Job Description

A career in the Internal Audit Team will give you a unique insight into the workings of the firm and an opportunity to gain an understanding of PwC’s strategic objectives, regulatory and risk management environment and the diverse needs of its critical stakeholders.

As a Senior Associate, you’ll work as part of a team with extensive audit experience and a broad knowledge of the firm. You will be responsible for delivering a wide range of assignments from the annual assurance plan, both risk based audits and consultancy activities.

You will enjoy a wide variety of work in terms of nature and scope, including audits focussed on operational, financial or regulatory risks. You will also have the opportunity to engage with different clients from across all areas of the firm and with our internal audit colleagues at a global and network level.

You will be based with the team in One Embankment Place. Some travel to other sites will be needed and occasional overnight stays away from home, but this is limited in comparison to a traditional client facing audit role. There is also scope for flexible working and working at home. Depending on your performance and team structure, there will also be future promotion opportunities within the team to Manager and beyond.

Specific responsibilities of this role include, but are not limited to:

• Proactively leading and contributing to the delivery of audit assignments (in accordance with our audit methodology and standards), while reporting to managers and above
• Completion of audit documentation, including audit scopes, working papers and audit reports
• Coaching and leading other audit staff
• Establishing and sustaining effective working relationships with clients and colleagues
• Keeping up to date with local and national business and economic issues that may impact upon the operations of the firm and its risk profile
• Being an active team member and contributing to the team’s development activities to help identify and research opportunities to improve our operational effectiveness and quality of our work
• Contributing to the development of your own and team's technical acumen

Essential Skills, Behaviours and Experience

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our clients across the firm and for our team. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional’, and are made up of five core attributes: whole leadership; technical capabilities; business acumen; global acumen; and relationships.

In addition, for this role you must have:

• Completed (or part completed) an accountancy or internal audit qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIA, CISA, or equivalent)
• Experience in auditing financial and operational controls within a wide range of business processes (within either an external or internal audit environment)
• A good understanding of governance, risk management and control at an operational and organisational level
• Strong analytical and project management skills
• The ability to work effectively across multiple assignments and in different audit teams for varying time periods and to deliver at pace
• Experience in supervising and developing junior staff
• Ability to communicate clearly and build good working relationships with colleagues and clients at all levels
• Excellent report writing and communication skills to be able to effectively report any issues and recommendations for improvement to our clients, as well as drafting the related sections of high quality (and high impact) audit reports
• Flexibility in your approach to meeting goals as part of the wider team, being open minded and agile to change

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Be innovative and have the ability to contribute and create new initiatives Have an aptitude for learning and a desire to continually development and improve Experience of performing data analytics/CAATs in an audit environment