Job Opportunities at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

Job Description & Summary

• A career in our Investigations and Fact Finding practice, within Fraud, Investigations and Regulatory Enforcement (FIRE) services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients understand where they might have vulnerabilities and develop solutions to manage the risks involved. We prevent, respond to and remediate a wide range of business threats, risks and complex issues.
• Our team helps businesses detect and investigate fraudulent activities or irregularities within their organisation. As part of our team, you’ll help investigate issues such as corporate irregularities, whistleblower allegations, asset misappropriation, regulatory violations, patent and copyright infringement and financial reporting fraud

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.

Main purpose of the role

• Support internal investigation teams and clients with digital forensics investigations;
•  Assist with ensuring that the procedures set out are adhered to on engagements;
•  Follow guidance from managers on engagements;
•  Become familiar with digital forensics engagements and be able to execute steps under the
• guidance of seniors.

Key Performance Areas

•  Have a strong technical background;
•  Develop and upskill on digital forensics techniques;
•  Drafting proposals/quotations;
•  Become familiar with risk management processes;
•  Assist with drafting internal and external reports; and
•  Provide support to seniors and managers on engagements.

Qualifications

•  B.Tech, BsC Computer Science, Bcom IT or other relevant qualifications.
•  Industry recognised certifications (EnCE, SANS etc) would be advantageous.

Experience

• 1 to 3 years experience;
•  Technical experience would be advantageous;
•  Cybersecurity experience would be an advantage; and
•  Consulting experience would be advantageous.

Key Competencies:

• The ability to draw insights from diverse data sets to aid investigations;
• Strong networking and general technical IT understanding;
• Basic scripting;
• Understanding chain of evidence and investigation processes
• Pro-active and committed to delivery
• Leadership skills
• Ability to perform under pressure
• Planning and organising ability
• Conflict management
• Analytical and solutions driven

Forensic Data Analyses

• Flexible and adaptable to change
•  Report writin

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Job Description & Summary

• A career within Corporate Tax services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients meet their tax obligations while managing the impact tax has on their business. You’ll advise clients on their local and overseas tax affairs, while acting as a strategic consultant related to business analysis, managing working capital, and profit sharing for partners. You’ll also help organisations understand the pricing implications of goods and services between related parties, as well as providing advice on tax implications of deals.
• Our team helps our clients improve their tax function to control risk and facilitate better decision making. You’ll focus on helping businesses with tax strategy, ensuring tax compliance, increasing post tax profits, and providing application support to achieve the best corporate tax practices

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 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:

• Develop new skills outside of comfort zone.
• Act to resolve issues which prevent the team working effectively.
• Coach others, recognise their strengths, and encourage them to take ownership of their personal development.
• Analyse complex ideas or proposals and build a range of meaningful recommendations.
• Use multiple sources of information including broader stakeholder views to develop solutions and recommendations.
• Address sub-standard work or work that does not meet firm's/client's expectations.
• Use data and insights to inform conclusions and support decision-making.
• Develop a point of view on key global trends, and how they impact clients.
• Manage a variety of viewpoints to build consensus and create positive outcomes for all parties.
• Simplify complex messages, highlighting and summarising key points.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Within our Corporate Tax group, the Deals Tax team offers its expertise to clients to enable them to deliver tax effective business transactions, whether they be restructuring, due diligence, re-financings, BEE transactions, mergers and acquisitions or divestments.
Responsibilities

• Assist the team with buy side and sell side due diligences.
• Assist in advising clients on the structuring of business transactions and tax implications thereof;
• Drafting of opinions for clients on the tax consequences of restructures, mergers and acquisitions as well as other pertinent matters;
• Research of complex tax issues;
• Interpretation of tax legislation;
• Liaison with SARS and Counsel regarding complex and uncertain tax matters; and

Assist with the implementation of transactions including:

• review of financial models; and
• transaction legals.

Tax Consultant responsibilities in respect of the above will include:

• Assisting management in planning assignment approach including understanding client expectations and scoping work;
• Ensuring timely delivery, including performing relevant research, review of information, identifying tax issues and drafting of deliverables;
• Assisting with financial portfolio management including WIP management, billings and cash collection.
• Complying with risk management procedures

Key Internal Clients / Relationships

• Deals Tax Partners, Managers and team
• The larger Tax community and staff
• Cross Line (X-Los) Partners and Managers
• Relevant firm subject matter experts
• Transaction Services
• Corporate Finance

Skills / Qualifications / Knowledge required

• Relevant professional qualification (CA/Admitted attorney and/or Postgraduate studies in Tax)
• At least 1 year experience in a tax consulting environment would be preferred and a post-graduate tax qualification would be ideal.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Self-starter with the ability to provide solutions to business problems
• Ability to multi-task yet still pay attention to detail
• Strong analytical skills
• Excellent time management 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.

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, IT 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.

Diversity

• We work in a changing world that offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Our strength lies in creating value through diversity.
• Whether you're an accomplished professional or a promising new talent, you'll have opportunities to continuously learn, grow and advance in your career within our network. Our diverse client mix gives you an opportunity to make a difference by working with clients across South Africa and clients with a global reach.

We know that the skills and experiences you gain with us will stay with you throughout your career. So join PwC. We'll help you to reach your full potential.
Take the opportunity of a lifetime.

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