At PwC, our people in finance focus on providing financial advice and strategic guidance to clients, helping them optimise their financial performance and make informed business decisions. These individuals handle financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and risk management. Those in accounting at PwC will focus on managing financial records, analysing data, and assisting in compliance with accounting standards. You will play a crucial role in providing accurate financial information and insights to support decision-making.Driven by curiosity, you are a reliable, contributing member of a team. In our fast-paced environment, you are expected to adapt to working with a variety of clients and team members, each presenting varying challenges and scope. Every experience is an opportunity to learn and grow. You are expected to take ownership and consistently deliver quality work that drives value for our clients and success as a team. As you navigate through the Firm, you build a brand for yourself, opening doors to more opportunities.
Skills
Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:
- Apply a learning mindset and take ownership for your own development.
- Appreciate diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.
- Adopt habits to sustain high performance and develop your potential.
- Actively listen, ask questions to check understanding, and clearly express ideas.
- Seek, reflect, act on, and give feedback.
- Gather information from a range of sources to analyse facts and discern patterns.
- Commit to understanding how the business works and building commercial awareness.
- Learn and apply professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), uphold the Firm's code of conduct and independence requirements.
Associate Level
Will 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.
- 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.
Additional Responsibilities
The AC Solution/ Finance Operations team is responsible for creating alignment across the business functions, generating data driven, value added operational insights across the firm. The team collaborates with its stakeholders to develop process opportunities and analytical solutions to influence key business decisions supporting Firm strategy.
Minimum Degree Required
High School Diploma
Degree Preferred
Bachelor’s Degree
Fields Of Study
Finance, Accounting, Business & Analytics
Certification Preferred:
(Note: As applicable) Proficient in MS Excel and MS PowerPoint. Knowledge in any of the PowerBi tools is added advantage.
Preferred Knowledge/Skills
To support the team, you will need to demonstrate thorough abilities and/or a proven record of success in understanding financial transaction flow and impacts to operations, as well as process redesign resulting in significant business improvement and customer satisfaction, including the following areas:
- Providing data analysis and recommendation to the team/ Manager on a given project/ situation.
- Understanding of Firmwide business intelligence resources such as Alteryx, ThoughtSpot, Power BI, and other visualization tools; (preferred)
- Participating in select projects designed to support internal stakeholders that demonstrate analytical / creative thinking and individual initiative;
- Leveraging creative problem-solving skills, as well as prioritizing and handling multiple tasks;
- Contributing to a positive working environment by building relationships with team members;
- Exhibiting abilities to self-motivate and take responsibility for personal growth and development;
- Demonstrating curiosity in developing insights and recommendations;
- Demonstrating the ability to work and problem solve independently;
- Utilizing problem-solving skills and communicating effectively in written and verbal formats to various audiences; and,
- Contributing to the development of your own and team’s technical acumen
