IT Audit Graduate

Management Level

Associate

Job Description & Summary

At PwC, our people in audit and assurance focus on providing independent and objective assessments of financial statements, internal controls, and other assurable information enhancing the credibility and reliability of this information with a variety of stakeholders. They evaluate compliance with regulations including assessing governance and risk management processes and related controls.

In IT audit at PwC, you will focus on helping to assess and evaluate the design and effectiveness of an organisation's IT systems and controls to provide compliance with regulations and mitigate risks.

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.

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.

Overview:                      

The digital age is bringing rapid change. Businesses are becoming increasingly interconnected, and borders around supply/value chains are becoming increasingly blurred. 

A key part of our purpose is building trust in society. We provide decision makers with information they can trust and give our clients confidence in an unpredictable world. We use cutting-edge technology to provide market-leading services to our clients, both in person and virtually.

Digital Audit will give you an unique opportunity to experience all aspects of the audit from finance to technology. You'll develop a strong understanding of the role that digital plays in the modern day audit and how new technologies are deployed and controlled within business. In practice, you'll understand and test IT systems and controls, deliver technology enabled audits, including the latest on advanced analytics, process control and automation and the use of innovative tools.

At PwC, we recognise the importance of IT Risk Assurance as a key enabler in organisations. Our digital trust professionals work closely with IT, the business, compliance, audit and risk functions to assist businesses to meet their objectives by managing and optimising risks through the use of technology. We offer a three-year graduate program during which you will receive on-site training and valuable real business work experience. We’re looking for talented, business “tech-savvy”, curious and skilled graduates who can bring new ideas and a fresh approach to IT Risk Assurance.

What will you be doing? 

You’ll have the opportunity to work with a variety of clients, industries and technologies.

You’ll need to be a people person, tenacious and resilient. You’ll have exposure to contacts such as financial controllers, heads of IT or finance directors to understand and test IT systems and controls. You’ll be embedded in the process of evaluating controls in and around IT systems to ensure they are appropriately controlled by management and to validate that data produced is accurate, valid and complete. It's investigative work where you’ll regularly engage with clients, using in-person meetings or leading-edge collaborative technology. You’ll be part of a variety of teams, taking real responsibility for the work you do. Your reviews may include:

• Identifying key risks and controls, controls optimisation, including the configuration of controls around security, business process and within IT environments;
• Applying internal control principles and business/technical knowledge including information technology general controls and application controls; financial reporting concepts; working experience applying professional skepticism skills;
• Leading the adaption a work program and practice aid, as well as perform assessments, using PwC's proprietary or other relevant tools to evaluate controls, security, SOD, and potential for optimisation;
• Exhibiting project management skills, including developing project plans, budgets, and deliverables schedules;
• Creating a positive environment, monitoring workloads of the team while meeting client expectations, and respecting the work-life quality of team members. This includes providing candid, meaningful feedback in a timely manner and keeping leadership informed of progress;
• Interacting with clients on solutions and executing projects on client engagements, forming client relationships and demonstrating an understanding of the client's business;
• Review of financial and operational business process controls;
• Infrastructure and database security reviews;
• Compliance with other regulatory requirements;
• Due diligence on systems and controls;
• Pre- and post-implementation system reviews;
• Computer security reviews;
• Privacy and protection of personal information;
• Outsourced and Co-sourced Internal Audit Engagements;
• Governance, Risk and Compliance reviews;
• Performance Audits and Audit of predetermined objectives;
• Work on ERP (SAP, Oracle, etc.) projects - assessing risk, identifying and testing controls and assist clients to develop and implement solutions such as GRC; and
• Cyber security/IT Audit/Data Analytics.

Requirements:               

An undergraduate degree, pursuing/or completed an honours degree or higher in:

Computer Science, BCom (IT), Engineering, Mathematics or Accounting or:

• IT (BSc or BCom)
• Computer Science
• Engineering
• Mathematics
• Management accounting
• Internal Auditing
• Business Science
• Risk Management
• Economics

Travel Requirements

Up to 20%

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No

Job Posting End Date

January 26, 2025