IT Audit - Data Technology

About PwC Audit and Assurance

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 IT audit at PwC, you will focus on helping to assess and evaluate the design and effectiveness of an organisation's IT systems and controls to provide compliance with regulations and mitigate risks.

Enhancing your leadership style, you motivate, develop and inspire others to deliver quality. You are responsible for coaching, leveraging team member’s unique strengths, and managing performance to deliver on client expectations. With your growing knowledge of how business works, you play an important role in identifying opportunities that contribute to the success of our Firm. You are expected to lead with integrity and authenticity, articulating our purpose and values in a meaningful way. You embrace technology and innovation to enhance your delivery and encourage others to do the same.

Skills, Knowledge, and Experiences

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

• Analyse and identify the linkages and interactions between the component parts of an entire system.
• Take ownership of projects, ensuring their successful planning, budgeting, execution, and completion.
• Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables.
• Develop skills outside your comfort zone, and encourage others to do the same.
• Effectively mentor others.
• Use the review of work as an opportunity to deepen the expertise of team members.
• Address conflicts or issues, engaging in difficult conversations with clients, team members and other stakeholders, escalating where appropriate.
• Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.

Main Purpose of the Role

• Provide data analytics support across lines of services, including internal and external clients.
• Contribute to the development of digital assets to support Data Analytics services.
• Contribute to risk management processes and business development initiatives.

Key Performance Areas

We are a Channel 2 environment with the areas of delivery:

• Cross industry delivery in the IT Risk, Internal Audit spaces
• Project Assurance assignments and business readiness (PMBOK, SAFe AGILE)
• Software implementation QA (CMMI)
• Business continuity and disaster recovery (ISO 22301 and 27031)
• IT governance COBIT 19, ITIL and Financial Services regulations
• Data analytics and management including AI solutions (PwC Chat API, Python)

Qualifications

• BsC IT Hons, Bcom Information Systems Hons, BsC Hons Computer Science, or other relevant qualifications.

Experience

• 2-3 years’ experience in data analytics is a requirement

Key Competencies

• Project Management, Project Assurance, IT Architecture
• Data analytics with Python programming
• IT audit and controls
• The ability to draw insights from diverse data sets
• Data visualisation (PowerBI)
• Pro-active and committed to delivery
• Ability to perform under pressure
• Planning and organising ability
• Conflict management
• Analytical and solutions driven
• Flexible and adaptable to change
• Report writing