Management Level

Senior Associate

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.

Focused on relationships, you are building meaningful client connections, and learning how to manage and inspire others. Navigating increasingly complex situations, you are growing your personal brand, deepening technical expertise and awareness of your strengths. You are expected to anticipate the needs of your teams and clients, and to deliver quality. Embracing increased ambiguity, you are comfortable when the path forward isn’t clear, you ask questions, and you use these moments as opportunities to grow.

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

Respond effectively to the diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.Use a broad range of tools, methodologies and techniques to generate new ideas and solve problems.Use critical thinking to break down complex concepts.Understand the broader objectives of your project or role and how your work fits into the overall strategy.Develop a deeper understanding of the business context and how it is changing.Use reflection to develop self awareness, enhance strengths and address development areas.Interpret data to inform insights and recommendations.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.

Role Summary: 

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. 

 

You will be joining PwC’s Technology Consulting team where we help our clients define their Finance transformation journey enabled by the latest technology - generating insights to illuminate innovative ideas, creating valuable experiences for customers, achieving huge cost savings or embracing new collaborative mindsets. 

 

About the team, Operate Digital is the central function that creates and runs technology. We also transform the way our clients use technology in delivering assets to our clients across a wide range of business processes. Working with industry leading, alliance partners across architecture, development, and multiple other technologies, we interact with all technology platforms and provide tangible technology delivery at scale. 

Qualifications / Certifications required: 

Accounting qualification, or qualified by experience 

Certification in Sage Intacct is preferred, else the candidate should have sufficient experience in configuring Finance applications (e.g. Sage Intacct, Sage 200, NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics etc.) 

Experience required: 

At least 3 years’ experience in ERP delivery – in configuring Finance applications (e.g. Sage Intacct, Sage 200, NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics etc) 

Thorough understanding and experience of working with Finance teams to deliver finance system projects 

Strong understanding of finance team responsibilities & accountability 

Good level of technical accounting knowledge (Chart of Accounts, posting journals, month end reconciliations, management accounts production) 

Accounting qualification or qualified by experience 

Project management experience 

Responsibilities of role: 

Delivering on projects focused on finance transformation including Financial Consolidation, Planning, Cost Management and integrated reporting enabled by various finance technologies such as Oracle, OneStream, and Anaplan. 

Using our industry leading methodologies to transform client’s businesses.  

Contributing to our practice development by supporting asset creation and knowledge sharing amongst the team.

Desirable skill sets include: 

Understanding business requirements and translating them into solution design in line with good practice 

Working with your delivery team to build and test the solution 

Guiding the client through User Acceptance Testing and Cutover 

Teamwork and coaching and mentoring your team 

Role related attributes: 

As a Sage Intacct implementation consultant, you will have the opportunity to work with a variety of exciting clients of differing sizes and sectors to help transform their finance function through implementing Sage’s leading cloud finance package. This is a client facing role requiring you to quickly build relationships and help guide the client through their implementation project. 

Travel Requirements

Up to 20%

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No

Job Posting End Date

May 25, 2025