any changes that may occur across process, system or regulation. Determine and lead the change management required from a financial control aspect.Define the required financial control environment and the functional integration to support this (Finance, HC, IT, Procurement, I&P, LoS).
This includes areas such as Payroll, Fixed Assets, Risk management, Inter company accounting, Recruitment and retirement processes where overall control environment and processes have a strong dependencies and need to be assessed.Understand the firm's underlying financial accounting and oversee any modifications that may be required from regulatory or management issues arising. Where appropriate determine accounting required. Examples will include recent changes in Cost of Sales accounting, GADM accounting, use of Chart of accounts, Capitalisation of Fixed assets.Oversee the firm's accounting policies, processes and guidelines from a control and financial risk perspective, these will then be monitored by FC&C and FR&C as appropriate. This would include revenue recognition policies in respect of contingent fees, outsourced services, disbursements etc and also include overhead monitoring issues like use of Internal projects (FWAC), external job codes to manage projects, cost centre vrs Legal entity ownership and monitoring.

Requirements

A pro-active, challenging person who is highly organised and motivatedComfortable to have debates across the variety of functions within the firmAbility to initiate and manage changeStrong accounting, change management and influe ncing skills

Our Competencies

At PwC all our staff are required to demonstrate certain core skills, which we refer to as our 'global core competencies'. These are assessed throughout the application process, and candidates should make themselves aware of these, and how their own experiences may demonstrate each competency. You can also find out more about our competencies by following the below link. For more information about how we will assess your application, and the timings that are likely to apply to this assessment, please visit our careers site. http://www.pwc.com/uk/en/careers/experienced/applying-to-pwc.jhtml

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