Audit and Assurance - Digital Assurance - Associate 2

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.

Driven by curiosity, you are a reliable, contributing member of a team. In our fast-paced environment, you are expected to adapt to working with a variety of clients and team members, each presenting varying challenges and scope. Every experience is an opportunity to learn and grow. You are expected to take ownership and consistently deliver quality work that drives value for our clients and success as a team. As you navigate through the Firm, you build a brand for yourself, opening doors to more opportunities.

Skills

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

• Apply a learning mindset and take ownership for your own development.
• Appreciate diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.
• Adopt habits to sustain high performance and develop your potential.
• Actively listen, ask questions to check understanding, and clearly express ideas.
• Seek, reflect, act on, and give feedback.
• Gather information from a range of sources to analyse facts and discern patterns.
• Commit to understanding how the business works and building commercial awareness.
• Learn and apply professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), uphold the Firm's code of conduct and independence requirements.
  
  

Requirements

These should include

essential &

desirable requirements

Such As

• Level of experience
• Industry experience
• Technical capability
• Position reports to the Digital Assurance & Transparency Senior Associate
  
  

or 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

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 good knowledge/experience of testing ITGC/ITACs and Business
  
  

Process control. As part of the respective team, member will assist territory

engagement teams with testing of internal 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).

• Knowledge/Experience in SOC 1 & SOC 2 testing/ SOX 404.
• Have understanding of Internal controls and compliance.
• Education/Qualifications Minimum Degree(s):
• Preferred Skill Set
• Professional Experience
• Chartered Accountant with 0-1 years of relevant experience post
  
  

qualification. Articleship experience - 3+ years of mandatory articleship

experience for qualified Chartered Accountants

or

• Non-CA then 1 - 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 other

relevant degree.

Certification(s) Preferred

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

mapped to the PwC AC 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.

• Good understanding/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.