Corporate Performance Management (Private Sector)- Senior Associate - London
- Location:
- London jobs
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Company:
- PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
- Job type:
- Permanent jobs
- Date posted:
- 23/11/2009 18:02
- Job id:
- 45991916
- Contact:
- Please click on the 'Apply For This Job' button below.
- Ref:
- Totaljobs/ADV02017
Corporate Performance Management (CPM), Management Consultants required at Senior Associate level for our growing Consulting practice based in London.PricewaterhouseCoopers is one of the world's leading professional services firm. Our Consulting practice is focussed on working in partnership with clients to deliver real business transformation and making change stick. Finance Effectiveness is one of our key competency areas providing finance advisory and change support to industry leading clients across a range of topics including CPM, Shared Services/ Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) advisory and Corporate Treasury (CT).PwC is a world leader in CPM. Our team service the change needs of the world's leading multinational corporations within the private sector, often required to co-ordinate projects on a global basis. Our work is focused on providing clients with better, faster and more cost effective information, both financial and non-financial. We are seeking to recruit individuals with CPM skills and experience to focus on delivering change projects with a focus on Finance transformation as part of a senior PwC/Client team. This opportunity is focusing specifically on Consumer and Industrial Products and Services (CIPS) and Technology, Info-Comms, Entertainment, Energy & Utilities industry sectors (TICE-E).You will be part of a highly skilled, specialist team within a wider group of finance change professionals. At the same time, you will be encouraged to initiate and develop new ideas. Our highly motivated team have an excellent track record of delivering high quality work to major international clients and has ambitious growth plans for the next few years.For more information about what we do in this space, please visit:http://www.pwc.co.uk/eng/services/performance_improvement_consulting_finance.html
Requirements
We would require you to have a relevant degree as a minimum and preferably an industry recognised qualification E.G ITIL, Prince 2, CIMA, ACCA.Joining our team as a Senior Associate, we would expect you to have experience of change projects and performance management programmes. You will have line, or preferably project experience in one or more of the following; Planning, budgeting and reporting and forecasting. At least some relevant CIPS or TICE-E industry sector experience is essential so please detail this on your applications/ CV. We are also looking for wider international exposure, preferably but not exclusive in Europe and Asia.You will be a person who enjoys a challenging, fast moving environment and is flexible to change. You will have excellent time management skills, be able to manage others and be very comfortable working in a highly team oriented environment.An ability to demonstrate a consistent focus on both individual and team success. You will need to establish credibility both internally and externally through technical knowledge, client management approach and professionalism. You will also be able to demonstrate a real desire to operate as an agent of change.
ResponsibilitiesYour primary focus will be to work in client facing teams in the delivery of performance improvement engagements, from business case to implementation, covering:
- Delivering work in the above areas, taking responsibility for the more complex areas of projects.
- Demonstrate a strong degree of commercial awareness and an ability to quickly identify and understand the systems, process and risks relevant to clients and their goals.
- Provide expertise and frequent interaction for the client relationship Working towards both individual and team delivery targets.
As a Senior Associate, your direct reporting line will be to a Consultant or Senior Consultant. You will work as a member of a team on assignments (team sizes will vary depending on client/project).
Key Core Competency Requirements:At PwC all our staff are required to demonstrate certain core skills, which we refer to as our 'global core competencies'. These are assessed throughout the application process, and candidates should make themselves aware of these, and how their own experiences may demonstrate each competency. You can also find out more about our competencies by following the below link:http://www.pwc.com/uk/en/careers/experienced/applying-to-pwc.jhtml For this role, please see below our desired competencies we will be testing at interview:
- Develop self and others through coaching - Desirable.
- Communicate with impact and empathy - Essential.
- Be curious: learn, share and innovate - Essential.
- Lead and contribute to team success - Desirable.
- Be passionate about client service - Essential.
- Build and sustain relationships - Essential.
- Demonstrate courage and integrity - Desirable.
- Acquiring and applying commercial and technical expertise - Essential.
- Manage projects and economics - Desirable.
- Be open minded, agile with change and practical - Essential.
The recruitment process for this role will be:1) CV submission and full completion of our required Application questions for review.2) Two stage interview process based around our firm's Global Core Competencies (as detailed above) and testing.
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