Senior Associate - Digital Audit
About the role
Job Description & Summary
As a Digital Audit Senior Associate, you will work with your team to assist the Financial Assurance team in understanding the clients IT environment, risks and controls to provide assurance over the reliability of the clients systems and data that support their financial reporting process.
You will assess and test a wide range of IT controls, including IT entity level controls and IT general controls such as access management, change management, program development and computer operations. A career within Digital Audit will also allow you to analyze and process big data and automate manual audit procedures using a number of data analytics tools to enhance the overall audit quality and efficiencies through data driven audits.
Responsibilities
As a Senior Associate, you will work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive consulting, industry and information technology experience. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Proactive reporting to Managers and above
- Solve complex problems through collaboration with the Financial Assurance team
- Train, coach, and supervise staff
- Contribute to the development of your own and teams technical acumen
- Develop strategic IT control recommendations to solve the clients IT challenges
- Deliver multiple projects with multiple teams within a single timeframe through strong team and project management skills
- Keep up to date with emerging technologies
- Develop internal and external relationships and your PwC brand
- Support management in delivering internal programs and initiatives around strategy, people, and operational excellence.
- Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients
Preferred skills
- Demonstrates extensive knowledge of providing services related to controls around the financial reporting and operational processes, including business process and IT management controls, which includes a proven record of success with managing the following:
- Financial reporting and information technology risks, processes and controls;
- Current and emerging technologies which may include: Oracle, SAP, Oracle Database, web development tools, virtualization, UNIX, Linux, and security technologies; -Core risks, processes and internal controls related to non-financial reporting, both manual and IT;
- Risks, processes and controls related to financial reporting, both manual and IT, in a specific industry sector;
- COSO Framework, CoBIT, ITIL and/or other leading business and IT control frameworks;
- Relevant subject matter expertise to support the development of thought leadership; and,
- Key internal operational processes of a professional services firm, e.g., engagement economics, billing and collection, performance appraisals, time reporting, personal independence and compliance requirement.
