Consumer Markets - Finance Effectiveness/ EPM - Manager at PWC in Chicago, IL

As a Manager, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

- Pursue opportunities to develop existing and new skills outside of your comfort zone.

- Act to resolve issues which prevent effective team working, even during times of change and uncertainty.

- Coach others and encourage them to take ownership of their development.

- Analyse complex ideas or proposals and build a range of meaningful recommendations.

- Use multiple sources of information including broader stakeholder views to develop solutions and recommendations.

- Address sub-standard work or work that does not meet firm’s/client’s expectations.

- Develop a perspective on key global trends, including globalisation, and how they impact the firm and our clients.

- Manage a variety of viewpoints to build consensus and create positive outcomes for all parties

- Focus on building trusted relationships.

- Uphold the firm’s code of ethics and business conduct.

Minimum years experience required

5+ years of Advisory Client Facing Consulting experience having served in a FP&A and Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Finance Consulting role.

Degree Preferred

Masters of Business Administration

Preferred Knowledge/Skills

• Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting processes
• Design of driver-based planning models
• Integrated planning across Finance, Commercial, and Operations functions
• Identification of key business drivers that impact financials
• Implementation and execution of Zero-Based Budgeting (ZBB), and processes to manage global cost transformation programs
• Design and rationalization of management reporting and key KPIs/Metrics
• Org design and setup of Global CoE's for planning and reporting activities
• Understanding of digital technologies and the impact on FP&A including analytical tools, AI, etc
• Familiarityworking with Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (EPBCS / PBCS), OneStream and/or Anaplan.

Additional Knowledge/Skills

• Demonstrates proven considerable knowledge and understanding around organizational design and operational metrics.
• Demonstrates proven thorough knowledge with the design of operational metrics to support strategic plans, dashboard design and benchmarking/standard industry practices.
• Demonstrates proven thorough knowledge of business intelligence tools to support the reporting and monitoring of performance metrics.
• Demonstrates proven thorough knowledge and exposure of the common issues facing clients in their industry.
• Demonstrates ability to write and deliver proposals to prospective clients.
• Demonstrates experience identifying and addressing client needs: actively participating in client discussions and meetings; communicating a broad range of Firm services; managing engagements including preparing concise, accurate documents and balancing project economics management with the occurrence of unanticipated issues.
• Demonstrates experience as a team leader: creating a positive environment by monitoring workloads of the team while meeting client expectations and respecting the work-life quality of team members; providing candid, meaningful feedback in a timely manner; and keeping leadership informed of progress and issues.
• Demonstrates a proven thorough level of ability with the automation of performance metrics and the technologies that support automation including: Access, SharePoint and the Program Assessment Rating Tool Demonstrates proven thorough technical skills in MS Office (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint), as well as well as some ability utilizing of Lotus Notes.