Finance Business Partner

About the role

PwC is hiring a full-time, on-site Finance Business Partner in Nairobi. The role acts as the strategic finance partner to leadership, turning financial, commercial and operational data into insight and action, and supports profitable growth, cash conversion, engagement economics and operational excellence across countries, business units and cross-border engagements.

Key responsibilities

• Provide financial input into line-of-service strategy, annual plans, budgets and forecasts, and maintain a strategy and KPI tracker
• Prepare weekly, monthly and quarterly management insight on revenue, production, utilisation, margin and net income, and turn performance movements into business implications and recommendations
• Analyse pipeline, secured work and win/loss trends, and support opportunity pricing and engagement budgeting
• Coordinate finance input to bids and multi-country opportunities, and act as principal adviser on project budgets, billing, WIP valuation and provisions
• Monitor engagements against commercial milestones and drive timely job-code openings, including internal firm agreements and inter-territory billing
• Drive oversight of billings, collections, debtors, WIP, ageing, provisions and write-offs, and use dashboards to focus leadership attention on material balances
• Partner with leaders to improve the engagement-to-cash cycle, promote consistent accounting treatment across countries, and support business reviews and leadership forums
• Identify opportunities to simplify and automate finance processes, present clear financial narratives, train others and provide practical guidance

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or a related discipline
• Relevant professional qualification such as CPA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent
• At least 4 years of financial management or business-partnering experience; professional-services experience is highly desirable
• Demonstrated experience in budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, profitability analysis and working capital management
• Experience supporting senior stakeholders across multiple business units or countries

Required skills

• Working knowledge of engagement economics, revenue, WIP, debtors, provisions, utilisation and margin in a project-based environment
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint
• Experience with Oracle, EPM, dashboards or comparable finance and BI tools is desirable