As a Financial Controller, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Maintaining financial and operational controls, tracking metrics, preparing financial statements, responding to ad-hoc accounting or tax queries and applying various management accounting techniques.
• Assisting in the review and approval of global contracts including identifying financial and compliance issues pertinent to GLSC and the network in the review and understanding of contracts.
• Managing the recognition of associated costs, and their related cost allocation and recovery from participating PwC member firms.
• Leading compliance requirements including the external audit, GST filings, and other compliance queries. 
• Developing full lifecycle cost model and allocations approaches on consultation with contract negotiators and funding sponsors, and accurately determining and assigning contract financial impacts to member firms.
• Tracking multi-year contracts, financial commitments and contract contingencies.
• Mitigating financial, legal, tax, operational and data protection risks to GLSC, and the PwC Network including knowing when to engage subject matter specialists.
• Optimizing use of cash holdings and managing foreign exchange and tax exposures.
• Supervising and coaching team of contracts analysts, billing and accounting staff to perform at a high level.
• Management and allocation of team member workloads, providing suggestions for strategic improvements and implementation of ideas.
• Developing and improving processes, tools and systems to manage an increasingly larger number of IT contracts, suppliers and software license entitlements across the member firms.
• Collaborating with PwC Technology & NIS, Global Procurement, Global OGC and Risk, and Network Operations colleagues and fostering compliance with financial policies and controls.
• Modeling and cultivating a team culture of ownership, execution, and continuous learning and improvement.
• Supporting global initiatives to align member firms to a Network Technology Strategy and reduce costs.
• Supporting the implementation and use of new enterprise accounting and contract management platforms.

Experiences and skills you’ll use to solve

• Accounting designation preferred
• Progressive experience in corporate and/or multinational financial management roles. 
• Experience with IFRS accounting, audits and board level reporting.
• Ability to assimilate information from multiple sources and drive decisions in the face of ambiguity.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills. 
• Ability to build and maintain relationships across many different functions and organization levels.
• Possess strong interpersonal, negotiation, and written and verbal communication skills.   
• Process improvement and project management skills and experience.
• Maintains confidentiality of highly sensitive information.
• Management experience in a virtual office environment and flexible to changing demands.
• Coaching skills, providing support and fostering development of others.
• Enjoy hands on activities requiring a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Software skills including MS Office and Sharepoint, GSuite, ERP and P2P systems, database structure and data visualization tools.
• Experience with ERP systems implementations and change management is an asset.
• Direct experience with IT software licensing/subscription/asset management and legal contracts are considered an asset. 
• General knowledge of the enterprise IT marketplace and trends considered an asset.
• Experience with sourcing and procurement is considered an asset.
• Some travel may be required.