FY 26 - Risk Assurance - Associate 2 - GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance)

Line Of Service

Assurance

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

Assurance

Management Level

Associate

Job Description & Summary

At PwC, our people in risk and compliance focus on maintaining regulatory compliance and managing risks for clients, providing advice, and solutions. They help organisations navigate complex regulatory landscapes and enhance their internal controls to mitigate risks effectively.

Those in governance, risk, controls and compliance at PwC will be responsible for confirming regulatory compliance and managing risks for clients. Your work will involve providing advice and solutions to help organisations navigate complex regulatory landscapes and enhance their internal controls to mitigate risks effectively.

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.

Responsibilities:

• Perform assessment of business process, evaluate control based on COSO or other internal control framework, provide a recommendation for business process and control improvement, develop a documentation of business process and document the risk and control mapping in the Risk Control Matrices (RCM).
• Perform internal audit services to provide insight and creating value to optimise the client's business performance
• Assist the client in developing or enhancing their policies and procedures
• Perform assessment of the client’s compliance with the rules and regulation such as Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), and other established regulations.
• Perform an independent assurance of regulatory reporting and disclosures standard for various industries and organization

Requirements:

• Minimum degree(s) of bachelor’s in economics majoring in accounting
• Relevant certification such as Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Chartered Accountant (CA), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) would be an advantage
• Has the interest in learning new things, agile, attention to detail, has the ‘can do’ attitude, has strong communication skills (both verbal and writing) and interpersonal skills, able to work independently and as a team
• Has the capability to solve complex problems, identify practical solutions, and analyse data
• Demonstrates proven thorough abilities and success with performing and supervising various work streams of client engagements that emphasise identifying and addressing client needs, including:
• Participating actively in client discussions and meetings;
• Preparing concise and accurate documents, leveraging and utilising MS Office (Word, Excel, Access, Power Point) and data analytics (Power BI, Tableau) to complete related project deliverables, as necessary;
• Balancing project economics management with the occurrence of unanticipated issues.
• Exhibit project management skills, including developing project plans, budgets, and deliverables schedules.
• Interacting with clients on solutions and executing projects on client engagements, forming client relationships and demonstrating an understanding of the client’s businesses.

Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)

Degrees/Field of Study required:Degrees/Field of Study preferred:

Certifications (if blank, certifications not specified)

Required Skills

Optional Skills

Accepting Feedback, Accepting Feedback, Active Listening, Business Decisions, Business Performance Management, C-Level Presentations, Communication, Compliance Frameworks, Compliance Policies, Compliance Program Implementation, Compliance Review, Controls Testing, Corporate Governance, Emotional Regulation, Empathy, External Audit, Finance Target Operating Model, Finance Transformation, Financial Reporting, Fraud Detection, Fraud Prevention, Group Facilitation, Inclusion, Intellectual Curiosity, Internal Audit {+ 12 more}

Desired Languages (If blank, desired languages not specified)

Travel Requirements

Up to 40%

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No

Government Clearance Required?

No

Job Posting End Date