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At PwC, our people in project portfolio management focus on optimising project portfolios to drive strategic business outcomes. These individuals oversee project selection, prioritisation, and resource allocation to facilitate successful project delivery. In project management at PwC, you will oversee and coordinate various projects to facilitate successful delivery within budget and timeline. You will leverage strong organisational and communication skills to effectively manage teams and stakeholders. 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 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. Basic Qualifications Job Requirements and Preferences: Minimum Degree Required: Bachelor's degree Minimum Years of Experience: 7 year(s) Preferred Qualifications Preferred Fields of Study: Finance, Accounting, Management Information Systems, Management Information Systems & Accounting, Computer and Information Science, Computer and Information Science & Accounting, Information Science, Economics, Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance & Technology, Business dministration/Management, Engineering, Accounting & Technology, Technology Mathematics, Statistics, Mathematical Statistics, and/or other relevant degrees. Preferred Certifications: Relevant professional qualifications such as PMI Certification (or similar Project Management certification) Preferred Knowledge/Skills Demonstrates extensive abilities and/or a proven record of success in the following Areas Possess knowledge of the audit process and must have a deep understanding of fiscal planning, management, engagement economics, and budgeting. Demonstrating knowledge in transformation efforts, through developing, managing, coordinating, implementing and executing project plans; Demonstrating knowledge and management experience in the area of Project management and/or audit management, including industry standard methodologies and tools; Developing project plans to deliver on project requirements; Possessing techniques for identification of risks and dependencies as well as project management techniques to oversee, proactively lead and/or support workstreams; Have proficient English communication skills (both verbal and written) that enable clear, effective, persistent yet tactful and tailored interaction with varied audiences (upward & downward), with sensitivity to culture; and Have the ability to effectively facilitate complex subject matter (regardless of expertise) to elicit required information and enable effective decision making Demonstrates extensive abilities and/or a proven record of success in the following areas: Applying industry standard methodologies and tools to develop and proactively manage project Plans Identifying risks, gaps and dependencies and recommend solutions; Possessing creative problem-solving abilities to devise solutions to successfully deliver on the business goals; Self-starter; ability to anticipate needs and define a path forward with minimal guidance; Self-learner, ability to use Firm resources to upskill; focusing on the project management functionality of the Assurance tools (i.e., Aura, Connect, FlexForecast) and integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) (i.e., Copilot, ChatPwC) in your daily tasks; Demonstrating exceptional time management and organizational skills to ensure the timely completion of the project within budget. Technically competent with software including but not limited to Microsoft Office (Word,Excel, PowerPoint), Power BI, and Alteryx Reporting results and facilitating problem resolution; Leading and developing teams locally/virtually, specifically global teams; Ability to apply a logical and analytical approach to work, tracking finances;Ability to work outside local working hours (See Time Zone/Working Overlap section); Building and maintaining strong and diverse relationships at all levels including effectively navigating a complex matrixed organization; and, Committing to continuous improvement through innovation, simplification and leveraging industry-leading practices and holding team members accountable for doing the same. Specific Responsibilities Include But Are Not Limited To Manage the ideation and implementation of standardized audit project management activities locally and across the Acceleration Centers Ability to lead and supervise the team (in person and/or virtually) to perform the tasks assigned by the established due date focusing the efforts of a group of people toward a common goal and enabling them to work as a team; Review progress of the audit project against the plan and reporting on status to key stakeholders (including US Directors and Partners); Supervising the PMAS Senior Associates and Associates to ensure established project management goals are achieved; Schedule and lead the initial kick off call with the US/AC engagement team to agree on responsibilities and expectations of the PMAS; Lead, as applicable, internal taking stock or huddle team meetings. Provide feedback on the status of the project to the team at agreed points; Oversee the PMAS’ team workload to ensure an appropriate balance of personal and work commitments; Monitor your team’s and your own utilization and proactively communicate availability; Organize the team to make sure that work is allocated to the right people and the right people attend the right meetings; Monitor that required team members will be available at the right time to complete the audit work; Develop positive working relationships with US/AC audit team members, specialists, and the client (as applicable); Maintain record of team huddle meetings and matters discussed, including actions to be taken. Update the team’s project plan and other tools (Aura, Connect, etc.) to reflect changes; Monitor engagement economics; including budget vs actual hours and timely communicates potential overruns, supporting the ET with the different phases of the budgeting and resource planning process, monthly monitoring, and engagement close out in FlexForecast, suggests changes to FlexForecast as needed to ensure Flex Accuracy goal is achieved; Maintain PMAS Operational trackers and ensure the information is complete and accurate; Participate in PMAS Managers meetings and collaborate with xAC PMAS teams as needed; Evaluate/analyze PMAS ET feedback and document Root cause analysis (RCA) if needed and propose work plan; Recommend, as applicable, project process improvements to improve effectiveness and quality of the project; Act as the focal point of information relating to the achievement of the project plan (for example, the project manager(s) uses information received from the team to help achieve visibility of the project status and support good knowledge sharing practices.); Assists the US/AC engagement team with any other administrative/logistics matter; Assists the engagement team with ad hoc time sensitive requests; Timely Escalates issues to appropriate stakeholders and drives resolution. Responsible for ensuring timely, accurate, and clear communication is provided to the stakeholders and members. Show more Show less
