Job Vacancies at PwC South Africa

About the job

• To assist with accounting and the management of a portfolio of outsourced clients

Minimum requirements

• BCom degree· SAICA/SAIPA Articles
• Professional Accountant (SA) or AGA (SA) -

Experience required :·

• Accounting experience Multiple types of clients - Individuals, Companies and Trusts
• Proficient in Pastel and Caseware
• 4-6 years experience with outsourcing finance function, accounting and taxation
• Knowledgeable in taxation aspects pertaining to Income Tax Act and Value Added Tax Act
• Managing a portfolio of clients and a team

Skills required :·

• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to work under pressure
• Able to work as part of a team as well as independently
• Good organisational and time management skills
• Ability to multitask and meet deadlines
• Attention to detail / Accuracy

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Summary

• The Commercial Excellence Manager is responsible for providing strategic commercial guidance and practical deal support to Partners and bid teams, particularly for large or commercially complex opportunities.
• The role supports accurate bid modelling, clear articulation of commercial issues and presentation of commercial solutions to shape desirable commercial outcomes for clients and PwC.

Qualifications

• Certifications required: Bachelor’s degree in Business Management/Economics/Commerce or related field.

Experience required

• 7 to 10 years of relevant experience
• Proven commercial pricing and deal-shaping expertise, including building bespoke and complex commercial models.
• Solid background in commercial contracting principles.
• Experience working closely and negotiating with client procurement teams.
• Strong financial, business and commercial acumen.
• Ability to challenge and influence a range of stakeholders in a commercial environment.
• Technology pricing expertise, private and public procurement process experience, and understanding of P&L are desirable.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic commercial guidance and support to Partners and bid teams for large or commercially complex bids.
• Lead accurate bid modelling, articulate commercial issues clearly and present commercial solutions that shape new business opportunities.
• Articulate complex pricing models to senior stakeholders.
• Develop progressive pricing strategies for new product and service propositions.
• Negotiate framework rate cards and commercial incentives at client account level.
• Create and present commercial slide decks to senior Partners and engagement teams.
• Develop commercial acumen through hands-on collaboration and identification of skills gaps and training requirements.
• Identify and share success stories across the firm to showcase commercial best practice.
• Contribute to the development of a commercial centre of excellence.

Desirable skill sets

• Commercial pricing and deal shaping.
• Technology pricing models.
• Commercial contracting principles.
• Negotiation with client procurement teams.
• Private and public procurement process awareness.
• Financial, business and commercial acumen.
• Stakeholder challenge, influence and senior presentation skills.
• Role related attributes: · Self-starter with curiosity and adaptability.
• Thinks outside the box and is comfortable working with ambiguity.
• Strong business acumen and robust commercial awareness.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent influencing skills and ability to work across varying seniority levels.
• Able to operate in a dynamic and diverse environment.

Role related attributes

• Self-starter with curiosity and adaptability.
• Thinks outside the box and is comfortable working with ambiguity.
• Strong business acumen and robust commercial awareness.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent influencing skills and ability to work across varying seniority levels.
• Able to operate in a dynamic and diverse environment.

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Summary

• The Commercial Modeller will provide commercial analysis and detailed costing and pricing model support for live opportunities, including new business and extensions.
• The role works with opportunity teams across Lines of Service to gather costs, validate assumptions and ensure that the data and information feeding cost and price models is accurate, relevant and reliable.

Qualifications

• Certifications required: Bachelor’s degree in Business Management/Marketing/Economics/Mathematics/Business Science/Commerce or related field.

Experience required

• Strong Excel and modelling skills.
• Understanding of PwC costing and Line of Service financial structure.
• Experience using rate cards.
• Pricing expertise is highly desirable.
• Strong financial, business and commercial acumen.
• Ability to challenge and influence stakeholders in a commercial environment.

Responsibilities of role

• Provide commercial analysis to support managers and directors within the Commercial Excellence Team in decision-making.
• Own the creation and management of detailed costing and pricing models in support of live opportunities, including new business or extensions.
• Work with opportunity teams within the Lines of Service to gather costs and validate assumptions.
• Ensure the integrity, accuracy and relevance of data and information feeding cost and price models.
• Contribute to the development of the team by sharing best practice modelling skills and relevant analysis with other team members.

Desirable skill sets

• Advanced Excel capability and commercial modelling.
• Costing and pricing model development.
• Rate card application and pricing support.
• Commercial analysis and data validation.
• Understanding of PwC costing and Line of Service financial structures.
• Stakeholder challenge and influence in a commercial environment.

Role related attributes

• Self-starter with strong business acumen and good commercial awareness.
• Curious and comfortable working with ambiguity.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Able to work across a dynamic and diverse environment, often to tight deadlines.
• Able to work closely with Partners and Sales Teams and build a broad understanding of firm-wide commercial performance.

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Summary:

• You will support and, depending on experience, independently review, draft, amend and negotiate a range of financial services legal documents, including ISDA Master Agreements, Schedules, Credit Support Annexes, Master Repurchase Agreements, Securities Lending Agreements, Futures Trading Agreements, Clearing Agreements, Prime Brokerage Agreements and related ancillary documents.
• You will also work with playbooks, templates, fallback positions and agreed legal and commercial risk parameters; prepare mark-ups, issue logs, summaries and advice notes; identify and escalate non-standard issues where required; support execution, approvals and matter management; maintain accurate records; contribute to templates, clause libraries and know-how; support technology-enabled legal delivery; and, where appropriate, provide informal support to junior colleagues.

Location: Cape Town, Durban or Waterfall, Johannesburg.

Qualifications /Certifications Required:

• LLB or equivalent legal qualification.

Experience Required:

• 1–3 years’ relevant experience in a law firm, financial institution, in-house legal team or managed legal services environment.
• Exposure to, or experience in, financial services documentation, derivatives, trading agreements or transactional legal work.
• Strong drafting, analytical and organisational skills.
• Attention to detail, clear communication skills and the ability to manage multiple matters under time pressure.
• Confidence using Microsoft 365 and document comparison tools.

Desirable Skill Sets Include:

• Experience with derivatives or financial markets documents, regulated counterparties, legal technology tools and process improvement will be advantageous.
• Admission as an attorney will be beneficial, but is not essential, and we welcome applications from candidates with strong relevant experience regardless of admission status.

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About SATIC and the role

• SATIC ,the South Africa Technology and Innovation center is supporting PwC UK's Employment Law Team, delivering project‑based assignments, specialist legal advice and ongoing managed legal services.
• The team’s core offerings include client facing work and being responsible for supporting UK lawyers with undertaking workplace investigations, drafting reports and undertaking research. It will combine strong technical excellence with commercial judgement, project leadership and a collaborative approach to cross-disciplinary delivery.
• This is an opportunity to advise high-profile clients on strategically significant matters in a dynamic, non-traditional legal environment.

Qualifications/Certifications

• LLB or equivalent legal qualification
• Admission as an attorney in South Africa or equivalent common law jurisdiction

Experience required

• At least 3 years’ experience with a solid understanding of gained in a reputable employment law.
• Demonstrable experience across some of the following: redundancy and reorganisations; changing terms and conditions; investigations and ER advisory; managing litigation; and cross-border projects, involving detailed technical legal work under supervision:
• Experience of the employment workstream on transactions and large-scale change programmes, including project management of multi-jurisdictional matters.
• Proven client relationship skills and providing clear, outcome-focused advice.
• Evidence of business development capability, including cross-selling and thought leadership.
• Excellent communication, drafting and presentation skills.
• Strong matter management discipline, including scoping, budgeting, profitability and risk management.
• A collaborative, entrepreneurial mindset and enthusiasm for working within a multi-disciplinary, technology-enabled environment.
• Strong organizational skills and experience of taking on significant levels of responsibility on transactions, including the management and coordination of local legal teams and external advisors.
• Strong client service skills and experience of dealing with clients directly.
• Draft a wide range of legal documentation for transactions governed by the laws of England and Wales, as well as reviewing cross-jurisdictional legal documents.
• Collaborate with other PwC teams outside of legal, to support transactions by running the employment workstream on domestic and cross-border deals, collaborating closely with our Tax, Deals and Workforce colleagues.
• Business development, including over time building a network and developing direct client relationships.
• Proven ability to manage high document volumes accurately and at pace, meet tight deadlines, and juggle multiple priorities.
• Proficiency with and understanding of efficient project management tools and legal technology to support the delivery of our work including process improvement.

Responsibilities of the role

• Involved in a broad range of contentious and non-contentious employment work, including high-value and complex mandates and advise (with senior legal oversight) on:
• Be part of workforce change projects, including restructuring and redundancy programmes, transfers, changes to terms and conditions, and intra-group workforce moves, often across multiple jurisdictions.
• Help to project manage high profile non-financial misconduct investigations.
• Help to provide strategic ER advisory support, investigations guidance and risk management advice, partnering with HR, Reward, Compliance and senior leadership stakeholders.
• Provide strategic ER advisory support, investigations guidance and risk management advice, partnering with HR, Reward, Compliance and senior leadership stakeholders.
• Design and deliver client training, thought leadership and horizon scanning on employment law developments and workforce regulatory change.
• Support pitches and proposals, contribute to go-to-market campaigns, and identify and convert new opportunities, both within PwC and externally.
• Manage matters profitably and efficiently, with disciplined scoping, budgeting, resourcing and risk management, and effective use of technology-enabled delivery.
• Coordinate multi-jurisdictional projects, leveraging our international network to deliver consistent, timely and compliant outcomes.
• Prepare plain‑English advice notes identifying material risks, required mitigations, and recommended negotiation positions aligned to playbooks and PwC UK Employment Law Team client risk standards.
• Liaise with clients and internal stakeholders (partners, client teams, engagement teams, risk) to explain service‑specific requirements and PwC UK Employment Law Team transaction positions.
• Support senior lawyers on complex transactions, ad hoc tasks, escalations, and negotiations; triage transaction packs and prioritize risks.
• Maintain and improve playbooks, templates, know‑how, and SharePoint resources; contribute to training and process enhancements.
• Support compliance processes (acceptance/continuance, independence, information security, data protection).
• Meet agreed SLA turnaround times and quality standards; contribute to client satisfaction scores and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Perform related tasks to support the PwC UK Employment Law Team as required.

Desirable skills

• Clear, concise, and confident communicator (written and verbal); able to tailor complex issues for non‑legal and senior audiences.
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills, using transaction standards / playbooks and corporate legal judgment to secure acceptable outcomes.
• Advanced analytical and problem‑solving abilities; able to triage complex document or transaction packs and prioritize material risks.
• Excellent plain‑English drafting with exceptional attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to translate legal and transaction risks into practical, business‑oriented advice notes.
• Relationship‑building skills; becomes a trusted advisor to internal clients, and senior lawyers.
• An interest in working in a variety of employment related advisory support.
• Working knowledge of data privacy and information security
• Strong technology proficiency: Microsoft 365 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams), document comparison/blacklining, and collaboration tools (e.g., SharePoint/OneDrive).
• Experience with legal technology solutions (e.g., document automation, AI‑assisted review) and openness to innovation.
• Comfortable working with non‑legal advisors in multi‑disciplinary client teams.
• Excellent organization and time management; manages multiple priorities and tight deadlines under pressure.
• Data‑driven and process‑oriented; handles high document volumes with speed and accuracy; leverages checklists/playbooks.
• Continuous improvement mindset; contributes to, playbooks, training, and system/process enhancements.
• Cross‑cultural and time‑zone collaboration skills for example the UK–South Africa virtual teaming.

Requirements added by the job poster

• 3+ years of work experience with Labor and Employment Law
• 3+ years of work experience with Employee Relations

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About SATIC and the role

• SATIC ,the South Africa Technology and Innovation center is supporting PwC UK's Employment Law Team, delivering project‑based assignments, specialist legal advice and ongoing managed legal services. The team’s core offerings include client facing work and being responsible for supporting UK lawyers with undertaking workplace investigations, drafting reports and undertaking research and advising on a broad range of employment law matters.
• The Manager will play a key leadership role in delivering high-quality employment legal support to the PwC UK Employment Law Team, combining strong technical excellence with commercial judgement, team leadership, project management and a collaborative approach to cross-disciplinary delivery. This is an opportunity to work on high-profile and strategically significant matters in a dynamic, non-traditional legal environment, while helping to drive quality, efficiency and team development.
• The role includes day-to-day leadership of a virtual team delivering managed employment law services, with responsibility for work allocation, quality oversight, coaching, stakeholder coordination and delivery against agreed SLAs.

Summary

• The Manager will provide employment legal support to the PwC UK Employment Law Team, focused on delivering high-volume, high-quality employment legal work for UK clients.
• The role will involve leading and managing employment law matters, supporting client-facing work, overseeing workplace investigations, drafting and reviewing reports, undertaking complex legal research, and supervising delivery across multiple workstreams.
• The successful candidate will combine strong technical excellence with commercial judgement, people leadership, project oversight and a collaborative approach to cross-disciplinary delivery. The role also requires contribution to business development, process improvement, stakeholder management and the ongoing development of the SATIC employment law capability.
• Responsibilities include leading a virtual team delivering managed employment law services for PwC UK, ensuring consistent, high-quality outcomes against agreed SLAs. The Manager will act as the day-to-day escalation point for complex matters, guide junior lawyers on legal approach and issue resolution, oversee team delivery and quality, and contribute to service innovation and technology-enabled ways of working.

Qualifications/Certifications

• LLB or equivalent legal qualification
• Admission as an attorney in South Africa or equivalent common law jurisdiction

Experience required

• At least 5–7 years’ relevant post-qualification experience in employment law, gained in a reputable law firm, in-house legal team, or professional services environment
• Strong experience across a number of the following:
• redundancy and reorganisations
• changes to terms and conditions
• investigations and employee relations advisory
• managing litigation
• cross-border projects
• complex technical legal work
• Experience advising on and handling matters involving the UK Employment Tribunal system.
• Strong working knowledge of the ACAS Code of Practice, including its practical application in disciplinary, grievance and dismissal processes.
• Ability to assess legal and procedural risk in line with UK employment law, Tribunal practice and ACAS requirements.
• Experience leading the employment workstream on transactions and large-scale change programmes, including project management of multi-jurisdictional matters
• Proven experience managing client relationships and providing clear, outcome-focused advice
• Demonstrated business development capability, including cross-selling, contributing to proposals and thought leadership
• Strong matter management discipline, including scoping, budgeting, profitability and risk management
• Proven people management experience leading and managing junior lawyers, associates and/or senior associates in a high-volume managed services, legal services or in-house environment
• Demonstrated ability to manage team capacity, workload allocation, quality oversight and delivery against agreed service levels
• Experience supervising junior team members, reviewing work, and supporting capability development
• Strong people leadership skills, including delegation, coaching, feedback and development
• Demonstrated ability to support performance management processes and deliver coaching and training
• Proven ability to manage high document volumes accurately and at pace, meet tight deadlines, and manage multiple priorities
• Proficiency with project management tools and legal technology, including process improvement and technology-enabled delivery models

Responsibilities of the role

• Lead and manage a broad range of contentious and non-contentious employment law matters, including high-value and complex mandates, with appropriate senior oversight where required
• Lead workforce change projects, including restructuring and redundancy programmes, transfers, changes to terms and conditions, and intra-group workforce moves, often across multiple jurisdictions
• Manage and oversee high-profile non-financial misconduct investigations
• Provide strategic employee relations advisory support, investigations guidance and risk management advice, partnering with HR, Reward, Compliance and senior leadership stakeholders
• Draft, review and oversee a wide range of legal documentation governed by the laws of England and Wales, as well as cross-jurisdictional legal documents
• Collaborate with other PwC teams outside Legal to support transactions by leading the employment workstream on domestic and cross-border matters, working closely with Tax, Deals and Workforce colleagues
• Prepare plain-English advice notes identifying material risks, required mitigations and recommended negotiation positions aligned to playbooks and PwC UK Employment Law Team client risk standards
• Liaise with clients and internal stakeholders, including partners, client teams, engagement teams and risk teams, to explain service-specific requirements and transaction positions
• Lead or support complex transactions, escalations, ad hoc matters and negotiations, including triaging transaction packs and prioritising legal and commercial risks
• Act as the day-to-day escalation point for complex employment law matters, guiding junior lawyers on legal approach, issue resolution and stakeholder handling
• Lead day-to-day team delivery across allocated matters and workstreams, ensuring consistent, high-quality outcomes against agreed SLAs
• Allocate work across junior team members, taking into account capacity, capability, development needs and delivery priorities
• Review team output to ensure quality, consistency and alignment with legal, client and risk standards
• Manage matters profitably and efficiently, with disciplined scoping, budgeting, resourcing and risk management, and effective use of technology-enabled delivery
• Coordinate multi-jurisdictional projects, leveraging the international network to deliver consistent, timely and compliant outcomes
• Supervise, coach and review the work of junior team members, supporting quality, development and performance
• Provide structured coaching, feedback and on-the-job development to junior lawyers and team members
• Support performance management processes, including goal setting, development planning and ongoing feedback
• Monitor team capacity and utilisation across matters, and escalate resource constraints where appropriate
• Design and deliver client training, thought leadership and horizon scanning on employment law developments and workforce regulatory change
• Support pitches and proposals, contribute to go-to-market campaigns, and identify and help convert new opportunities within PwC and externally
• Maintain and improve playbooks, templates, know-how and SharePoint resources, and drive training and process enhancements
• Support compliance processes including acceptance and continuance, independence, information security and data protection
• Meet agreed SLA turnaround times and quality standards, and contribute to client satisfaction and continuous improvement initiatives
• Perform related tasks to support the PwC UK Employment Law Team as required

Requirements added by the job poster

• 6+ years of work experience with Labor and Employment Law
• 6+ years of work experience with Employee Relations