Data Assurance Director - IT & Project Assurance - PricewaterhouseCoopers - San Francisco

Job description
Are you interested in the opportunity to work for an industry-leading firm that services clients that include the Fortune 500, and will give you the experience and exposure you need to build your career and personal brand? If you are, then PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (www.pwc.com/us) is the firm for you. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC US) helps clients meet the challenges and opportunities of the US marketplace in the areas of assurance, tax, and advisory. We offer the advantage of being part of a global network of firms combined with detailed knowledge of local, state and US national issues. More than 180,000 people in over 158 countries across the PwC network are committed to deliver quality in assurance, tax and advisory services. People across the PwC network share knowledge, experience and solutions to develop fresh perspectives and deliver practical advice.

At PwC US, you will be part of a learning culture, where teamwork and collaboration are encouraged, excellence is rewarded, and diversity is respected and valued. We offer a flexible career progression model that allows for a variety of challenging opportunities throughout your career. We provide unparalleled coaching, mentoring, and career development programs; global opportunities; and state of the art technology-driven methodologies to help you provide quality service to our clients.

Our Assurance practice collaborates with clients, so that the financial information they report to the investing public and other stakeholders is clear and reliable. When we fulfill our role as Assurance professionals, by standing firm on quality and integrity, we have a direct impact on how well the world's capital market system functions.

The highly trained and educated Assurance teams go inside companies, and get to know those businesses. They ask questions, test assumptions, and provide assurance that the companies are reporting information on which investors and others can rely. Every assignment is an exciting opportunity to learn, to grow and to understand how businesses operate from all levels and perspectives.

Our Assurance professionals are constantly challenged to learn more in order to provide our clients with the highest quality services. This learning takes place through interaction on the job with colleagues and clients, formal training programs, and the insights provided by mentors and coaches. PwC is all about our people, encouraging high performance and quality. Join us and we will help you implement a successful career strategy, as you explore the many career opportunities in PwC Assurance.
For companies today, everything is fast paced. The speed at which technology advances is incredible. While there's non-stop regulatory reform, moves are also underway to deregulate and company stakeholders increasingly demand transparency and accountability. Meanwhile, emerging markets and continued economic uncertainty add to an already risky business environment.

From the boardrooms to the back offices, we work with companies to deliver company controls that help them protect and strengthen every aspect of their business from people to performance, systems to strategy, and business plans to business resilience.

PwC’s Risk Assurance (RA) practice is composed of more than 2,300 resources with significant industry and technical expertise in a broad range of risk and compliance issues.

We help companies achieve the confidence needed for strong three lines of defense on risk by:

-Building and fortifying internal and IT risk controls
-Developing and strengthening risk and compliance programs
-Improving the capabilities of Internal Audit function

We draw proudly on our auditing heritage as well as our commercial experience to rigorously evaluate and implement a companies governance procedures, processes, information, and controls. We provide broad support across a business to elevate trust and transparency, protect the business and give all parties assurance that risks are fully anticipated, understood, and managed strategically.

The Risk Assurance Data Assurance practice provides quantifiable assessment through data analysis for our clients. We combine our clients’ data assets with our knowledge of data analysis technology and business experience to help clients evaluate risk, identify and recommend business improvement opportunities.
Data Assurance provides services related to:
- financial and regulatory data analytics
- data focused support for current assertions or key decisions
- validation of underlying data, key reports and KPI’s
- enablement of robust tactical financial data analysis solutions
PwC's Data Assurance professionals play an integral role delivering the following Data Assurance services to clients across all major industries.
Knowledge Preferred:
- Demonstrates expertise with leading project teams and providing deliverables involving complex, multiphase data analyses related to the evaluation of accounting, financial, operational and/or business process issues.
- Demonstrates expert understanding of accounting ledger and subledger applications and evaluating accounting, business process, operational, and/or financial issues.
- Demonstrates extensive knowledge and understanding of database concepts including building relationships between tables, grouping data, and delivering a cohesive analysis.
- Demonstrates extensive knowledge and/or a proven record of success leveraging data manipulation and analysis technologies inclusive of Microsoft SQL Server, SQL, ACL, ASCII, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, Visual Basic, Microsoft .NET framework, HTML or XML.
- Demonstrates expertise and/or a proven track record of success with managing in a professional services firm or large enterprise as a consultant, auditor or business process specialist.
- Demonstrates expertise and/or a proven track record of success with identifying and obtaining new service opportunities and taking the opportunities through the sales cycle, including the following:
- defining resource requirements, project workflow, budgets, and billing and collection;
- identifying and addressing client needs, including developing and sustaining extensive client relationships;
- leading teams to generate a vision, establish direction and motivate members, create an atmosphere of trust, leverage diverse views, coach staff, and encourage improvement and innovation.

Skills Preferred:
- Demonstrates expertise to lead teams and collaborate seamlessly in a virtual environment with team members based in remote locations, domestically and globally, and across various capabilities within the organization.
- Demonstrates expert leadership abilities and/or a track record of success as a team and/or practice leader by creating a positive environment, monitoring workloads of the team while meeting client expectations and respecting the work-life quality of team members. This includes providing candid, meaningful feedback in a timely manner, and keeping leadership informed of progress.

- Demonstrates expertise and/or a proven track record of success to lead client projects, understanding a client's business and technology in order to identify, pursue, and ultimately obtain additional consulting opportunities.

- Demonstrates expert capabilities and a proven record of success with project leadership, facilitating staff and managers as they perform the following: data assurance services inclusive of accounting data analyses; Computer-Assisted Auditing Technology (CAAT) services; enablement of data base automation tools; identification of data quality issues and related cleansing; data flow process reviews; risk assessments; and spreadsheet remediation/simplification.
- Demonstrates expert abilities with developing thought leadership and sharing lead practices on Oracle risk, controls, and Oracle GRC configuration.
- Demonstrates expert negotiation and persuasion skills used to sell potential new service opportunities, including a proven track record with identifying and converting potential engagement opportunities and developing market presence.

Min Year Exp:
7 years of data assurance, data analysis or data management experience as it relates to supporting business processes, internal auditing or external audit procedures.
Min Degree(s) and Certifications:
BA or BS in Accounting or Management Information Systems or related fields

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