Current Jobs at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

Requirements:

Minimum qualifications:

• Relevant Information Technology / Finance tertiary qualification
• Relevant ERP certifications

Preferred qualifications:

• Workday FINS Core
• Workday Integrations

Experience:

• 5+ years within an ERP Integration environment (Workday / SAP ERP / Oracle / Sage / NetSuite)
• Background in Finance and experience in Finance transformation projects
• Competency with building integrations on Workday Studio for Financial projects
• Competency with understanding and building of integrations with Financial Institutions, Treasury Management systems, as well as Billing or Trading Systems
• Competency with relational databases and understanding of ERP systems.
• Understanding of Financial information process flows to be competent to build transformation logic and model data for each business flow.

Desirables:

• Leading and contributing to our client facing Workday projects, taking full responsibility for one or more functional areas, from design through to deployment, as part a project team
• Ability to understand E2E Finance business processes and gather data requirements to support the data migration process flows.
• Collaborating with your colleagues across our HR and Financial transformation teams, and wider PwC network to identify and create solutions that bring value to our clients
• Good communication and presentation skills

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PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Our Transformation Confidence capability in the Consulting and Risk Services Digital Trust competency is focussed on protecting our clients' investments as they embark on their digital transformation journeys. We provide independent check-and-challenge in order to proactively identify and highlight risk in their change programmes.
• As a member of this dynamic team, you will be embedded in our clients' transformation initiatives to independently evaluate and assess their strategic alignment, governance, delivery engine performance and efficiency, testing capabilities, deployment and benefits realisation amongst others. 
• You will also contribute to key regulatory initiatives such as Operational Resilience and get involved in client programmes in an execution/consulting capacity and participate in IT audits and Internal Audits. 
• You will also develop and contribute to practice development, methodology and globally recognised thought leadership while building commercial prowess and growing the profile of the capability, the team and yourself. 

Resource Profile

• You will also develop and contribute to practice development, methodology and globally recognised thought leadership while building commercial prowess and growing the profile of the capability, the team and yourself. 
• Has worked within a cross-functional agile team performing product ownership, development, testing, deployment etc; OR has worked in IT architecture OR has worked in a traditional Waterfall SDLC environment
• Strong working knowledge of operational risk management and IT controls
• Excellent verbal and written presentation skills and competency in interacting with senior and junior levels
• Aptitude and desire to exploit technology skills to assess risk in our client's transformational change programmes as well as their Business As Usual environments

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PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

The successful individual will take responsibility for 

• The candidate should have done some of the following Internal Audit, External Audit and Risk Assurance assignments responsible as a supervisor or senior for IT or Internal Controls audits.

That would include:

• Review of IT controls within a General Computer Control environment such as system security, change control and system operations.
• Review of project management controls and solution design.
• Performing Data Analytics.
• Reviewing internal controls design and effectiveness of manual and automated controls.
• The candidate should be able to explain what goes into an audit plan and how to go about gather evidence through interviews and validation. The candidate should understand the PwC audit and risk management process for documenting work and findings. The candidate must follow up on review notes and assist with the clearance of findings including report writing.
• The candidate should be able to draft a budget and deal with the client economics.
• The candidate should be able to build relationships and understand opportunities.
• The candidate should understand Risk Assurance services.
• The candidate should be able to present audit findings to clients and understand the risks involved with report writing
• The candidate should be inquisitive and self learn new technologies such as AI, API auditing, etc and assist partners in taking that to the market for TMT
• The candidate should be able to travel outside if Jhb within SA and outside of SA
• The candicate should be able to build his/her own networks and build client relationships across our client base.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS 

• Should have obtained an IT or Internal Audit professional qualification.

EXPERIENCE

• Excel Access SQL
• Understanding of structured programming or scripting
• Understanding of IT governance and risk(Cobit)
• Financial systems and intermediate level accounting
• Project management and planning

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Qualifications / Certifications required:

• CA (SA)

Skills and experience required: 

• Must have at least 1 or more year/s financial due diligence experience (not a newly qualified CA/(SA));
• Excellent financial analytical skills and commercial awareness;
• An interest in and knowledge of the financial markets;
• Good understanding of IFRS and accounting standards;
• Excellent report writing skills;
• Excellent excel skills;
• Good experience with Alteryx, PowerBI and other data analytics and visualisation tools;
• Adhere to and promote quality and risk management standards;
• Excellent communication skills;
• Good interpersonal and client relationship skills;
• A well-organised and self-directed individual who can relate to people at all levels of an organization;
• Proven ability to multitask and ensure effective delivery of the priorities to meet targets and objectives;
• A proactive and energetic team player, who works effectively under pressure and can deal with a dynamic work environment; and
• Industry experience in any of the following is advantageous: Retail, Manufacturing, Financial Services, Insurance, Banking, Renewable Energy, Fintech, Banking and Capital Markets, Mining, Utilities, Energy, Industrial Products, Logistics, Transport, Consumer, Leisure, Technology, Telecommunications, Media, Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Real Estate, Facilities Management.

Responsibilities of role: 

• Perform and prepare financial analysis from structured and unstructured data sets using data tools;
• Be open to continuous learning and to embrace GenAI, technological enablement and personal upskilling in the firm's data and technological tools as they evolve;
• Develop visualisations to effectively communicate findings;
• Extract key commercial and deal insights from financial and non-financial data;
• Identify key drivers of a business and potential deal breakers (financial and non-financial);
• Write succinct, well-structured reports;
• Perform risk management activities;
• Effectively lead meetings with clients and senior personnel; and
• Interact and coordinate with workstreams other than financial DD, i.e. Tax DD, HC DD, IT DD, commercial DD, etc. 

Other:

• There is an expectation that work will occur mostly from the office, however remote working is possible.
• Occasionally, one will work on virtual UK projects to gain global deals experience.

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Requirements:

Minimum qualifications:

• Relevant Information Technology / Finance tertiary qualification
• Relevant ERP certifications

Preferred qualifications:

• Workday FINS Core
• Workday Integrations

Experience:

• 5+ years within an ERP Integration environment (Workday / SAP ERP / Oracle / Sage / NetSuite)
• Background in Finance and experience in Finance transformation projects
• Competency with building integrations on Workday Studio for Financial projects
• Competency with understanding and building of integrations with Financial Institutions, Treasury Management systems, as well as Billing or Trading Systems
• Competency with relational databases and understanding of ERP systems.
• Understanding of Financial information process flows to be competent to build transformation logic and model data for each business flow.

Desirables:

• Leading and contributing to our client facing Workday projects, taking full responsibility for one or more functional areas, from design through to deployment, as part a project team
• Ability to understand E2E Finance business processes and gather data requirements to support the data migration process flows.
• Collaborating with your colleagues across our HR and Financial transformation teams, and wider PwC network to identify and create solutions that bring value to our clients
• Good communication and presentation skills

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Qualifications /Certifications required: 

• NQF Level 7 and above (ZA)
• At least 2 years experience within consulting, or an industry business analysis/ enterprise transformation/ operating model/ strategy/ fund, project, or programme management role.
• Ideally an industry recognised project or programme management qualification (e.g., Prince2 / MSP etc.).

Experience required:

• Experience of supporting delivery of transformation programmes, ideally in the Public Sector.
• Experience in project and programme management—ideally in a change or transformation environment—including such capabilities in planning, scheduling, and RAIDD management.
• Experience in business analysis, transformation communications & stakeholder management, and engagement change monitoring.
• Experience in interpreting clients’ strategic, operational, and external drivers for change into coherent and logic recommendations.
• Experience in creating high quality visual outputs to communicate status, progress, business analysis outputs, and recommendations to clients.

Responsibilities of role:

• As a Senior Associate within our G&HI ET team, you will work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience to support delivery of projects that help our clients solve complex business issues and deliver enterprise wide transformation.

Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Help us to deliver our firmwide purpose of building trust in society and solving important problems.
• Support the design and delivery of iconic, technology-enabled transformation programmes for some of the largest public sector clients in the UK.
• Help to grow our multi-specialism Enterprise Transformation team, developing the tools and techniques that will help our clients transform their ways of working and secure better outcomes for the people and places they serve.
• Support a safe delivery of our engagements through project or programme management techniques incl. risk and issue management, progress monitoring, implementation planning, finance monitoring, and communication & stakeholder management.
• Create visual and graphic outputs to translate our designs and recommendations into high quality client deliverables.
• Develop your own business, technical, and global acumen—learn new skills, keep up to date with emerging local, national and global trends, and help us bring the very best of our firm’s diverse and inclusive culture to our clients.
• Be innovative, take calculated risks, push yourself, and resist the temptation to take the easy option.
• Be an ambassador for the PwC brand and help us further develop our reputation in the UK and overseas.

Desirable skill sets include:

• Understanding of transformation opportunities in the Government and Healthcare Industries sector and what the general factors to be considered while conducting complex transformation programmes are.
• Awareness of how such programmes need to leverage technology and an understanding of different approaches to enterprise transformation.
• Experience in conducting business analysis and developing requirements across process, people, organisation, operations, and technology and information
• Ability to articulate the business benefits of transformations and articulate the case for change.
• Practical and output focussed approach and a desire to make a difference.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to create client recommendations and outputs with concise, clear, and coherent messaging.