PricewaterhouseCoopers is seeking to recruit individuals with Shared Service Centre(SSC) experience. You will be part of a highly skilled, specialist team within a wider group of finance professionals and at the same time, you will be encouraged to initiate and develop new ideas and develop client relationship.

Education, experience and skills requirements:

• University Degree in Economics/ Finance/ Accounting or similar,
• Sound knowledge in the areas of accounting, good understanding of business processes,
• IFRS, Financial and ERP systems knowledge would be considered as an advantage,
• Experience of leading SSC stream within the project,
• 4+  years of relevant consulting and/or industry experience
• Solid project management experience in the relevant area
• Professional qualifications such as CIMA, CMA/CFM, ACCA, CPA is preferable
• Russian – native/fluent, English – advanced/fluent (both oral and written)

Soft skills:

• Proven project management/people management skills
• Ability to operate in multitask environment
• Strong presentation skills
• Availability for overtime work and tough deadlines
• Willingness to travel (Russia and abroad)

Services provided by department:

Performance management

• Advising on strategy implementation through Balanced Scorecard and integration with the corporate motivation system
• Assisting in the alliance of financial and business strategies, preparing value driver analysis and setting strategic objectives
• Developing KPIs to support strategy implementation and to improve performance management
• Improving Cost Management, including detailed cost review, elaborating costs drivers and implementation of costs management instruments
• Methodology support in implementation of financial and ERP systems

Finance Function Effectiveness

• Conducting detailed diagnostics and benchmarking of core finance processes and functional activities
• Improving budgeting, planning and analysis
• Establishing optimal management reporting package
• SmartClose — accelerating the closing process to achieve more timely and accurate financial and/or management reporting.
• Designing the optimal finance structure to focus on decision-making support, rather than scorekeeping.
• Supporting the design and setup of a company’s shared service centres as a separate business unit created to perform and improve the efficiency of repetitive common processes.