Analyst, Project Financial Controller, Project Controller Group, HCaaS - FTC

Job description

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Human Capital as a Service (HCaaS):

Our HCaaS business sits within our Human Capital practice in Technology & Transformation - the world's leading people and HR transformation business. As part of a practice that brings leading-edge tooling, research and analytics expertise together with deep industry knowledge, you'll help to deliver innovative and complex transformation programmes for our clients.

Project Controller Group (PCG):

As part of the HCaaS business, the Project Controller Group performs a critical role, embedding financial controls and risk management to support successful delivery of our largest and most complex projects right across Deloitte Consulting. We are trusted partners to client engagement leaders, providing timely end-to-end project accounting services and financial management information to enable better data-led decision-making. In doing so, we strengthen the interlock between project delivery teams and finance.

Our services are in demand, and as a result, we are looking for part-qualified/fully-qualified accountants, with experience in business partnering, project accounting, and financial management. After completing our comprehensive induction programme, you'll be given your own portfolio of projects to manage, providing you with the opportunity to partner with and advise some of the most senior leaders in our business. In your new role, you'll take ownership of financial management, champion operational excellence and deliver outstanding quality.

In return, we will help develop your knowledge, skills, and provide you with opportunities to gain a network that will accelerate your career.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It's how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way , serve with integrity , take care of each other , foster inclusion , and collaborate for measurable impact . These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most .

Connect to your opportunity

The Project Controller Group implement best in class commercial and financial practices to improve transparency, minimise risks, and deliver key insights to senior stakeholders to support effective decision-making. We are involved in all stages of the project lifecycle, from supporting bids for new work, to proactively supporting live projects with regular financial reporting and analysis right through to project completion and payment of services undertaken.

As a Project Financial Controller, you will have responsibility for:

• Establishing a single source of truth for engagement financial KPIs.
• Leading a consistent, optimised approach to setting up engagements in SAP and managing financial risks.
• End-to-end ownership of engagement financials, enabling project teams to focus on client delivery.
• Business partnering with our most senior engagement leaders.
• Providing commercial expertise to price future engagements while managing financial risks.
• Executing leading practices to consistently and efficiently deliver high quality, value-add information and outputs.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

To be successful as a Project Financial Controller, you will possess:

• The ability to communicate financial concepts in plain English. We are experts in our field but we don't need to use jargon to prove it. You will have a natural ability to communicate financial concepts to finance and non-finance practitioners alike.
• A proactive approach to your work: you'll determine the needs of the stakeholders you work with, and ensure these are executed with minimal supervision. Through your listening skills, you'll also unearth additional opportunities where you can add value to the service you provide.

Below sets out the essential components of a Project Financial Controller:

• Strong Excel skills, numerical reasoning, and attention to detail.
• Great organizational skills in order to manage competing deadlines and prioritise requests from multiple stakeholders.
• A flexible approach to respond to changing business priorities.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written that inspire confidence of stakeholders.
• A keenness to take on responsibility and work autonomously.

Additional desirable experience include:

• Full or part-qualification in an accountancy qualification (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Experience of an accounting system (e.g. SAP).
• Experience in a finance or accounting environment.
• A working knowledge of IFRS 15.

Connect to your business - Technology and Transformation

Distinctive thinking, deep expertise, innovation and collaborative working. That's what connects us. That's what makes us Deloitte. If you want to help solve some of the biggest tech and transformational challenges around, join us. Together, we'll make an impact that matters.

Human Capital

People are what powers enterprise. That's why we need to focus on the human experience in an ever-changing, digital world. We help clients utilise technology to support their workforce, organisation, and HR Transformations.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

Connect with your colleagues

"The great culture, flexibility, and range of experiences that Deloitte offers is what sets this firm apart. In Human Capital, Deloitte is far ahead of any of our immediate competitors." - Sophia, Technology & Transformation

Our hybrid working policy

You'll be based in Cardiff or London with hybrid working.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That's why we'll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you'll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You'll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it's why we're here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we're nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we'll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it's only when you're comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we'll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it's from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you'll learn every day. Through world-class development, you'll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you'll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you'll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You'll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you'll never stop growing, whatever your level.

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers

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