Fresh Openings at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

Qualifications / Certifications required:

• Bachelor degree in Industrial Engineering or a related field.

Experience required:

• At least 1 year’s relevant experience
• Strong analytical skills with proficiency in statistical analysis software
• SAP experience (highly advantageous)
• Knowledge of manufacturing / supply chain processes, including machining, assembly, and material handling.
• Familiarity with lean manufacturing principles and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a team environment.
• Detail-oriented with a focus on accuracy and problem-solving.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and meet deadlines.

Responsibilities of role:

• Process Improvement: Analyse current manufacturing processes and workflows to identify opportunities for improvement in efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and quality.
• Data Analysis: Utilise statistical methods and software tools to collect, analyse, and interpret data related to production output, cycle times, and resource utilisation.
• Lean Manufacturing: Implement lean principles such as 5S, Kaizen, and value stream mapping to eliminate waste and streamline operations.
• Quality Control: Collaborate with quality assurance teams to develop and implement strategies for maintaining high standards of product quality and consistency.
• Project Management: Lead or assist in engineering projects aimed at introducing new processes, technologies, or equipment to enhance manufacturing capabilities.
• Documentation: Create and maintain documentation related to process changes, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and production metrics.
• Safety and Compliance: Ensure that all engineering activities comply with safety regulations and company policies, promoting a culture of safety within the manufacturing environment.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with production teams, supply chain management, and other departments to address operational challenges and achieve shared goals.

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Qualifications / certifications required: 

• CA(SA) 

Experience required: 

• Completed SAICA/SAIPA articles.  
• 3x+ years of Audit experience 

Responsibilities of role: 

• 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: 
• Manage special projects. 
• Risk management 
• Monitor costs and budgets. 
• Development of staff 
• Business development and client relationship building 
• Manage work in progress and debtors 
• Staff management/Coaching 
• Compliance with PwC audit methodology 
• Report writing 
• Roll out technology  

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Essential skills and experience 

• Qualified CA(SA) with more than 5 years post articles experience 
• Preference to be given to someone with Financial Instrument Technical Accounting, Derivative and Hedge Accounting, and Derivative Valuations experience. 
• IFRS 9 practical application experience.

Required qualifications 

• CA (SA). 
• Financial Risk Management or Financial Instrument Valuation certificates/credentials or similar qualifications advantageous.

Desirable skills or attributes 

• Strong written and verbal communication skills. 
• Ability to work under pressure. 
• Able to work as part of a team as well as independently. 
• Ability to take ownership of issues. 
• Excellent organisational and time management skills (self and others). 
• Ability to coach other staff members on complex issues. 
• Attention to detail / Accuracy. 
• Strong report writing skills. 
• Analytical and solution driven. 
• Pro-active and committed to delivery. 
• Intellectual curiosity.

Responsibilities 

The successful applicant will: 

• Establish and maintain relationships with clients and other stakeholders within and outside of the network to identify and take advantages of opportunities. 
• Plan, manage and participate in various engagements primarily focused on financial instruments and derivatives.
• Support audit teams as well as clients with the review or implementation of financial instrument accounting and associated reporting matters.
• Upskill managers in financial instrument and derivative technical accounting and other reporting issues.
• Conduct industry research on the application of IFRS 9, review financial and governance processes, and provide IFRS application support.
• Prepare and review deliverables tailored to client needs.
• Collaborate with valuations, IT, risk, and other professionals to understand dependencies and integration points, as well as deliver comprehensive solutions for our clients.
• Understand the treasury and financial risk management environment and recognise key performance drivers, business trends, new technical and industry developments.
• Demonstrate an awareness of significant developments in all areas of IFRS and start demonstrating an in-depth knowledge in a specialist area of IFRS.  
• Demonstrate an ability to work on multiple engagements and for multiple partners at the same time, making sound judgements about balancing conflicting objectives.
• Use technology to continually learn, share knowledge with team members, and enhance service delivery.
• Attend training programs and technical forums to continually develop skills required to continue to deliver quality service offerings to our external clients and other internal PwC service lines.

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Qualifications /Certifications required:

• Bcom in Business, Engineering or a related field; MBA or other relevant graduate degree is a plus.

Experience required:

• Minimum 10 yrs experience of building, maturing and running offshore / remote delivery centre that provides both transformational (build) and support services (run)
• Demonstrable experience of taking operational responsibility for an internal services function in the context of the adding value to the business
• Demonstrable experience of taking full commercial (P&L) and operational responsibility for a business unit in the context of the overall centre.
• Demonstrable experience of driving a programme of continuous improvement within the capability tower to increase the quality and efficiency of the service provided to the territories
• Strong, broad experience across Salesforce and Technology platforms
• As required, able to work with in-territory and other PwC office teams to co- create service offerings / solutions that utilise SATIC staff

Responsibilities of role:

• As a Director, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution.
• Arrange and sponsor appropriate assignments and experiences to help people realise their potential and support their long-term aspirations.
• Spot opportunities to create value propositions.
• Look for opportunities to scale efficiencies and new ways of working across multiple projects and environments.
• Open up new markets across the EMEA and Global network.
• Promote and encourage others to value differences when working in diverse teams.
• Influence and facilitate the creation of long-term relationships which add value to the firm.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct
• Build and manage a team of professionals to support the delivery of internal services and solutions across traditional organisational functions
• Use your network and market presence to attract and recruit high quality professionals to work within SATIC
• Oversee the execution of a tailored development programme to ensure team members develop, maintain and grow their skill sets in line with the demands of the business, including professional certifications and external qualifications.
• Develop close relationships with the territory stakeholders to ensure alignment between demand and supply, maintain quality and drive excellent service delivery.

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Qualifications / Certifications required:

• Bcom in Business, Engineering or a related field; Masters, MBA or other relevant graduate degree is a plus.

Experience required:

• Minimum 10 yrs experience working at reputable professional services or management consulting firm
• Minimum 10 years selling and delivering client solutions
• Experience in working with multi-disciplinary teams and collaborating globally to deliver business impact
• Experience building, maturing and running teams that provide both transformational and support services
• Experience leading large teams and being a coach and mentor that prioritises the employee experience
• Demonstrable experience of taking operational responsibility (including commerciality) for a business unit / function in the context of the adding value to the business
• Demonstrable experience of driving a programme of continuous improvement to increase the quality and efficiency of the services provided to the clients.
• Strong, broad experience across traditional Management Consulting capabilities, including but not limited to digital transformation, operating model design, agile methodologies, programme and project management, change management, and business analysis
• Able to work with in-territory and other PwC office teams to co-create service offerings / solutions that utilise SATIC staff

Responsibilities of role:

• As a senior member of the team, you will work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution.
• Develop long term relationships with key decision makers and stakeholders
• Ensure high levels of customer satisfaction and engagement
• Act as the primary point of contact for Enterprise and Operations Transformation teams across the territories
• Develop close relationships with territory stakeholders to ensure alignment between demand and supply of services, maintain quality and drive excellent service delivery.
• Use your network and market presence to attract and recruit high quality professionals to work within SATIC
• Lead, coach, develop a high-performing team and ensure that each team member is equipped with the correct tools and skills
• Develop market leading value propositions supported by thought leadership
• Look for opportunities to use technology to scale efficiencies and new ways of working across multiple projects and environments.
• Promote and encourage others to value differences when working in diverse teams.
• Uphold the firms code of ethics and business conduct
• Oversee the execution of tailored development programmes to ensure team members develop, maintain and grow their skill sets in line with the demands of the business, including professional certifications and external qualifications.

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Qualifications / Certifications required:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics/Statistics and 8 or more years of experience in the Predictive Analytics area
• Degree or Certification in AI and GenAI from reputed university

Experience required: 

• Proven experience as an Enterprise Architect, Solution Architect, or a similar role, with a focus on AI/ML and generative AI.
• Proven architecture experience within the Retail Banking sector
• Strong understanding of generative AI techniques, including deep generative models, autoregressive models, and reinforcement learning for generative tasks.
• Hands-on experience of machine learning methodologies including advanced analytics tools (such as R and Python) along with applied mathematics, ML and Deep Learning frameworks and libraries (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras) and ML techniques.
• Proven expertise with LLMs (Microsoft Azure Open AI – Chat GPT 4.0 and other LLM models) including API access for GenAI.
• Proven expertise in CI/CD pipeline design and management in the
• Generative AI space including experience with LLMOPS.
• Understanding of AI agents (both worker and orchestrator) to facilitate decisioning and deployment of complex applications.
• Proven experience with Python development and troubleshooting code.
• Strong knowledge of containerization and orchestration tools.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and infrastructure as code.
• Multi-year experience with AI and machine learning concepts and tools.
• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities of role:

• Understand client's vision, goals, and strategies. Aligns department priorities appropriately, determines critical success factors, evaluates, and pursues initiatives based on fit with strategies.
• Play an instrumental and influential role in driving Generative AI vision, strategy, and architecture.
• Designing, developing, and overseeing the implementation of GenAI solutions that solve complex business problems. You'll work closely with product managers, software engineers, data scientists, and other customers to conceptualize, prototype, test, and release GenAI Solutions.
• Design and develop the architecture and infrastructure for GenAI systems, including data storage, processing, and retrieval mechanisms. Ensure scalability, flexibility, performance, and efficiency of the GenAI systems to handle large volumes of data and complex algorithms seamlessly.
• Keep current on latest developments in the field of AI, Machine Learning,
• Deep Learning, NLP, Image processing and by reading relevant papers/ journals and applying the new learnings to create innovative data and analytics solutions.
• Conduct POCs, Pilots on reusable, scalable data processing, curation, and consumption frameworks to eliminate point solutions.
• Take ownership of operationalization of AI processes while designing solutions to optimize data pipelines, model deployment, and model monitoring.
• Evaluate, analyze, and optimize system resources related to large scale data processing, image processing, computer vision and deep learningDesign and build scalable infrastructure and platform to ingest, store and process very large amounts of data (structured, semi-structured and unstructured), including streaming and real-time into the cloud-based Data Lake
• Work closely with the engineering and the platform team to deliver technical solutions. This includes end to end data orchestration, data layering, data governance, metadata management and data cataloging.
• Partner with data science, actuarial science, underwriting, claims and various
• business groups on deep rooted data analysis including propensity scores, catastrophic modeling, time-series analysis, and forecasting.
• Should lead the decision-making process for technical and architectural choices with PwC alliance partners (for example: Microsoft, SAP, Amazon etc.) to ensure that solutions are scalable, maintainable, and cost-effective.
• Ensure alignment to ethical AI practices, such as fairness, transparency, andaccountability. Address biases and potential risks associated with AI systemsto ensure responsible deployment and usage.
• Test and evaluate different Gen AI models and algorithms to determine their
• effectiveness to meet business needs. Should Provide technical guidanceand mentorship to Development and other team members.
• Define AI solution objectives and ensure alignment with business outcomes
• Monitor AI industry trends and maintain state-of-the-art industry knowledge
• Implement best practices for AI testing, deployment, and maintenance

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Qualifications / Certifications required: 

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

• CISA (Advantage) 

• CA(SA) (Advantage) 

Experience required: 

• 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 
• 3rd party assurance reviews 
• 3-5 years’ experience ideal 

Responsibilities of role: 

• Be professional at all times, live the PwC values and act with integrity. 
• Deliver quality work. 
• Learn, upskill and maintain your skills in line with our strategy. Obtain the skills required for your level and role in the group. 
• Perform IT audit engagements and start to develop your managerial skills. 
• Do technical research. 
• Coach and develop people. 
• Be a team player and get involved in internal roles. 
• Accept the KPIs allocated and take responsibility for those.