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Job Description & Summary
A career within External Audit services, will provide you with the opportunity to provide a range of Assurance services and business advice to a variety of clients from small, fast growing clients to large entities. Our clients are often well known brands and many have broad international reach. We focus on using the latest technology to reduce the level of manual testing ensuring you’ll focus on the most valuable areas of client service and on enhancing corporate governance and the reliability of our clients’ information.
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 an authentic and inclusive leader, at all grades/levels and in all lines of service. 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 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:

• Pursue opportunities to develop existing and new skills outside of comfort zone.
• Act to resolve issues which prevent effective team working, even during times of change and uncertainty.
• Coach others and encourage them to take ownership of their development.
• Analyse complex ideas or proposals and build a range of meaningful recommendations.
• Use multiple sources of information including broader stakeholder views to develop solutions and recommendations.
• Address sub-standard work or work that does not meet firm's/client's expectations.
• Develop a perspective on key global trends, including globalisation, and how they impact the firm and our clients.
• Manage a variety of viewpoints to build consensus and create positive outcomes for all parties.
• Focus on building trusted relationships.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.
   

Main purpose:  To manage client portfolios, maintain sound client relationships and manage the audit team, including the coaching and development of staff in the Assurance division.

Relevant professional qualification: CA (SA)
Competencies / Skills :

• Specialist industry knowledge
• IFRS experience
• Display sound leadership skills
• Computer literate with all PwC’s software
• The ability to market our services and to establish contacts in the market place
• Ability to work with and easily converse with all levels of management
• Strong Intellectual curiosity and general scepticism
• Pro-active, able to take responsibility and multi-task
• Ability to work both as part of a team as well as independently
• Good organisational skills, methodical and analytical approach
• Able to prioritise work, work efficiently and accurately under pressure
• Maintains high level of professionalism
• Solution driven
   

Job Description:

• Manage a portfolio of clients in respect of attest
• Manage special projects
• Develop our practice by targeting new clients
• Risk management
• Monitors costs against budgets
• Contribute to office management team
• Contribute to development of staff
• Business development and client relationship building
• Manage Work In Progress and Debtors
• Staff management and appraisals
• Report writing
• Compliance with PwC audit Methodology
• Must be a SAICA Assessor, or willing to be registered as one if not already.
• Must be registered on the IRBA programme Audit Development Programme (ADP) as a Registered Candidate Auditor (RCA) and eligibility to register as a RA, or willing to be registered as one if not already.

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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 an authentic and inclusive leader, at all grades/levels and in all lines of service. 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:

• Take action to ensure everyone has a voice, inviting opinion from all.
• Establish the root causes of issues and tackle them, rather than just the symptoms.
• Initiate open and honest 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.
• Develop specialised expertise in one or more areas.
• Advise stakeholders on relevant technical issues for their business area.
• Navigate the complexities of global teams and engagements.
• Build trust with teams and stakeholders through open and honest conversation.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.
• Lead the scrum team in using Agile methodology and scrum practices
• Helping the product owner and development team to achieve customer satisfaction
• Lead the scrum and development teams in self-organization
• Remove impediments and coach the scrum team on removing impediments
• Help the scrum and development teams to identify and fill in blanks in the Agile framework
• Resolve conflicts and issues that occur
• Help the scrum team achieve higher levels of scrum maturity
• Support the product owner and provide education where needed
• Guide, coach and motivate the team with the goal of increasing productivity
• Passionate about Scrum, Kanban, Lean Thinking, Lean Startup, eXtreme Programming, SAFe, LeSS, etc.
• Organise and lead Scrum ceremonies
• Communicate with main stakeholders
• Oversee and manage scope, timeline, quality, goals and deliverables that support business goals
• Monitor schedule and cost performance
• Identify key KPIs
• Prepare and present reports on the progress and success

Knowledge and Experience

• Proven working experience in delivery management
• Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Solid organisational skills including attention to detail and multitasking skills
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Project Management Professional (PMP) / PRINCE II certification is a plus
• SAP S4 experience in project delivery
• Agile and SAP activate methodology exposure

Tools

• Jira
• Confluence
• PPO
• Share Point