Fresh Jobs at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

Qualifications / Certifications required: 

We’re looking for someone with the right experience and mindset rather than specific formal qualifications. Here’s what matters most: 

• Extensive experience in Experience Design, Product Design, or Service Design. 
• Proven leadership in delivering human-centered design solutions and managing teams. 
• Strong knowledge of design thinking, customer experience, and product innovation. 
• A track record of building client relationships and driving impactful projects. 
• Familiarity with Agile, Lean UX, or Service Design Thinking is a bonus. 

Experience required: 

• Proven experience leading Experience Design, Service / Product design, or related projects in consulting, agency, or corporate settings. 
• Expertise in client engagement, team leadership, and business development. 
• Strong background in human-centered design, service design, and product design methodologies. 
• Track record of mentoring and upskilling teams. 

Responsibilities of role: 

• Lead and inspire Experience Design teams to deliver exceptional results. 
• Build trusted client relationships and guide strategic discussions. 
• Advocate for innovative approaches to product and experience design. 
• Drive business development and identify growth opportunities. 
• Recruit, mentor, and develop team members while fostering creativity. 

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What will you do? 

• Analyse requirements to ensure completeness of test cases. 
• Develop test scenarios that reflect the capabilities being established in projects. 
• Work with the Business Analyst to establish proper test coverage and traceability to requirements. 
• Develop test cases with a view to ensure end-to-end functional coverage, as well as potential impact areas for regression. 
• Execute testing, including test preparation and execution, test data creation, and analysis of test results. 
• Provide test coverage and clearance feedback. 
• Analyse test failures and work with the development team to address defects. 
• Develop automation test scripts that are to the high performing technical standards and created using Guidewire best practices. 
• Work with Business Analysts to assist and monitor User Acceptance Testing. 
• Participate in daily standup meetings, sprint planning and retrospective. 

What are we looking for? 

• 2 plus years Guidewire Property & Casualty insurance product (PC, BC or CC) testing experience. 
• 2 plus years in Automation testing / Selenium / Katalon / GT-UI & GT-API. 
• Web services testing / API testing skills  
• Database testing knowledge  
• Experience in functional and non-functional (performance, security, regulatory and compliance) testing  
• Knowledge of Software Quality Assurance across the SDLC. 
• Experience in Requirements Management, Test Management and Defect Management tools, like Jira and Xray. 
• Knowledge of the AGILE methodology/Scaled Agile Framework, SDLC processes  
• Strong verbal and written communication skills. 
• Testing Certification (ISTQB Certified Tester) 
• Prior client facing testing experience 

What is nice to have? 

• Azure/AWS Cloud experience 
• Guidewire Testing Certification on current solutions 

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Duties:

• Preparation of corporate income tax returns and supporting schedules using electronically captured data.
• Calculation of provisional tax payments and preparation of IRP6 Provisional Tax returns.
• Checking of income tax assessments.
• Liaising with managers regarding clients affairs.
• Assisting with the management of a portfolio of compliance clients.
• Maintaining client records and related correspondence, including preparation of applicable documentation and correspondence.
• Attending to queries raised by SARS and general liaison with SARS regarding clients affairs.
• Ensuring that clients tax compliance affairs are kept up to date and that SARS deadlines are met.
• Complying with Tax risk management procedures.
• Delivering quality tax services.
• Keeping abreast with changes in Tax Legislation.
• Wip and debtor management.
• Assisting with the automation of processes using technology.
• Developing and attending to updates to our web based tax calculation tool.

Key Performance Areas:

The successful applicant should:

• Have knowledge and experience in the application of the Income Tax Act.
• Be computer literate and have a working knowledge of MS Powerpoint, Word and Excel. Knowledge of Google suite will be advantageous.
• Have good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Have the ability to prioritise and work under pressure.
• Have the ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
• Be accurate and have good judgmental, numerical and analytical skills.
• Be able to pay attention to detail and have the ability to follow through on tasks.
• Be well organised.
• Be motivated and confident.
• Be fluent in English and be able to draft correspondence in English.
• Be committed to assisting with the growth of the Global Compliance Services team.

Qualifications and experience:

• An accounting degree or similar qualification.
• Tax qualification
• Experience in income tax and the experience with the preparation of
• corporate income tax returns and related matters will be advantageous. At least 3-4 years experience in Tax is required.
• Strong interest in using technology to improve processes or solve problems is a must.
• Strong understanding of business processes.

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Essential skills and experience  

•  Minimum of 5 years’ administrative support experience within a professional services firm.

Required qualifications  

• Matric
• Bookkeeping or Executive secretarial diploma

Desirable skills or attributes 

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
• Strong ability to prepare and format professional correspondence, reports, and presentations.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage with senior executives and high-level stakeholders.
• Strong organisational and multitasking abilities.
• Attention to detail and ability to handle confidential information with discretion.

Executive Support:

• Manage Partners’ and Directors’ diaries, including scheduling and coordinating meetings.
• Arrange travel bookings (local and international) including flights, accommodation, and car hire.
• Prepare and format proposals, presentations, client deliverables, and general correspondence.
• Coordinate and book internal events such as functions, lunches, and breakfasts.
• Handle supplier management, subscription payments, invoicing, and client billing.
• Assist with the ordering of IT peripherals/accessories, booking training rooms, and arranging printing and stationery.
• Support Partners, Directors, and allocated managers with administrative tasks, including completion of time and expense claims, training and CPD documentation.
• Provide ad hoc personal and administrative support to Partners, Directors, and allocated managers.

 Administrative support to the Assurance Line of Service:

Assurance Line of Service Support:

• Assist audit teams with client acceptance procedures, including risk research.
• Collaborate with the SAICA Administrator to ensure trainees are appropriately scheduled to meet core hour requirements.
• Run job costing reports and provide required financial insights for the Line of Service Leader.
• Respond to resource requests from other offices (e.g., stock count requests).
• Assist with administrative support for the Manager Concierge Service (administrative tasks for the assurance line of service managers).
• Assistance with performance review and other Human Capital related administrative tasks. 
• Provide general administrative support to the Assurance Division.

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Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Analyse and identify the linkages and interactions between the component parts of an entire system.
• Take ownership of projects, ensuring their successful planning, budgeting, execution, and completion.
• Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables.
• Develop skills outside your comfort zone, and encourage others to do the same.
• Effectively mentor others.
• Use the review of work as an opportunity to deepen the expertise of team members.
• Address conflicts or issues, engaging in difficult conversations with clients, team members and other stakeholders, escalating where appropriate.
• Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.

Minimum years experience required

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Requirements:

• Strong analytical skills and proficiency in data visualization tools such as Tableau and PowerBI.
• Thorough understanding of HR processes and project management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and collaborate with various teams effectively.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and influencing others to enable delivery.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to motivate and engage a large team.
• Experience in developing and implementing performance measurement strategies and creating training programs.
• Applying an agile mindset, demonstrating flexibility to quickly shift priorities of focus to support the function
• Ability to leverage data and insights to contribute to strategic goals and enhance employee engagement.

Responsibilities:

• Building effective solutions using a range of data transformation & analytical tools in response to stakeholder feedback
• Project managing work from creation to implementation ensuring deadlines are met
• Working across the People Function to ensure teams and new solutions are aligned, and compliant with regulations
• Driving the consolidation of reporting, insights and dashboards across a variety of stakeholder groups
• Supporting and providing advice to stakeholders across the function
• Upskilling junior members of staff in data transformation and analytical tools
• Managing and coaching junior members of the team to ensure projects are progressing and to have oversight of the pipeline of work and team priorities
• Utilising AI to enhance data visualizations and creating new dashboards aligned with strategic priorities.
• The successful candidate will work within our People Function to develop critical insights that inform Leadership of the performance of the function and, more broadly, the People strategy across the firm. In addition, this role involves driving continuous process improvement through developing data-led initiatives.