Shared Services & Outsourcing (Private Sector) - Senior Management Consultant - London
- Location:
- London jobs
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Company:
- PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
- Job type:
- Permanent jobs
- Date posted:
- 23/11/2009 12:01
- Job id:
- 45991917
- Contact:
- Please click on the 'Apply For This Job' button below.
- Ref:
- Totaljobs/ADV02018
We need ambitious Shared Service Centres (SSC) & Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Management Consultants at Senior Consultant/ Senior Manager level for our growing Consulting practice based in London. PricewaterhouseCoopers is one of the world's leading professional services firms. Our Consulting practice is focussed on working in partnership with clients to deliver real business transformation and making change stick. Finance Effectiveness (FE) is one of our key competency areas providing finance advisory and change support to industry leading clients across a range of topics including Corporate Performance Management (CPM), Shared Service Centres (SSC), Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) advisory and Corporate Treasury (CT).PricewaterhouseCoopers is regarded as a global leader in the shared service and outsourcing advisory market in the UK and Europe. Our team provide world class full lifecycle shared service and outsourcing advice to the world's leading multi-national corporations; in services that range from business case development and conceptual design through to implementation. Our Consulting team help the world's most progressive organizations of all shapes and sizes, to continuously evolve and adapt in the face of a constantly changing and increasingly complex environment. We help our clients react with agility to opportunities and threats by delivering ongoing performance improvements to allow them to gain and protect competitive advantage. We are focused on working in partnership with our clients to deliver real business transformation and change. The FE group are looking to continue its impressive growth through the recruitment of further outstanding consultants. The group provides knowledge and experience to help clients with a diverse range of issues which could include:
- Assessing & improving the role, organisation & effectiveness of finance functions.
- Feasibility studies for multi-functional SSC's.
- Design of the target operating model (TOM).
- Implementation and optimisation of SSC's.
- Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) advice on feasibility to transition to BPO providers.
- Supporting cost reduction exercises.
We are seeking to recruit individuals with substancial SSC and BPO experience. 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:Our requirements for this Senior Consultant role include:
- Education to Degree level (Further personal / industry qualifications such as ACA/CIMA or MBA are valuable.
- Experience of large shared services and outsourcing programmes, preferably within a major blue chip or Consulting environment.
- Experience of leading projects throughout the full lifecycle ? design, build & transition on an international basis.
- Experience of leading large projects across a number of different territories and of managing multiple projects.
- Experience in supporting decision making at a senior level (CFO level) and able to demonstrate a track record of implementation success, achieving savings and overcoming various challenges.
- Demonstrated ability to advise senior management on alternative solutions and risks with experience of presenting and influencing at a senior level.
- Experience of leading an organisation through a major change project.
- Awareness of finance operating models and processes in a multi-national corporate environment.
- Experience in other, related finance processes would be an advantage but not considered essential.
- Ideally some exposure to business development.
- A wider finance background (such as accounting or finance management) would be preferable.
- At least some relevant CIPS or TICE-E industry sector experience is essential so please detail this on your CV.
- Wider international exposure beneficial, preferably but not exclusive to Europe and Asia.
Responsibilities:This role will be mainly client-side, leading teams and supporting transformational work around shared services centres (SSC) and outsourcing engagement. This means leading the design and set up of the new organisation, managing the change and leading the migration of activities.Key Responsibilities:
- Delivery of projects as part of a senior PwC/Client team.
- Contributing to our continued thought leadership around SSC process, policy, strategy, governance, reporting and systems to ensure that appropriate solutions are developed for clients.
- It is probable that your work will be part of wider transformational programmes and hence exposure to other finance and non-finance processes is desirable.
Your role will involve some business development duties, leveraging off our strong existing client relationships and colleagues to find opportunities where we can assist clients in large scale transformation. You will of course, also be expected to lead multiple engagements giving your role a broad remit across marketing and delivery. As part of a multi-disciplinary PwC team you will often be working directly with senior client management, leading and participating in meetings with senior client staff and colleagues to add value to our clients through identifying and delivering benefits which are sustainable.
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 - Desirable.
- Lead and contribute to team success - Essential.
- 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 - Essential.
- Be open minded, agile with change and practical - Desirable.
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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