Digital Audit Senior Manager - London, United Kingdom - PwC
Description
A career within Risk Data and Analytics services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients develop a strategic and sustainable approach to harness the value of their data and drive business results.
We work with organisations across industries to develop customised, cost effective technology solutions that focus on delivering the relevant, actionable intelligence that executives need to understand operations and manage critical risks.
As a Senior Manager, you will be managing engagements and will be responsible for designing and developing ways to automate and reimagine audits, coaching teams and having a leadership role in the group.
You will build a strong understanding for the role data and analytics plays in the modern day audit and review and quality control of the outputs.
You'll get to work on technical assignments enabling you to develop skills in a range of data analytics and visualisation.
As well as developing business and soft skills around the topic of data and analytics within the audit which our clients are demanding today.
Day to day responsibilities will include:
Day to day coaching of junior staff members to help them progress
Partner leave conversations, leading a team and having broader oversight
Owning and delivering client engagements
Data management, including data extraction and data cleansing processes;
Analytics and reporting, including visualisation of data to help organisations manage business risk establish the right controls, processes and structures to ensure that information can be trusted and improve decision-making;
Advanced analytics, where we use data science techniques to help our clients navigate future risks and opportunities through predictive and prescriptive analytics.
Essential Skills:
Strong market credentials in data & analytics working with large organisations and an ability to demonstrate knowledge and insight in data management, data cleansing and data analytics within the audit process;
Strong stakeholder management and interpersonal skills, including communication with senior stakeholders of a non-data background (being able to communicate technical issues in simple business terms) and excellent reporting writing skills;
Solid experience in managing projects, including developing project plans, budgets and deliverables schedules;
Experience of managing people both in terms of managing delivery teams and providing coaching to individuals;
Experience of the full engagement delivery lifecycle including risk and stakeholder management;
Strong leadership skills an experience
Proven analytical and problem solving capabilities on complex engagements; and
Potential and ambition to develop a long -term career in PwC.
Desirable Skills:
Basic finance process knowledge (Order to Cash, Purchase to Pay, Financial Services etc) and how ERPs manage and structure the data;
Audit experience, and experience of applying data analytics within the external audit process; and
Use of technology in data & analytics including for use in providing managed services
Technical Skills:
Knowledge and experience of at least three of the following:
Data extraction from financial accounting systems;
Data clearing techniques and tools
A vision of how data analytics are going to be applied and development in the external audit practice
Understanding of key accounting principles and process cycles including revenue to receivables, purchase to cash
Data analytic technology such as Alteryx, SQL, Python, R,
SQL (preferably SQL Server) and data manipulation; and
Machine learning techniques
Use of visualisation technologies such as Power BI and Tableau
Qualifications:
A technical background in Computer Science, Data Analytics, Accounting or similar is desirable