Finance Transformation Consultant - Senior Manager

PwC UK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

PwC is seeking a Finance Transformation Senior Manager to lead complex engagements that redefine finance operating models and enable better decision-making. You will partner with CFOs and senior leaders to shape finance strategy, drive value through technology-enabled redesigns, and lead multidisciplinary delivery teams across industries.

You will play a pivotal role in business development, proposition development, and globally distributed delivery, coaching teams and delivering lasting value

Qualifications

• Experience in management consulting, finance transformation, finance strategy, operating model design or finance business architecture.
• Experience leading finance transformation engagements or major workstreams in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
• Strong understanding of finance operating models, including organisation design, governance and performance management.
• Experience in core finance processes such as P2P, O2C, R2R and FP&A, with transformation or technology-enabled improvement.
• Experience developing roadmaps, business cases, implementation plans and value realisation approaches.
• Familiarity with ERP and EPM systems such as SAP, Oracle or Workday and awareness of automation, analytics and AI.

Responsibilities

• Lead finance transformation engagements and complex workstreams with senior stakeholders.
• Shape client finance strategies and operating models to deliver efficiency and insight.
• Manage multi-disciplinary delivery teams and ensure high-quality client outputs.
• Drive commercial outcomes, proposals and client relationships to grow the practice.
• Collaborate across global teams in hybrid client delivery environments.
• Coach and develop teams, contributing to thought leadership and methodology.

Skills

Management consulting

Finance transformation

Finance strategy

Operating model design

Finance business architecture

Stakeholder management

Delivery leadership

ERP / EPM knowledge

Tools

SAP S/4HANA

Oracle Cloud

Workday

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. As a finance consulting generalist at PwC, you will possess a broad understanding of various aspects of finance consulting. Your work will involve providing comprehensive guidance and support to clients in optimising their financial performance, improving decision-making, and achieving their financial goals. You will be responsible for analysing client needs, developing financial solutions, and offering recommendations tailored to specific business requirements.

About The Role

Finance Transformation is a core part of PwC’s Consulting capability, supporting clients to reimagine their finance function (effectiveness, efficiency, insight) through modern technology platforms, operating model transformation, and digital innovation.

We work with organisations across industries to define finance strategy, design future operating models, modernise finance processes and technology, and unlocked value through data, analytics, automation and AI.

We are seeking a Finance Transformation Senior Manager with previous transformation experience and who sees technology as a key enabler of business change. This role will support CFOs and senior finance leaders to redefine the role of Finance, design future-ready finance operating models, and deliver transformation programmes that improve efficiency, insight, control and business partnering. You will work with clients to shape their finance vision and strategy, assess current-state capabilities, design target operating models, and create practical roadmaps for implementation.

As a Senior Manager, you will lead complex finance transformation engagements, acting as a trusted advisor to CFOs and senior business leaders. You will be responsible for shaping client strategies, developing and growing key client relationships, leading multidisciplinary delivery teams, and driving commercial outcomes. You will play a significant role in growing the Finance Transformation practice through business development, proposition development, people leadership and thought leadership, whilst helping clients deliver lasting business value through finance transformation.

If you are looking for a role where you can shape strategy, lead delivery, and make a tangible impact on how organisations operate, then we want to hear from you.

What Your Days Will Look Like

• Strategy & Operating Model Design: Own the development of finance vision and strategy, assess the effectiveness of the current operating model and design target operating models (TOMs) aligned to business objectives, covering organisational structure, governance, service delivery, and capabilities. Translate strategy into clear transformation roadmaps and implementation plans.
• Business Architecture: Lead the development of modern business architectures for finance ensuring alignment across processes, data, technology and controls, and including clarifying the role of future technology trends and innovation.
• Process Diagnostics & Transformation: Lead the assessment of current-state finance processes, identify pain points and design the future-state processes aligned to leading practices, compliance requirements, and digital opportunities.
• Technology Enablement (Digital Core): Work with clients to lead the development of modern finance architectures, moving into implementation of such architectures e.g. contributing to ERP / EPM design and deployment (SAP S/4HANA, Oracle Cloud, Workday), and assist in integrating automation, analytics, and AI to improve process effectiveness and data-driven decision-making.
• Business Case & Value Realisation: Work with clients to develop the business case for change, lead delivery and realise benefits including analysing changes on the operating model to operating costs, risk, and investment.
• Stakeholder Management: Lead delivery workstreams or components, ensuring alignment with milestones, quality standards, and risk controls. Maintain strong working relationships with global stakeholders in virtual and hybrid delivery environments.
• Engagement & Commercial Leadership: Lead complex client engagements, acting as a trusted advisor to senior finance stakeholders while taking accountability for delivery, commercial performance and client outcomes. Drive business development through proposal development, commercial shaping and the growth of strategic client relationships.
• Global Delivery & Collaboration: Work effectively within a global team structure, collaborating across time zones and cultures, with the ability to deliver autonomously.
• Practice & People Development: Support the growth of the Finance Transformation practice through proposition development, thought leadership and methodology enhancement. Coach and develop the team supporting career development and quality assurance across engagements.

This Role Is For You If

• Experience in management consulting, finance transformation, finance strategy, operating model design or finance business architecture.
• Experience leading finance transformation engagements or major workstreams, ideally in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
• Strong understanding of finance operating models, including organisation design, governance, service delivery, process ownership, capability models and performance management.
• Experience in core finance processes such as P2P, O2C, R2R and FP&A, with practical involvement in transformation, redesign or technology-enabled improvement.
• Experience developing finance transformation roadmaps, business cases, implementation plans and value realisation approaches.
• Familiarity with finance technology, including ERP and EPM systems such as SAP, Oracle or Workday, and awareness of digital enablers such as automation, analytics, workflow, process mining and AI.
• Strong business analysis and/or business architecture capabilities, including process mapping, capability modelling, requirements definition and operating model design.
• Proven ability to influence and challenge executive stakeholders, including CFOs, Finance Directors and other senior business leaders.
• Experience leading teams, managing workplans, reviewing deliverables and ensuring high-quality client outputs.

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.