Manager

Job Description & Summary
A career in our Financial Services Audit practice, within External Audit services, will provide you with the opportunity to provide a range of Assurance services and business advice to a variety of clients from small, fast growing clients to large entities. Our clients are often well known brands and many have broad international reach. We focus on using the latest technology to reduce the level of manual testing ensuring you’ll focus on the most valuable areas of client service and on enhancing corporate governance and the reliability of our clients’ information.
Our team helps financial organisations navigate regulatory complexity while strengthening trust and transparency in their business. Our clients cover industries within banking and capital markets, private equity, insurance, and consumer finance. While many of the rules of business have changed, the fundamentals haven’t. You’ll work alongside senior members of the client’s management team in planning the audit process from beginning to end, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and fair presentation of our client’s information.

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

As a Manager, you'll 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:

• Develop new skills outside of comfort zone.
• Act to resolve issues which prevent the team working effectively.
• Coach others, recognise their strengths, and encourage them to take ownership of their personal development.
• Analyse complex ideas or proposals and build a range of meaningful recommendations.
• Use multiple sources of information including broader stakeholder views to develop solutions and recommendations.
• Address sub-standard work or work that does not meet firm's/client's expectations.
• Use data and insights to inform conclusions and support decision-making.
• Develop a point of view on key global trends, and how they impact clients.
• Manage a variety of viewpoints to build consensus and create positive outcomes for all parties.
• Simplify complex messages, highlighting and summarising key points.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Preferred experiences:

• Asset Management - Controls
• Banking - Controls
• Captives - PCAOB

Preferred skills

• Successful completion of an accounting designation, such as the Canadian CA, US CPA or UK ACA
• Proven managerial capabilities and operational experience essential
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint;
• Highly organized, dedicated and self motivated
• Excellent communications, interpersonal and time management skills;
• Ability to coach and mentor more junior team members
• Proven track record of working collegially with other management group members to collectively get the job done
• Candidates must demonstrate proven extensive knowledge of internationally recognised accounting expertise, such as US GAAP, IFRS, Canadian or UK GAAP. PCAOB knowledge and experience will be an advantage.

Minimum years experience required

• A minimum of 5 years relevant experience

Travel Requirements 0%

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship? Yes

Government Clearance Required? Yes

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