Audit & Assurance - Specialized Services - 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 financial statement audit at PwC, you will focus on obtaining reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report that includes the auditor’s opinion.

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.
  
  

Job Description

• You will play an integral role in PwC’s core assurance services provided to clients.
• 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 manner in which 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.
• Engage in communications with numerous engagement teams and build strong work relationships.
• Ensure 100% adherence to all compliance requirements.
  
  

You will have the opportunity to specialize in some of the following:

• Initiate the third-party confirmations, track responses, follow up for responses, verify responses, agree confirmation balances with that provided by engagement team.
• Prepare documents based on audit policy and standard templates, including information gathering and population of templates and documents.
• Financial statement review procedures based on understanding of relationships between supporting documentation and financial statement documents in accordance with auditing standards.
• Specialized areas which are non-audit but integral to the overall audit process.
  
  

Additional Responsibilities: -

• Perform work and provide related deliverables in accordance with DC User Guide instructions as applied to engagement teamwork request submissions.
• Maintain working knowledge of DC User Guides.
• Monitor time and manage deadlines.
• Adhere to PwC SDC policies and procedures.
• Participate in training, coaching and other developmental opportunities.
• Perform the quality check on all deliverables to ensure they are consistent with laid down quality parameters.
  
  

Qualification: B.Com/M.Com/CA Inter/B.Com/M.Com+MBA Finance/CMA/CMA Inter