Job Vacancies at PwC

Job Description:

• Use feedback and reflection to develop self awareness, personal strengths and address development areas.
• Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities, coaching them to deliver results.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.
• Use a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current industry or sector trends.
• Review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance.
• Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.
• Seek and embrace opportunities which give exposure to different situations, environments and perspectives.
• Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.
• Able to read situations and modify behavior to build quality relationships.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.
• The successful individual will take responsibility for managing IT governance, data analytic or auditing of general computer control environments and business processes related projects.
• The individual will also be responsible to seek new opportunities.
• 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 (Beneficial).
• 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 gathering 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.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, Engineering or any related field.

MANDATORY CERTIFICATION NEEDED:

• CISA (Advantage) 
• CA(SA) (Advantage)
• Minimum 3 years of progressively more responsible related work experience in Information Technology, Information Technology General Controls, Business Processes, IT Governance, Architecture and BI/Analytics. 
• 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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JOB PURPOSE:

• The successful candidate will be required to provide tax advice to clients which includes the implementation of tailored tax solutions.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Manage a range of VAT assignments reporting to Managers and or Partners and advise clients on a variety of issues such as: improving margins, identifying risk, structuring, compliance, VAT accounting and mergers and acquisitions.
• Assist in the audit of Tax as part of the extenal audit of clients and provide opinions on audit issues relating to tax balances on financial statements, where necessary
• Utilising technology to efficiently and effectively perform tasks
• Liaising with clients and colleagues to provide Tax Consulting Services.
• Producing high level VAT opinions that add value to clients' business.
• Research on technical issues
• Handling ad-hoc tax issues, including advising on new tax legislation
• Compliance with risk management procedures.
• Processing the VAT data and information;
• Sampling & review tax supporting documents;
• Automated data analysis;
• Data exception management;
• Facilitating SARS audits;

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Degree in Accounting/Law
• CA qualification will be advantageous 

EXPERIENCE:

• Accounting or commercial experience

KEY KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS:

• Accounting or commercial experience
• Excellent attention to detail;
• Proficient research skills
• Ability to prioritise and work under pressure;
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills;
• Excellent organisational and time management skills;
• Customer focus driven;
• Takes initiative on personal development
• Customer focus driven;
• Takes initiative on personal development
• Managing relationships with:
• X-Los Relevant Partners
• National Tax team
• Relevant firm subject matter experts
• Portfolio Managers

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Role Description;

• Coordinates Salesforce support, providing guidance and direction and delivering technical support as well as coaching and training
• Contributes to improved awareness of Salesforce business rules
• Ensures delivery of timely and high-quality responses to requests for Salesforce support
• Technical challenges are raised through SNOW
• Requests for training, coaching and other support services will be accessed through Africa CMD’s work management system
• Ensures collaboration within the Salesforce support team in the PwC Africa territory, and works to upskill these resources as needed
• Develops Salesforce uptake and data quality, demonstrating a good understanding of PwC Africa’s services, go-to-market priorities and strategy, ensuring that salesforce delivers value to the business
• Has knowledge and aptitude to take a Salesforce training programme from concept through to finality
• Keeps up to date on Salesforce use trends, challenges and opportunities
• Identifies needs or problems and comes up with solutions
• Manages multiple projects of varying complexities and meets deadlines
• Adheres to rules, procedures, policies, instructions and agreements
• Manages realistic expectations and time pressure

Key Competencies and Attributes

Knowledge, skills and abilities;

• Comprehensive understanding and extensive working knowledge of Salesforce
• Training and coaching skills
• Time management, deadline-driven, ability to prioritise
• Works well under pressure
• Accuracy and an eye for detail
• Flexible, responsible mindset
• Proactivity, responsibility and ownership of team output
• Ability to take initiative and follow through projects to completion 

Qualification & Experience

  Requirements

• Degree/diploma in design or related field and/or tertiary qualification
• 2-3 years’ experience
• Experience working with Salesforce, either as a user or as a technical specialist is highly preferred

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• 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