Senior Associate - Project Risk Assurance at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

Job Summary

• As a Senior Associate in PwC Digital Risk assurance practice, you will lead Information Technology project risk assurance and project quality assurance engagements for our clients.
• You will support the improvement of PwC current methodologies and modes of engagement delivery.
• You will provide value-added insights that help to improve project risk management practices across various organizations.

Responsibilities

• Lead IT project risk and project quality assurance engagements.
• Assist organizations to improve project management practices
• Support clients to ensure that quality is delivered, and risks managed at key stages of IT project delivery.
• Conduct post implementation reviews of newly implemented systems and solutions.
• Any other responsibilities assigned to you on a day-to-day basis.

Education / Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in one of the following: Accounting, Finance / Economics, Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and / or other business fields of study.
• Minimum of 4 years relevant work experience
• Certification(s): Agile and (or) waterfall Project Management methodology certification (Scrum, PMP, IPMA or similar certifications).

Experience and Attributes Required:

• Experience leading IT Project Quality Assurance engagement in environments where a variety of technology platforms have been deployed such as: Application Software (mobile, web, on Premise and Cloud based ERP systems such as Oracle, SAP S4 HANA, SAP ByD and Microsoft Dynamics), API's and other Cloud-based hosting arrangements.
• Experience and sound understanding of Agile and Waterfall project management concepts / methodology.
• Experience with automated software testing tools and data analysis methods / tools.
• Experience with requirements elicitation and prioritization.
• Sound understanding of business processes, risks and controls.
• Ability to form strong interpersonal relationships with a wide range of stakeholders both within PwC and at client organizations.
• Excellent communication skills (both written and oral), ability to persuade and influence team outcomes, a genuine interest in providing high quality service to clients, strong commercial awareness, initiative and strong project execution focus.
• Good organization skills with influencing skills / leadership potential, energy and drive.
• Flexibility to travel for out-of-town assignments.