Senior Associate 1 - Digital Trust - TMT at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

Job Description & Summary

A career within Information Technology Risk Assurance services, will allow you to develop and apply strategies that help clients leverage enterprise technologies so they can get a higher return on their investment, mitigate risks, streamline processes, and find operational inefficiencies. We assist clients in understanding and challenging their current risk profiles and develop strategies to build digital confidence by embracing opportunities to stay competitive through building trust and resilience into their technology systems. We cover a wide range of disciplines, including risk evaluation, operational and strategic Information Technology processes, project governance, application implementation, data integrity, cyber security, and accounting/audit.

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 a Senior 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:

• Use feedback and reflection to develop self awareness, personal strengths and address development areas.

• Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities, coaching them to deliver results.

• Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.

• Use a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current industry or sector trends.

• Review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance.

• Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.

• Seek and embrace opportunities which give exposure to different situations, environments and perspectives.

• Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.

• Able to read situations and modify behavior to build quality relationships.

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

Assurance
Our Assurance group provides assurance on the financial performance and operations of clients’ businesses, as well as helping clients to improve their external financial reporting and adapt to new regulatory requirements. Assurance focuses primarily on public and private sector audit services, and includes the Global Capital Markets Group (GCMG).

Job Description

The PwC Deal
Our people make an impact through their dedication to client service, creativity, and high performance. Whatever your passion, the opportunities available to you at PwC will help you realise your career aspirations.

As an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to a variety of flexible working styles. We're committed to collaboration and strong relationships that help our clients and our people realise their ambitions. Well known for our technical excellence, we're also a firm brimming with energetic and inspirational people who want to build a diverse career in a progressive, global organisation.

What's in it for you? The opportunity to join a diverse and progressive team, with the chance to learn from inspirational people committed to ensuring each and every interaction is an opportunity to learn, challenge and innovate.

About the role
We are looking for candidates that have an interest in IT governance, developing data analytics, auditing general computer controls and risk processes.

Essential skills and experience

• Excel Access SQL

• Understanding of structured programming or scripting

• Understanding of IT governance and risk(Cobit)

• Financial systems and intermediate level accounting

• Project management and planning

Required qualifications
Should have obtained an IT or Internal Audit professional qualification.

Desirable skills or attributes

• Be professionally presentable

• Good interpersonal skills and have the ability to facilitate and present

• Be a problem solver

• Ability to manage people

• Can function in a team environment and individually

• Have good report writing skills

Responsibilities
The candidate should have done some of the following Internal Audit, External Audit and Risk Assurance assignments responsible as a supervisor or senior for IT or Internal Controls audits.

That would include:

• Review of IT controls within a General Computer Control environment such as system security, change control and system operations.

• Review of project management controls and solution design.

• Performing Data Analytics.

• Reviewing internal controls design and effectiveness of manual and automated controls.

• The candidate should be able to explain what goes into an audit plan and how to go about gather evidence through interviews and validation.

• The candidate should understand the PwC audit and risk management process for documenting work and findings.

• The candidate must follow up on review notes and assist with the clearance of findings including report writing.

• The candidate should be able to draft a budget and deal with the client economics.

• The candidate should be able to build relationships and understand opportunities.

• The candidate should understand Risk Assurance services.

• The candidate should be able to present audit findings to clients and understand the risks involved with report writing

The skills we look for in future employees
We're very proud of our unique culture, and expect our people to demonstrate skills and behaviours that will support us in implementing our business strategy. This is important to the work we do, both for our business and our clients. These skills and behaviours are a strong component of our global leadership framework: The PwC Professional.