Audit & Assurance Digital Assurance Senior Associate

Industry/Sector

Specialism

Management Level

Job Description & Summary

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 isnt clear you ask questions and you use these moments as opportunities to grow.

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 Firms code of conduct and independence 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 the 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 firms workflow management tool understand optimal and required way 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.
• 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 teams with testing of IT general controls and Manual controls activities. These activities 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.

• Chartered Accountant with minimum 1 years of relevant experience post qualification. Articleship experience - 3 years of mandatory articleship experience for qualified Chartered Accountants
• or
• Non-CA then minimum 4 years of relevant experience. Candidates with Big 4 or equivalent experience would be preferred.
• Bachelors or Masters Degree in Accounting Finance CommerceTechnology Computer and Information Science and/or other relevant 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 knowledge including Application Controls IT General Controls and Financial Reporting 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.

Travel Requirements

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