New Jobs at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

Qualifications / Certifications required:

• Chartered Accountant (SA) (preferred)
• Passed ITC and completed SAICA traineeship (minimum requirement)

Experience required:

• Fluent in Dutch and / or Afrikaans
• Experience on large listed companies will be advantageous.
• Post article working experience will be advantageous.

Responsibilities of role:

• Performing financial statement disclosure checklists.This includes financial statements prepared using Dutch Accounting principles (Dutch GAAP) and other relevant reporting frameworks used in the Netherlands.
• Reviewing financial statement disclosure checklists performed by less experienced team members within the team as well as providing coaching to these team members as you progress in the role.

Skill sets required:

• Strong sense of responsibility
• Willingness to learn
• Computer literate - Good knowledge of Excel
• Accurate and organised, with strong attention to detail
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Must be able to work under pressure
• Must be able to work in a team
• Very deadline driven
• Fluent in English and Afrikaans and / or Dutch
• Good internet access - Remote working is available as an option for this role on condition that you are in an area that has good network / connectivity (Laptop and 3G will be provided).

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Essential skills and experience

• 18 months or more post article experience.

Required qualifications

• CA(SA)

Desirable skills or attributes

• Specialist industry knowledge IFRS experience
• Display sound leadership skills
• Computer literate with al PwC software
• Ability to market PwC services and to establish contacts in the market place
• Self – motivated
• High attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong interpersonal and management skills
• Ability to multi task
• Analytic and solution driven
• Pro – active and committed to delivery
• Excellent time management skills

Responsibilities

• Manage special projects
• Risk management
• Monitor costs
• Development of staff
• Business development and client relationship building
• Manage work in progress and debtors
• Staff management
• Compliance with PwC audit methodology
• Report writing

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Skills and Experience

• You will have previous Project Management or Assistant Project Management experience covering the entire Project Lifecycle with direct experience.
• Ability to apply a logical, solution based and analytical approach to work.
• You will have a track record of engaging with stakeholders and developing those relationships.
• You will have the ability to engage not just on the how, but also on the why with the courage to challenge.
• Excellent project planning skills and experience of using project management and planning tools such as MS-Project.
• Comprehensive working knowledge of the MS Office and/or Google Workspace (formally GSuite), and able to demonstrate a high proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint.
• If you have a professional qualification such as PRINCE2, APMP, PMP, Agile, Scrum, this is great but not essential.

Desirable Experience

• Understanding of sustainability regulations & ability research present options
• Economic and financial modelling skills
• Data collection and management
• Financial accounting
• International funding grant application and reporting
• Carbon modelling & accounting
• Build/construction environment skills (infrastructure, real estate and urban development, energy efficiency, renewables, building retrofit)

Key Responsibilities

• Working directly with our internal stakeholders and external clients to ensure effective project delivery.
• Support in scoping the high level requirements of projects and the development and preparation of Business Cases.
• Development and maintenance of planning documentation including Project Plans, Plan in a Page, Milestone Plans etc.
• Managing the Project Budget/Finances in accordance with contractual agreements.
• Providing input into Project Reports including but not limited to Highlight Reports, Working Group Packs etc.
• Development & Management of RAID Artefacts, including the identification and management of Risks, Issues etc.
• Support the management of resources and suppliers.
• Development and management of Change Controls Procedures.
• Support the Closure / Transition of the project to BAU.
• Production of presentations and excel based Management Information (MI) for senior management/stakeholders.
• Utilising appropriate and repeatable technology solutions to support high quality, efficient outcomes

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Primary responsibilities will include, but will not be limited to, the following:

• Engagement and team support in decision making to help build the auditor of the future;
• Use knowledge and experience to conduct real time assurance reviews in the capacity of a primary reviewer and as supervisory reviewer to junior members on our team;
• Using the knowledge and experience gained as an assurance Manager, to assist engagement teams with Methodology queries through the MRAT Helpdesk;
• Using the knowledge and experience gained as an assurance manager to assist engagement teams with ad-hoc consultations submitted through the Consult database;
• Promote behavioural change amongst assurance Partners and their engagement teams through face to face interaction and challenging of audit approaches;
• Be at the forefront of development of tools and templates to drive quality;
• Develop and present training;
• Conduct exploratory discussions with Partners to understand the needs of the business to drive projects and outcomes to improve engagement quality; and
• Analyse and monitor audit quality throughout the practice and report findings and status to Assurance Leadership.

Secondary / Ad hoc responsibilities may include, but may not be limited to, the following:

• Reviewing the methodology compliance of any proposed new assurance software tool in the SMA;
• The establishment and facilitation of building working relationships within the African network;
• Liaise with key contacts with the East and West market areas;
• Travelling to various South Market Area regions and
• Support the core global team and represent our market area in global forums.

Requirements:

• Qualification Level: Chartered Accountant (South Africa)
• Experience Required: minimum of 3.5 years post-articles experience as an audit engagement manager.

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What will you do?

• Develop Test plans, approach and scoping.
• Establish and implement an approach for managing test data.
• Analyse requirements to ensure completeness of test cases.
• Develop test scenarios that reflect the capabilities being established in projects.
• Work with the Business Analyst to establish proper test coverage and traceability to requirements.
• Develop test cases with a view to ensure end-to-end functional coverage, as well as potential impact areas for regression.
• Execute testing, including test preparation and execution, test data creation, and analysis of test results.
• Provide test coverage and clearance feedback.
• Analyse test failures and work with the development team to address defects.
• Develop automation test scripts that are to the high performing technical standards and created using Guidewire best practices.
• Work with Business Analyst to assist and monitor User Acceptance Testing.
• Participate in daily standup meetings, sprint planning and retrospective.
• Participate in POC to support new opportunities.
• Guide and mentor junior testers.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of requirements and software quality  processes.

What are we looking for?

• 2 plus years Testing in Automation testing skills / Selenium / Katalon / GT-UI & GT-API.
• Web services testing / API testing skills is a plus
• Database testing knowledge is a plus
• DataHub and InfoCenter knowledge is a plus
• Experience in functional and non-functional (performance, security, regulatory and compliance) testing.
• Knowledge of Software Quality Assurance across the SDLC.
• Understanding of the use of Test Metrics to support risk assessment and decision making.
• Experience in Requirements Management, Test Management and Defect Management tools, like Jira and Xray.
• 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?

• Testing Certification (ISTQB Certified Tester)
• Prior client facing testing experience
• Azure/AWS Cloud experience
• Guidewire Testing Certification on current solutions