Senior Audit Manager at PwC South Africa

About the job

• Are you currently an Audit Manager in the Insurance and or Investment Space?
• Our Midrand practice is currently recruiting for a Senior Audit Manager , specifically with a background in Insurance or Investments and must have IFRS17 exposure

About the role

• The purpose of this role is to contribute to the PwC’s quality and efficiency objectives by providing internal support to Partners and their engagement teams in respect of assurance methodology, ATP and Aura matters.
• Projects which this role will be involved in will primarily be of an assurance methodology, ATP or Aura nature however as far as possible we will endeavor to involve this role in the other areas of assurance support, (e.g. L&E, Audit technical, Risk Management) to the extent that this is of a quality or efficiency nature.
• Providing support to Partners and their engagement will prove critical to address the quality, efficiency and value of all of our services and will create the capacity for growth. Initiatives to support these objectives will be globally and locally developed and implemented.

Essential skills and experience

• Minimum of 18 months post-Articles experience as an Audit engagement manager

Required qualifications

• Chartered Accountant (South Africa)

Desirable skills or attributes

• Well-developed writing and verbal skills.
• Strong presentation skills will be beneficial.
• Should be confident in their communication of information to the

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities will include, but will not be limited to, the following:

• Manage the implementation of assurance methodology, ATP and Aura projects to ensure quality and efficiency across assurance engagements. Overall management and responsibility will include reporting on implementation progress over the course of the various projects.
• Drive behavioral change amongst assurance Partners and their engagement teams through regular and targeted communication. The focus of the behavioural change will be at the forefront of the transformation objectives in an effort to ensure PwC is distinctive.
• Manage communication with the assurance methodology network under the direction of the team leader. Communication will take the form of facilitating learning interventions as well as writing alerts for release to the practice.
• Identify and manage local ATP initiatives with the sole responsibility of implementation, roll out and reporting.
• Ensure consistency of assurance methodology messages through regular interaction with the assurance methodology network.
• Support assurance teams in ensuring quality, whilst driving efficiency, and compliance to assurance methodology through performing of efficiency, CIR and audit quality reviews.
• Respond to assurance methodology, ATP or Aura queries and where possible assist assurance engagement teams with guidance on best practice to drive quality and efficiency.

Secondary / Ad hoc responsibilities will include, but will not be limited to, the following:

• Assist with the monitoring and reporting of the CIR programme for South market area and Africa as a whole.
• The establishment and facilitation of building working relationships within the African network.
• Liaise with key contacts with the East and West market areas.
• Support the core team the development and maintenance of Aura libraries;
• Support the core team the with the maintenance of the Template Manager database;
• Ad-hoc assistance with Audit Technical queries/projects