Digital Audit Senior Manager - Data Analytics
- Employer
- PwC
- Location
- United Kingdom
- Salary
- Competitive
- Closing date
- 13 Dec 2022
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- Salary band
- Competitive
- Contract type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Where will they be working?
- Hybrid - mostly office
Job Details
Quality is at the heart of what we do. Combining passionate people with leading technology, we work together to build trust in society. We put the team first and solve important problems by challenging the organisations we audit and being open to challenge ourselves. We take pride in our work and the profession, recognising audit as a deep specialism.
Hear from our UK Head of Audit about the evolution of the Audit and what opportunities PwC could have for you.
It's a really exciting time to be joining us. We’re growing our teams across all areas of our Audit practice and investing a huge amount in our people, their skills and the technology available, as we continue to radically modernise our business and the way we serve our clients.
Learn more about The Future of Audit.
A career within External Audit services, will provide you with the opportunity to provide a range of Assurance services and business advice to a variety of clients from small, fast growing clients to large entities. Our clients are often well known brands and many have broad international reach. We focus on using the latest technology to reduce the level of manual testing ensuring you’ll focus on the most valuable areas of client service and on enhancing corporate governance and the reliability of our clients’ information.
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 would lead teams which develop audit solutions by implementing innovative technologies, such as Alteryx, SQL. Python, R, Power BI, PowerApps, Process Intelligence. 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
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The skills, insights and connections you develop at PwC are career defining wherever your career may take you. It’s the opportunity of a lifetime. Take it.
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