Financial Controller - Associate

You are a strategic thinker passionate about driving solutions in financial control and external reporting. You have found the right team.
As a Financial Control Associate in our Financial Control – PwC Fees Reporting team, you will spend each day managing the end-to-end external reporting of the fees paid to independent auditors for inclusion in the firm’s Annual Proxy Statement. You will be responsible for partnering with global stakeholders and regional controllers to deliver forecasting, reconciliation, variance analysis, and fee attestation across regions and lines of business, ensuring accuracy and delivery within agreed timelines.

Job responsibilities

• Ensure accuracy and validity of line of business general ledger accounts in accordance with firmwide GLRS standards.
• Maintain adherence to P&L and balance sheet controls owned by Financial Control.
• Forecast audit fees and submit required materials to the Audit Committee.
• Reconcile general ledger, forecast, and billing systems and analyze, communicate, and resolve material variances per policies and process guidelines.
• Partner with global stakeholders, regional controllers, and external PwC teams to support forecasting, break resolution, and proxy finalization.
• Prepare and present executive walk-forwards and dashboards, including variance analysis and key driver commentary, for senior management and the Audit Committee.
• Maintain robust controls, track attestations from regional contacts and PwC, and produce detailed audit-ready documentation for final proxy sign-off.
• Deliver all reporting outputs on time and with high accuracy to support seamless external reporting.
• Identify and execute automation and process improvement opportunities and escalate issues or gaps as needed.
• Promote a culture of teamwork and continuous improvement.

Required qualifications, skills and capabilities

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, finance or related field.
• 4+ years of related experience.
• Experience with financial reporting and month end close responsibilities.
• Excellent desktop/database skills/Microsoft Office (especially Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
• Excellent verbal & written communication skills; presentation skills.
• Partnership: Builds and maintain partnerships within the various product aligned businesses and across other corporate financial, treasury, and accounting groups.
• Strong analytical skills; able to quickly understand workings of a complex processing system and general ledger systems across the infrastructure and their interrelationships and dependencies.
• Excellent organizational and problem-solving skills.
• Able to multi-task in a constantly changing environment.
• Extremely meticulous and having an attention to detail; able to critically challenge with the goal of identifying control issues.

Preferred qualifications, skills and capabilities

• MBA Finance, CA, CFA an advantage
• Basic understanding & prior experience of Transformation/Visualization tools such as Alteryx, Tableau and other Intelligent Solutions skills will be an added advantage.

• Knowledge of Python / SQL is a plus.