Description

Join us in cultivating a collaborative workplace driven by unique perspectives. We’re proud PwC advances a culture that helps everyone to thrive. It's one of the reasons we're recognized as a "Top Company" to work for in Canada. As you ignite a meaningful career and build a network that’ll last for life, you'll work with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to help solve important problems, empowered by technology to turn today's ideas into tomorrow's solutions. We cultivate an environment in which our differences are embraced and our people feel comfortable bringing their whole selves to work. An empowering and diverse environment starts with you. Are you ready to get started?

A career in our Line of Service Financial Analysis practice, within Operations, will provide the opportunity to support our engagement teams and clients operationally by providing advice on accounting, financial reporting, and strategic business issues. In joining, you’ll help ensure a complete and relevant exchange of information among our consultants and in turn with engagement teams and clients, provide experts advice on a variety of specific topics, support engagement teams in resolving complex issues, and supporting clients and their subsidiaries in evaluating the potential impact of accounting and reporting standard setting initiatives. You’ll develop strong relationships with our engagement teams and enhance our ability to meet greater investor expectations with the challenges of an increasingly complex business environment.

Our team helps finance leaders better partner with internal and external stakeholders by providing insight into business performance and proactive decision support. You’ll focus on helping our clients simplify the identification of performance gaps, capitalise on the power of data driven decision making, and move towards a more cost effective way to do business.

Important point to consider

COVID-19 Vaccination Policy: Putting the safety of our people and clients first as we look to a hybrid future:The health, well-being and safety of our colleagues, clients, and communities is our number one priority. Vaccinations have proven to reduce the risk of COVID-19. Effective Friday, October 1, 2021, PwC Canada requires all partners, staff, contractors and visitors to be fully-vaccinated when entering a PwC location, subject to applicable legal exemptions. At PwC, the future ways of work will be a hybrid of in-person and virtual, allowing choice and flexibility to explore new ways of working and collaborating. Read this press release for further details.

What you'll create and do

Engagement Delivery

Work on engagements with multidisciplinary teams

Conduct organizational diagnostics on financial processes

Conduct analyses in support of process performance measurement and improvement initiatives (e.g. costing, cost-benefit, benchmarking)

Finance transformation (including within an ERP Cloud implementation)

Establish credibility with existing and new clients by demonstrating subject matter expertise and knowledge in finance 

Sustainable cost reduction and resource optimization projects

Vendor and software selection (including business requirements gathering)

Alternate delivery models analysis, design and optimization (such as Target Operating Model, shared services and outsourcing)

Engagement Management

Support the engagement manager / director / partner in managing engagement risk and project economics including planning and budgeting

Prepare deliverable content

Ensure the quality of deliverables meets with PwC and client expectations

Business Development 

Participate in aspects of the proposal development process

Contribute to proposal writing

Team with PwC colleagues in other lines of services in support of client needs for Finance Consulting services

Support the development of "thought leadership" and "point-of-view" documents

People Development

Share knowledge across the global PwC network

Provide input and guidance into the firm’s staffing/resource management process

Actively participate in staff recruitment

What you'll bring to this role

An interest in upskilling for a digital world and technology trends, an openness to learning new tools and adapting how you work.

A demonstrated commitment to valuing differences and working alongside diverse people and perspectives

Experience and working knowledge  in the core finance areas of Procure-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash, Acquire-to-Retire, Record-to-Report, Financial Planning and Budgeting and Management Reporting

Experience in process improvement or re-engineering initiatives and projects in the core back office accounting areas (see above) in either a consultant or internal role. 

Relevant finance professional experience. A combination of Industry experience and consulting experience is considered an asset.

Professional accounting designation (CPA) is a plus

​Bilingual is a plus (French and English)

Understanding of or hands-on experience with financial applications and/or enterprise management solutions is preferred.

High level of client service orientation such as building solid relationships with clients; approaching clients in an organized manner, demonstrating flexibility in prioritizing and completing tasks