At PwC, our people in audit and assurance focus on providing independent and objective assessments of financial statements, internal controls, and other assurable information enhancing the credibility and reliability of this information with a variety of stakeholders. They evaluate compliance with regulations including assessing governance and risk management processes and related controls. In digital assurance at PwC, you will focus on providing assurance services over clients' digital environment, including processes and controls, cyber security measures, data and AI systems, and their associated governance, to help organisations and their stakeholders build trust in their technology while complying with relevant regulations.Focused on relationships, you are building meaningful client connections, and learning how to manage and inspire others. Navigating increasingly complex situations, you are growing your personal brand, deepening technical expertise and awareness of your strengths. You are expected to anticipate the needs of your teams and clients, and to deliver quality. Embracing increased ambiguity, you are comfortable when the path forward isn’t clear, you ask questions, and you use these moments as opportunities to grow.
Skills
Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:
- Respond effectively to the diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.
- Use a broad range of tools, methodologies and techniques to generate new ideas and solve problems.
- Use critical thinking to break down complex concepts.
- Understand the broader objectives of your project or role and how your work fits into the overall strategy.
- Develop a deeper understanding of the business context and how it is changing.
- Use reflection to develop self awareness, enhance strengths and address development areas.
- Interpret data to inform insights and recommendations.
- Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.
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Introduction
Trust is a valuable commodity. It is not given or kept easily. And when it comes to trust, what matters to stakeholders is changing. They want to know that companies are who they say they are, and do what they say they do. That is why today, organisations are being judged on more than financial performance, with reporting on other areas such as ESG, cyber security, and operational resilience playing a more important role in building stakeholder trust.Independent, high-quality assurance is increasingly expected. Corporate reporting remains the first port of call for investors trying to understand business performance and prospects – and the risks associated with them.PwCs UK Audit business comprises over 6,000 staff across 19 offices and includes both our financial and non-financial audit businesses. PwC's Stakeholder Assurance team provides independent non-financial audit services to enhance the trust and transparency in non-financial reporting, including ESG, Regulatory and Third-Party assurance.This is an exciting time to be part of Stakeholder Assurance, as we grow our services to meet the explosion of demand across our extensive audit client base.
Your role
PwC Stakeholder Assurance professionals bring the right mix of audit experience, industry-specific knowledge and specialised skill sets to bear on a client’s risk and control, compliance, reporting functions and data. We provide a full range of assurance services which include pre-assurance assessments and reporting to such standards as ISAE3000, ISAE3402, SSAE 18, AAF 01/20 and SOC2 covering subject matter from risk and controls, operational resilience, ESG and performance data.
The role in Stakeholder Assurance will span all three of our propositions
, which includes:
- Non-financial assurance: We provide challenge and scrutiny over a growing array of ESG measures, such as sustainability and carbon reporting (e.g. GHG emissions), social KPIs (e.g. gender pay gap), diversity and inclusion, and sustainable financing (e.g. green bonds).
- Third party controls assurance: Providing comfort over controls to organisations that use service providers. Subject areas typically cover financial controls, IT systems and platforms (e.g. ecommerce, banking etc.), critical business systems (e.g. payroll), cyber security systems, and emerging risk areas such as blockchain technology.
- Regulatory assurance: Ensuring reporting and processes meet standards expected by regulatory bodies. From safeguarding of assets to ensuring banks have sufficient capital and liquidity, we perform high quality audits on existing and new regulatory areas of scrutiny.
Across all areas of your work, you will be encouraged to identify and utilise technology driven solutions to continuously evolve the way we work
A role in Stakeholder Assurance provides successful individuals with the opportunity to:
- Be at the forefront of innovation in reporting and assurance, providing a broad and differentiating experience to the typical financial auditor.
- Have variety in what you do, working across all three Stakeholder Assurance propositions and an even broader set of products, in an area that constantly evolves in response to our clients evolving needs and business risks.
- Develop and progress, in a rapidly growing area of our business.
- Be involved in the development of client proposals and propositions more broadly; and
- Spend every day working on our purpose, to build trust in society and solve important problems.
You’ll be constantly learning, and your ideas will be welcomed in an atmosphere of collaboration and teamwork.
About You
We’re looking for individuals who are passionate about the role assurance plays, who can leverage their experience to challenge existing reporting and build PwCs profile and position in the market. You will have already gained some experience in understanding an organisation’s risks, risk management priorities, controls, regulatory environment, and the diverse needs of its critical stakeholders. This experience could be gained through financial statement audit, internal audit or risk management.
Responsibilities
Building on and utilising your previous audit and assurance skills and experience, your responsibilities will include:
- Understanding client processes and designing and developing suites of assurance work over them.
- Planning and delivering assurance or similar assignments for a range of governance, risk, regulatory, operational and financial purposes.
- Communicating findings to clients and preparing written reports.
- Building and maintaining effective working relationships with clients.
- Managing and being part of a team to deliver a project both on time and on budget.
- Leading and coaching junior staff.
- Conducting work in accordance with a range of assurance standards; and
- Supporting new opportunities and propositions.
Given the nature of our audit business, you may be required on occasion to work on engagements outside of those mentioned above, including but not limited to financial audits and in other industries.
- We are looking for an extremely self-motivated individual who will relish the opportunity to join a growing part of the PwC business, using their skills in developing key internal relationships.
- You will play an integral role in PwC’s ESG/SAss services provided to clients.
- Understand the process workflow related to work requests from initiation through completion, understand how workflow is managed within the firm's workflow management tool, understand optimal and required manner in which to document results of work performed.
- Participate in a wide range of projects and collaborate across multiple work streams or teams; consistently demonstrating creative thinking, individual initiative and timely completion of assigned work.
- Consistently demonstrate teamwork dynamics by working as a team member: understand personal and team roles; contribute to a positive working environment by building solid relationships with team members; and proactively seek guidance, clarification and feedback.
- Serve as participant on communications with numerous engagement teams.
- The individual should have the ability to work effectively under pressure without compromising professional standards or quality of the work being performed.
- Perform work and provide related deliverables in accordance with SDC User Guide instructions as applied to engagement teamwork request submissions.
- Maintain working knowledge of SDC User Guides.
- Monitor time and manage deadlines.
- Adhere to PwC SDC policies and procedures.
- Participate in training, coaching and other developmental opportunities.
Essential Skills And Experience
To succeed in the team, you will have a demonstrable skills and experience as follows:
Chartered Accountant / ACA / ACCA / ICAS qualified accountant (or international equivalent) with minimum 1 year of relevant experience post qualification. Articleship experience - 3+ years of mandatory articleship experience for qualified Chartered Accountants
orNon-CA but CISA certified with minimum 4 years of relevant experience
- Planning and delivering audit or assurance engagements in line with PwC and regulatory standards.
- Designing, testing or monitoring of internal controls.
- The candidate must have intermediate experiences in business processes like Order to cash, procure to pay, hire to retire, Assets to retire, Banking and wealth management like Derivatives, custodians etc. along with some intermediate knowledge in testing ITGC domains like Access Management, Change Management, Computer Operations etc.
- Candidate must have experience in testing IT Dependencies - Key Report calculations, Automated Controls, Interfaces Security
- Client handling and relationship management and an ability to challenge and escalate issues effectively.
- The ability to work effectively in a team, building good working relationships with both colleagues and client personnel at all levels.
- Passion for delivering and promoting quality in all aspects of your work and applying professional scepticism.
- Managing and developing junior team members through delegation, supervision and coaching.
- Genuine curiosity toward our clients’ business, their purpose and strategy to be able to effectively understand their stakeholder’s assurance needs; and
