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Role: Manager, Financial Control
Location: Jersey
Line of Service: Business Enablement, Finance
Grade: Manager
Contract Type: 9 month Fixed Term Contract
Contracted Hours per Week: 37.5
PwC Channel Islands Overview
At PwC CI, we help you build, accelerate, and sustain momentum in a world that never stops
moving. With our tech-forward and people-empowered network, we provide expert assurance,
tax and advisory services to turn challenges into opportunities. Leveraging deep expertise and
advanced capabilities, we ensure you’re ready for any future, helping you act boldly and achieve
real results.
Job Summary:
The Manager, Financial Control is a key role within the internal Finance team on a 9 month
fixed term basis, responsible for maintaining strong financial control, high quality financial
reporting, and a robust risk and control environment across PwC Channel Islands.
The role leads core financial control activities, including month end and year end close, balance
sheet governance, statutory reporting, and audit coordination. Working closely with the Finance
Operations & Control Manager, and the Finance Control, Client Delivery Support and Finance
Business Partnering teams, the Manager, Financial Control ensures the integrity of the firm’s
financial records while supporting continuous improvement in processes, controls, and
reporting during a period of ongoing change and delivery focus.
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities include:
• Financial Control & Reporting
▪ Lead and deliver the month end and year end close processes, ensuring accuracy,
completeness, and timeliness of financial outputs.
▪ Prepare and coordinate statutory financial statements and act as a key point of
contact for external auditors.
▪ Own balance sheet control, including review and oversight of reconciliations and
resolution of issues.
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▪ Ensure adherence to accounting standards, firm accounting policies, and
technical accounting requirements.
▪ Support regulatory reporting obligations, ensuring accurate and timely
submissions.
▪ Maintain and operate an effective financial risk and control framework,
embedding strong governance and control discipline.
• Finance Operations Oversight
▪ Provide financial control oversight across finance operations, including
outsourced accounts payable and accounts receivables teams.
▪ Manage cash and treasury related processes, including covenant monitoring and
reporting.
▪ Ensure finance processes are clearly documented, consistently applied, and well
controlled.
• Management Reporting
▪ Contribute to the delivery of accurate management reporting to Finance
leadership and senior stakeholders.
▪ Provide variance analysis and financial commentary focused on explaining
movements, ensuring data integrity, and supporting financial governance, in
collaboration with Finance Business Partners.
▪ Work closely with Finance Business Partners to ensure alignment between
statutory and management reporting.
• Stakeholder Management
▪ Act as a trusted point of contact for financial control matters for Finance
leadership and wider stakeholders.
▪ Support the Finance leadership team by providing clarity on financial
governance, reported performance, and control over financial outcomes.
▪ Provide financial input into business cases and commercial decisions from a
financial control, accounting, and governance perspective, working alongside
Finance Business Partners.
• Innovation & Transformation Support
▪ Identify and implement opportunities to strengthen financial controls, improve
efficiency, and enhance reporting quality.
▪ Support finance change initiatives (including systems and process
enhancements) by ensuring financial control requirements are embedded and
maintained.
▪ Contribute to the ongoing development of a strong, resilient finance control
environment.
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• Team Leadership & Development
▪ Manage, coach, and support members of the Financial Control team, fostering
high standards and accountability.
▪ Provide day to day leadership, prioritisation, and quality review of team outputs.
▪ Promote a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, and professional
development.
Direct Reports:
This role reports to:
• Finance Operations & Control Manager
Reporting to this role:
• Finance Senior Associate
Qualifications & Certifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field.
• Fully qualified accountant with a recognised UK professional designation.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in finance, with post qualification experience in
financial control, reporting or a related finance role.
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Skills & Experience Required:
Essential skills:
• Strong technical accounting and financial reporting knowledge.
• Experience delivering month end and year end close processes.
• Experience coordinating audits and working with external auditors.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to prioritise and meet deadlines.
• Clear communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience operating within a controlled, regulated, or professional services
environment.
• Demonstrated people management or supervisory experience.
Desirable skills:
• Experience within regulated, partnership based, or professional services environments.
• Exposure to finance system upgrades or process change initiatives (e.g. ERP,
procurement or accounts payable systems).
• Experience supporting finance transformation or control enhancement programmes.
Travel Requirements:
Travel between the Channel Islands is expected. Occasional travel to the UK and Operation
Centres in Europe may be required.
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The skills we look for in our people:
All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our
business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These
skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, Evolved PwC Professional.
The Evolved PwC Professional focuses on two core behaviours: Trusted Leadership and
Distinctive outcomes. Trusted Leadership is underpinned by core behaviours that Inspire,
Empower and Evolve, and Distinctive outcomes is underpinned by behaviours that Champion,
Build and Deliver.
Diversity:
We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse
backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest
talent pool as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. We aim to encourage a
culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their unique strengths. Creating value
through diversity is what makes us strong as a business. https://pwc.to/2vY6KZm.