Job Description
Who we are looking for:
The PwC UK Group grew rapidly in FY22 with revenues of over c£5bn and ambitious growth targets for the years ahead. Exciting new service areas are being developed across our markets and we continue to innovate, transforming our delivery as a firm. In this dynamic environment, access to cutting edge data has never been more commercially and strategically important in informing key decisions and driving competitive advantage. In light of these factors and the increasing need for information from stakeholders, we are investing in a new centre of excellence (CoE) to drive robust, joined-up data governance across Finance and ensure we remain fit for the future. We are therefore now recruiting a Finance & ESG Data Lead to be responsible for setting up and leading our new Finance & ESG Data CoE.
Responsibilities
As key subject matter experts and owners of Finance and ESG data governance processes, the CoE will be responsible for designing, implementing and monitoring a robust framework of policies and controls to ensure that Finance and ESG data is always:
- appropriately structured to meet the current and evolving needs of the business;
- reliable and of high integrity/quality;
- accessible to users for financial and ESG reporting;
- compliant with regulatory requirements (e.g. GDPR); and
- secure from inappropriate access.
The Finance & ESG Data Lead will also play a key role in a large, high profile project to replace PwC UK's ERP systems, including participation in the design and execution phases of the project and responsibility for the data aspects on transition.
The role holder will also be a key player in the ongoing development of processes to reliably and efficiently track, record and manage data on the Group's scope 1, 2 and 3 carbon emissions, hereby supporting our drive to Net Zero and evolving regulatory reporting requirements.
The Finance & ESG Data Lead will report to the Head of Finance Systems & Data Governance, who has oversight of our ERP systems. The role holder will initially have one direct report at Manager grade, with resourcing requirements being reassessed once the CoE has been established. The CoE is responsible for data architecture, the design of data policies and controls and for leading remediation activities where the need is identified by monitoring. In reporting and executing processes, the team will be supported by our shared services division, Integrated Services.
The Finance & ESG Data Lead will develop a broad network of key relationships across Finance, Sustainability, Integrated Services, IT and the wider business, being seen as the go-to, pragmatic specialist on finance and ESG data management. Through this, he/she will be in the know on impending business and environmental change and able to advise and respond proactively from a data perspective.
The Finance & ESG Data CoE sits within our Financial Control team, being part of PwC UK's broader Finance team of c350 professionals specialising in business partnering, financial control, taxation, immigration, treasury, procurement and planning and reporting activities.
The Finance & ESG Data Lead will be supported by a direct report, the Finance & ESG Data Manager, in carrying out the following key responsibilities:
- Creating and overseeing Finance's Data Strategy, including areas such as data discovery, cleansing and augmenting, migration, handling, controls, cutover, risk management, reconciliation, destruction and governance.
- Creating and maintaining the Finance & ESG Data Architecture and adhering to master data management principles.
- Designing and leading a proactive data quality monitoring framework and implementing remediation strategies where required.
- Collaborating with firmwide Data Management SMEs and the firm's Chief Data Office (CDO) to keep up to date with changing laws, regulations and their relation to PwC processes to provide guidance to Finance teams on how to navigate these processes.
- Creating and overseeing the data access policy for Finance staff.
- Coordinating with SMEs and leaders to provide data-related input into solution designs across the Finance technology landscape, documenting and advising on data impact of new technologies and processes.
- Liaising with the Finance & ESG Data Manager to act as an escalation point for data quality, security and interaction issues, intervening as required and driving their resolution.
- Liaising and collaborating with the Chief Data Office in implementing and monitoring firmwide data policies and in acting as Finance's representative with this group.
- Contributing to firmwide decisions on data models, data retention, data lifecycle and quality policies.
- Overseeing training and advice given by the Finance & ESG Data CoE to Finance and Sustainability staff on best practice and data handling policies.
- Establishing a data strategy in preparation for the replacement of the ERP systems.
- Leading data cleansing and remediation activities.
- Line manager to the Finance & ESG Data Manager.
- Service ownership for data services procured from Integrated Services.
Preferred experience
- Data management fundamentals
- Data quality management processes
- Data profiling to identify data quality issues
- Experience of data analysis, data cleansing routines and root-cause analysis
- Developing and rolling out data processes
- Developing data quality rules and creating reports
- Deploying formal data quality processes
- Working with Microsoft BI solutions (including SQL Server)
- Data validation tools
- Data visualisation tools
- Business requirements definitions and management
- Data quality software
- Performance management
- Risk management
- A strong understanding of Finance related activities, teams and functions, and how data is used and deployed effectively throughout Finance, including an understanding of strategic financial analysis and reporting.
- Excellent organisational skills with an ability to lead multiple workstreams and counterparties to deliver all projects and reporting to deadlines.
- High impact communication and presentation skills, with the ability to work at all levels and to influence wider business direction and decisions.
- Proven people management and leadership skills; able to bring a team together, get buy in and set the direction of travel.
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