Audit and Assurance - Digital Assurance - Senior Associate

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.
  

Requirements

• Position reports to the Digital Assurance & Transparency Manager.
• Working for a variety of client engagement teams from PwC network firms.
• Individual would be expected to cultivate a strong team environment.
• Communication, written and verbal would be expected. This
  

communication would include emphasizing the capabilities within the AC
to provide high-quality deliverables to support the PwC Global Offices.

• 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.

• 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 way todocument 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.

• The individual should have the ability to work effectively under pressure
  

without compromising professional standards or quality of the work being
performed.

• Have deep knowledge and experience of testing ITGC and Business Process
  

control. Have experience in ITACs (IT Automated) control testing. As part
of the respective team, members will assist territory engagement teamswith testing of IT general controls and Manual controls activities. Theseactivities will primarily relate to the following cycles / domains:

• Change management, Program development.
• Logical access (i.e., user administration, access recertification)
• Computer operations (i.e., problem management, batch processing,
  

back-ups)

• Design effectiveness/Operating effectiveness - Business Process
  

cycles (Purchase to Payable; Revenue & Receivables; Inventory;
Payroll; Treasury).

• IT Application Controls
• Experience in SOC 1 & SOC 2 testing and reporting / SOX 404
• Have understanding of Internal controls and compliance.
• Monitor time and manage deadlines.
• Perform quality review of the work before delivering to the client.
• Support Manager in Engagement Management which included status,
  

meeting deadlines, managing team and relationship building and delivering
quality work.

• Adhere to PwC AC policies and procedures.
• Participate in training, coaching and other developmental opportunities.
  

Education/Qualification

• Chartered Accountant with minimum 1 years of relevant experience post
  

qualification. Articleship experience - 3+ years of mandatory articleship
experience for qualified Chartered Accountantsor

• Non-CA then minimum 4 years of relevant experience.
• Candidates with “Big 4” or equivalent experience would be preferred.
• Bachelors or Master’s Degree in Accounting, Finance,
  

Commerce,Technology, Computer and Information Science and/or otherrelevant degree.

Certification(s) Preferred

• CA/CISA / CISM / CISSP / ISO 27001 LA certifications are preferred & are
  

mapped to the SDC PwC Career Progression Track

Knowledge Required

• Knowledge / experience in fields of SOX projects.
• Working knowledge of financial reporting concepts and information
  

technology general controls and business process controls concepts in the
areas of systems control principles and business/technical knowledgeincluding Application Controls, IT General Controls and FinancialReporting Concepts.

• Experience with the Microsoft Office suite of products (i.e., Word, Excel,
  

PowerPoint, Visio, etc.), including an understanding of the v-lookup, text,
reference, and logical and information functionality in excel.

• Team player, committed to providing high quality and maintaining
  

timeliness.

• Demonstrated self-motivation and a desire to take responsibility for
  

personal growth and development.

• Commitment to continuous training and to proactively learn new
  

processes