PwC South Africa is a prominent professional services firm providing industry-focused assurance, advisory, tax, and legal services to public, private, and government clients.
Job Description & Summary
- At PwC, our people in audit and assurance focus on providing independent and objective assessments of financial statements, internal controls, and other assurable information enhancing the credibility and reliability of this information with a variety of stakeholders. They evaluate compliance with regulations including assessing governance and risk management processes and related controls.
- In financial statement audit at PwC, you will focus on obtaining reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report that includes the auditor’s opinion.
- Enhancing your leadership style, you motivate, develop and inspire others to deliver quality. You are responsible for coaching, leveraging team member’s unique strengths, and managing performance to deliver on client expectations. With your growing knowledge of how business works, you play an important role in identifying opportunities that contribute to the success of our Firm.
- You are expected to lead with integrity and authenticity, articulating our purpose and values in a meaningful way. You embrace technology and innovation to enhance your delivery and encourage others to do the same.
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.
Role Summary:
- Perform a senior role on audit assignments on a permanent basis. Assist in managing a portfolio of smaller clients, maintain sound client relationships and assist in managing the audit team.
Qualifications / Certifications required:
Experience required:
- At least 2-4 years post articles experience
Responsibilities of role:
- Proactively assist in the management of a portfolio of clients, while reporting to Senior Managers and above;
- Be involved in the financial management of clients;
- Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients;
- Contribute to the development of your own and team’s technical acumen;
- Develop strategies to solve complex technical challenges;
- Assist in the management and delivering of large projects;
- Train, coach, and supervise staff;
- Keep up to date with local and national business and economic issues;
- Continue to develop internal relationships and your PwC brand;
- Manage portfolio of clients in respect to attest work;
- Manage special projects;
- Risk Management;
- Contribute to office management team;
- Monitor Costs;
- Business Development and client relationship building;
- Manage work in progress and debtors and
- Compliance with PwC audit methodology and report writing.
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- Skill sets required
- Specialist industry knowledge, IFRS experience;
- PwC audit methodology;
- Display sound leadership skills;
- Computer literate with all PwC software;
- Ability to market our services and to establish contacts in the market place;
- Self – motivated;
- Attention to detail;
- Excellent communication skills;
- Sound interpersonal and management skills;
- Ability to multitask and
- Analytical and solution driven.
Role related attributes:
- We're very proud of our unique culture and expect our people to demonstrate skills and behaviours that will support us in implementing our business strategy. This is important to the work we do, both for our business and our clients. These skills and behaviours are a strong component of our global leadership framework: The PwC Professional.
Industry experience required
- Prior experience with Eastern Cape audit clients is a benefit.
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Role Purpose
- We are seeking an individual with practical technical skills to support the delivery, review and assessment of technology-enabled solutions within the Data Technology Consulting team.
- This role combines hands-on technical work with analytical review and client support. The successful candidate will contribute to software and data-related solutions, assist in evaluating client environments and approaches, and support work delivered in governance, regulatory and audit-focused contexts.
Key Responsibilities
- Apply business and data analysis techniques to understand client challenges, identify requirements, assess solution options and support the delivery of practical outcomes.
- Support the development, enhancement and maintenance of software and data-related solutions.
- Review and assess client technology solutions, processes and controls, identifying gaps, risks and improvement opportunities.
- Assist clients and internal stakeholders in understanding technical issues, implementation considerations and practical solution options.
- Develop and maintain code, with a primary focus on Python.
- Write and maintain SQL to support analysis, reporting and solution requirements.
- Contribute to cloud-based and broader technical solution delivery where required.
- Support testing, validation, documentation and implementation activities.
- Prepare clear written outputs, including technical findings, working papers and delivery documentation.
- Work effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders across internal and client-facing engagements.
Essential Skills and Experience
- Ability to gather, analyse and document business requirements and translate these into technical solutions or recommendations.
- Practical experience in software development or technical solution delivery.
- Working capability in Python and SQL.
- Ability to analyse and review technical solutions, processes or controls.
- Good problem-solving and technical reasoning skills.
- Ability to communicate technical matters clearly, both verbally and in writing.
- Experience contributing to delivery, testing, support or review activities in a professional environment.
Desirable Skills and Experience
- Experience with other programming languages or frameworks such as C#, .NET, Node.js, Angular or similar.
- Exposure to data management and data governance concepts.
- Exposure to cloud technologies and environments.
- Exposure to solution, application or cloud architecture concepts.
- Understanding of data engineering fundamentals.
- Experience with data visualisation tools such as Power BI.
- Experience in regulated, control-focused or audit-related environments.
- Knowledge of regulatory or compliance frameworks such as BCBS 239, IFRS standards, or similar.
- Experience in financial services, risk, audit, reporting or compliance-related domains.
- Relevant certifications in cloud, architecture or related technical areas.
Qualifications
- Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a closely related technical discipline.
Competencies
- Practical and technically capable.
- Able to work in a structured and controlled environment.
- Comfortable engaging with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Willing to develop knowledge across data, governance, regulatory and audit-related areas.
- Collaborative, reliable and delivery focused.
What We Offer
- Opportunity to work on technical delivery and client-focused review work within an established data and analytics team.
- Exposure to data, governance, audit and regulatory-focused initiatives.
- Ongoing development across technical, analytical and client-facing work.
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Job Description & Summary – Independence Specialist (Manager)
- A career in the PwC Southern Africa Independence Team, will provide you with the opportunity to advance and foster integrity-based decision making and conduct by PwC professionals throughout our organisation.
- You will focus on supporting the Partner Responsible for Independence (PRI) Team in promoting and monitoring compliance with applicable external independence laws and regulations as well as internal independence policies and procedures to help manage PwC’s regulatory, litigation, and reputational risk.
- The PwC South Africa Independence Team is part of the firm’s Risk & Quality group within Internal Firm Services. It is responsible for working with the practice across all Line of Services to ensure that the firm meets its regulatory responsibilities as required under PwC Global Independence policy, US SEC and PCAOB rules, EU rules and other territories’ rules.
- Whilst prior Independence knowledge is preferable, what is more important is that you have a willingness to learn a new technical area, a client service mentality, excellent coaching and communication skills and want to join a dynamic team that provides critical business support to the firm in a complex and changing regulatory environment. On the job training on the Independence rules and processes will be provided.
What you’ll create and do
As an Independence Specialist, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Participation in the various Independence support systems, processes and activities
- Collaborating with the Service Delivery Center (SDC) teams responsible for certain Independence processes and activities
- Responding to Independence queries from partners, staff and engagement teams across the firm, promoting Independence knowledge sharing
- Delivering training to business units where required
- Monitoring compliance with Independence policies, processes and controls
- Performing compliance testing over client engagement teams activities
- Involvement with the innovation and development of Independence processes and PwC Global initiatives
- Participation in ad hoc Independence projects
What you’ll bring to this role
- An interest in upskilling for a digital world and technology trends, and an openness to learning new tools and adapting how you work
- Previous experience in financial services or audit is an asset
- High level of accuracy, attention to detail and experience in analysing data
- Strong client service focus in dealing with partners and staff at all levels and areas of the firm
- Demonstrated ability to work in a multitasked, fast-paced and changing environment
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
- Good time and project management skills
- Good judgment and problem-solving skills
What you’ll get in return
- Opportunity to interact with partners and practice teams across the firm, and Independence Specialists from across the PwC Global network
- Wide exposure to the breadth of the firm’s services and how we deliver these services
- Development of technical knowledge of a key area of Firm regulatory risk
Qualifications / Certifications required:
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Role Summary:
- The Personal Assistant will provide administrative support to two partners in the KZN space.
Qualifications / Certifications required:
Experience required:
Responsibilities of role:
- The candidate will need to be physically present in the offices in accordance with the PwC’s policies.
- Personal assistant responsibilities:
- Screening of incoming telephone calls as well as the taking and following up on messages.
- Proactive diary management on PwC’s systems.
- Typing, editing, formatting and collating, presentations and general correspondence.
- Handling confidential and sensitive documentation / information.
- Arranging both local and international travel arrangements, including: airport shuttle, research accommodation options, research entertainment options in foreign country and advise, maintaining back up documentation, foreign exchange processing, related travel expense and advances submittance and processing, ensuring staff have appropriate and up to date travel documents, requesting and collating documents and information for visa application, visa processing, follow up on travel bookings, visa and visa related documents, consult with security experts on safety of destination, registering travellers with SA Embassy, detailed directions to meeting venues.
- Arrange gifts for clients, staff and others as requested.
- Co-ordinating meetings.
- Supporting managers with staff bookings and changes thereto.
- Completion of timesheets and expenses of partners and ADs as needed.
- Liaison with both internal and external clients in a professional manner at all times and build good relationships particularly with client or other PwC office staff to facilitate invitation letters for visa, and other travel arrangements.
- Assisting Managers with ad hoc tasks from time to time.
- General secretarial and office administration functions to ensure smooth running of office.
- Dealing with various internal and external queries.
- General support that may or may not be directly related to work.
- Supporting with finance and administrative tasks such as opening job codes, billing, collections, etc.
- Handling billing: chasing up managers to bill on time, keeping track of payments as well as verification of the information on the system.
- Taking minutes of meetings.
- Managing visitors.
- Assisting with preparing of meeting agendas.
- Skill sets required:
- Knowledge of various PwC systems
- Microsoft 365
- Attention to detail
- Exceptional communication skills
- Good interpersonal skills
- Ability to facilitate and present
- Negotiation skills (i.e. staff planning and coordinating various activities)
Role related attributes:
- Ability to work with various stakeholders;
- Ability to work both as part of a team, and independently;
- Ability to coordinate the work activities of others
- To be flexible to changes and change direction when needed (ie resilience during change)
- Manage confidential information in a professional manner.
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- We are seeking Finance Transformation Consultants to join our diverse and collaborative team in SATIC. In this role, you’ll support high-impact transformation programmes with clients across sectors, working as part of a global delivery model. You’ll bring a curiosity about finance operations, a desire to improve how things work, and a commitment to inclusive collaboration.
- This is an exciting opportunity to develop your consulting career by contributing to meaningful client outcomes, leveraging process innovation and supporting the future of finance.
Key Responsibilities:
- Process Diagnostics & Design: Assess and map current-state finance processes, identify pain points and support the design of future-state processes aligned to leading practices, compliance requirements, and digital opportunities.
- Finance Operating Model Development: Support clients in shaping target operating models (TOMs), including shared services, Centres of Excellence (CoEs), and finance business partnering models.
- Technology Enablement: Contribute to ERP / EPM design and deployment (SAP S/4HANA, Oracle Cloud, Workday), and assist in integrating automation, analytics, and AI to improve process effectiveness and data-driven decision-making.
- Business Case & Benefits Realization: Help clients to develop the business case for change and realise benefits including analysing changes on the operating model to operating costs, risk, and investment.
- Project & Stakeholder Management: Lead delivery workstreams or components, ensuring alignment with milestones, quality standards, and risk controls. Maintain strong working relationships with global stakeholders in virtual and hybrid delivery environments.
- Global Delivery & Collaboration: Work effectively within a global team structure, collaborating across time zones and cultures, with the ability to deliver autonomously.
- Capability Development & Knowledge Sharing: Contribute to internal capability building, tool development, and thought leadership on emerging trends in finance transformation and sector innovation.
Requirements:
- Experience in core finance processes such as P2P, O2C, R2R, and FP&A, with practical involvement in transformation or redesign.
- Business analysis and/or business architecture capabilities (e.g. process mapping, modelling, systems requirements).
- Clear communication and collaboration skills across virtual and multicultural teams.
- Familiarity with ERP / EPM systems functionality such as SAP, Oracle, or Workday, and awareness of enablers like RPA, AI, and analytics.
- Comfortable working independently and contributing to engagements through global delivery.
Desirable Skills:
- Data visualisation skills (e.g., Power BI, Alteryx).
- Experience with automation, analytics, or modelling tools (e.g. Python, AI tools, RPA tools).
- Familiarity with process documentation and mining tools (e.g., Aris, Celonis, Signavio).
- Knowledge of Agile, hybrid, or Waterfall delivery models.
- Experience supporting change management and user adoption.
Inclusion & Belonging
- At PwC, we are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives—especially those historically underrepresented in consulting or technology roles. If you don’t meet every requirement but are excited about the role, we’d still love to hear from you!
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