Assurance-Financial Services-Senior Associate

1 Month ago • 1-4 Years • Legal • Finance

About the job

Job Description

This Senior Associate role within PwC's External Audit services focuses on providing assurance services and business advice to diverse clients, from small, fast-growing companies to large international entities. Responsibilities include participating in a wide range of projects, collaborating across teams, demonstrating creative thinking, and timely completion of assigned work. The role involves financial statement review, tests of details and controls, preparing audit documents, adhering to PwC policies, and participating in training. Essential skills include understanding audit standards, financial statement relationships, and using workflow management tools. The role demands teamwork, communication, and a commitment to quality and ethical conduct.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance
  • CA/CPA certification (experience requirements vary)
  • Financial statement review expertise
  • Conduct tests of details and controls
  • Adherence to PwC policies and procedures
  • Teamwork and communication skills
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Line of Service

Assurance

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

Assurance

Management Level

Senior Associate

Job Description & Summary

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.

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

As a Senior Associate, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

  • Use feedback and reflection to develop self awareness, personal strengths and address development areas.
  • Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities, coaching them to deliver results.
  • Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.
  • Use a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current industry or sector trends.
  • Review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance.
  • Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.
  • Seek and embrace opportunities which give exposure to different situations, environments and perspectives.
  • Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.
  • Able to read situations and modify behavior to build quality relationships.
  • Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Senior Associate

• You will play an integral role in PwC’s core assurance services provided to clients.

• Understand the process workflow related to work requests from initiation through completion, understand how workflow is managed within the firm's workflow management tool, understand optimal and required manner in which to document results of work performed.

• Participate in a wide range of projects and collaborate across multiple work streams or teams; consistently demonstrating creative thinking, individual initiative and timely completion of assigned work.

• Consistently demonstrate teamwork dynamics by working as a team member: understand personal and team roles, contribute to a positive working environment by building solid relationships with team members and proactively seek guidance, clarification and feedback.

• Serve as participant on communications with numerous Engagement teams.

You will have the opportunity to specialize in some of the following:

• Financial statement review procedures based on understanding of relationships between supporting documentation and financial statement documents in accordance with auditing standards.

• Conduct tests of details and controls for fixed asset, inventory, other asset additions, interest income/expense and dividends including understanding policies, auditing procedures, evaluation of qualitative items.

• Prepare documents based on audit policy and standard templates, including information gathering and population of templates and documents.

Responsibilities:

• Perform work and provide related deliverables in accordance with DC User Guide instructions as applied to engagement teamwork request submissions.

• Maintain working knowledge of DC User Guides.

• Monitor time and manage deadlines.

• Adhere to PwC SDC policies and procedures.

• Participate in training, coaching and other developmental opportunities

• Performs the quality check on all deliverables to ensure they are consistent with laid down quality parameters.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance or Chartered Accountant

Relevant Qualifications:

CA/CPA

Experience:

CA- 1+ years.

CPA- 4+ years

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

Desired Languages (If blank, desired languages not specified)

Travel Requirements

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

Government Clearance Required?

Job Posting End Date

December 31, 2024

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About The Company

At PwC, our purpose is to build trust in society and solve important problems. We’re a network of firms in 152 countries with over 327,000 people who are committed to delivering quality in assurance, advisory and tax services. Find out more and tell us what matters to you by visiting us at www.pwc.com. PwC refers to the PwC network and/or one or more of its member firms, each of which is a separate legal entity.


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