RAS Cyber Security Manager at PwC South Africa

As a Manager, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Develop new skills outside of comfort zone.
• Act to resolve issues which prevent the team working effectively.
• Coach others, recognise their strengths, and encourage them to take ownership of their personal development.
• Analyse complex ideas or proposals and build a range of meaningful recommendations.
• Use multiple sources of information including broader stakeholder views to develop solutions and recommendations.
• Address sub-standard work or work that does not meet firm's/client's expectations.
• Use data and insights to inform conclusions and support decision-making.
• Develop a point of view on key global trends, and how they impact clients.
• Manage a variety of viewpoints to build consensus and create positive outcomes for all parties.
• Simplify complex messages, highlighting and summarising key points.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

JOB PROFILE

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

Responsibilities

• Assignment planning and budgeting
• Manage junior consultants in the RAS practice
• Provide risk, security and controls related consulting services to clients
• Help grow the RAS practice with focus on consulting and audit related services through assistance with business development, including writing of proposals.
• Manage client service delivery
• Ensure quality of service delivery
• Identify, test and review IT general controls over the following IT domains: program changes, access to programs and data, program develop, computer operations and IT governance
• Identify, test and review manual and automated application controls
• Information Security assessments (across people, manual and automated processes) including the identification of gaps and formulating recommendations on remediation
• Draft reports for management, articulating the risks of the issues identified, and providing meaningful and practical recommendations
• Effectively communicate results of assessment findings, rational and recommendations
• Document interviews, develop findings and recommendations;
• Document the results of fieldwork, review the work of juniors
• Ensure compliance to firm's risk management policies
• Perform assessments in a thorough, efficient and professional manner;
• Obtain the required domain knowledge to conduct the assessments or remediation
• Technical skills required will vary depending on the specialist group within RAS (e.g Digital Trust, Digital Trust (SAP specific), Cyber security, Internal Audit, Data Analytics etc)

PERSON PROFILE

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Qualification Level: BSc, BCom, BAcc or Honours
• Additional Qualification Level:  Professional qualification:  CA(SA), CIMA, CISA, CIMA, Data Science Certificate(s) or CIA

EXPERIENCE

• Experience Required:  3-4 years

KEY KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

Desirable skills or attributes

• Proven ability to build and sustain key relationships
• The ability to market our services
• Manage projects including managing teams
• Communicate with impact and empathy
• Excellent communication, presentation, negotiation and persuasion skills
• Strong planning, co-ordinating and team facilitation skills
• Good conceptual thinking skills
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Ability to work independently as well as part of a bigger team
• Ability to learn quickly and multitask at any given time
• Self-motivated, pay attention to detail
• Good working knowledge of the PwC Audit methodology
• Display sound leadership skills
• Strong interpersonal and management skills
• Be passionate about service delivery
• Fluent in English.