Accounting consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

Job Description & Summary

A career within Private Company services, will provide the opportunity to help private companies with a range of business advisory needs such as audit, tax compliance, and planning to help improve their operational efficiency and to free up time that can be spent focusing on business strategy. You’ll have the opportunity to experience the entire business life cycle of a private company from inception to growth, maturity and transition.

Our team helps our clients design and implement personal and customised service plans that are unique to privately owned entities, entrepreneurs, and high net worth individuals. You’ll be assisting the team focus on key issues like wealth management, compliance, cash flow management, equity expansion, divestiture and exit strategies.

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

As an Associate, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Invite and give in the moment feedback in a constructive manner.

• Share and collaborate effectively with others.

• Identify and make suggestions for improvements when problems and/or opportunities arise.

• Handle, manipulate and analyse data and information responsibly.

• Follow risk management and compliance procedures.

• Keep up-to-date with developments in area of specialism.

• Communicate confidently in a clear, concise and articulate manner - verbally and in the materials I produce.

• Build and maintain an internal and external network.

• Seek opportunities to learn about how PwC works as a global network of firms.

• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Job Description Summary

A career in our Assurance Support Operations practice, within Assurance Support services, will provide the opportunity to support our engagement teams and clients by providing advice and counsel on accounting, financial reporting, and strategic business issues. In joining, you’ll help ensure a complete and relevant exchange of information among our consultants and in turn with engagement teams and clients, provide experts advice on a variety of specific topics, support engagement teams in resolving complex issues, and supporting clients and their subsidiaries in evaluating the potential impact of accounting and reporting standard setting initiatives. You’ll develop strong relationships with our engagement teams and established audit clients and enhance our ability to meet greater investor expectations with the challenges of an increasingly complex business environment. Our team focuses on helping the Human Resources team with recruitment and deployment, technical communications, policy and procedure development, and monitoring. You’ll be able to enhance PwC’s ability to meet greater investor expectations with the challenges of an increasingly complex business environment, and our objective of achieving sustained audit quality over the long term.

Responsibility

As an Associate, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience, helping our clients solve their complex business issues from strategy to execution. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Proactively assist the team in various aspects of the project

• Prepare deliverables Preparation of monthly management accounts (to prepare VAT returns), final trial balances, financial statements and tax computations for a portfolio of clients, in order to meet client, SARS and any other deadlines.   

• Manage their time through an electronic timekeeping system (time sheets), and be responsible for monitoring the costs on the client jobs assigned to him/her.  On completion of each job, the candidate will be required to prepare cost analyses, bills.

• Contribute to the development of your own and team’s technical acumen

• Keep up to date with local and national business and economic issues

• Ensure you are adhering to compliance matters

• Work on developing internal relationships and your PwC brand

Additional Job Description:

• Able to gather all financial information required to prepare annual financial statements; drafting of year end journals; preparation of annual financial statements; compilation of tax computation and calculation of tax liability; and compilation of accounting working papers.  The above are required for individuals, partnerships, close corporations, small companies and trusts.

• Preparation of monthly management accounts on Pastel, including ability to reconcile bank and VAT control account to VAT return where necessary.

• Proficient at using Excel, Microsoft Word, email and Pastel

• Completion of VAT returns would be an advantage.

• Experience on Caseware would be an advantage.

• Experience with farmers and farming tax would be an advantage. An organised individual who is able to take responsibility for their portfolio with minimum supervision and multi task where necessary.

• Excellent communication and time management skills