Audit and Assurance

Line of Service

Assurance

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

Assurance

Management Level

Manager

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, manage 
engagements and relevant teams allocated for the same.
● Managing predominantly offshore engagements and relevant PwC 
Territory teams. Communication, written and verbal, with these 
teams would be expected. This communication would include 
emphasizing the capabilities within the AC to provide high-quality 
deliverables to support the PwC Global Offices.
● Individuals would be responsible for contributing to a strong team 
environment and promoting a positive working relationship 
amongst their team.
● 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 to document results of work performed
● Have deep knowledge and experience of testing ITGCs, ITACs and 
Business Process controls. As part of the respective team, members will 
assist territory engagement teams with testing of IT general controls, 
Automated 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 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 onshore team.
● Experience in Engagement Planning & Management

● Enhancing & building strong relationships with the engagement 
Teams and clients.
● Will be responsible for overseeing their team members performance of 
testing in this area, monitoring workload, timelines and budgets for the 
work being performed.
● The role provides an opportunity for the individual to interact with 
territory audit teams to articulate the objectives and testing results.

Minimum Degree(s):

● Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce,
Technology, Computer and Information Science, Engineering and/or other 
relevant degree.
● For CISA 7 years’ experience in managing engagements and teams in
the domains mentioned in the requirements above – Candidates with 
“Big 4” or equivalent experience would be preferred
● For CA 4 years of relevant experience required.
● Understanding of audit concepts and regulations

Certification(s) Mandatory:

Chartered Accountant/CISA/CPA
Certification(s) preferred:
CISM / CISSP / ISO 27001 LA certifications are preferred & are mapped to the 
PwC AC Career Progression Track

Technical Skill Preferred:

● Fundamental understanding of security and control for some of the 
following 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 on 
instructions, by team members.
● Ability to develop the skills of team members through regular and
on-going coaching and feedback (written and verbal). Coaching / feedback 
would be in relation to the completion / quality of work performed, 
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 the v- lookup, text, 
reference, and logical and information functionality in
excel.
● Candidates should have excellent communication (written and 
verbal) skills and should be able to work with global teams 
independently with minimal supervision.
● Candidates should exhibit good client service skill collaterals with a 
strong focus on building relationships

Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)

Degrees/Field of Study required:Degrees/Field of Study preferred:

Certifications (if blank, certifications not specified)

Required Skills

Optional Skills

Accepting Feedback, Accepting Feedback, Active Listening, Analytical Thinking, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Platform, Auditing Methodologies, Cloud Engineering, Coaching and Feedback, Communication, Compliance and Governance, Compliance and Standards, Compliance Auditing, Corporate Governance, Creativity, Cybersecurity Governance, Cybersecurity Risk Management, Data Quality, Data Quality Assessment, Data Quality Assurance Testing, Data Validation, Embracing Change, Emotional Regulation, Empathy, Governance Framework, Inclusion {+ 21 more}

Desired Languages (If blank, desired languages not specified)

Travel Requirements

Not Specified

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No

Government Clearance Required?

No

Job Posting End Date