New Jobs Available at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

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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Qualifications /Certifications required:

• Workday FINS Core
• Workday Integrations

Experience required:

• 1 - 3 Years

Responsibilities of role:

• A background in Finance and experience in Finance transformation projects
• Competency with building integrations on Workday Studio for Financial projects
• Competency with understanding and building of integrations with Financial Institutions, Treasury Management systems, as well as Billing or Trading Systems
• Competency with relational databases and understanding of ERP systems.
• Understanding of Financial information process flows to be competent to build transformation logic and model data for each business flow.
• Some experience with unit and end to end testing

Desirable skill sets include:

• Ability to understand E2E Finance business processes and gather data requirements to support the data migration process flows.
• Good communication and presentation skills.
• Open minded seeking for innovative solutions.
• SelfStarter Attitude.
• Collaborating with your colleagues across our HR and Financials transformation teams, and wider PwC network to identify and create solutions that bring value to our clients

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• As a Senior member of the team, 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.

Preferred skills

• Technical and client delivery responsibilities.  Your typical activities include: remuneration committee advisory work within your field of expertise; advising clients on their total reward models (fixed and variable pay); pay progression models; design of incentive plans (short- and long-term); fair pay analysis; remuneration benchmarking; performance condition advice; non-executive director pay; critical reviews of remuneration practices, drafting papers including review outcomes and recommendations for new structures to clients; analysis of remuneration reporting in light of King IV and assisting clients with preparing remuneration reports and policies to be contained in the integrated annual report of the company; monitoring of institutional investor voting patterns and regulation, and analysis of these trends with respect to both design and disclosure of all aspects of remuneration (in particular executive remuneration); awareness of topical issues surrounding executive reward, both globally and locally, and the preparation of communication material to remuneration committees regarding this information, as well as providing ongoing advice.
• Client management: you actively engage and manage client relationships and PwC internal contracting processes.
• Marketing and new business development: you actively support client acquisition and targeting activities and development of new business and solutions.
• Managing inputs of the Reward team’s thought leadership publications and actively contributing to thought leadership and other client focus activities (e.g. RemCo round table events, institutional investor roundtable events etc), in conjunction with the other members of the senior leadership team within Reward.
• Staff management: you lead and develop the staff within the reward team.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelors Degree
• 5 - 8 years experience as a Rewards Manager, preferably within the consulting space

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Qualifications / Certifications required:

• We will consider a range of university degrees and professional qualifications in a relevant subject matter area. However, on top of this, candidates will be expected to demonstrate experience in client delivery across one or a number of sustainability reporting requirements.

Experience required: 

• Experience aligned with the outlined activities
• Knowledge of asset managers, banks and insurers from working within the business or providing professional services consulting support to firms in the financial services sector.
• Experience of having worked on implementations of new financial services regulations.
• Up to date with emerging regulations and standards such as TCFD, CSRD, SDR, SS3/19 and global transition planning activities, such as the Transition Plan Taskforce in the UK
• Project management skills with a demonstrated ability to work on multiple engagements effectively
• Experience in a fast-paced environment
• Experience in managing and coaching teams
• Clear and effective communication skills
• Ability to build key stakeholder relationships, both internally and with clients

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the project team in various Sustainability reporting activities, including:
• Current state Sustainability reporting assessments
• Regulatory impact assessments and gap analysis
• Sustainability reporting landscape reviews and horizon scanning
• Sustainability materiality assessments
• Sustainability reporting maturity assessments
• Sustainability reporting implementation design
• Sustainability reporting assurance readiness assessments
• Manage client-facing and internal engagements, overseeing progress and budgets
• Serve as a subject matter expert on projects, specific topics, or reporting frameworks
• Stay updated on the latest reporting developments through continuous research
• Manage day-to-day relationships with key client and internal stakeholders
• Identify new client opportunities and contribute to the development of sales and marketing materials, including proposals and thought leadership
• Contribute to the further development of our Sustainability Reporting proposition and approach, including digital assets

People Responsibilities:

• Develop junior team members through effective coaching, supervision, and training
• Practise upward management and communication
• Foster a positive and inclusive team environment

Desirable skill sets include:

• Demonstrable financial services expertise including qualified accountants with experience auditing financials services companies or investment funds
• Development of sustainability strategy and models to support: Economic and financial modelling skills
• Data collection and management
• Financial accounting and annual reporting under IFRS
• Helping organisation to achieve net zero ambitions:
• International funding grant application and reporting Carbon modelling & accounting
• Build/construction and environment impact (infrastructure, real estate
• and urban development, energy efficiency, renewables, building retrofit)

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Qualifications /Certifications required:

• We will consider a range of university degrees and professional qualifications in a relevant subject matter area. However, on top of this, candidates will be expected to demonstrate experience in client delivery across one or a number of sustainability reporting requirements.

Experience required:

• Experience aligned with the outlined activities
• Understanding of the sustainability regulatory and reporting environment as well as the links and connectivity between financial and non-financial information.
• Staying up-to-date with emerging regulations and standards (e.g., TCFD, TNFD, CRSD, ESRS, ISSB, SFDR, Taxonomy Regulations, SEC Climate Rule, PRA SS3/19, GRI, SASB, WEF IBC, UN Principles for Responsible Investment)
• Knowledge of value drivers within Sustainability
• Project management skills with a demonstrated ability to work on multiple engagements effectively
• Experience in a fast-paced environment
• Experience in managing and coaching teams
• Clear and effective communication skills
• Ability to build key stakeholder relationships, both internally and with clients

Responsibilities of role:

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the project team in various Sustainability reporting activities, including:
• Current state Sustainability reporting assessments
• Regulatory impact assessments and gap analysis
• Sustainability reporting landscape reviews and horizon scanning
• Sustainability materiality assessments
• Sustainability reporting maturity assessments
• Sustainability reporting implementation design
• Sustainability reporting assurance readiness assessments
• Manage client-facing and internal engagements, overseeing progress and budgets
• Serve as a subject matter expert on projects, specific topics, or reporting frameworks
• Stay updated on the latest reporting developments through continuous research
• Manage day-to-day relationships with key client and internal stakeholders
• Identify new client opportunities and contribute to the development of sales and marketing materials, including proposals and thought leadership
• Contribute to the further development of our Sustainability Reporting proposition and approach, including digital assets.

People Responsibilities:

• Develop junior team members through effective coaching, supervision, and training
• Practise upward management and communication
• Foster a positive and inclusive team environment

Desirable skill sets include:

• Experience managing or delivering sustainability reporting within/for a company
• Assurance experience, including evaluating controls over financial and operational (non-financial) processes.

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Qualifications / Certifications required:

• Ideally educated to Degree level or equivalent, we are open to strong candidates from all relevant educational backgrounds but you must have excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Certification(s): Salesforce, Microsoft CRM or SAP CRM
• Relevant certification(s) in one or more of the following:
• Salesforce
• SAP CRM
• Microsoft CRM
• User Experience Design

Experience required:

• 8+ years of experience, gained with a leading professional services or systems implementation firm
• Expert knowledge and understanding of digital trends and challenges across industries, gained through project experience, contribution to thought leadership, articles, client recommendation, etc
• Architecture skills spanning across Solution, data and integration domains while being aware of infrastructure, security and other non functional dimensions.
• Demonstrable track record of helping to shape successful business development of digital and other transformation initiatives
• Strong knowledge of the vendor landscape, ideally with leading certifications or will to pursue certifications.
• Proven understanding of Cloud market and technologies.
• Ability to operate across multiple lines of business and team up with other PwC disciplines to enrich the support to our clients.
• Support the business development activities in combination with client delivery and practice growth.
• Adaptability to continuously learn and develop the necessary skills to progress and stretch yourself.
• Strong autonomy and drive to ensure quality progress and outputs.
• Ability to drive teams in fluid environments to define relevant next steps, collect buy-in to bring clarity and progress.
• Supporting Pre-sales during development of new business with new or existing clients
• Producing proposals & working with technology vendors to present proposals
• Review of proposals during the presales process to ensure proposal accuracy
• Working with the commercial team to ensure a smooth handover in to Delivery processes
• Participate in recruitment activities where necessary
• Demonstrable hands-on cloud based cutting edge technology experience

Nice to have:

• Coding experience, server side (e.g. Apex, .Net, Java) and clientside (e.g. Javascript, CSS)

Responsibilities of role:

• Assist the Architecture Team with specification review for System Integration and Vendor specifications and evaluation for CRM solutions

Skill sets required:

•  As a [Grade level], 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: 

Architecture skills:

• Experience is leading the designing strategic architecture, roadmap and transition states addressing business, technology and people aspects.
• Ability to drive and enforce continuity; traceability of information – across diverse stakeholders – throughout the transformation stages and therefore delivering fit for purpose solutions in line with strategic objectives.
• Proven and field tested architectural design skills and ability to discuss the merits and trade-offs of using any particular design approach and technology.
• Experience of vendor landscape, vendor selection / management process, vendor and market analysis.
• Strong enterprise architecture knowledge with a specialty on at least one of front office / middle office / back office
• Leading vendors including Application, Data, Infrastructure and Cloud platform technologies
• Solid understanding of Cloud technologies (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS) and operational enablers such as DevSecOps.
• Thought leadership to act as trusted advisor to advise clients senior technical leaders on best practice points of view on next-generation platforms and enablement.
• Proven track records and certifications on key leading market CRM vendors, and delivery standards (e.g. SaFe, Scrum, etc)
• Team mentoring: Drive and support the internal growth of the strategy and architecture capabilities

Collaboration and teaming skills:

• Multiple experience in fluid environments delivering complex solutions in Agile and iterative delivery models.
• Used to work across diverse stakeholders in a multidisciplinary environment.
• Multi industry expertise with experiences across Tier 1 companies.

Baseline consulting skills

• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Effective written and verbal communication.
• Organizational ability to manage and work on multiple projects / tasks.
• Adaptability to the client needs and industry areas.
• Experiences across several industries including Energy & Utilities, Retail and Consumer, Telecommunications Media and technology, Finance.
• Coaching and mentoring other resources.
• Continuous learning to remain up to date and informed of the latest trends.

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Certification(s): TOGAF

• Relevant certification(s) in one or more of the following:
• SAP
• Microsoft
• Cloud solutions such AWS and Azure

Experience required:

• 8+ years of experience, gained with a leading professional services or systems implementation firm
• Expert knowledge and understanding of digital trends and challenges across industries, gained through project experience, contribution to thought leadership, articles, client recommendation, etc
• Architecture skills spanning across Solution, data and integration domains while being aware of infrastructure, security and other non functional dimensions.
• Demonstrable track record of helping to shape successful business development of digital and other transformation initiatives
• Strong knowledge of the vendor landscape, ideally with leading certifications or will to pursue certifications.
• Proven understanding of Cloud market and technologies.
• Ability to operate across multiple lines of business and team up with other PwC disciplines to enrich the support to our clients.
• Support the business development activities in combination with client delivery and practice growth.
• Adaptability to continuously learn and develop the necessary skills to progress and stretch yourself.
• Strong autonomy and drive to ensure quality progress and outputs.
• Ability to drive teams in fluid environments to define relevant next steps, collect buy-in to bring clarity and progress.
• Supporting Pre-sales during development of new business with new or existing clients
• Producing proposals & working with technology vendors to present proposals
• Review of proposals during the presales process to ensure proposal accuracy
• Working with the commercial team to ensure a smooth handover in to Delivery processes
• Participate in recruitment activities where necessary
• Demonstrable hands-on cloud based cutting edge technology experience

Nice to have:

• Coding experience, server side (e.g. Apex, .Net, Java) and clientside (e.g. Javascript, CSS)

Responsibilities of role:

• Assist the Architecture Team with specification review for System Integratrion and Vendor specifications and roadmap design

Skill sets required:

• As a [Grade level], 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:

Architecture skills:

• Experience is leading the designing strategic architecture, roadmap and transition states addressing business, technology and people aspects.
• Ability to drive and enforce continuity; traceability of information – across diverse stakeholders – throughout the transformation stages and therefore delivering fit for purpose solutions in line with strategic objectives.
• Proven and field tested architectural design skills and ability to discuss the merits and trade-offs of using any particular design approach and technology.
• Experience of vendor landscape, vendor selection / management process, vendor and market analysis.
• Strong enterprise architecture knowledge with a specialty on at least one of front office / middle office / back office
• Leading vendors including Application, data, infrastructure and Cloud platform technologies
• Hands on expertise of data / integration / security design to enable modularity and flexibility in the solution.
• Data: Enterprise Data Model, MDM, data modeling.
• Integration: IPaaS, API, Micro services and modern integration patterns,
• Key protocols (REST, etc), Omnichannel solution, performance and scalability.
• Security: data normalization, secured perimeter, Identity and Access Management.
• Solid understanding of Cloud technologies (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS) and operational enablers such as DevSecOps.
• Thought leadership to act as trusted advisor to advise clients senior technical leaders on best practice points of view on next-generation platforms and enablement.
• Proven track records and certifications on key leading market vendors, architecture standards (e.g. TOGAF), delivery standards (e.g. SaFe, Scrum, etc)
• Team mentoring: Drive and support the internal growth of the strategy and architecture capabilities

Collaboration and teaming skills:

• Multiple experience in fluid environments delivering complex solutions in Agile and iterative delivery models.
• Used to work across diverse stakeholders in a multidisciplinary environment.
• Multi industry expertise with experiences across Tier 1 companies.

Baseline consulting skills

• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Effective written and verbal communication.
• Organizational ability to manage and work on multiple projects / tasks.
• Adaptability to the client needs and industry areas.
• Experiences across several industries including Energy & Utilities, Retail and Consumer, Telecommunications Media and technology, Finance.
• Coaching and mentoring other resources.
• Continuous learning to remain up to date and informed of the latest trends.