Boards of Directors and executive management recognize the ever increasing importance of effective risk management efforts in meeting their organization's strategic objectives.
PwC's Risk Assurance practice has developed a holistic approach to risk that protects businesses, facilitates strategic decision making and enhances efficiency. Our holistic approach is complimented by the extensive risk and controls technical knowledge and sector-specific experience our Risk Assurance professionals possess.
The end result is a risk solution that is tailored to meet the unique needs of a company.
- Leveraging industry and technical expertise to assist management to address more effectively risks associated with their business
- Assisting management in the assessment of project risks and controls
- Enhancing internal audit functions to further align to company strategy and risk
- Reducing company costs through strategic internal audit outsourcing and co-sourcing solutions
- Increasing value and reducing costs of compliance-related activities
- Identifying opportunities for companies to effectively mitigate risk and improve business performance
- Applying the concepts of Enterprise Risk Management to help companies identify, assess, mitigate and proactively consider emerging risks
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.
Position/Program Requirements
Minimum Years of Experience: 7 years of data assurance, data analysis or data management
experience as it relates to supporting business processes, internal auditing or external audit procedures
Minimum Degree Required: Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Management Information Systems or business related field
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.
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