PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Finance Business partner Jobs in Kenya
Job Description & Summary
The Finance Business Partner serves as the strategic finance partner to leadership, converting financial, commercial and operational data into forward-looking insights and disciplined action.
The role supports execution of line of service strategy, profitable growth, cash conversion, engagement economics and operational excellence across countries, business units and cross-border engagements.
Job Description
Provide financial input into Line of Service (LoS) strategy, annual plans, budgets and forecasts at LoS, business-unit, country and cost-centre levels.
Maintain strategy and KPI trackers covering financial and operational priorities and highlight exceptions requiring leadership intervention.
Prepare weekly, monthly and quarterly management insights on net revenue, production, utilisation, realisation, engagement margin, CSS cost, direct costs, controllable margin and net income.
Translate performance movements into business implications, options and recommended actions.
Undertake country, business-unit and thematic deep-dive analyses when requested by leadership.
Analyse pipeline performance, secured work, win targets and win/loss trends by business unit, sector, country and priority account.
Support opportunity pricing and engagement budgeting, including recovery, margin, resourcing and cross-border commercial considerations.
Coordinate finance input to bids and multi-country opportunities, escalating tax, legal-entity, exchange-control and policy matters to the appropriate specialists.
Provide leadership with scenario analysis on revenue conversion, capacity, cost and margin implications.
Act as the principal Finance adviser on project and contract setup, project budgets, billing arrangements, WIP valuation, provisions, adjustments and general NIC management.
Monitor major engagements against commercial milestones and identify execution, revenue-recognition, margin, billing and recoverability risks.
Drive timely and accurate job-code opening for local and cross-border engagements, including coordination of Internal Firm Agreements and inter-territory billing.
Promote consistent accounting and reporting treatment across countries and business units.
Provide disciplined oversight of billings, collections, debtors, WIP, ageing, provisions and write-offs.
Analyse actual billings and collections against targets and distinguish timing issues, credit-term effects, tax deductions and genuine recoverability risks.
Partner with business leaders to improve the engagement-to-cash cycle.
Use dashboards and exception reporting to focus leadership attention on material balances and required actions.
Build effective working relationships with leadership teams, business-unit leaders, country Finance teams,
Centres of Excellence (COEs), Shared Services and other internal functions.
Coordinate regional allocations, inter-territory balances and cost-centre structures.
Apply finance policies, controls and approval requirements, escalating complex or unusual transactions where necessary.
Support business reviews, network requests and leadership forums with reconciled, decision-ready analysis.
Identify opportunities to simplify, standardise and automate recurring finance processes and reporting.
Present concise, audience-appropriate financial narratives that clearly distinguish facts, assumptions, risks and recommended actions.
Constructively challenge business assumptions, targets and actions when they are not supported by available evidence.
Provide practical guidance and periodic training on relevant processes, reports and commercial disciplines.
Oversee and coordinate project-support activities within the assigned portfolio, ensuring clear hand-offs and service expectations.
Qualifications, Experience and Knowledge
Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or a related discipline.
Professional qualification such as CPA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent is required.
At least four (4) years of relevant financial management or business-partnering experience; professional-services experience is highly desirable.
Demonstrated experience in budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, profitability analysis and working capital management.
Experience supporting senior stakeholders across multiple business units or countries and coordinating cross-functional actions.
Working knowledge of engagement economics, revenue, WIP, debtors, provisions, utilisation and margin management in a project-based environment.
Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
Experience with Oracle, EPM, dashboards or comparable finance and business intelligence tools is desirable.
Practical awareness of controls and the commercial, tax, legal and regulatory considerations affecting contracts and cross-border work, with appropriate reliance on specialists.
How to apply
For more information and job application details, see; PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Finance Business partner Jobs in Kenya
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