Finance Business Partner

About the role

PwC is hiring a 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. It supports line-of-service strategy, 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 insights on revenue, production, utilisation, margin and net income, and turn performance movements into business implications and actions
• Analyse pipeline, secured work and win/loss trends, and support opportunity pricing and engagement budgeting
• Coordinate finance input to bids and multi-country opportunities, escalating tax, legal-entity, exchange-control or policy matters to specialists
• Act as principal finance adviser on project and contract setup, project budgets, billing, WIP valuation, provisions and NIC management
• 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 attention on material balances
• Partner with leaders to improve the engagement-to-cash cycle, promote consistent accounting and reporting across countries, and support business reviews and network requests
• Present concise financial narratives to leaders, challenge unsupported assumptions, train others and simplify recurring finance processes

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or a related discipline
• CPA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent professional qualification required
• At least 4 years of financial management or business-partnering experience; professional-services experience 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
• Desirable: Oracle, EPM, dashboards or comparable finance and BI tools