Senior Manager - Audit at PwC South Africa

• As a Senior 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:

• Encourage everyone to have a voice and invite opinion from all, including quieter members of the team.
• Deal effectively with ambiguous and unstructured problems and situations.
• Initiate open and candid coaching conversations at all levels.
• Move easily between big picture thinking and managing relevant detail.
• Anticipate stakeholder needs, and develop and discuss potential solutions, even before the stakeholder realises they are required.
• Contribute technical knowledge in area of specialism.
• Contribute to an environment where people and technology thrive together to accomplish more than they could apart.
• Navigate the complexities of cross-border and/or diverse teams and engagements.
• Initiate and lead open conversations with teams, clients and stakeholders to build trust.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

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 behavioural 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

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