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  • Posted: Feb 5, 2020
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    PwC - Biggest provider of audit, accounting and tax services to the companies listed in the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Also provides internal audit, forensic audit, corporate finance, corporate governance services, sustainable assurance services and others.


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    Automation Expert Senior Manager

    A career in our Technology Consulting practice, within General Consulting services, will provide you with the opportunity to help clients seize essential advantages by working alongside business leaders to solve their toughest problems and capture their greatest opportunities. We work with some of the world’s largest and most complex companies to understand their unique business issues and opportunities in an ever changing environment. We help create sustainable change by stimulating innovation, unlocking data possibilities, navigating risk and regulatory complexity, optimising deals, and aligning costs with business strategy to create a competitive advantage.

    As a member of the team, you’ll work with clients to define their vision and plan how to get there. We deliver the technological solutions organisations need to compete and grow and build a lasting legacy of improvement and performance, partnering with best in class technologies and solution sets. In joining, you’ll help our clients understand and evolve the way they align Information Technology with their business strategy, create integrated end to end solutions, and use enterprise applications to solve complex business problems.


    Responsibilities

    Solutions consultant involved in business consulting and transformation, process related work, application of technology to solve business challenges. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

    • Delivery
    • Manage medium sized project team delivery on assignments
    • Manage finances associated with project delivery
    • Analysing strategy, strategic plans/objectives and other client related data
    • Develop industry knowledge and thought leadership for business environments and industry solutions and tools
    • Understand and interpret complex business challenges
    • Conceive innovative solution for clients
    • Actively participate and manage all aspects of project delivery
    • Think independently and creatively when formulating solutions
    • Facilitate and lead team problem solving and client issue resolution efforts
    • Fulfil project assignments as required
    • Lead the design and delivery of end-to-end business solutions which are enabled by technology
    • Be recognised as an expert in current technologies and their applications within a business context
    • Be knowledgeable about specific and relevant industries.
    • Lead multi disciplinary delivery teams and take full ownership of the quality of the project delivery
    • Develop architectural capabilities across business and technology architectures with a focus on solving client business problems
    • Maintain and developing technology transformation skills

    Sales

    • Conceive innovative solutions for clients and industries
    • Leads business development initiatives through the compilation of proposals and bid documentation
    • Engage with clients in identify opportunities for improvements within their businesses
    • Owns business development initiatives
    • Meet pipeline and sales targets at existing and new clients
    • Identify new solution opportunities and convert these into sales

    Relationships

    • Be able to build and sustain professional relationships both within PwC and externally
    • Actively collaborate with colleagues in solving unique business and technology challenges
    • Build effective relationships with team members that you lead
    • Fulfil coaching and mentorship roles to junior staff
    • Build long term relationships with clients that can be translated into revenue opportunities

    Preferred skills / attributes:

    Delivery

    • Demonstrate competence in managing projects
    • Have a solid understanding of business process reengineering techniques
    • Solid understanding of programming and SDLC methodologies – typically gained on large scale systems development projects
    • Programming or large scale system integration experience is required
    • Ability to multitask, prioritize and coordinate tasks to meet multiple deadlines and conflicting client and company constraints
    • Must be a self-starter, motivated individual who works well under pressure
    • Manage and plan own and others work
    • Is able to motivate a team for excellent delivery
    • Open-minded, practical and able to solve complex problems
    • Attention to detail and committed to quality
    • Ability to perform quality reviews on others work and provide constructive feedback when required

    General

    • Good verbal and written communication skills
    • Sound judgment
    • Innovative
    • Resilient
    • Cope well under tight deadlines and work well under stress
    • Strategic and big picture thinking

    Relationships

    • Is a team player and contributes to team success
    • Is able to build effective customer relationships

    Learning and growth

    • Is curious – learning, sharing and innovating
    • Willingness to continually learn and develop skills across a multitude of core competencies
    • Approaches problem solving in a logical and structured manner with due consideration given to alternative solutions which may require the acquisition of new knowledge
    • Able to handle complex problems and apply appropriate judgement in evaluating solution inputs

    Minimum years experience required:

    • 6 - 8 years relevant project and consulting experience
    • 1-2 years experience managing clients and project teams
    • 1-2 years formal sales and sales pipeline management experience

    Qualifications:

    • Relevant B degree in Information Systems, Computer Science or Engineering
    • An advanced business degree is an advantage (e.g. MBA, Post Graduate Diploma in Management)

    Accreditation:

    • Enterprise architecture certification highly recommended
    • Formal project management certification highly recommended
    • ICT Operations certification an advantage (e.g. ITIL)
    • Formal business process improvement methodologies an advantage

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) on pwc.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com to apply

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