Manager Financial Control - FTC

The Manager, Financial Control is a key role within the internal Finance team on a 9-month fixed term basis, responsible for maintaining strong financial control, high quality financial reporting, and a robust risk and control environment across PwC Channel Islands. The role leads core financial control activities, including month-end and year-end close, balance sheet governance, statutory reporting, and audit coordination.

Working closely with the Finance Operations & Control Manager, and the Finance Control, Client Delivery Support and Finance Business Partnering teams, the Manager, Financial Control ensures the integrity of the firm’s financial records while supporting continuous improvement in processes, controls and reporting during a period of ongoing change and delivery focus.

Responsibilities include:

• Financial Control & Reporting
  • Lead and deliver the month-end and year-end close processes, ensuring accuracy, completeness and timeliness of financial outputs.
  • Prepare and coordinate statutory financial statements and act as a key point of contact for external auditors.
  • Own balance sheet control, including review and oversight of reconciliations and resolution of issues.
  • Ensure adherence to accounting standards, firm accounting policies and technical accounting requirements.
  • Support regulatory reporting obligations, ensuring accurate and timely submissions.
  • Maintain and operate an effective financial risk and control framework, embedding strong governance and control discipline.
• Finance Operations Oversight
  • Provide financial control oversight across finance operations, including outsourced accounts payable and accounts receivables teams.
  • Manage cash and treasury related processes, including covenant monitoring and reporting.
  • Ensure finance processes are clearly documented, consistently applied and well controlled.
• Management Reporting
  • Contribute to the delivery of accurate management reporting to Finance leadership and senior stakeholders.
  • Provide variance analysis and financial commentary focused on explaining movements, ensuring data integrity and supporting financial governance, in collaboration with Finance Business Partners.
  • Work closely with Finance Business Partners to ensure alignment between statutory and management reporting.
• Stakeholder Management
  • Act as a trusted point of contact for financial control matters for Finance leadership and wider stakeholders.
  • Support the Finance leadership team by providing clarity on financial governance, reported performance, and control over financial outcomes.
  • Provide financial input into business cases and commercial decisions from a financial control, accounting and governance perspective, working alongside Finance Business Partners.
• Innovation & Transformation Support
  • Identify and implement opportunities to strengthen financial controls, improve efficiency and enhance reporting quality.
  • Support finance change initiatives (including systems and process enhancements) by ensuring financial control requirements are embedded and maintained.
  • Contribute to the ongoing development of a strong, resilient finance control environment.
• Team Leadership & Development
  • Manage, coach and support members of the Financial Control team, fostering high standards and accountability.
  • Provide day-to-day leadership, prioritisation and quality review of team outputs.
  • Promote a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration and professional development.

Qualifications & Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or related field.
• Fully qualified accountant with a recognised UK professional designation.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in finance, with post-qualification experience in financial control, reporting or a related finance role.

Essential skills

• Strong technical accounting and financial reporting knowledge.
• Experience delivering month-end and year-end close processes.
• Experience coordinating audits and working with external auditors.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to prioritise and meet deadlines.
• Clear communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience operating within a controlled, regulated or professional services environment.
• Demonstrated people management or supervisory experience.

Desirable skills

• Experience within regulated, partnership based or professional services environments.
• Exposure to finance system upgrades or process change initiatives (e.g. ERP, procurement or accounts payable systems).
• Experience supporting finance transformation or control enhancement programmes.

Travel Requirements

• Travel between the Channel Islands is expected.
• Occasional travel to the UK and Operation Centres in Europe may be required.

Government Clearance Required

Yes

Diversity & Inclusion

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. We aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their unique strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business.