Risk Assurance Services -Technology Assurance and Advisory - Senior Associate / Manager - Edinburgh

PricewaterhouseCoopers' (PwC)Risk Assurance Technology and Project Assurance Team is expanding and has plans for significant growth. We are looking to add four Senior Associates/Managers to our team with a range of skills and an appreciation of how IT supports the business. Consulting skills are a requirement for the role, as is a combination of skills from at least one of the following disciplines : IT governance, processes and controls; projects; IT – Technical and business data.

In return we offer:

• Variety - An impressive list of clients with different needs and issues at both a technical and strategic level.
• Opportunity - To develop your technical and business skills and enhance your business advisory, presentational and inter-personal skills.
• Support - We work as a team and support each other on a day-to-day basis. We also actively encourage an ongoing exchange of knowledge across the many specialists operating within PwC.
• Training - PwC is recognised for the quality of its training programmes that cover both technical and 'soft' (e.g. report writing) skills.
• Challenge - We work in an atmosphere which encourages youto be proactive and imaginative with the emphasis always on serving clients' needs.

The ideal candidate willhave adegree in a numeric or IT related subject and be able to demonstrate:

• A high level of commitment to self development.
• A desire to develop technical expertise and experience further, with a wish/ability to pass on experience to others.
• An accounting qualification (this is desirable, not essential).
• A high level of self confidence, with business and social skills to work appropriately with our clients.
• Excellent communication skills – both oral (for interviews/meetings, presentations) and written (for designing and writing reports which can communicate findings and clearly convey the message).
• A strong focus on quality, customer satisfaction and doing the right thing.
• Experience of a variety of industry sectors.
• A history of teamwork and engagement, co-operative working, a common goal of client service.
• Flexibility – working to tight deadlines, travelling and working as part of the national network including staying away from home.
• Experience of team management and reviewing of other team members' work.

As consultancy skills are essential, you should also be able to demonstrate:

• Experience of having provided consultancy services, either internally within an organisation or as part of a service provider.
• Experience of engaging effectively with clients, understanding their business issues, identifying solutions which deliver value and leverage the knowledge and skills of the organisation.
• Building relationships both internally and externally.
• Excellent communication and engagement skills at all levels.
• Expeirnece of creating detailed documentation of work performed.
• An understanding of engagement risk and its management through effective contracting and assignment management.

A combination of skills from at least one of the following disciplines is also required:

IT Governance, Processes and Controls

• Experience of the effective IT governance and recognised standards such as CobiT and ITIL.
• An understanding of the key elements which provide effective IT governance including structures, policies, standards and procedures.
• Understanding and experience of IT and business processes and controls; and their testing.
• Understanding and experience of the requirement for and design of effective controls.
• Experience of the key functionality and controls within a leading ERP solution. Management of risk within an IT function.

Projects

• Experience in establishing and managing significant projects – preferably IT implementations which involved a significant element of business change.
• An understanding of the key success factors in delivering projects and business benefits.
• Experience in reviewing projects in terms of project governance, technical IT development/delivery, testing, readiness etc.

Information Technology - technical

• A recognised qualification such as CISSP, CISA or CISM.
• Understanding and experience of information technology components and their interaction, including networks, support, infrastructure and applications.
• Design and operation of controls and technical solutions that add value to the clients IT service delivery.
• Understanding and experience of recognised IT standard e.g. BSI.
• A strong understanding of the requirements and mechanisms required to deliver high levels of IT security in terms of infrastructure and applications.
• An understanding of the current leading solutions and experience in their capabilities and effective operations.
• Experience in reviewing and reporting on the effectiveness of security including such areas as user access management, change control, logical access.

Data

• Understand of IT supports business, issues surrounding the quality of data within business systems and an appreciation of business analysis
• A good understanding of one or more of the following:
• Relational Database Design and Programming using Microsoft SQL Server
• ACL
• Data Quality and analysis tools

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