SATIC - EPM Senior Technical Consultant

PwC - Global; Johannesburg; On-site; USD 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

PwC is seeking a Manager in finance consulting to lead projects, analyze client needs, and ensure optimal financial performance. This role emphasizes technology driven transformation in finance and requires significant expertise in planning, budgeting, and leadership skills. Candidates should hold a degree and have relevant market experience, especially in technology-enabled financial solutions.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a degree level education required.
• 5-7 years relevant experience in finance consulting.
• Expertise in financial planning and budgeting.

Responsibilities

• Analyse client needs and develop financial solutions.
• Lead and mentor team members to deliver quality results.
• Ensure successful project planning, budgeting, and execution.

Skills

Financial analysis

Project management

Leadership

Communication

Education

Degree level education

Professional Accounting designation (ACA/CIMA/ACCA or equivalent)

Tools

EPM Products knowledge

Job description

Management Level

Manager

Job Description & Summary

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.

Enhancing your leadership style, you motivate, develop and inspire others to deliver quality. You are responsible for coaching, leveraging team member’s unique strengths, and managing performance to deliver on client expectations. With your growing knowledge of how business works, you play an important role in identifying opportunities that contribute to the success of our Firm. You are expected to lead with integrity and authenticity, articulating our purpose and values in a meaningful way. You embrace technology and innovation to enhance your delivery and encourage others to do the same.

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Analyse and identify the linkages and interactions between the component parts of an entire system.
• Take ownership of projects, ensuring their successful planning, budgeting, execution, and completion.
• Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables.
• Develop skills outside your comfort zone, and encourage others to do the same.
• Effectively mentor others.
• Use the review of work as an opportunity to deepen the expertise of team members.
• Address conflicts or issues, engaging in difficult conversations with clients, team members and other stakeholders, escalating where appropriate.
• Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.

About the job

South African Technology & Innovation Centre (SATIC) is the latest part of PwC, a global brand delivering services for the biggest clients in the world. PwC leads the way in human led, technology enabled professional services, working with clients to transform their business and make it fit for the future.

We are looking for candidates who bring in-depth market experience, who see technology as a way to enable and drive human innovation and who want to be a part of a community of solvers, to tackle the biggest challenges in society.

If you are looking for a career where every day is different, where challenges are complex and where you can make a real difference, then we want to hear from you. By choosing to join SATIC, you are choosing to work with teams all over the world, harnessing the power of world leading tech and making a difference to real people’s lives.

Requirements:

Qualifications:

• Education to Degree level as a minimum.

• Preference will be given to candidates that have a thorough understanding of accounting and finance ,especially those who hold a Professional Accounting designation (ACA/CIMA/ACCA or equivalent).

• Certified product knowledge and expertise in any one of the EPM Products.

Experience & Skills:

• At least 5 -7 years’ relevant experience

One of the following (or both):

• Proven, demonstrable planning and budgeting system implementation experience, preferably at large, complex multinationals, and are considered an expert and leader in your field;

• A track record in implementing finance process change enabled by technology, either as a consultant or within a finance function.

Advantageous:

• A strong understanding of how digital technology is changing finance over the short, medium and long term.

• Refined leadership qualities with a focus on team enhancement and growth

• exceptional communication skills (both written and verbal) with a focus on the ability to influence and drive change through complex organisations .

• A creative and inquisitive mind-set that challenges the status quo.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience of working with EPM Cloud products such as Oracle, EPBCS, PBCS, OneStream, Anaplan, Tagetik or Board.

• Experience of working with other emerging technologies ( e.g. Machine Learning, Robotic Process Automation, Blockchain, AI etc.).

Key responsibilities:

As part of PwC’s Technology Consulting practice, we have the privilege of acting as trusted advisors to a diverse and expansive client base, spanning multiple geographies and industries. This means that we have a real opportunity to enhance and refine our clients’ businesses through the use of ever evolving technology. Of course,this will only be possible if we have the right people, with the right skills and the ability to push the boundaries of how new technologies can support future business models. That’s where you come in.

As a Manager , you will blend a natural interest in technology and finance to develop creative ideas into solutions. Your primary focus will be on planning and budgeting technology, therefore a proven understanding of the FP&A process is crucial.Our industry leading methodologies play a major part in finance transformation programmes for our clients, and we’re always looking to stay one step ahead. This means you’ll be working alongside other experts in emerging technologies ( e.g. Machine Learning, Robotic Process Automation, ChatBots )to deliver innovative solutions to solve important business problems for our clients.

Delivery:

• Delivering Integrated Business Planning aspects of a Finance Transformation project/ programme as a key PwC member of mixed PwC / client teams. This includes delivery of the latest FP&A Technology solutions such as Oracle PBCS/EPBCS, OneStream, Anaplan or Tagetik.

• Leading the deliveryof projects or workstreams within larger programmes .

• Embedding sustainable change across all levels of the financefunction .

• Accountability for the sustainability of project benefits.

• Identifying further service opportunities, while client side.

Business Development:

• Contributing to our continued Finance Transformation thought leadership, working closely with colleagues in Strategy, Finance and Technology Consulting

• Mentoring and coaching other team members .

• Developing new ideas,new ways of working with an unlimited creativity licence .

• Building and maintaining deep and long lasting relationships with all levels of stakeholders.

Role summary:

The PwC EPM Technology Consulting practice is looking to recruit exceptional individuals with a proven track record in planning and budgeting technology and/or process (5 years relevant experience).

As a Manager within our EPM Technology Competency you’ll work with the latest technologies and big-name companies on projects that are driving the future of those organisations . You could be brainstorming with the client at the outset of a project, so that you learn how their businessworks before devising the right strategy.Equally you could be involved in agile delivery - designing, testingor launching the technology that will make the difference.

You’ll be a part of PwC’s Technology Consulting practice which has a breadth of capability

across all of the Emerging Technologies, with our one Firm approach you’ll be joining forces with like minded individuals to develop truly unique and differentiated solutions for our clients.

Being mobile is essential as you’ll work on client projects that could be anywhere in the country – or even the world. The same goes for your skill set – intellectually curious, dynamic and the ability to challenge the traditional approaches to deliver real transformation.

Ultimately, an open mind to take advantage of all of the opportunities on offer is essential.

Travel Requirements

Up to 20%

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No

Job Posting End Date

June 26, 2025