Finance & Accounting - Senior Associate at PricewaterhouseCooper (PwC) Nigeria

PricewaterhouseCooper (PwC) Nigeria has been operating in Nigeria since 1953 through its predecessor firms of Coopers & Lybrand and Price Waterhouse. We're one of the leading professional services firms in the country with offices in Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt, over 1000 staff and 31 resident partners.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Finance & Accounting - Senior Associate

Job ID: 440968WD
Location: Lagos
Service: Advisory
Specialism: Finance
Travel Requirements: Up to 20%
Management Level: Senior Associate

Job Description & Summary

• A career in our Management Consulting practice, within General Consulting services, will provide you with the opportunity to help clients seize essential advantages by working alongside business leaders to solve their toughest problems and capture their greatest opportunities.
• We work with some of the world’s largest and most complex companies to understand their unique business issues and opportunities in an ever changing environment.
• We help create sustainable change by stimulating innovation, unlocking data possibilities, navigating risk and regulatory complexity, optimising deals, and aligning costs with business strategy to create a competitive advantage.
• As a member of our team, you’ll help the world’s most significant organisations, public and private, quickly become more effective.
• We improve the way they operate; manage costs; better align people, process and technology initiatives; support business growth to maintain or improve competitive edge and complete market and regulatory risk assessment. In doing so, we focus on their agendas and the big issues they need to deal with, both today and in the future.
• To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level.
• To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

Responsibilities

• As a Senior Associate, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution.
• PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:
  • Work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution.
  • Work with colleagues across PwC globally to sell and deliver business-led, technology-enabled projects.
• Lead teams in the delivery of advisory engagements, including organisational transformation, enterprise performance management, liquidity management and corporate finance.
• Use multiple sources of information including broader stakeholder views to develop solutions.
• Use data and insights to inform conclusions and support decision-making.
• Support the engagement partner in managing engagement risk and project economics.
• Prepare, review and ensure engagement deliverables meet PwC quality standards.

Requirements

• First Degree with a minimum of 2.1 in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Business Administration or relevant discipline.
• ACA/ACCA qualified or Level 2 CFA.
• Up to 5 years’ work experience in financial reporting, treasury, corporate finance, or investment analysis in a reputable organisation with at least 3 years in a supervisory capacity.
• Financial services or telecommunication industry experience would be an advantage.
• Strong financial modelling and Microsoft Excel skills.
• Consulting experience, especially within the “Big 4” firms.
• Strong financial reporting skills and practical application of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) or USGAAP.
• Understanding of financial applications (i.e. consolidation and business intelligence tools)
• Working expertise or strong understanding of key business processes e.g. Record-to-Report, Order-to-Cash, Procure-to-Pay, Asset-to-Retire etc.
• An interest in upskilling for a digital world and technology trends, an openness to learning new tools and adapting how you work.

Application Closing Date
8th June, 2023.