Audit and Assurance - Digital Assurance - Manager

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Management Level

Job Description & Summary

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.

Enhancing your leadership style, you motivate, develop and inspire others to deliver quality. You are responsible for coaching, leveraging team member’s unique strengths, and managing performance to deliver on client expectations. With your growing knowledge of how business works, you play an important role in identifying opportunities that contribute to the success of our Firm. You are expected to lead with integrity and authenticity, articulating our purpose and values in a meaningful way. You embrace technology and innovation to enhance your delivery and encourage others to do the same.

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Analyse and identify the linkages and interactions between the component parts of an entire system.
• Take ownership of projects, ensuring their successful planning, budgeting, execution, and completion.
• Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables.
• Develop skills outside your comfort zone, and encourage others to do the same.
• Effectively mentor others.
• Use the review of work as an opportunity to deepen the expertise of team members.
• Address conflicts or issues, engaging in difficult conversations with clients, team members and other stakeholders, escalating where appropriate.

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 Leader
• Manage the Controls Assurance team and client
• Individual would be expected to cultivate a strong team environment
• In addition to being an exceptional individual contributor, manageengagements and relevant teams allocated for the same.
• Managing predominantly offshore engagements and relevant PwCTerritory teams. Communication, written and verbal, with theseteams would be expected. This communication would includeemphasizing the capabilities within the AC to provide high-qualitydeliverables to support the PwC Global Offices.
• Individuals would be responsible for contributing to a strong teamenvironment and promoting a positive working relationship amongsttheir team.
• We are looking for an extremely self-motivated individual who willrelish 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 frominitiation through completion, understand how workflow is managedwithin the firm's workflow management tool, understand optimaland required way to document results of work performed
• Have deep knowledge and experience of testing ITGCs, ITACs andBusiness Process controls. As part of the respective team, memberswill assist territory engagement teams with testing of IT generalcontrols, Automated Controls and Manual controls activities. Theseactivities will primarily relate to the following cycles / domains:○ Change management, Program development○ Logical access (i.e., user administration, accessrecertification)○ Computer operations (i.e., problem management, batchprocessing, back-ups)○ Design effectiveness/Operating effectiveness
• BusinessProcess cycles (Purchase to Payable; Revenue & Receivables;Inventory; Payroll; Treasury).○ IT Application controls
• Experience in SOC 1 & SOC 2 testing and reporting/ SOX 404
• Have an understanding of Internal controls and SOX compliance.
• Perform quality review of the work before delivering to the client.
• Driving additional opportunities in the business with the onshoreteam.
• Experience in Engagement Planning & Management
• Enhancing & building strong relationships with the engagementTeams and clients.
• Will be responsible for overseeing their team members performanceof testing in this area, monitoring workload, timelines and budgetsfor the work being performed.
• The role provides an opportunity for the individual to interact withterritory audit teams to articulate the objectives and testing results.

Minimum Degree(s):

• Chartered Accountant with minimum 4 years of relevant experiencepost qualification. Articleship experience - 3+ years of mandatoryarticleship experience for qualified Chartered Accountantsor
• Non
• CA but CISA then minimum 7 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/orother relevant degree.Certification(s) Mandatory:Chartered Accountant or CISACertification(s) preferred:CISM / CISSP / ISO 27001 LA certifications are preferred & are mapped tothe PwC AC Career Progression TrackTechnical Skill Preferred:
• Fundamental understanding of security and control for some of thefollowing technologies and/or enterprise applications:
• Unix, Windows, mainframe, AS400, SAP, PeopleSoft, J.D.
• Edwards, Oracle Financials, Oracle Financial databases, etc.Skills Required:
• Ability to execute a detailed review over work performed, based oninstructions, by team members.
• Ability to develop the skills of team members through regular andon-going coaching and feedback (written and verbal). Coaching /feedback would be in relation to the completion / quality of workperformed, interaction with engagement teams, meeting timelines /budgets, managing multiple tasks, etc.
• Candidates will require the ability to prioritize and multi- task.
• Experience with the Microsoft Office suite of products (i.e., Word,Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, etc.), including an understanding of thev-lookup, text, reference, and logical and information functionalityin excel.
• Candidates should have excellent communication (written andverbal) skills and should be able to work with global teamsindependently with minimal supervision.
• Candidates should exhibit good client service skill collaterals with astrong focus on building relationships

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