Senior Technical Accounting and Financial Modelling Manager - Alexander Mann Solutions Contingent

eFinancialCareers; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 166,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work pattern

Job summary

PwC in Birmingham is seeking a Senior Technical Accounting and Financial Modelling Manager for a 6-month contract with a hybrid pattern (3 days on site, 2 from home). You will lead technical accounting work, build complex Excel models and support impairment and going concern assessments.

The role requires deep IFRS knowledge (IAS 36/IAS 1) and experience in large, multinational groups, with a focus on audit-ready documentation and robust modelling practices.

Qualifications

• Strong IFRS knowledge and ability to apply IAS 36 and IAS 1 to complex matters.
• Advanced financial modelling skills and a track record of building robust models.
• Experience in impairment assessments and going concern analysis.
• Ability to link model outputs to accounting disclosures and conclusions.
• Experience in listed multinational or complex groups with multiple units.

Responsibilities

• Build, develop and remediate Excel-based financial models for impairment and going concern.
• Ensure model designs align with forecasts, assumptions and source data.
• Translate accounting requirements into modelling methodologies (IAS 36/IAS 1).
• Develop base, downside and severe scenarios with sensitivities and headroom.
• Assess impairment across goodwill, intangibles, PPE, investments and intercompany balances.
• Review models for structural weaknesses and implement remediation.
• Create transparent model structures with clear inputs, calculations and outputs.
• Draft audit-ready technical accounting and modelling papers.

Education

ACCA/ICSA/ICAS or equivalent professional qualification

Tools

Excel

Job description

We partner with PwC to support their contingent recruitment processes. Acting as an extension of their recruitment teams, we connect them with skilled interim and temporary professionals, fostering workplaces where everyone can contribute and succeed.

PwC is a hugely diverse business, bound by our global purpose - to build trust in society and solve important problems. Our greatest opportunity to deliver our purpose is through meaningful work that makes a difference to our clients and society. We have a culture of high performance built on exceptional quality, ethical and professional standards. We lead by example. Our standards for quality - and care - are high. And together we surpass them. We believe we can make the biggest impact when leading with our purpose, values and PwC Professional behaviours in every interaction.

Job description - the role

On behalf of PwC, we are looking for a Senior Technical Accounting and Financial Modelling Manager for a 6 month contract based in Birmingham, on a hybrid working pattern of 3 days on site and 2 from home, on a day rate engagement.

Join us as a Senior Technical Accounting and Financial Modelling Manager

The Group Finance team requires an experienced technical accountant and financial modeller to support impairment assessments, going concern analysis and other complex, judgemental reporting matters. The role combines deep accounting knowledge with the ability to build, develop and remediate robust Excel models and prepare clear, audit-ready position papers.

This is not a general financial planning and analysis role or a spreadsheet-maintenance role. The successful candidate must connect the model design, source data, forecasts, assumptions and sensitivities to the relevant accounting requirements and management conclusion, and support the work through external audit challenge.

What you’ll do:

• Build, develop, remediate and maintain robust Excel-based financial models supporting impairment, going concern, liquidity, covenant and related judgemental accounting assessments.
• Ensure impairment and going concern models are appropriately designed for their distinct purposes while maintaining consistency between common forecasts, assumptions and source information.
• Translate the relevant accounting requirements into clear modelling methodologies, including IAS 36 and IAS 1 where applicable and the relevant UK GAAP requirements for entity-level assessments.
• Develop and document appropriate base, downside and severe-but-plausible scenarios, sensitivities, headroom analysis and mitigating actions.
• Assess impairment considerations relevant to goodwill, intangible assets, property, plant and equipment, investments and intercompany balances, as applicable to the assigned workstreams.
• Review existing models for structural weaknesses, formula errors, unsupported assumptions, inconsistencies, inadequate controls or gaps in the audit trail, and implement proportionate remediation.
• Create transparent model structures with clearly separated inputs, calculations and outputs.

The skills you’ll need:

• ACA, ACCA, ICAS or an equivalent recognised professional accountancy qualification.
• Deep technical accounting knowledge, including practical experience applying IFRS to complex and judgemental matters.
• Practical experience of impairment assessments and going concern analysis, including the relevant requirements of IAS 36 and IAS 1.
• Advanced Excel financial modelling capability, demonstrated through substantial experience personally building or materially redesigning complex models rather than only operating existing templates.
• Experience developing forecast cash flows, scenario and sensitivity analysis, liquidity or covenant assessments and appropriate model integrity checks.
• Ability to trace model inputs to approved source information and explain the relationship between assumptions, calculations, outputs, disclosures and the accounting conclusion.
• Demonstrable experience drafting audit-ready technical accounting and modelling papers.
• Experience within a listed, multinational or comparably complex group involving multiple business units, entities or territories.

At PwC we want every individual to feel valued, respected and empowered to contribute fully. Creating an environment where everyone belongs and thrives unlocks greater innovation, productivity and deeper engagement.