Manager - Capital Market and Accounting Consulting Services at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

The Job Role

• To provide expertise necessary to help clients with financial accounting issues especially related to IFRS reporting and accounting advisory services in the Capital Market and Accounting Consulting Services Unit.
• To supervise and manage the delivery of client advisory engagements around deals accounting, complex IFRS accounting and new standards implementation, IFRS trainings, capital market transactions.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Provide IFRS technical accounting and business advice to a variety of clients
• Design and agree assignment terms and scope in line with PwC standards and procedures
• Perform IFRS compliance review of financial statements
• Prepare high quality reports and client deliverables
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with new and established clients
• Manage teams and reporting directly to the Director or Partner
• Manage the coaching, personal and professional training and development of your team.
• Ensure proper planning and manage efficient and quality delivery of engagements to ensure profitability for the firm through monitoring of team efficiency and driving timely billings and collections from clients
• Manage high value client relationships and work with the BU leadership in devising and driving business development strategy
• Work and liaise with other members of the team and colleagues in other parts of the firm as necessary to provide high quality clients service
• Strong business awareness, sound reporting skills and the ability to work under your own initiative
• Demonstrate industry and technical expertise in IFRS and business advisory areas through written reports and management presentations.
• Manage capital market transactions such as reporting accountant engagements, IPO readiness assessments, business acquisitions accounting and advisory, reorganisation and restructuring advisory, etc

Requirements

• A good university degree
• Excellent working knowledge and understanding of IFRS
• ACCA/ACA qualification (or equivalent)
• 5 - 8 years experience in a Finance/accounting or financial reporting role, with at least 2 of those years in an IFRS accounting or reporting role
• Experience in leading and managing a team, including coaching and development of team members
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Good client relationship skills, with a proven track record of dealing with senior client staff; up to and including board level.
• A passion for delivering an exceptional client service
• Good analytical and organisational abilities
• A demonstrated ability to take responsibility, work autonomously and use initiative, especially when working to tight deadlines
• Strong team-working
• Desire for continuous improvement
• Good listening skill
• A proactive approach to problem solving and delivering client solutions