Career Opportunities at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

Job Description & Summary

A career in our Management, Risk and Technology Consulting practice, within General Consulting services, will provide you with the opportunity to help clients seize essential advantages by working alongside business leaders to solve their toughest problems and capture their greatest opportunities. We work with some of the world’s largest and most complex companies to understand their unique business issues and opportunities in an ever changing environment. We help create sustainable change by stimulating innovation, unlocking data possibilities, navigating risk and regulatory complexity, optimising deals, and aligning costs with business strategy to create a competitive advantage.

Our team works with clients to define their vision and plan how to get there. We deliver the technological solutions organisations need to compete and grow and we build a lasting legacy of improvement and performance, partnering with best in class technologies and solution sets. Our focus areas include helping our clients align their Information Technology capabilities with their business strategy, create integrated, end to end technology solutions, and leverage data and enterprise applications to solve complex business problems.

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 Director, 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:

• Support team to disrupt, improve and evolve ways of working when necessary.
• Arrange and sponsor appropriate assignments and experiences to help people realise their potential and support their long-term aspirations.
• Identify gaps in the market and spot opportunities to create value propositions.
• Look for opportunities to scale efficiencies and new ways of working across multiple projects and environments.
• Create an environment where people and technology thrive together to accomplish more than they could apart.
• I promote and encourage others to value difference when working in diverse teams.
• Drive and take ownership for developing connections that help deliver what is best for our people and stakeholders.
• Influence and facilitate the creation of long-term relationships which add value to the firm.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Purpose of Job 

Build the CONNECTED SUPPLY CHAIN digital technology practice for Mining, Manufacturing,

Energy and Utilities industries.

Key Outputs 

• Sales
• Define and execute go-to market strategies for in target industries
• Grow Major/strategic account revenue in conjunction with account leads
• Drive new business development within new clients
• Drive co-sell opportunities with Technology solution providers
• Develop innovative solutions for clients and industries and convert these into sales
• Oversee all business development initiatives across assigned industry/competency/ sub-competency 
• Identify, qualify, scope and close opportunities, managing relationships across different customer and internal groups
• Engage with clients to identify opportunities for transformative improvements within their businesses
• Meet sales, revenue and profitability targets

Delivery

• Recruit the necessary professionals to build a sustaining practice
• Manage complex multi-stream/discipline project teams and the overall delivery of large transformation programmes
• Manage finances associated with project delivery, practice management and business planning and budgeting
• Analysing and formulate business strategy, strategic plans/objectives and other client related data
• Successfully understand, interpret and solve complex business challenges
• Think independently and creatively when formulating solutions
• Develop solutions that can be leveraged/re-sold to new clients
• Facilitate and lead team problem solving and client issue resolution efforts
• Take full ownership of the quality of the project delivery
• Perform external quality assurance on consulting engagements

Relationships

• Build and sustain professional relationships both within PwC and externally
• Build relationships with technology providers
• Build long term relationships with clients that can be translated into revenue opportunities
• Actively collaborate with colleagues in solving unique business and technology challenges
• Build effective relationships with team members
• Fulfil coaching and mentorship roles to junior staff

Experience

• Demonstrate deep knowledge of ERP,  Supply Chain Planning & Optimisation Systems, Logistics Planning & Optimisation Systems, Warehousing Software and Supply Chain Control Tower technologies
• Working knowledge of Essential 8  and other connected supply chain technologies in relevant industries such as Automation and Control, IoT, AI, Robots/RPA, Drones, VR/AR, 3-D Printing, Block chain, Mobile, Social Media, Cloud architectures and Data & Analytics
• Be recognised as thought leader in industry through frequent publications and speaking engagements
• 10 - 14 years relevant project and consulting experience
• At least 4 years’ experience should be operational experience in client environment
• At least 6 years’ experience should be in delivering technology solutions and managing clients and project teams
• And 4-6 years formal sales and sales pipeline management experience

Qualifications

• Relevant B degree in Information Systems / Computer Science or Engineering
• Masters Degree or higher or an advanced business degree would be preferable (e.g. MBA, Post Graduate Diploma in Management, Masters of Commerce etc.)

Accreditation

• Enterprise architecture certification highly recommended
• Formal project management certification recommended
• Supply Chain operations certification an advantage (e.g. APICS)
• Formal business process improvement methodologies an advantage

Competencies / Attributes

Delivery

• Demonstrate extreme depth in managing programmes, customers and internal stakeholders
• Deep experience in understanding, designing and delivering transformation programmes in the relevant industries
• Have a solid understanding of business transformation journeys 
• Thorough understanding of programming and SDLC methodologies
• Is able to motivate a team for excellent delivery
• Open-minded, practical and able to solve complex problems
• Attention to detail and committed to quality
• Instil a culture of quality in all business units wherein you participate

General

• Excellent presentation, verbal and written communication skills
• Sound judgment
• Innovative
• Resilient
• Cope well in uncertainty
• Strategic and big picture thinking

Relationships

• Is a team player and contributes to team success
• Is able to build effective internal and customer relationships 
• Be able to leverage PwC competencies across industries and clients

Learning and growth

• Is curious – learning, sharing and innovating
• Willingness to continually learn and develop skills across a multitude of core competencies
• Approaches problem solving in a logical and structured manner with due consideration given to alternative solutions which may require the acquisition of new knowledge
• Able to handle complex problems and apply appropriate judgement in evaluating solution inputs

Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)

Degrees/Field of Study required:

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Job Description & Summary

A career within External Audit services, will provide you with the opportunity to provide a range of Assurance services and business advice to a variety of clients from small, fast growing clients to large entities. Our clients are often well known brands and many have broad international reach. We focus on using the latest technology to reduce the level of manual testing ensuring you’ll focus on the most valuable areas of client service and on enhancing corporate governance and the reliability of our clients’ information.

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.

Role summary:

The B&CM Waterfall division is looking for an Audit Manager with a strong auditing background. The ideal candidate will need to have experience on Large Clients in the industry.

Qualifications / certifications required:

CTA (Honours)

Experience required:

• 3 years working and article experience

Responsibilities of role:

As a Manager, 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:

• Manage special projects
• Risk management
• Monitor costs and budgets
• Development of lower staff levels
• Business development and client relationship building
• Manage work in progress and debtors
• Staff management
• Compliance with PwC audit methodology
• Report writing

Skill sets required:

• Specialist industry knowledge IFRS experience
• Display sound leadership skills
• Computer literate with al PwC software
• Ability to market PwC services and to establish contacts in the marketplace 
• Self – motivated
• High attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong interpersonal and management skills
• Ability to multitask
• Analytic and solution driven
• Pro – active and committed to delivery
• Excellent time management skills

Role related attributes:

• 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.

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Job Description & Summary

A career in our Oracle Risk Assurance practice, within Information Technology Risk Assurance 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. The work revolves around creative problem solving and applying innovative technologies to enable strategies that increase the value of the applications that run our client’s business, mitigate risk and find operational inefficiencies.

Our focus is on creating effective and efficient design for the most important business, security and compliance processes for our clients. We touch on aspects of application security, areas prone to fraud and financial misstatement, and streamline processes that are part of our client’s core business so they can get a higher return on this key investment. Using innovative, and proprietary technologies, we help to bridge the gap between business stakeholders, compliance functions and Information Technology teams to assist in understanding how to embrace new ways of working, while limiting their financial and operational risk profile. We use knowledge of financial system design, risk mitigation, business process design, data integrity, security and use of data analytics.

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.

JOB PURPOSE

We are looking for candidates that have an interest in developing data analytics solutions for clients, performing computer assisted audit techniques and identifying new opportunities to use data analytics for efficiencies. 

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

• The successful individual will take responsibility for managing data analytics solutions for clients and computer assisted audit techniques projects and identifying new opportunities to use data analytics for efficiencies.
• 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 (Beneficial).
• Review of project management controls and solution design (Beneficial).
• Performing Data Analytics.
• Reviewing internal controls design and effectiveness of manual and automated controls (Beneficial).
• 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

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS 

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, Engineering or any related field.

MANDATORY CERTIFICATION NEEDED:

None

• CISA (Advantage)
• CA(SA) (Advantage)

EXPERIENCE

• Minimum 3 years of progressively more responsible related work experience in Information Technology, IT Governance, Architecture and BI/Analytics.
• 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

Some knowledge or experience in each of the three areas below is valuable. 

• Data Storage Technologies (i.e. SQL, Oracle, NoSQL, Hadoop, MSFT Access, etc.) 
• Data Manipulation and Analysis Languages (i.e. Alteryx, R/SAS, SPSS, Java, etc.) 
• Visualization Technologies (i.e. Advanced PowerBi, D3/HTML Visualizations, Tableau/Qlikview/Spotfire/etc, Advanced Excel/Access UI, etc.) 

KEY KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

• Excellent written and communication skills
• Ability to establish and maintain interpersonal relationships 
• Ability to co-ordinate and manage the work activities of others
• Can function in a team environment and individually
• Ability to resolve conflicts
• Good negotiation skills

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Job Description & Summary

A career in our Oracle Risk Assurance practice, within Information Technology Risk Assurance 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. The work revolves around creative problem solving and applying innovative technologies to enable strategies that increase the value of the applications that run our client’s business, mitigate risk and find operational inefficiencies.

Our focus is on creating effective and efficient design for the most important business, security and compliance processes for our clients. We touch on aspects of application security, areas prone to fraud and financial misstatement, and streamline processes that are part of our client’s core business so they can get a higher return on this key investment. Using innovative, and proprietary technologies, we help to bridge the gap between business stakeholders, compliance functions and Information Technology teams to assist in understanding how to embrace new ways of working, while limiting their financial and operational risk profile. We use knowledge of financial system design, risk mitigation, business process design, data integrity, security and use of data analytics.

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.

JOB PURPOSE

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

A.  JOB PROFILE

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

The successful individual will take responsibility for managing IT governance, data analytic or auditing of general computer control environments and business processes related projects.  The individual will also be responsible to seek new opportunities.

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 (Beneficial).
• 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 writinng

EXPERIENCE

KEY KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, Engineering or any related field.

MANDATORY CERTIFICATION NEEDED:

• None
• CISA (Advantage)
• CA(SA) (Advantage)
• Minimum 3 years of progressively more responsible related work experience in Information Technology, Information Technology General Controls, Business Processes, IT Governance, Architecture and BI/Analytics.
• 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
• Excellent written and communication skills
• Ability to establish and maintain interpersonal relationships 
• Ability to co-ordinate and manage the work activities of others
• Can function in a team environment and individually
• Ability to resolve conflicts
• Good negotiation skills

DEFINITIONS

JOB PURPOSE

• Why the post created was or what value does it add to the organization, i.e. one sentence to describe what is done, how it is done and why it is done.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES (KPA’S)

• For which aspects are you responsible?
• Brief statements which describe the major activities and contributions of this position and measures applied to determine performance.

DIMENSIONS (FINANCIAL)

• Rand values e.g. budget.  Unit measures i.e. number of clients/ disciplines/suppliers/projects/machines.

STAFF (PEOPLE MEASURES)

• Number of immediate subordinates or number of employees your service supports and information and systems i.e. organization wide information services and support services.

ORGANOGRAM

• Attach a chart of the Division/Department and circle your position.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• Minimum requirements to be successful in the position.  Practical experience.

KEY KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

• Professional/Technical Skills/Management Skills.
• Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)
• Degrees/Field of Study required:
• Degrees/Field of Study preferred: