PricewaterhouseCoopers

Line of Service

Internal Firm Services

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

IFS - Risk & Quality (R&Q)

Management Level

Associate

Job Description & Summary

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.

Those in audit risk and quality at PwC will focus on providing support to internal teams to mitigate and control client engagement risks. You are an experienced auditor and/or technical specialist who leads on audit quality through thought leadership, setting guidance, and a continuous cycle of improving, learning and monitoring.

A career in the Quality Management function, within Internal Firm Services, will provide you with the opportunity to advance and foster quality-oriented culture throughout our organization. You’ll focus on promoting and monitoring compliance with internal policies and procedures to help manage our firm achieve its Quality Management objectives. 

You will also build and maintain strong and effective relationships with key stakeholders of the business teams within PwC. 

This role will have a broad range of activities including: 

• Understand, evaluate and test the Firm's internal System of Quality Management to ensure its compliance with ISQM 1 
• Manage/deliver different audit/non-audit/BAS review programmes from planning (e.g., engagement selection, designing review checklist/guidance, reviewer assignment); execution (e.g., providing support to reviewers and engagement teams) to completion (e.g., analyzing results/findings, issues and underlying root causes, developing quality improvement plan/remediation plan including preparing and delivering training, preparing various global reporting, etc.) 
• Maintaining the firm’s leadership dashboard to monitor Quality KPIs 
• Managing various compliance review program to monitor the application of the auditing standards and to evaluate the performance of partners, directors and managers on selected individual engagements; and 
• Performing root cause analyses to identify potential factors contributing to the firm’s quality and to identify how the firm can provide the best possible environment for engagement teams to deliver quality work. 
• Performing timely file archival compliance testing 
• Providing support for root cause analysis of various quality reviews 
• Generating relevant management reports to support monitoring and reporting 
• Responsible for supporting on continuous improvements and innovative ideas on all areas of Risk & Quality 
• Provide support to the Engagement Quality Review annual program 
• Delivering R&Q training to partners and staff. 
• Supporting internal transformation projects (including process improvements and digitization, etc.) 
• Supporting the R&Q team in queries from client facing staff and providing pragmatic advice and solutions to their R&Q queries

Education:

• ACCA Affiliate
• ACA
• BS Accounting & Finance

Experience:

• 1-2 years of relevant experience in quality control / internal audit.

You will undertake quality control / assurance roles on our client projects in a dynamic and ever-changing environment. You will be the point of contact for junior associates and play a key part in supporting both their development as well as your own. You will also build and maintain strong and effective relationships with key stakeholders within the client in order to help deliver the service you are providing; and you will work as part of a team to deliver the targets agreed with the client.

Essential:

• Experience conducting due diligence on clients; ensuring that all regulatory information and documentation has been completed
• Experience quality reviewing / testing the work of others to ensure quality standards and expectations are always met.
• Strong knowledge of company structures, funds and banking products.
• Experience supporting and coaching junior associates in the team; acting as point of contact
• Ability to manage relationships with key stakeholders from KYC, Legal, Credit, and Sales

Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)

Degrees/Field of Study required:

Degrees/Field of Study preferred:

Certifications (if blank, certifications not specified)

Required Skills

Optional Skills

Accepting Feedback, Accepting Feedback, Active Listening, Auditing, Auditing Standards, Audit Internal Controls, Audit Preparation, Audit Reporting, Audit Risk Assessments, Audit Support, Business Process Improvement, Communication, Compliance and Standards, Compliance Assurance, Compliance Auditing, Compliance Risk Assessment, Compliance Training, Data Analysis and Interpretation, Developing Policies and Guidelines, Emotional Regulation, Empathy, Ethics Training, External Audit, Inclusion, Intellectual Curiosity {+ 21 more}

Desired Languages (If blank, desired languages not specified)

Travel Requirements

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

Government Clearance Required?

Job Posting End Date