Opportunities Open at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

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.

Qualifications / Certifications required:

• Bachelor’s Degree in either Psychology, HR Management, Business Management or similar

Experience required:

• 2 - 4 years working experience within the Graduate Recruitment Function
• Proven track record in managing stakeholders
• Proven track record in managing a high graduate recruitment numbers

Preferred experience:

• The following would be advantageous:
• Graduate / campus hire experience 
• Bulk hiring experience 
• Neptune or similar ATS experience
• Management consulting, finance, tax or audit specific experience

Responsibilities of role:

• Screen, select and qualify candidates to produce a shortlist
• Scheduling and conducting interviews
• Negotiating salary packages
• Following the necessary processes in order to obtain the required internal approvals
• Setting up assessments and assessment feedback sessions
• Ensuring that all verifications are run on all successful candidates - prior to appointment
• Maintaining regular liaison with hiring managers to ensure that recruitment plans and headcount targets support and meet the business needs and objectives.
• Ensuring full business participation in the recruitment process and programmes
• Building and maintaining relationships with target candidates and stakeholders
• Ensure adherence to legal, regulatory, and firm compliance throughout the recruitment process.
• Attending career days, school fairs and webinars
• Be involved in aspects of programme recruitment drives

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Qualifications / Certifications required:

• Bachelor’s Degree in either Psychology, HR Management, Business Management or similar highly advantageous

Experience required:

• 2 - 4 years working experience within the Recruitment Function

OR

• Minimum 3 years working experience in a Specialist Researcher or Interviewer role
• Proven track record in managing stakeholders
• Proven track record in managing a high number of specs at any given time

Preferred experience:

• The following would be advantageous:
• Contractor recruiting experience advantageous
• Workday or similar ATS experience
• Management consulting, finance, tax or audit specific experience

Responsibilities of role:

• Screen, select and qualify candidates to produce a shortlist
• Scheduling and conducting interviews
• Negotiating salary packages
• Following the necessary processes in order to obtain the required internal approvals
• Setting up assessments and assessment feedback sessions
• Ensuring that all verifications are run on all successful candidates - prior to appointment
• Maintaining regular liaison with hiring managers to ensure that recruitment plans and headcount targets support and meet the business needs and objectives. 
• Ensuring full business participation in the recruitment process and programmes
• Building and maintaining relationships with target candidates and stakeholders
• Ensure adherence to legal, regulatory, and firm compliance throughout the recruitment process.
• Ensuring accurate, timeous report completion

Ad-hoc responsibilities:

• Attending career days, school fairs and webinars
• Be involved in aspects of programme recruitment drives

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Skills and experience 

• Experience of supporting & configuring HCM, Compensation and/or Advanced Compensation.
• Experienced in underpinning Cross Product areas such as Security & Reporting.
• Current Workday Pro or Active Implementation Certification in Compensation functionality (desirable but not mandatory)
• The ability to listen to requirements and provide imaginative solutions.
• Strong analytical and problems solving skills with experience in being able to implement and deliver solutions
• Experience of using case management systems for incident tracking and managing SLAs.

Key responsibilities

Role Description and Responsibilities

• The Operate Digital HR Systems Practice are a team of People Technology professionals providing Application Evolution Services for our clients. Our primary objective is not simply to be a support provider who resolves ‘tickets’ but to partner with our clients to ensure that we are solving their business problems and maximising their investment in their chosen HR Technology Platform.
• We require a Workdboay HCM & Compensation support analyst to join the HR Systems Practice in Operate Digital. 
• As a configuration analyst in the team you will be responsible for working directly with our clients and service managers on a daily basis to deliver our managed services capability.

Responsibilities:

• Working as part of our Workday Application Evolution Services team using your expertise of Workday to help resolve incidents for our clients whilst also providing ongoing maintenance services.
• Soliciting client requirements, presenting and facilitating workshops, analysing data, and configuring solutions in Workday to ensure configuration remains current.
• Working at all levels within our clients’ organisations from C-suite to the back office operations teams 
• Responsible for timely escalation to lead support analysts of challenges, risks or alternative functional design solutions when necessary 
• Taking responsibility for your own development with more senior colleagues and the development of more junior colleagues through career coaching and mentoring.

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Essential skills and experience

• 3 years 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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Responsibilities of the role:

•  Manage and perform corporate tax accounting assignments.
• Manage and perform audit of tax assignments.
• Manage and perform corporate tax compliance assignments, including preparation, review and submission of income tax and provisional tax returns.
• Builds new and manages existing client relationships and demonstrates basic knowledge of client’s businesses.
• Liaising with SARS and handling queries raised by SARS.
• Engage in technical discussions with colleagues and clients and draft written technical responses.
• Manages multiple clients, budgets and production goals and comply with firm risk policies and procedures.

Qualifications and experience:

•  BCom Accounting completed
•  Post graduate Degree or Diploma in taxation or in process of studying in this regard;
•  Completed SAIT articles
• 1 years post article experience in a corporate income tax position

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Job Responsibilities:

• The role requires some-one who can design and development of an analytical solutions / apps in addition to managing the product. 
• The ability to rapidly code functional prototypes, review code and develop marketing materials is an advantage. 
• Product managers must be able to interface with several stakeholder groups including our consulting partners, business analysts, other product managers, and our development teams.
• Management consulting experience in strategy and analytics. Familiarity with approaches of applying data and analytics to solve questions of business strategy for clients. 
• Storytelling – building storyboards and other presentations targeted at senior business audience. Could be in PowerPoint or other presentation media (videos, interactive presentations, etc) 
• Experience with release planning and roadmap creation; proven track record for deploying high quality products.
• Ability to be able to create competitive analyses for potential products, drive appropriate approaches and develop preliminary business cases – refining them all as emergent information arises. 
• Articulate and passionate verbal communicator – comfortable communicating with all of our stakeholders (partners, consultants & clients). 

Knowledge and Experience

• Some knowledge or experience in each of the three areas below is valuable. 
• Data Storage Technologies (i.e. SQL, Oracle, NoSQL, Hadoop, MSFT Access, etc.) 
• Data Manipulation and Analysis Languages (i.e., R/SAS, SPSS, Java, etc.) 
• Visualization Technologies (i.e. D3/HTML Visualizations, Tableau/Qlikview/Spotfire/etc, Advanced Excel/Access UI, etc.) 
• Flexible mind-set and comfort with multi-tasking. You will be exposed to different products, and your role may change rapidly given shifting product priorities and resource needs. 
• 3+ years of broad technology expertise in web-based systems architecture, service-based architecture, enterprise application architecture as well as experience managing expectations when balancing alternatives against business and financial constraints 
• 3+ years of progressive hands-on technical experience as well as 3+ years of full life-cycle software development experience including leading multi discipline development teams. 
• Ability to grasp a range of functional and non-functional requirements to understand the application scope to define the right architecture including solution components and the interactions 
• Experience with data architecture, data modeling and relational databases. 
• Experience with Hadoop, NoSQL and other Big Data technologies will be considered a plus.