Audit & Assurance - Products & Services - Associate 2

At PwC, our people in audit and assurance focus on providing independent and objective assessments of financial statements, internal controls, and other assurable information enhancing the credibility and reliability of this information with a variety of stakeholders. They evaluate compliance with regulations including assessing governance and risk management processes and related controls. In financial statement audit at PwC, you will focus on obtaining reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report that includes the auditor’s opinion.

Driven by curiosity, you are a reliable, contributing member of a team. In our fast-paced environment, you are expected to adapt to working with a variety of clients and team members, each presenting varying challenges and scope. Every experience is an opportunity to learn and grow. You are expected to take ownership and consistently deliver quality work that drives value for our clients and success as a team. As you navigate through the Firm, you build a brand for yourself, opening doors to more opportunities.

Skills

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Apply a learning mindset and take ownership for your own development.
• Appreciate diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.
• Adopt habits to sustain high performance and develop your potential.
• Actively listen, ask questions to check understanding, and clearly express ideas.
• Seek, reflect, act on, and give feedback.
• Gather information from a range of sources to analyse facts and discern patterns.
• Commit to understanding how the business works and building commercial awareness.
• Learn and apply professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), uphold the Firm's code of conduct and independence requirements.
  
  

Job Description

Main purpose of the job and key background information

• You will play an integral role in PwC’s core assurance services provided to clients.
• Understand the process workflow related to work requests from initiation through completion, understand how workflow is managed within the firm's workflow management tool, understand optimal and required manner in which to document results of work performed
• Participate in a wide range of projects and collaborate across multiple work streams or teams; consistently demonstrating creative thinking, individual initiative and timely completion of assigned work Consistently demonstrate teamwork dynamics by working as a team member: understand personal and team roles; contribute to a positive working environment by building solid relationships with team members; and proactively seek guidance, clarification and feedback.
• Serve as participant on communication with numerous engagement teams
• You will have the opportunity to specialize in some of the following:
• Update, reconcile and maintain records in the central entity system, ensuring data integrity and consistency. Coordinate with various departments to gather necessary information to complete system updates and reconciliations.
• Perform regular reconciliations of financial data, accounts, and reports to identify and resolve discrepancies.
• Assist in preparation of documentation and reports as required by the finance and administration teams.
• Support day-to-day administrative duties including filing, data entry, and correspondence management.
• Ensure compliance with company policies and financial regulations.
• Identify process improvements to enhance efficiency and accuracy of system updates and reconciliations.
• Prepare documents based on audit policy and standard templates, including information gathering and population of templates and documents
  

Responsibilities

• Perform work and provide related deliverables in accordance with DC User Guide instructions as applied to engagement team work request submissions
• Maintain working knowledge of DC User Guides
• Monitor time and manage deadlines
• Adhere to PwC SDC policies and procedures
• Participate in training, coaching and other developmental opportunities
• Performs the quality check on all deliverables to ensure they are consistent with laid down quality parameters
  
  

Requirements These should include essential & desirable requirements such as:

• Level of experience
• Education/qualifications
• Industry experience
• Technical capability
• Sales/BD capability
• Metrics
• Key personal attributes
• Consulting experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Commerce (B.Com) or equivalent.
• Independently manage assigned tasks with minimal supervision ensuring timely and accurate completion.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite and Adobe Acrobat
• Team player, committed to providing high quality and maintaining timeliness
• Effective written and verbal communication skills in English
• Demonstrated self-motivation and a desire to take responsibility for personal growth and development
• Commitment to continuous training and to proactively learn new processes.