PwC - Biggest provider of audit, accounting and tax services to the companies listed in the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Also provides internal audit, forensic audit, corporate finance, corporate governance services, sustainable assurance services and others.
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Management
- Reporting to: EPQ Driver - Senior Manager
- Responsible for: N/A
Qualifications and experience:
- Qualifications preferred: CA(SA)
- Experience required: Audit industry experience, Change/Project Management experience advantageous
Role Summary
- You’ll help South African audit engagements teams and individuals create value and improve the way they work. Challenges are better solved together!
- That’s why you’ll join a unique community of solvers to build trust in society and solve important problems.
- The Engagement Performance and Quality (EPQ) team brings this to life by helping engagement teams and clients further enhance financial performance, quality and their people's experience, alongside the delivery of audit services.
As a Project Manager in our EPQ internal consulting team your impact will be seen by:
- Designing and facilitating workshops involving a broad range of internal or external customers to ensure end-to-end customer experience and performance improvement strategies meet requirements
- Driving the EPQ change maker community to ensure continuous implementation and adoption of EPQ principles within the Assurance practice; and to provide focus to this community to support the achievement of the EPQ strategic objectives
- Improving the processes that underpin Assurance engagements by assessing problems, then co-developing solutions to benefit PwC audit engagement teams
- Executing special projects as needed in support of the EPQ programme and managing team content and product development
- Educating and sharing best practices with the Assurance practice and business leaders in relation to the project planning and execution of their audits
Key Accountabilities:
- Ensure the successful implementation of the EPQ strategy, responsibilities, services and deliverables.
- Monitor EPQ KPI reporting and assist the EPQ Senior Manager in reporting to business leaders.
- Deputise for the EPQ Senior Manager when required.
- Provide support and guidance to change maker community ‘EPQ drivers’ to ensure they have the tools and knowledge necessary to fulfill their roles.
- Provide support throughout EPQ workshop programmes, including facilitation support to the lead facilitator.
- Embed EPQ ‘project management’ and process improvement capabilities within the Assurance practice through the delivery of training, success stories and other continuous communication strategies
- Update and maintain the EPQ team Actions Log
Skills and Knowledge
- Excellent proven project management skills, and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously with minimal supervision
- Proven track record for planning, executing, controlling and closing projects
- Strong skills in creating and maintaining project plans, including risks, actions, and issues management
- Strong and demonstrated ability to build lasting relationships with key stakeholders
- Diplomatic ability to influence others at all levels of the business
- Excellent written/oral communication skills for workshop facilitation, reports and presentations
- Knowledge sharing and coaching capabilities
- Keen problem solver, with the ability to identify opportunities for change and to also convey the need for change
- Personable, proactive, professional and pursues excellence in all aspects of work.
- Highly proficient IT skills in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Microsoft tools
- Ability to work in a collaborative environment and also independently
- Takes full ownership of assigned tasks, ensuring timely completion and proactively managing deadlines
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Job Description & Summary
- PwC has recently launched the South African Technology & Innovation Centre (SATIC).
- SATIC is designed to innovate, build and deploy for our global clients across a range of technology and transformational solutions.
- PwC's ambition to grow through acquisitions and development of new innovative ways to serve clients, mandatory firm rotation, the ongoing climate of regulatory change, and the increased focus on globalisation all mean that PwC's ability to maintain Independence from our audit clients is ever more business critical for PwC.
- The Guidewire team has a vital role to play in enabling PwC's growth, whilst protecting our reputation and brand, and the team will be at the heart of change in the firm over the next few years.
- If you are looking for a career where every day is different, where challenges are complex and where you can make a real difference, then we want to hear from you.
- About the Role
- We have a number of exciting opportunities across a range of roles and disciplines to join our expanding Guidewire/Insurance team.
- As a Guidewire Developer you will be responsible for participating in business requirements, review meetings and providing design & solutions on user stories to be implemented on Guidewire projects.
- Estimate the development effort during sprint planning meetings (Configuration and Integration story cards and design, develop, unit test and document for new and existing software solutions as per requirements).
What will you do?
Senior Developer
- Develop software solutions that are to the high performing technical standards and created using Guidewire best practices.
- Create test data and unit tests to ensure that software solutions meet requirements.
- Perform defect triage and fixes during System Testing, and User Acceptance Testing.
- Ensure non-functional, security, regulatory and compliance requirements are met for all development activities.
- Participate in code reviews and assist in resolution of technical issues.
- Prepare and produce software releases.
- Participate in daily standup meetings, sprint planning and retrospective.
- Lead POC to support new opportunities.
- Guide and mentor junior developers.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of team processes.
What are we looking for?
- Senior Developer
- 4 plus years software development experience
- 2 years Experience in Insurance domain, preferably in Property & Casualty / General Insurance.
- 2 years Working experience in at least one of the Guidewire InsuranceSuite products (PolicyCenter, ClaimCenter, BillingCenter or Digital Portals) Configuration/Integration.
- 2 years Experience working with GOSU, JAVA 5/ J2EE, Web Services (Axis 2), XML, SQL, Gradle, Spring, Hibernate, Castor, REST/ JSON and Enterprise Messaging System.
- Experience in using Configuration management tools like Git, Tortoise SVN, Source Tree, Perforce, Plastic and ticket management tools like Azure DevOps, JIRA, HPQC.
- 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?
- Prior client facing and design experience
- Azure/AWS Cloud experience
- Expertise in Product Designer / Rating integration will be an added advantage.
- Guidewire Certification on latest version
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Role Summary:
- This is a dynamic role that combines general office administration with personal assistant responsibilities, supporting of local Partners in day-to-day operations.
- Join a team of administrators committed to teamwork and collaboration.
Qualifications / Certifications required:
- Grade 12
- A relevant tertiary qualification (Preferably in Administration or Finance)
- Code B Driver’s license
Experience required:
- 3 - 5 years’ related experience gained in a professional environment
Responsibilities of role:
General administration
- Manage general office administration and filing systems.
- Compile and format communication that will include Meeting agendas, minutes of meetings, reports and presentations.
- Coordinate the local office’s monthly sustainability reporting.
- Format documents to meet internal standards and ensure consistency.
- Perform scanning and photocopying tasks for document preparation and distribution.
- Assist with PDF comparisons to identify and highlight document changes or discrepancies.
Quality
- Manage paper file archiving systems.
- Support partners with IRBA client reconciliations and work declarations.
Trainees-SAICA Management
- Oversee and track compliance with SAICA skills development reviews using the Learner Tracking System (LTS) platform, ensuring all trainee requirements are met.
Risk management
- Facilitate, extract and monitor risk reports.
- Follow up and assist managers in attending to Risk Management queries.
- Assist manager group with client and engagement approval processes.
- Manage Information Security Management inspections for main office.
- Coordinate business continuity management processes and administration for the office.
Business Development
- Assist with the collection of documents in support of bids and proposals.
- Prepare quotation, bid and proposal documentation
- Maintain record of proposals or potential opportunities and monitor allocation of work on the in-house application.
- Arrange meetings regarding the client programme and monitor the related action plans.
Office operations
- Monitor consumable stock levels and place orders when necessary.
- Schedule regular maintenance and address any operational issues with service providers.
- Track usage and restock as needed to maintain a clean and functional workspace.
- Liaise with external vendors to schedule routine and emergency maintenance for critical systems including alarms, fire alarms, generators, air conditioning units and appliances.
- Identify and report building maintenance issues such as fused light bulbs, broken locks, or other infrastructure concerns to the landlord.
- Supervise the cleaning staff.
- Petty Cash – oversee petty cash transactions, maintain records, process petty cash top up requests
- Assist partners with corporate Responsibility initiatives
Skill sets required:
- Proficiency in use of Microsoft 365 applications including: MS Word (Advanced), Excel, Power Point.
- Pro-active and able to use own initiative.
- Pay attention to detail.
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to engage professionally with clients, managers, and senior leadership.
- Good writing and typing skills.
- Good interpersonal and communication skills.
- Ability to manage confidential and sensitive information.
- Reliable, motivated, results-orientated, and able to work under pressure, able to multi-task.
- Team-oriented with a collaborative mindset.
- Ability to prioritize and meet deadlines.
Role related attributes:
- We're very proud of our unique culture and expect our people to demonstrate skills and behaviours that will support us in implementing our business strategy.
- This is important to the work we do, both for our business and our clients.
- These skills and behaviours are a strong component of our global leadership framework: The PwC Professional.
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Qualifications
- Bachelor of Commerce with Honours in Accounting with CA (SA); or
- Bachelor of Business Science with Honours in Finance / CA (SA).
- Any additional CFA, CIMA or other relevant degrees / professional designations would be advantageous, but not a specific requirement.
Experience requirement
- A minimum of 5 years’ experience in business restructuring/ leveraged finance/ financial advisory preferably from a financial institution, professional services firm or banking background.
Purpose
- PwC CARS provides independent and objective advice while working with clients to structure, arrange, negotiate and implement holistic financing solutions across the capital structure in order to meet their strategic objectives in both high growth and distressed business environments.
- The team services a wide range of corporates and stakeholders including lenders, equity holders, credit funds, pension trustees and government bodies.
- Our detailed knowledge and experience across various industry sectors and products (such as transactional banking, bank, debt and equity capital markets, and financial markets) allow us to identify, source and match the best available solution(s) / product(s) to a client’s specific needs.
- CARS is part of PwC’s Deals division and is looking to expand its team to support its current strong growth and we are looking for an ambitious and highly motivated person to join our team.
Job description
- As a senior member of the PwC CARS team, the candidate will be involved in leading a variety of financial advisory and restructuring projects across a diverse range of industries and will gain exposure to a wide range of clients.
- PwC CARS services a wide spectrum of clients ranging from large, listed multinationals through to entrepreneurial, owner managed businesses, covering both domestic and cross Africa border work.
The candidate will be responsible for guiding, supporting and coaching junior team members while delivering high quality advice on a wide range of financial advisory and restructuring mandates, including, but not limited to:
- Financial restructuring and exit strategies,
- Financing and debt advisory related services,
- Turnaround strategy,
- Independent business reviews,
- Strategic options analysis,
- Contingency planning reviews,
- Short-term cash flow reviews and forecasting,
- Cost saving, optimisation and working capital improvement plans
- Work alongside other PwC teams, including specialist lines of service and sector experts; and
- Advising in relation to Business Rescue proceedings (Chapter 6 of the Companies Act, 2008).
Requirements / Competencies
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
- Exceptional project management skills are considered fundamental together with a motivated and commercially astute approach
- Build trust with teams and stakeholders through open and honest conversations and
- Uphold the firm’s code of ethics and business conduct.
Candidates will display the following competencies:
- Possess a high degree of self-motivation and energy, agility and the ability to drive for high quality, meeting of deadlines and a track record of setting and achieving goals
- Good interpersonal and client relationship skills and the ability to relate to people at all levels of an organisation
- A highly motivated, confident individual with presence
- A proactive and dynamic team player who can provide coaching and guidance to junior team members where appropriate
- Problem solving capabilities / skills with the ability to think strategically, innovatively and “out the box”
- An interest in and knowledge of the financial markets
- A desire to build on commercial and industry knowledge
Financial analysis skills
Financial modelling skills
- Knowledgeable in terms of credit agreements and covenants
- Astute negotiation skills with the ability to develop negotiation strategies
Conflict management skill
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills are essential, including the ability to write succinct, well-structured reports and client communications
- Project and client management skill including the ability to run independently with projects when necessary
- Highly rated with good academic credentials and
- Proven ability to multitask and ensure effective delivery of the priorities to meet targets and objectives and who works effectively under pressure.
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About the role
- The main purpose of the Manager role is to manage client portfolios, maintain sound client relationships and manage the internal audit team, including the coaching and development of staff.
- A key focus is business development, the incumbent would be responsible to actively drive this within the context of the GRIA strategy.
Essential skills and experience
- 5 -10 years’ experience in internal audit with at least 4 years in a Supervisor / Manager role
Key Knowledge & Skills:
- Extensive experience in internal audit consulting.
- Experience in managing a portfolio of clients.
- Well-developed writing and verbal skills.
- Strong presentation skills will be beneficial
Required qualifications
- Honours in BComm Internal Audit/ B Tech degree in Internal Audit/ Honours in BComm Accounting
- CIA qualification
- Qualification in CA(SA) is beneficial
Desirable skills or attributes
- Ability to perform research
- Analytical skills
- An assurance risk management mindset
- Attention to detail
- Ability to work both as part of a team, and independently
- Ability to work under pressure, to prioritise and to meet deadlines
- Competent in risk identification and analysis
- Competent in control assessment, design and recommendation
- Good communication skills
- Fluent in English
Responsibilities
- As part of the team this person will be required to:
- Manage a portfolio of Internal Audit clients by managing internal audit assignments from planning to completion
- Preparing reports and discussion thereof at a managerial level
- Manage work in progress, budgets and debtors
- Develop and maintain sound client relationships
- Training, coaching, development and mentoring of junior staff
- Staff management and performance appraisals
- Act as part of the Internal Audit consulting team
- Research best practice in Corporate Governance
- Identify new potential work in business and risk management, and compile proposals
- Actively drive the GRIA strategy through all interactions
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