Finance Business Partner

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Kenya is a leading professional services firm, established in 1998. It provides a range of services including assurance, tax, and advisory to clients across various industries.

The Finance Business Partner is a key strategic role, providing financial input for line of service strategy, annual plans, budgets, and forecasts across different business units and countries. The role involves maintaining a strategy and KPI tracker, highlighting areas needing leadership intervention, and preparing weekly, monthly, and quarterly management insights on key financial metrics like net revenue, production, utilization, and engagement margin. This position translates performance movements into business implications, offering options and recommended actions, and conducts deep dives into country, business-unit, or thematic areas as requested. It also involves analyzing pipeline, secured work, win targets, and trends, supporting opportunity pricing and engagement budgeting, and coordinating finance input for bids and multi-country opportunities while escalating complex matters to specialists. The role provides leadership with scenario analysis on revenue conversion, capacity, cost, and margin, and acts as the primary finance advisor on project and contract setup, billing, WIP valuation, and general NIC management. It monitors material engagements for commercial milestones and identifies execution, revenue recognition, margin, billing, or recoverability risks. The role drives timely and correct job-code opening for local and cross-border engagements, ensures consistent accounting and reporting, and provides disciplined oversight of billings, collections, debtors, WIP, and write-offs. It analyzes actual billings and collections against targets, partners with leaders to improve the engagement-to-cash cycle, and uses dashboards to focus leadership attention on critical balances and actions. The position builds effective relationships with various stakeholders, coordinates regional allocations and inter-territory balances, applies finance policies and controls, and supports business reviews and leadership forums with reconciled analysis. It also identifies opportunities for process simplification and automation, presents concise financial narratives, constructively challenges business assumptions, and provides practical guidance and training. Finally, it oversees and coordinates project-support activities within the assigned portfolio.

1. Provide financial input for line of service strategy, annual plans, budgets, and forecasts at various levels.
2. Maintain a strategy and KPI tracker, highlighting exceptions for leadership intervention.
3. Prepare weekly, monthly, and quarterly management insights on key financial metrics like net revenue, production, utilization, and engagement margin.
4. Translate performance movements into business implications, options, and recommended actions.
5. Undertake country, business-unit, and thematic deep dives as requested by leadership.
6. Analyze pipeline, secured work, win targets, and win/loss trends by business unit, sector, country, and priority account.
7. Support opportunity pricing and engagement budgeting, including recovery, margin, resourcing, and cross-border commercial considerations.
8. Coordinate finance input to bids and multi-country opportunities, escalating tax, legal-entity, exchange-control, or policy matters.
9. Provide leadership with scenario analysis on revenue conversion, capacity, cost, and margin implications.
10. Act as the principal Finance adviser on project and contract setup, project budgets, billing arrangements, WIP valuation, provisions, adjustments, and general NIC management.
11. Monitor material engagements against commercial milestones and identify execution, revenue-recognition, margin, billing, or recoverability risks.
12. Drive timely and correct job-code opening for local and cross-border engagements, coordinating Internal Firm Agreements and inter-territory billing.
13. Promote consistent accounting and reporting treatment across countries and business units.
14. Provide disciplined oversight of billings, collections, debtors, WIP, ageing, provisions, and write-offs.
15. Analyze actual billings and collections against targets, distinguishing timing issues, credit-term effects, tax deductions, and genuine recoverability risks.
16. Partner with leaders to improve the engagement-to-cash cycle.
17. Use dashboards and exception reporting to focus leadership attention on material balances and actions.
18. Build effective working relationships with leadership, business-unit leaders, country Finance teams, Finance Centre of Excellence (COE’s), Shared Services, and other IFS functions.
19. Coordinate regional allocations, inter-territory balances, and cost-centre structures.
20. Apply finance policies, controls, and approval requirements, escalating complex or unusual transactions.
21. Support business reviews, network requests, and leadership forums with complete, reconciled, and decision-ready analysis.
22. Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, and automate recurring finance processes and reporting.
23. Present concise, audience-appropriate financial narratives to leaders, separating facts, assumptions, risks, and recommended actions.
24. Constructively challenge the business where assumptions, targets, or actions are not supported by evidence.
25. Provide practical guidance and periodic training to individuals and teams on relevant processes, reports, and commercial disciplines.
26. Oversee and coordinate project-support activities within the assigned portfolio, maintaining clear hand-offs and service expectations.

1. Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related discipline.
2. Relevant professional qualification such as CPA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent.
3. At least 4 years of relevant financial management or business-partnering experience, with professional-services experience being highly desirable.
4. Demonstrated experience in budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, profitability analysis, and working capital management.
5. Experience supporting senior stakeholders across multiple business units or countries and coordinating cross-functional actions.
6. Working knowledge of engagement economics, revenue, WIP, debtors, provisions, utilization, and margin in a project-based environment.
7. Advanced Excel and PowerPoint capability; experience with Oracle, EPM, dashboards, or comparable finance and BI tools is desirable.
8. Practical awareness of controls and the commercial, tax, legal, and regulatory considerations affecting contracts and cross-border work, with appropriate reliance on specialists.