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
A career in Learning and Development, within Internal Firm Services, will provide you with the opportunity to contribute to the success of our people by developing quality and relevant learning initiatives that constantly improve the PwC experience. You’ll help us identify and source the best instructors, develop learning and performance improvement solutions across traditional and virtual classroom environments, and consult with other areas of the Firm to ensure our curriculums and initiatives support the PwC strategy.
To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.
As a Senior Associate, 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:
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Programme design, administration and management of business skills curricula.
- Networking and relationship management with internal and external stakeholders
- Solid knowledge of communication platforms
- Design and draw reports on completed training and interpret the data. Prepare data analysis and insights from the reporting.
- Finance management of activities to be recorded and tracked. Management of projects
Attributes
- Digital savvy
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to problem solve
- Influencing skills
- Being curious – learning, sharing and innovating
- Contributing to team success
- Being open-minded, practical and agile with change
- Tactful and diplomatic
- Participative leadership
- Attention to detail
- Quality orientated
- Results orientated
Qualifications
- 7 years L&D experience
- Event management experience
- A learning & Development qualification advantageous
- Instructional Design experience advantageous
Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)
Degrees/Field of Study required:
Degrees/Field of Study preferred:
Certifications (if blank, certifications not specified)
Required Skills
Optional Skills
Desired Languages (If blank, desired languages not specified)
Travel Requirements
Up to 20%
Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?
No
Government Clearance Required?
Yes
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Job Description & Summary
A career within Actuarial Services, will provide you with the opportunity to contribute general insurance advice and consulting services to clients such as insurers, banks, regulators, and third party administrators. You’ll provide advice covering solvency, economic capital, risk management, mergers and acquisitions, company restructuring and risk control, financial modelling, underwriting, new legislation, and the efficiency of claims or reporting processes. Simply put, you might help analyse the impact that new regulation will have on an insurance company’s balance sheet or you could be revising businesses’ projections and making sure they have adequate reserves.
To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.
As a Senior Associate, 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:
- 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.
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Job Description & Summary
A career in our Strategy and Transaction Services Deals Consulting practice, within General Consulting services, will provide you with the opportunity to help clients seize essential advantages by working alongside business leaders to solve their toughest problems and capture their greatest opportunities. We work with some of the world’s largest and most complex companies to understand their unique business issues and opportunities in an ever changing environment. We help create sustainable change by stimulating innovation, unlocking data possibilities, navigating risk and regulatory complexity, optimising deals, and aligning costs with business strategy to create a competitive advantage.
Mergers and Acquisitions is a fundamental part of how companies seek to win in their markets and we help clients make the right decisions. With us, you’ll get to know a company from the inside out, and combine razor sharp analysis with creative problem solving. Strategy and Mergers & Acquisitions go hand in hand, so while we are often assessing companies and markets in the context of a transaction, many of our projects go beyond Mergers & Acquisitions, helping clients develop innovative strategies to deliver revenue and profit growth.
To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.
As an Associate, 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:
- Invite and give in the moment feedback in a constructive manner.
- Share and collaborate effectively with others.
- Identify and make suggestions for improvements when problems and/or opportunities arise.
- Handle, manipulate and analyse data and information responsibly.
- Follow risk management and compliance procedures.
- Keep up-to-date with developments in area of specialism.
- Communicate confidently in a clear, concise and articulate manner - verbally and in the materials I produce.
- Build and maintain an internal and external network.
- Seek opportunities to learn about how PwC works as a global network of firms.
- Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.
Role Summary:
Strategy&, PwC’s global strategy consulting business, has a new exciting opportunity available for an ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) Associate that will provide you with the opportunity to help clients seize essential advantages by working alongside business leaders to solve their toughest problems and capture their greatest opportunities. Your passion for ESG will set forth the ability for clients to develop effective, responsible corporate strategies in the strive for Net zero.
ESG is one of the most important strategic topics for client executives across all industries and a key component of PwC’s purpose statement to “Build trust in society and solve important problems”. This is a major focus and component of PwC’s strategy for the next decade.
We work with some of the world’s largest and most complex companies to understand their unique business issues and opportunities in an ever changing environment. We help create sustainable change by stimulating innovation, unlocking data possibilities, navigating risk and regulatory complexity, optimising deals, and aligning costs with business strategy to create a competitive advantage.
We are one of the top three strategy consultancies globally, bringing the very best strategic thinking to help clients solve their toughest problems, and build the differentiating capabilities they need to outperform their competitors. In joining, you’ll help develop strategies that translate into action and help our clients power ahead in fiercely competitive global markets.
Strategy& has several distinct characteristics, including a unique career track, a world-class and globally defined training curriculum, structured mentorship programmes, and leading people processes.
When you join Strategy&, you join a global team with a proud heritage of pioneering ideas and through leadership. Strategy& focuses on the development of high impact and pragmatic strategies to solve complex problems and maximise market potential and differentiation. This is achieved through leveraging and strengthening core capabilities within the business and driving sustainable shareholder/stakeholder value and bottom line and impact. Our strategies incorporate detailed analytics, global and local leading practices and case studies, innovation, industry and domain SMEs, design business architecture and design of journey.
Qualifications / Certifications required:
Experience required:
- 1-2 years working experience in support of an in-depth expertise in ESG and experience in delivering consulting work in ESG Strategy and Circular Economy.
- Experience in the ESG field incorporating Strategy and Consulting work and a solid understanding of the related regulation and market demands.
- Experience working for a strategy house or a consulting firm.
- Detailed understanding of the value drivers within ESG.
- Experience in leading and managing complex projects.
Responsibilities of role:
You will work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience, helping our clients solve their complex business issues from strategy to execution. Your responsibilities on client assignments will include:
- Providing global and local insights on ESG strategies
- Develop project and programme strategies to develop and implement ESG strategies.
- Oversee client assignments through natural conclusion
- Manage client risks, governance and project administration (including financial management, project profitability, scope and timelines)
- Manage client, internal leadership and other relevant stakeholder relationships
- Manage, lead and inspire client engagements
- Support clients to implement organisational change through various types of client engagement and use of change management processes.
- Plan and manage the delivery of quality work by project teams.
- Build productive and lasting relationships within Strategy& and PwC at all levels and be seen as a valued member of the office community
- Drive the development of high quality proposals and other business development initiatives.
- Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients
- Shape and deliver projects to meet and exceed the expectations of our clients and our own quality criteria
- Continue to develop internal relationships and developing your PwC brand
Skill sets required:
- Work cross functionally with PwC competencies in a seamless and cohesive manner
- Be culturally and diversity aware and supportive of our South African and African contexts
- International work experience is important to demonstrate cultural sensitivity and ability to work highly challenging environments
- Demonstrate deep knowledge and awareness of current market trends and activities of key competitors
- Develop and shape proposals and propositions across countries, functions, sectors and accounts
- Adhere to and promote quality and risk management standards
- Focus on improving profitability while managing business risk
- Excellent oral, written and interpersonal communication skills to facilitate interaction across hierarchies and functions
- Demonstrate strong quantitative skills and attention to detail, at the same time as having the ability to step back and identify high level issues
- Possess the flexibility and commercialism to manage a diverse range of responsibilities in a dynamic and results oriented environment.
- Able to demonstrate flexibility in adjusting to highly varied projects and rapidly coming up the learning curve in unfamiliar industries and functions
- Proven track record of successfully completing different types of projects, ranging from strategy to implementation, across a number of unrelated industries
Role related attributes:
- Ability to lead teams in an autonomous strategic, consulting environment and be seen as a strong team player with excellent communication and client handling skills
- Self-motivated and capable of developing innovative approaches to difficult issues
- Excellent attention to detail
- Highly analytical mind and structured thinking with sound business judgment and maturity, including the ability to develop a “big picture” view (intellectual curiosity)
- Ability to build strong relationships at all levels of the organisation (client and internal), rapidly building rapport, establishing your credibility and gaining trust
- Good organisational, time management and planning skills
- Positive outlook and contributor to a healthy team environment
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Job Description & Summary
We are looking for candidates that have an interest in IT governance, developing data analytics, auditing general computer controls and risk processes.
As a Senior Associate, 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:
- 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.
JOB PROFILE
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES
The successful individual will take responsibility for
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.
- 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 gather 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 understand Risk services.
- The assist in presenting audit findings to clients and understand the risks involved with report writing
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Should have obtained an IT or Internal Audit professional qualification.
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Specialism
IFS - Clients & Markets
Management Level
Senior Manager
Job Description & Summary
A career within Operations Consulting services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients optimise all elements of their operations to move beyond the role of a cost effective business enabler and become a source of competitive advantages. We focus on product innovation and development, supply chain, procurement and sourcing, manufacturing operations, service operations and capital asset programmes to drive both growth and profitability.
To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.
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.
Purpose of Job
The Clients & Markets Industry Driver (“drivers”) is a key business development role within each respective industry. The drivers work closely with their SMA Industry Leader to support them in achieving the objectives of the SMA Clients & Markets strategy and the SMA firm Strategy. In doing so, they will provide support on strategic issues relevant to their industry to formulate their SMA Industry Strategy.
The drivers are expected to work across line of service (x-LOS) and across the three market areas in Africa, namely SMA, WMA and EMA in order to drive achieving the planned growth in their industry across Africa (x-Africa).
The driver role is a dynamic role that evolves continuously requiring agility, innovative ideas and dedication to tackle tasks that are required to make the industry a success x-LoS and x-Africa.
Responsibilities:
Strategy
- Unpacking the SMA Clients and Markets strategy and formulating a relevant SMA Industry Strategy that sharpens our market focus.
- Coordinating the communication and execution of the SMA Industry Strategy x-LOS to ensure alignment.
- Attend key strategic industry meetings with the industry leader.
Relationships
- Building and maintaining strong, relevant relationships with clients within the industry -C-Suite and Management that are relevant x-LOS.
- Building and maintaining strong industry networks within the firm x-LOS, x-Africa and across the global network.
- Drive the process to ensure that all relationships are recorded in Salesforce. Liaise with account teams to ensure that contact details for compliance with GDPR regulations are reviewed and updated regularly
- Review Alumni relationships for the Industry and ensure that they remain up to date.
Budgeting and reporting
- Prepare zero-based budgets for the SMA Industry, taking into account x-LOS to maximise synergies.
- Monitor and consolidate financial results and track progress to budget for the Industry. Maintain PowerBI industry dashboard on a monthly basis. In addition, to monitor costs for the industry.
- Prepare presentations / updates / progress reports for the industry for SMA Industry Leader and Africa G&PS Leadership meetings.
Account management
- On a weekly basis, review the Master Client Landscape Sheet to ensure all information for the industry is up to date and accurate (x-LOS).
- Ensure that any information from the above review is flagged for Mandatory Firm Rotation (MFR) purposes, if relevant
- Monitor the Industry Priority accounts list to ensure tiering (Platinum vs Focus) is updated (x-LOS, x-Africa)
- Drive the adoption of Salesforce by reviewing all industry priority clients. Ensure teams update Salesforce and are using Salesforce regularly (x-LOS, x-Africa).
- Monitor wins and losses x-LOS and analyzing the impact thereof on the Industry Strategy.
- Ensure Account Planning Workshops are being held for all priority accounts (Platinum and Focus).
- Review Account Plans for all priority accounts (Platinum and Focus) -provide advice, share ideas and knowledge from other Industry Drivers to leverage efforts.
- Liaise with GPRS / CRPs / Account drivers for all priority accounts (Platinum and Focus) x-LOS to provide guidance on account management and ensure progress is made on accounts.
- Provide support (Account driver) on priority accounts where required.
Salesforce
- Be proficient in using Salesforce to assist industry in driving adoption of Salesforce x-LOS.
- Prepare dashboards for Industry Leader (x-LOS)
- Analyse information on Salesforce and provide industry insights for business development to assist in sharpening our market focus.
- Ensure all Industry campaigns are loaded onto Salesforce and opportunities linked where appropriate.
Client feedback
- Coordinate with the account teams to ensure that client feedback is obtained and loaded on the database
- Ensure Post Decision Reviews (PDRs) are completed by teams for all proposals (x-LOS) on all priority accounts
Industry insights
- Liaise with the Market Intelligence team where industry market and client analysis is required. Review the analysis and contribute by adding industry insights and knowledge.
- Keeping up to date with internal matters and external factors affecting the market / industry.
- Coordinate industry activities that are focused and relevant to sharpening our market focus and strengthening our relationships.
- Review the thought Leadership Calendar and liaise with LOS to ensure that it remains up to date.
- Drive the process of thought leadership / press releases to remain relevant in the market. This requires prompting LOS teams with ideas and project managing the release together with CMD.
Proposals
Communication
- Drive communication in the industry through social media (LinkedIn), Website, Google Sites and Salesforce. Ensure teams are active and provide assistance where required
- Ensure all communication relating to the industry remains relevant and is aligned with the SMA Industry Strategy and SMA Clients & Markets Strategy e.g. Social Media, Google Sites, Website
General
- Liaise with teams regularly to ensure sharing of knowledge and collaboration towards the Africa Industry Strategy (x-LOS)
- Attend training relevant to the Industry responsibilities e.g. negotiation skills, relationship building, networking, account management etc.
- Responsible for ad hoc projects affecting the industry.
- Project manage multiple projects/initiatives within the industry program.
- Liaise with Global Industry teams to leverage ideas and remain relevant with the Global Strategy.
- Remain involved in all industry events to ensure that they are relevant in sharpening our market focus and that the right people are invited
- Maintain an industry-specific “calendar of events” including thought leadership publication dates, media campaigns, relevant Business Schools events, platinum and focus clients AGMs/ results presentations/analyst days etc.
Key Competencies and Attributes
Knowledge, skills and abilities
- Good analytical skills.
- Excellent computer literacy skills, including advanced MS Office skills & Google Suite.
- Proficiency with software systems (knowledge or previous experience of Oracle accounts payable modules).
- Ability to liaise with internal and external stakeholders and network widely.
- Excellent communication skills are essential as is the ability to liaise, influence, challenge effectively and build relationships with leadership, senior management, and peers and at team level.
- Sound business acumen and G&PS Industry knowledge as well as being commercially and risk aware.
- A self-starter able to work effectively as part of a virtual team.
- Agile with change and restless to build a world class capability
- Ability to generate credibility and respect at very senior levels.
- Someone willing to say what they think and contribute with impact.
- A team player who can work with, and contribute to the G&PS leadership team
Qualification & Experience
Requirements
- Minimum 4 years’ experience
- Ability to drive and enforce industry strategy
- Ability to work alongside senior individuals to implement plans and monitor performance
- Strong relationship building skills with internal and external people
- Experience working with people and teams x-LOS
- Strong collaborative work ethic and influencing skills
- Innovates and thinks broadly to generate new ideas
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Ability to analyse data (financial and market intelligence) to provide insight
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Job Description & Summary
Our Contingent Worker - Client Services team comprises of temporary employees that support client engagement projects during high volume periods.
To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.
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.
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