Audit And Assurance - Digital Assurance - Manager

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.

Skills

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 Firms 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 firms 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

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