EPM Data & AI Senior Manager

PwC; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 95,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Private medical cover

Volunteer days

Job summary

PwC in Greater London is seeking a Senior Manager to lead Finance Solutions - EPM, driving end-to-end FP&A, data and AI programmes. You will guide finance functions from planning to intelligent performance management, shaping solutions on Databricks, Fabric and Snowflake, with Copilot and agent patterns.

You will lead senior stakeholders, design processes, and oversee delivery across data platforms, ERP integrations, and BI tools, while coaching teams and growing client relationships.

Qualifications

• Deep FP&A and EPM experience delivering planning, budgeting, forecasting and management reporting for large organisations.
• Proven ability to lead multi-stakeholder workshops with Finance, Data and IT leadership.
• Experience shaping finance design with data, AI capabilities and governance.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end FP&A Data and AI programmes from requirements to delivery, ensuring quality and outcomes.
• Lead design workshops with senior stakeholders and translate needs into scalable data and AI components.
• Design FP&A processes across revenue, OpEx, cash flow, and forecasting with data-driven insights.
• Oversee build, configuration and testing across modern data platforms and EPM tools.
• Embed AI and agentic capabilities into finance designs and automate data interrogation.
• Coordinate onshore/offshore teams and coach team members for delivery excellence.
• Build trusted client relationships, contribute to account growth and asset development.
• Grow EPM Data and AI capabilities through collaboration across teams.

Skills

FP&A

EPM

Data & AI

Stakeholder management

Tools

Databricks

Microsoft Fabric

Snowflake

Azure

Power BI

Job description

At PwC, our people in finance consulting specialise in providing consulting services related to financial management and strategy. These individuals analyse client needs, develop financial solutions, and offer guidance and support to help clients optimise their financial performance, improve decision-making, and achieve their financial goals. In enterprise performance management at PwC, you will focus on helping clients improve their financial performance and decision‑making processes. You will analyse financial data, develop performance metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs), and design and implement performance management frameworks. You will be responsible for providing guidance on budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning processes to drive operational efficiency and achieve strategic objectives.

About The Role

Imagine helping some of the world's most complex organisations reinvent how they plan, budget, forecast and manage performance, not through a single classic EPM SaaS platform, but through the next generation of finance data platforms, AI capability and agentic workflows. As a Senior Manager in our Finance Solutions - EPM team, part of the Digital Core Modernisation practice, you'll take end‑to‑end ownership of high‑profile FP&A Data and AI programmes, guiding finance functions from static planning cycles to intelligent, connected and insight‑led performance management. This is a role for an experienced EPM/FP&A, Data and AI leader who wants to lead from the front at the intersection of finance, data engineering, analytics and AI. You'll shape and oversee solutions using data platforms such as Databricks, Microsoft Fabric and Snowflake, combined with AI capability such as Microsoft Foundry, customised workflows and enterprise‑ready agent patterns across data agents, Foundry Agents, Copilot Agents and related technologies. If you're energised by solving real finance problems with modern data and AI, owning complex delivery outcomes, growing client relationships and building a market‑leading EPM Data and AI capability in a world where big data and agentic capability are changing the EPM market, we'd love to hear from you.

What Your Days Will Look Like

• Owning the end‑to‑end design and delivery of complex, multi‑workstream FP&A Data and AI programmes, translating planning, budgeting, forecasting and performance management requirements into scalable data, analytics and agentic components, while managing quality, commercials, risk and outcomes.
• Leading business requirement and design workshops with senior Finance, Data and IT stakeholders, challenging thinking, shaping future‑state processes, governance and adoption activities, and ensuring decisions translate into deliverable solutions.
• Leading the design of FP&A processes across revenue, demand, margin, workforce, OpEx/CapEx, cash flow forecasting, scenario modelling and management reporting, with data and AI embedded into the process design.
• Overseeing the build, configuration and testing of solutions across modern data platforms and the wider finance landscape, including ERP (SAP S/4HANA, Oracle), cloud data platforms (Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake, Azure), BI tools and existing EPM platforms.
• Shaping how AI and agentic capabilities are embedded into finance designs, including automated data interrogation, driver‑based forecasting, variance commentary, planning co‑pilots, close‑to‑forecast workflows and self‑service insight agents.
• Leading complex workstreams and mixed onshore/offshore, multi‑disciplinary delivery teams, coordinating finance transformation consultants, data engineers, solution architects, AI specialists and client teams, and providing coaching and direction to team members.
• Building and owning trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders, acting as a credible advisor, contributing to account growth, and leading proposals and asset development for our next‑generation EPM Data and AI capability.
• Leading and growing EPM Data and AI capability by coaching team members, supporting technical and consulting development, and promoting collaboration across EPM, data and AI specialists.

This Role Is For You If

• Deep, proven experience designing and delivering FP&A, EPM, analytics or finance transformation solutions for large, complex organisations, either in consulting or from within a finance function.
• A strong FP&A and EPM background, with proven experience across planning, budgeting, forecasting and management reporting processes.
• Strong understanding of modern data and analytics concepts, with practical experience using one or more technologies such as Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake, Azure or Power BI, or comparable cloud data and analytics services.
• A track record of leading business requirement definition with senior Finance, Data and IT stakeholders, translating business needs into data, analytics, AI and workflow capabilities, and challenging thinking where it matters.
• A business and finance process‑oriented mindset that brings technology, data governance, controls and adoption together with confidence, alongside outstanding communication skills and the ability to influence and build trust in complex, multi‑stakeholder environments.

What You'll Receive From Us

No matter where you may be in your career or personal life, our benefits are designed to add value and support, recognising and rewarding you fairly for your contributions. We offer a range of benefits including empowered flexibility and a working week split between office, home and client site; private medical cover and 24/7 access to a qualified virtual GP; six volunteering days a year and much more.