Vacancies at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

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 be able to build relationships and understand opportunities.
• The candidate should understand Risk Assurance services.
• The candidate should be able to present audit findings to clients and understand the risks involved with report writing
• The candidate should be inquisitive and self learn new technologies such as AI, API auditing, etc and assist partners in taking that to the market for TMT
• The candidate should be able to travel outside if Jhb within SA and outside of SA
• The candicate should be able to build his/her own networks and build client relationships across our client base.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS 

• Should have obtained an IT or Internal Audit professional qualification.

EXPERIENCE

• Excel Access SQL
• Understanding of structured programming or scripting
• Understanding of IT governance and risk(Cobit)
• Financial systems and intermediate level accounting
• Project management and planning

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PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Maintain a full product life cycle perspective for all products in relevant product line(s) with a focus on value and viability.
• Establish and maintain relationships with the key business and technology stakeholders
• Provide full transparency of the vision, mission, strategy, backlog, trade-offs, costs and value of all products in their portfolio
• Manage the backlog of future capabilities or products needed to meet business demand
• Link products with relevant business strategy and related profit and loss goals
• Orchestrate internal and external stakeholders to validate and refine product definitions and roadmaps
• Define product roadmap based on business outcomes
• Build the business case for a product and ensure the product is delivered in a manner that best achieves financial or other goals
• Help to identify the functional and manageability requirements for the business application
• Key contact for impactful incidents, communicating and liaising with stakeholders to understand the impact and working with specialists to resolve the problem.
• Responsible for ensuring that we deliver services into operations and production systems are operationally reliable, available and secure inline with Information Security Standards and requirements. Innovate within these  standards utilizing ITIL, Agile and DevOps practices to their full value.
• Can demonstrate compliance with Information Security Policy Controls Standards, providing necessary evidence to support audit activities as required.
• Ensure preparedness to deliver and support the entire business capability of a product, including all its human, organizational, process and physical aspects
• Build and improve the strategy and governance for products and applications
• Bring the product to market in collaboration with the marketing and change teams
• Ensure ongoing product success as defined by the business case
• Maintain the necessary knowledge and experience in the team in order to provide optimum product support
• Provide communication on the product performance to relevant stakeholders
• Manage product decommission and lessons learned for other product areas and the organisation

KEY KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Business Administration or Business Management or similar. 
• Product Management qualification
• ITIL Foundation (or other ITSM qualification)
• 5+ years in IT within product, project, analysis or application management
• Familiarity with the principles of design thinking and agile software delivery
• Engaging executive stakeholders
• Experience of product / application  management discipline
• Experience in guiding IT Operations in the ongoing operational management of applications and products
• Business acumen and enterprise knowledge
• Relationship building
• Customer centric focus
• Ability to diagnose and resolve technical failures
• Time management
• Prioritisation 
• Leadership and influence
• Facilitation and persuasion skills
• Collaboration with delivery teams
• Excellent communication skills
• Visionary / Holistic Thinking
• Strategic planning and thinking
• Outcome driven orientation

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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, ISSB 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 and effective prioritisation skills
• Experience in managing and coaching teams
• Clear and effective communication skills: particularly in managing complex stakeholder landscapes
• 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

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PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Our Transformation Confidence capability in the Consulting and Risk Services Digital Trust competency is focussed on protecting our clients' investments as they embark on their digital transformation journeys. We provide independent check-and-challenge in order to proactively identify and highlight risk in their change programmes.
• As a member of this dynamic team, you will be embedded in our clients' transformation initiatives to independently evaluate and assess their strategic alignment, governance, delivery engine performance and efficiency, testing capabilities, deployment and benefits realisation amongst others. 
• You will also contribute to key regulatory initiatives such as Operational Resilience and get involved in client programmes in an execution/consulting capacity and participate in IT audits and Internal Audits. 
• You will also develop and contribute to practice development, methodology and globally recognised thought leadership while building commercial prowess and growing the profile of the capability, the team and yourself. 

Resource Profile

• You will also develop and contribute to practice development, methodology and globally recognised thought leadership while building commercial prowess and growing the profile of the capability, the team and yourself. 
• Has worked within a cross-functional agile team performing product ownership, development, testing, deployment etc; OR has worked in IT architecture OR has worked in a traditional Waterfall SDLC environment
• Strong working knowledge of operational risk management and IT controls
• Excellent verbal and written presentation skills and competency in interacting with senior and junior levels
• Aptitude and desire to exploit technology skills to assess risk in our client's transformational change programmes as well as their Business As Usual environments

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• IT or Computer Science bachelor’s degree.

EXPERIENCE

• Has 4-8 years relevant experience with exposure to several of the following areas:
• Microservices and API - design, development, testing, troubleshooting
• Has relevant recent experience in cloud native and cloud-hybrid environments. Cloud migration experience is also desirable
• IT audit
• Project management (PMP, Prince II, Scrum, SAFE, etc
• Enterprise Architecture (TOGAF, Zachman, etc)
• Service Management experience (IT4IT, ITIL, COBIT)
• Regulatory experience in the Financial Services environment