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 tax services focus on providing advice and guidance to clients on tax planning, compliance, and strategy. These individuals help businesses navigate complex tax regulations and optimise their tax positions.
- In tax accounting services at PwC, you will assist businesses in preparing and reviewing tax provisions, tax returns, and financial statements, confirming compliance with accounting standards and tax regulations.
- Focused on relationships, you are building meaningful client connections, and learning how to manage and inspire others. Navigating increasingly complex situations, you are growing your personal brand, deepening technical expertise and awareness of your strengths. You are expected to anticipate the needs of your teams and clients, and to deliver quality. Embracing increased ambiguity, you are comfortable when the path forward isn’t clear, you ask questions, and you use these moments as opportunities to grow.
- Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:
- Respond effectively to the diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.
- Use a broad range of tools, methodologies and techniques to generate new ideas and solve problems.
- Use critical thinking to break down complex concepts.
- Understand the broader objectives of your project or role and how your work fits into the overall strategy.
- Develop a deeper understanding of the business context and how it is changing.
- Use reflection to develop self awareness, enhance strengths and address development areas.
- Interpret data to inform insights and recommendations.
- 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:
- PwC is seeking a Johannesburg-based tax professional with experience in general corporate tax consulting, including audit of tax, tax compliance and general tax advisory services.
Qualifications / Certifications required:
- BCom degree, majoring in Accounting, Financial Accounting or Law (mandatory)
- CA(SA), (mandatory)
- Post-graduate tax qualification (preferred)
Experience required:
- At least one year post-article practical experience working in a tax advisory environment (preferred)
Responsibilities of role:
- Perform audit of tax reviews (tax accrual reviews) from a corporate tax perspective, in support of the assessment of the income tax balance on financial statements. This would include both income tax and deferred tax aspects;
- Preparation and review of corporate tax accounting assignments;
- Preparation and review of corporate tax compliance assignments, including preparation, review and submission of income tax and provisional tax returns;
- Drafting of tax opinions and/or structuring decks on the tax implications of inter alia business transaction, restructures and alternative courses of actions;
- Corporate tax due diligence projects;
- Research of complex tax issues;
- Interpretation of tax legislation;
- Liaising with SARS and addressing queries raised by SARS; and
- Building, growing and maintaining business relationships with clients, assurance teams and other stakeholders.
Skill sets required:
- Ability to provide bespoke advice of the highest technical standard in a clear and concise manner (both in writing and at an interpersonal level);
- Ability to multi-task and work under pressure in a deadline driven environment;
- Well-rounded project and people management skills;
- Ability to grasp, navigate and solve complex business problems;
- Organisation and time management skills; and
- Pays attention to detail.
Role related attributes:
The ideal candidate will be:
- Performance driven
- Sales-oriented
- Future-oriented
- Digitally fit
- Agile
- Resilient
- Positive
- Pro-active
- Eager to learn
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Job Description & Summary
- At PwC, our people in data and analytics engineering focus on leveraging advanced technologies and techniques to design and develop robust data solutions for clients. They play a crucial role in transforming raw data into actionable insights, enabling informed decision-making and driving business growth.
- In data engineering at PwC, you will focus on designing and building data infrastructure and systems to enable efficient data processing and analysis. You will be responsible for developing and implementing data pipelines, data integration, and data transformation solutions.
- Focused on relationships, you are building meaningful client connections, and learning how to manage and inspire others. Navigating increasingly complex situations, you are growing your personal brand, deepening technical expertise and awareness of your strengths.
- You are expected to anticipate the needs of your teams and clients, and to deliver quality. Embracing increased ambiguity, you are comfortable when the path forward isn’t clear, you ask questions, and you use these moments as opportunities to grow.
Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:
- Respond effectively to the diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.
- Use a broad range of tools, methodologies and techniques to generate new ideas and solve problems.
- Use critical thinking to break down complex concepts.
- Understand the broader objectives of your project or role and how your work fits into the overall strategy.
- Develop a deeper understanding of the business context and how it is changing.
- Use reflection to develop self awareness, enhance strengths and address development areas.
- Interpret data to inform insights and recommendations.
- 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.
Key Responsibilities:
Enterprise Reporting & Business Intelligence
- Design, develop, and maintain enterprise reports, dashboards, and analytical solutions.
- Translate business requirements and reporting needs into effective analytical solutions.
- Develop reporting solutions using Microsoft Power BI and associated technologies.
- Develop reusable reporting datasets and semantic models.
- Define and implement appropriate KPIs, metrics, calculations, and business rules.
- Ensure reports are accurate, performant, user-friendly, and aligned with enterprise reporting standards.
- Support the rationalisation and modernisation of existing reporting solutions as part of the organisation's data platform transformation.
Data Analysis & SQL
- Analyse complex datasets to identify trends, patterns, anomalies, and business insights.
- Develop complex SQL queries to extract, transform, validate, and analyse data.
- Perform data profiling, reconciliation, and validation across source and target systems.
- Investigate data quality issues and collaborate with Data Engineers to identify and resolve root causes.
- Develop analytical datasets required to support enterprise reporting and decision-making.
- Ensure analytical outputs are based on well-understood and appropriately governed data.
Databricks & Lakehouse Analytics
- Work with curated data within the organisation's Databricks Lakehouse environment.
- Develop a practical understanding of the Lakehouse architecture and the role of Bronze, Silver, and Gold data layers.
- Consume and analyse data stored in Delta Lake and other supported data formats.
- Collaborate with Data Engineers to define data requirements for reporting and analytics.
- Participate in the migration of legacy reporting solutions onto the modern data platform.
- Help identify opportunities to improve reporting performance, scalability, and data reuse through the Databricks platform.
- Develop an understanding of data lineage and how data flows from source systems through the Lakehouse to enterprise reporting.
Data Modelling
- Design and maintain analytical data models suitable for enterprise reporting.
- Apply dimensional modelling principles, including fact and dimension tables.
- Understand and apply concepts such as star schemas, Slowly Changing Dimensions, surrogate keys, measures and dimensions, granularity, hierarchies, and conformed dimensions.
- Work with Data Engineers to ensure reporting datasets are appropriately structured for analytical workloads.
- Contribute to the development of reusable enterprise data models and reporting datasets.
Data Quality, Governance & Controls
- Perform data validation and reconciliation to ensure reporting accuracy.
- Identify and document data quality issues.
- Work with Data Engineering and other technology teams to resolve data issues.
- Ensure reports and analytical datasets comply with established data governance and reporting standards.
- Maintain clear documentation of business definitions, calculations, data sources, and reporting logic.
- Contribute to enterprise data definitions and KPI standards.
- Support appropriate data access, security, privacy, and governance practices.
Collaboration
- Engage with business stakeholders to understand reporting requirements and analytical needs.
- Facilitate requirements-gathering sessions and translate business requirements into technical and analytical specifications.
- Challenge requirements where appropriate and identify opportunities to improve existing reporting processes.
- Communicate analytical findings clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Support user acceptance testing and obtain stakeholder sign-off on reporting solutions.
- Provide guidance to stakeholders on appropriate use and interpretation of enterprise data.
Reporting Migration & Modernisation
- Participate in the migration of existing legacy reports and analytical solutions to the modern data platform.
- Assess existing reports to determine business value, usage, dependencies, and migration requirements.
- Identify opportunities to consolidate duplicate reports and datasets.
- Rebuild legacy reporting solutions using modern data and BI capabilities.
- Validate migrated reports against existing production outputs and source systems.
- Support the transition from legacy reporting architectures towards a governed enterprise reporting model.
Desired Skills and Experience:
Essential:
- 3+ years of experience in data analytics, business intelligence, reporting, or a related analytical role.
- Strong SQL skills, including complex joins, CTEs, window functions, aggregations, subqueries, data transformation, and data validation/reconciliation.
- Strong experience with Microsoft Power BI.
- Experience developing enterprise dashboards and reports.
- Experience developing or consuming Power BI semantic models/datasets.
- Strong understanding of data modelling and dimensional modelling.
- Experience gathering and documenting business and reporting requirements.
- Experience delivering reporting solutions from requirements through to implementation.
- Experience working with large and/or complex datasets.
- Strong data analysis and problem-solving capabilities.
- Experience performing data quality checks and reconciliation.
- Ability to work effectively with Data Engineers, business stakeholders, and technology teams.
- Relevant Microsoft Power BI certification
- Relevant Azure or Databricks certification
Preferred:
- 3+ years of relevant experience in data analytics, BI, reporting or a related field.
- Experience with Databricks.
- Experience working with Delta Lake.
- Understanding of Lakehouse architecture.
- Experience with Azure-based data platforms and Azure Data Lake Storage.
- Experience with modern data warehousing or cloud data platforms.
- Experience with Python or PySpark for data analysis.
- Familiarity with Git and modern software development practices.
- Experience with enterprise data governance and data lineage.
- Experience migrating legacy reporting platforms to modern BI/data platforms.
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Job Description & Summary
- PwC has recently launched the South African Technology & Innovation Centre (SATIC). SATIC is designed to innovate, build and deploy for our global clients across a range of technology and transformational solutions.
- PwC's ambition to grow through acquisitions and development of new innovative ways to serve clients, mandatory firm rotation, the ongoing climate of regulatory change, and the increased focus on globalisation all mean that PwC's ability to maintain Independence from our audit clients is ever more business critical for PwC.
- The Guidewire team has a vital role to play in enabling PwC's growth, whilst protecting our reputation and brand, and the team will be at the heart of change in the firm over the next few years.
- If you are looking for a career where every day is different, where challenges are complex and where you can make a real difference, then we want to hear from you.
About the Role
- We have a number of exciting opportunities across a range of roles and disciplines to join our expanding Guidewire/Insurance team. As a Guidewire Developer you will be responsible for participating in business requirements, review meetings and providing design & solutions on user stories to be implemented on Guidewire projects.
- Estimate the development effort during sprint planning meetings (Configuration and Integration story cards and design, develop, unit test and document for new and existing software solutions as per requirements).
What will you do?
Senior Developer
- Develop software solutions that are to the high performing technical standards and created using Guidewire best practices.
- Create test data and unit tests to ensure that software solutions meet requirements.
- Perform defect triage and fixes during System Testing, and User Acceptance Testing.
- Ensure non-functional, security, regulatory and compliance requirements are met for all development activities.
- Participate in code reviews and assist in resolution of technical issues.
- Prepare and produce software releases.
- Participate in daily standup meetings, sprint planning and retrospective.
- Lead POC to support new opportunities.
- Guide and mentor junior developers.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of team processes.
What are we looking for?
Senior Developer
- 4 plus years software development experience
- 2 years Experience in Insurance domain, preferably in Property & Casualty / General Insurance.
- 2 years Working experience in at least one of the Guidewire InsuranceSuite products (PolicyCenter, ClaimCenter, BillingCenter or Digital Portals) Configuration/Integration.
- 2 years Experience working with GOSU, JAVA 5/ J2EE, Web Services (Axis 2), XML, SQL, Gradle, Spring, Hibernate, Castor, REST/ JSON and Enterprise Messaging System.
- Experience in using Configuration management tools like Git, Tortoise SVN, Source Tree, Perforce, Plastic and ticket management tools like Azure DevOps, JIRA, HPQC.
- Knowledge of the AGILE methodology/Scaled Agile Framework, SDLC processes will be an added advantage.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
What is nice to have?
- Prior client facing and design experience
- Azure/AWS Cloud experience
- Expertise in Product Designer / Rating integration will be an added advantage.
- Guidewire Certification on latest version
What’s in it for you?
- We're exceptionally passionate about providing you with the necessary skills, experience and training to help you develop both personally and professionally.
- As a PwC employee you will be included on our specific Operate training framework, tailored to match your skills, needs and career aspirations.
- Fully funded by us, you'll complete externally accredited qualifications that will benefit you in the role you are working in.
- In addition to the client projects and training, our employees are also rewarded with various others as part of your employment.
- Competitive salary plus a potential discretionary bonus (performance related)
- 25 days standard holiday pro rata, with options to increase this through your benefits package
- Flexible benefits scheme that can be tailored to suit your (and your family's) needs.
- Provision of a group pension plan with additional funding provided by PwC
Education(if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)
- Degrees/Field of Study required
- Degrees/Field of Study preferred
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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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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.
- Driven by curiosity, you are a reliable, contributing member of a team. In our fast-paced environment, you are expected to adapt to working with a variety of clients and team members, each presenting varying challenges and scope.
- Every experience is an opportunity to learn and grow. You are expected to take ownership and consistently deliver quality work that drives value for our clients and success as a team. As you navigate through the Firm, you build a brand for yourself, opening doors to more opportunities.
Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:
- Apply a learning mindset and take ownership for your own development.
- Appreciate diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.
- Adopt habits to sustain high performance and develop your potential.
- Actively listen, ask questions to check understanding, and clearly express ideas.
- Seek, reflect, act on, and give feedback.
- Gather information from a range of sources to analyse facts and discern patterns.
- Commit to understanding how the business works and building commercial awareness.
- Learn and apply professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), uphold the Firm's code of conduct and independence requirements.
Qualifications / Certifications required:
- A related tertiary qualification - Diploma or Degree: Accounting / Auditing or similar
Experience required:
- One years’ relevant experience in an Auditing environment would be advantageous
Responsibilities of role:
- Work under the supervision of a Manager;
- Perform general auditing functions according to PwC methodologies including but not limited to: bank confirmations investment confirmations, group deliverables, receivable confirmations, checking and casting of financials, obtain/coordinate and summarize ISA 402 supporting documentation;
- Perform test of details/test of controls;
- Work within budget allocations;
- General administration;
- Invite and provide evidence-based feedback in a timely and constructive manner;
- Share and collaborate effectively with others;
- Work with existing processes/systems whilst making constructive suggestions for improvements;
- Validate data and analysis for accuracy and relevance;
- Follow risk management and compliance procedures;
- Keep up-to-date with technical developments for business area;
- Communicate confidently in a clear, concise and articulate manner - verbally and in written form;
- Seek opportunities to learn about other cultures and other parts of the business across the Network of PwC firms;
- Uphold the firm’s code of ethics and business conduct.
Skill sets required:
- Strong planning, time management and organisation skills
- Work effectively under pressure and handle confidential matters with tact and professionalism
- Pragmatic problem-solving approach
- Good communication skills, verbal and written
- Detail orientated and deadline driven
- Punctual, flexible and responsive
- Good interpersonal and client liaison skills
- Able to work independently and in a team
- Strong work ethic
- Meticulous.
- Enthusiasm and passion to deliver exceptional client service
- Highly proficient in Microsoft office suite (Excel, Word and PowerPoint) and the Google suite
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
- 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.
Independence requirements to be taken into consideration:
- SDC operates on the Fully Restricted Model, therefore complete independence from PwC clients is required.
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Role Summary:
- To provide superior assurance services within the Service Delivery Centre (SDC) Africa team. The SDC provides audit support to audit teams across Africa on a remote basis.
Qualifications / Certifications required:
- A related tertiary qualification - Diploma or Degree: Accounting / Auditing or similar.
Experience required:
- One years’ relevant experience in an Auditing environment would be advantageous.
Responsibilities of role:
- Work under the supervision of a Manager.
- Perform general auditing functions according to PwC methodologies including but not limited to: bank confirmations investment confirmations.
- Group deliverables.
- Receivable confirmations.
- Checking and casting of financials.
- Obtain/coordinate and summarize ISA 402 supporting documentation.
- Perform test of details/test of controls.
- Work within budget allocations.
- General administration.
- Invite and provide evidence-based feedback in a timely and constructive manner.
- Share and collaborate effectively with others.
- Work with existing processes/systems whilst making constructive suggestions for improvements.
- Validate data and analysis for accuracy and relevance.
- Follow risk management and compliance procedures.
- Keep up-to-date with technical developments for business area.
- Communicate confidently in a clear, concise and articulate manner - verbally and in written form.
- Seek opportunities to learn about other cultures and other parts of the business across the Network of PwC firms.
- Uphold the firm’s code of ethics and business conduct.
Skill sets required:
- Strong planning, time management and organisation skills.
- Work effectively under pressure and handle confidential matters with tact and professionalism.
- Pragmatic problem-solving approach.
- Good communication skills, verbal and written.
- Detail orientated and deadline driven .
- Punctual, flexible and responsive.
- Good interpersonal and client liaison skills.
- Able to work independently and in a team.
- Strong work ethic.
- Meticulous.
- Enthusiasm and passion to deliver exceptional client service.
- Highly proficient in Microsoft office suite (Excel, Word and PowerPoint) and the Google suite.
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.
Travel Requirements
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- The Workiva Implementation Specialist will be an integral member of the Workiva implementation team, focusing on the configuration of the financial reporting modules within the Workiva platform.
- Workiva is a leading cloud based corporate reporting platform that brings together financial reporting, ESG reporting, GRC, internal audit, SOX. Data collection, validation/ verification through to external reporting is centralised and secure.
- PwC has a strategic alliance with Workiva, which this team of implementation specialists will support.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with the client engagement team in the UK to implement and configure the Workiva financial reporting modules which includes, annual financial reporting, statutory reporting and management reporting modules.
- Set up and configure Workiva documents and spreadsheets.
- Identify and link data points throughout the Workiva platform to ensure seamless data flow.
- Map imported data to the appropriate financial statement tables (Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow Statement).
- Perform data validation checks and Reconcile data points across different sources to maintain consistency.
- Participate in the testing of financial reports within Workiva to ensure data integrity and report accuracy.
- Assist with training end-users on the Workiva platform as needed.
Essential Skills:
- Excel Proficiency: Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel, including the use of complex formulas. Ability to manage large datasets and perform complex functions within Excel is crucial.
- Analytical Skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret financial data and identify discrepancies.
- Attention to Detail: Meticulous attention to detail and the ability to produce accurate and high-quality work under tight deadlines.
- Communication Skills: Effective written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey technical information to non-technical stakeholders.
- Adaptability: Ability to adapt to new technologies and quickly learn new software applications, specifically Workiva.
- Teamwork: Strong team player with the ability to collaborate with colleagues across different functions of the organisation.
Qualifications:
- Degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
- 1-2 years of experience in financial reporting or a related field.
- Familiarity with financial reporting standards and compliance requirements.
- Experience with Workiva or other financial reporting tools is a plus.
Personal Attributes:
- Proactive and self-motivated with a strong work ethic.
- Eagerness to learn and grow within the finance function.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
Education(if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)
- Degrees/Field of Study required:
- Degrees/Field of Study preferred:
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