PwC Digital Trust Data Analyst Jobs in South Africa

PwC Digital Trust Data Analyst Jobs in South Africa

Job Description & Summary

A career in our Oracle Risk Assurance practice, within Information Technology Risk Assurance will allow you to develop and apply strategies that help clients leverage enterprise technologies so they can get a higher return on their investment, mitigate risks, streamline processes, and find operational inefficiencies.

The work revolves around creative problem solving and applying innovative technologies to enable strategies that increase the value of the applications that run our client’s business, mitigate risk and find operational inefficiencies.

Our focus is on creating effective and efficient design for the most important business, security and compliance processes for our clients. We touch on aspects of application security, areas prone to fraud and financial misstatement, and streamline processes that are part of our client’s core business so they can get a higher return on this key investment.

Using innovative, and proprietary technologies, we help to bridge the gap between business stakeholders, compliance functions and Information Technology teams to assist in understanding how to embrace new ways of working, while limiting their financial and operational risk profile. We use knowledge of financial system design, risk mitigation, business process design, data integrity, security and use of data analytics.


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.

The Responsibilities for This Role Include but Are Not Limited to the Following::

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.

Job Purpose

We are looking for candidates that have an interest in developing data analytics solutions for clients, performing computer assisted audit

techniques and identifying new opportunities to use data analytics for efficiencies.

Principal Accountabilities

The successful individual will take responsibility for managing data analytics solutions for clients and computer assisted audit techniques projects and identifying new opportunities to use data analytics for efficiencies.

The candidate should have done some of the following Internal Audit, External Audit and Risk Assurance assignments responsible as a supervisor or senior for IT or Internal Controls audits.

That Would Include:

Review of IT controls within a General Computer Control environment such as system security, change control and system operations (Beneficial).

Review of project management controls and solution design (Beneficial).

Performing Data Analytics.

Reviewing internal controls design and effectiveness of manual and automated controls (Beneficial).

The candidate should be able to explain what goes into an audit plan and how to go about gather evidence through interviews and validation. The candidate should understand the PwC audit and risk management process for documenting work and findings. The candidate must follow up on review notes and assist with the clearance of findings including report writing.

The candidate should be able to draft a budget and deal with the client economics.

The candidate should be able to build relationships and understand opportunities.

The candidate should understand Risk Assurance services.

The candidate should be able to present audit findings to clients and understand the risks involved with report writing

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, Engineering or any related field.

Mandatory Certification Needed:

None

CISA (Advantage)

CA(SA) (Advantage)

Experience

Minimum 3 years of progressively more responsible related work experience in Information Technology, IT Governance, Architecture and BI/Analytics.

Excel Access SQL

Understanding of structured programming or scripting

Understanding of IT governance and risk(Cobit)

Financial systems and intermediate level accounting

Project management and planning

Some knowledge or experience in each of the three areas below is valuable.

Data Storage Technologies (i.e. SQL, Oracle, NoSQL, Hadoop, MSFT Access, etc.)

Data Manipulation and Analysis Languages (i.e. Alteryx, R/SAS, SPSS, Java, etc.)

Visualization Technologies (i.e. Advanced PowerBi, D3/HTML Visualizations, Tableau/Qlikview/Spotfire/etc, Advanced Excel/Access UI, etc.)

Key Knowledge & Skills

Excellent written and communication skills

Ability to establish and maintain interpersonal relationships

Ability to co-ordinate and manage the work activities of others

Can function in a team environment and individually

Ability to resolve conflicts

Good negotiation skills


How to Apply

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