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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.

Position Title: Group Finance Director

Reports to: Group Executive Director

Purpose of the Position

To provide strategic and operational leadership to the Finance Division, actively shaping the

organisation’s direction as a contributing member of the Board. This includes not only developing

and influencing long-term business strategies, but also translating them into practical, measurable

financial plans that support sustainable growth.

To take full accountability for the Group’s Financial Control function, ensuring robust governance,

accuracy, and compliance across all financial activities. This involves leading the preparation and

continuous improvement of Monthly Management Accounts, Statutory Accounts, and the annual

budgeting cycle, using hands-on analysis to drive insight, challenge assumptions, and support

informed decision-making.

To proactively lead and deliver ad-hoc financial projects, such as system improvements,

cost-efficiency initiatives, investment appraisals, or scenario modelling, ensuring each project is

executed with rigour, pace, and a solutions-focused approach that strengthens the organisation’s

financial resilience

Principal Responsibilities Oversee the financial management, planning, systems and controls of

the company. This includes:

Key Responsibilities: Strategic & Operational

• Oversee all Balance Sheet Control Account reconciliations and maintain the Group’s Fixed Asset

Register.

• Lead the preparation, review and continuous improvement of Monthly Management Accounts,

flash reporting, internal controls and financial governance.

• Act as a strategic business partner to Operations, providing insight, challenge and commercial

support.

• Create and manage the annual budgeting and planning process for the organisation.

• Lead the preparation and delivery of monthly performance reporting across the company.

• Prepare and manage the annual statutory financial statements.

• Oversee the preparation of the Monthly Board Pack, ensuring clarity, accuracy and strategic

relevance.

• Review accounting processes to drive efficiency, accuracy and organisational awareness.

• Ensure all operational controls are in place, effective and regularly reviewed.

• Liaise with internal and external stakeholders including auditors, banks and tax advisors.

Leadership & People Management

• Lead, manage and develop the Finance Division, ensuring high performance, capability growth

and a culture of accountability.

• Ensure accuracy, timeliness and compliance across all financial outputs.

• Drive continuous development, coaching and training for the finance team to support professional

growth and succession planning.

Risk, Governance & Strategy

• Manage and strengthen internal controls, ensuring accuracy, compliance and operational

robustness.

• Evaluate internal and external risks and drive strategic responses to safeguard the organisation.

• Monitor and report to the Board on risks that may impact organisational wellbeing, ensuring

corrective actions or contingencies are implemented.

• Critically review, analyse and improve business operations, processes and policies to enhance

service quality, cost efficiency and organisational growth.

• Provide a comprehensive management accounting service to the Board, including analysis of

financial performance across the business, products and revenue streams.

Skills & Experience

• Professionally qualified accountant with a minimum of 10 years relevant experience

• Technically strong accountant with proven track record of performance and delivery of objectives

in a professionally run and commercial environment.

• Highly numerate.

• Comprehensive knowledge of accounting, taxation and regulatory issues that affect the financial

needs of the Company to ensure the growth of the business

• Breadth of vision to be able to develop, build upon or support the strategic direction of the

business through the successful application of innovative and imaginative solutions to problems

• Interpersonal skills of the highest order with the ability to relate, orally and in writing, to the Board

and all levels within the firm as well as with external contacts

• A team player who can work with and contribute to the Board to develop strategy, to advise and

offer measured and constructive financial advice and guidance and as a key part of the

management team to ensure the success of the firm in meeting its objectives

• Organisational skills of the highest order in dealing with a busy and dynamic work environment

• An entrepreneurial approach to work and business in general

• The tenacity to accept and tackle problems to ensure satisfactory solutions

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Role: Finance Business Partner

Location: Jersey

Line of Service: Business Enablement – Finance Pillar

Grade: Manager

Contracted Hours per Week: 37.5 hours

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:

We are looking for a Finance Business Partner to join our high performing internal finance team

at PwC CI.

Our Finance Business Partnering team is an integral part of the Finance & Procurement

function. They work with the leadership across the firm on the key decisions that drive the

business forward. They are trusted to be proactive and honest, to build relationships and

influence, to understand, challenge, and hold a mirror to the business, and to translate the

numbers into a business story.

As a Manager in the Finance Business Partnering team, you will be the team’s first port of call

for general finance and business decision support. You will be a financial professional with good

business, technical, analytical and commercial skills. As a strong communicator, you will work

collaboratively and build strong relationships with stakeholders across the business as their

trusted advisor. Managing the planning function and with an interest in Finance Tech, you will

develop innovative solutions to support the businesses growth.

This role is an opportunity to build a meaningful career that helps you to connect, grow and

make an impact.

Responsibilities:

As a Finance Business Partner, you will play a key role in the following areas:

Budgeting, forecasting & planning

• Responsible for project managing the planning cycle, which includes preparing revenue

and cost budgets, developing three- and five-year plans, and creating in-year forecasts.

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• Collaborates with the business and key UK stakeholders to identify improvements and

ensure budgets, plans and forecast activities are coordinated across the firm and

delivered to a timetable.

• Work collaboratively with the Business to ensure planning remains relevant and

insightful, and aligned with the firm’s financial objectives.

• Assisting with the production of forward looking and insight driven reporting to help the

firm plan, prepare and manage future performance.

• Providing a depth of insight to the leadership team enabling key strategic decision

making and suggesting corrective action where required.

• Demonstrating an understanding of the business’ issues and applying market and

industry knowledge.

• Embeds technology and automation, and drives efficiencies and consistencies into

financial planning, budgeting and forecasting.

• Provides forward-looking, market focused insightful presentations to Finance & the

Firm’s leadership, delivering a full picture of the business through the consolidation of

financial and performance analysis.

• Owns the annual absorption cost rate setting exercise including commercial review of

appropriateness of standard costing methodology and the pricing strategy.

• Responsible for the continuous improvement of planning & analysis, working closely

with the Planning & Reporting Centre of Excellence to drive process improvements

including standardisation, automation, promotion of self service, consolidation and best

practices.

Management reporting

• Preparing the monthly management accounts by interpreting the monthly financial

results and providing commentary to the Finance Business Partnering Lead and firm’s

leadership.

• Monitoring areas of financial performance against Key Performance Indicators (KPI's)

and escalating issues where management action is required.

• Identifying and driving financial improvements through pricing, efficiency, resource

allocation or cost management.

Business decision support, finance tech & ad hoc analysis

• Working with the firm’s leadership to prepare of analysis to support business decision

making using a variety of Finance Tech tools including Alteryx and PowerBI.

• Support the Finance Tech agenda through high quality planning & reporting practices,

driving continuous improvement and fostering excellent working relationships with

stakeholders in the local business and in the UK.

• Challenge existing norms and proactively identify ideas for automation, reporting and

analysis improvements.

• Encouraging a culture of strong financial disciplines and embedding those behaviours.

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• And other tasks as assigned by the Finance Business Partnering Lead.

Direct Reports:

This role reports to:

• Finance Business Partnering Lead

There are no direct reports into this role.

Qualifications & Certifications:

• Qualified accountant with recognised accounting body.

Skills & Experience Required:

Essential skills:

• Understands and applies principles of data to reporting, such as quality, model,

confidentiality, definition and management.

• Commercially minded individual with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Able to demonstrate application of accounting standards.

• Action oriented self-starter, focused on continuous improvement in process efficiency

and driving change through technology.

• People management skills and ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Desirable skills:

• PowerBI experience.

• Project management skills.

Travel Requirements:

You will be required to make short trips from time to time to the firm’s office in Guernsey and

the UK Firm’s offices in London and/or Belfast.

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:

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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.