A career within Information Technology Risk Assurance services, will allow you to develop and apply strategies that help clients leverage enterprise technologies so they can get a higher return on their investment, mitigate risks, streamline processes, and find operational inefficiencies. We assist clients in understanding and challenging their current risk profiles and develop strategies to build digital confidence by embracing opportunities to stay competitive through building trust and resilience into their technology systems. We cover a wide range of disciplines, including risk evaluation, operational and strategic Information Technology processes, project governance, application implementation, data integrity, cyber security, and accounting/audit.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Associate, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience, helping our clients solve their complex business issues from strategy to execution. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to

• Proactively assist in the management of several clients, while reporting to Managers and above
• Train and lead staff
• Establish effective working relationships directly with clients
• Contribute to the development of your own and team's technical acumen
• Keep up to date with local and national business and economic issues
• Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients
• Continue to develop internal relationships and your PwC brand

We cover - strategy and transformation, IT operations (including resilience), digital integration (eg SAP, Oracle, Dynamics 365), and emerging technology.

Requirements

• University degree
• A passion for technology and projects.
• Experience gained in a client facing environment.
• Strong analytical and project management skills
• The ability to work effectively in different teams for varying periods of time building good working relationships with both colleagues and client personnel at all levels.
• Being part of a team that performs services including IT risk and controls reviews, programme/project assurance, third party assurance, IT general controls, IT operational, security and data reviews.
• The ability to assess IT risk and suggest pragmatic risk mitigation activities for a range of industries
• Experienced in developing junior staff
• Identifying and effectively reporting any issues and recommendations for improvement to clients, as well as drafting the related sections of formal reports
• Team player

Desirable

• Professional Service organisation experience
• External auditing experience, including evaluating controls over financial and/or operational processes
• Computer Science or Accounting & Business Administration degree, or similar
• Project Management qualifications e.g. MSP, Prince2, MAPM, MoR, Agile, Scrum
• Architectural qualification e.g TOGAF
• IT Service Management certification e.g. ITIL, COBIT
• Functional expertise in Enterprise Apps (e.g. CRM, Billing, SCM, or ERP systems)

Location: Edinburgh, Glasgow

About PwC

We’re one of the world’s leading professional services organisations. From 158 countries, we help our clients, some of the most successful organisations on the globe, as well as its most dynamic entrepreneurs and thriving private businesses, to create the value they want. We help to measure, protect and enhance the things that matter most to them.

The skills we look for in future employees

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 business, and our clients. 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.

Diversity

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.