Digital Audit Senior Associate

Line of Service

Assurance

Industry/Sector

FS X-Sector

Specialism

Assurance

Management Level

Senior 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.

Those in internal audit at PwC help build, optimise and deliver end-to-end internal audit services to clients in all industries. This includes IA function setup and transformation, co-sourcing, outsourcing and managed services, using AI and other risk technology and delivery models. IA capabilities are combined with other industry and technical expertise, in areas like cyber, forensics and compliance, to address the full spectrum of risks. This helps organisations to harness the power of IA to help the organisation protect value and navigate disruption, and obtain confidence to take risks to power growth.

Job Title: Senior Associate, Digital Audit

Location: Guernsey

Line of Service: Risk Assurance Services  

Grade: Senior Associate

Contracted Hours per Week: 37.5

PwC Channel Islands Overview: 

At PwC CI, we help you build, accelerate, and sustain momentum in a world that never stops moving. With our tech-forward and people-empowered network, we provide expert assurance, tax and advisory services to turn challenges into opportunities. Leveraging deep expertise and advanced capabilities, we ensure you’re ready for any future, helping you act boldly and achieve real results. 

Job Summary:

The Risk Assurance Services (RAS) team at PwC takes pride in helping clients to identify, measure and manage their risk profile more effectively. Our specialists offer knowledge and expertise, which extends to clients’ internal controls, internal audit, technology risk, cyber security, non-financial reporting, and regulatory compliance.

Our Digital Audit specialists focus on providing information risk management assurance services supporting external financial statement audit engagements. Our capabilities support a wide range of businesses and industry sectors, across the Channel Islands with a focus on Financial Services,

As a member of the RAS, Digital Audit practice you will work within an assurance team structure as part of a multi-functional engagement team, interacting directly with clients. You will also have excellent opportunities to be involved in strategic initiatives and provide input into shaping the future direction of the practice.

Responsibilities:

As a credible candidate you will have developed core skills in a wide range of disciplines, with a strong background in the testing of IT controls, automated controls and dependencies supporting the financial statement audit. You will have developed skills in IT audit; process and controls assurance; data and analytics and cyber security. You will also have a good general understanding of technology/ERP and finance systems used by our clients.

You will need to be capable of applying these core skills in a variety of business situations to maximise the client value and impact over across Digital Audit and related controls assurance engagements performed by the wider RAS team.

Responsibilities include:

• Participating in a Digital Audit team as the lead senior for Digital Audit, supporting external FS audit teams in the delivery of external financial statement audit engagements

• Completing planning procedures and client walkthroughs relating to the understanding of the IT environment

• Assessing the design, implementations and operating effectiveness of IT General Controls, application controls and related dependencies including the testing of key reports and interfaces

• Using leading digital assets and related tooling to complete the testing of core IT General Controls

• Undertaking project management activities to support the effective delivery of Digital Audit engagements to agreed time and budget.

• Working with a range of clients delivering Controls Assurance engagements, in the capacity of internal audit or non-audit assurance reporting

• Providing insight to clients related to the integrity of the control environment, the efficiency of processes and the insightfulness of management information

• Helping to train and upskill staff members in the latest tools as coaching them as part of wider client engagements

• Building relationships both internally within the PwC network and externally with senior client management teams on ongoing engagements

• On-going development of in-depth industry experience and process expertise

Direct Reports:

• This role reports to: 

• Manager, Senior Manager, Directors, Partners

• Reporting to this role: 

• Associates

Qualifications & Certifications: 

• Strong academic background such as a Bachelor or Master’s Degree in a subject related to Accounting, Information Technology or Business Studies

• Project management certification (e.g. PRINCE2, or Agile)

• CISM, CISSP, GIAC

• ISACA, CISA

• Technology Risk engagement qualification (e.g. ITIL, COBIT, CRISC, ISO22301, CBCI, ISO27001 LA, ISO22301 LA)

• Internal Audit supporting qualification (CIA)

Skills & Experience Required: 

Essential skills:  

• Experience of internal or external audit and assurance engagements as a digital audit specialist

• Excellent project management skills including great organisation, highly motivated work ethic, the ability to drive projects forward, managing own and others time; and hold more senior team members accountable to delivering high quality pieces of work

• Strong team working skills and experienced in developing junior staff

• Well-developed listening and questioning techniques

• Strong desire for personal continuous improvement

• Following formal methodologies and applying risk and quality standards

• Excellent verbal skills and report writing capability

• Ability to work autonomously without the need for day-to-day direct management

• Proficient relationship builder

• Accounting Path: Process and controls assurance experience including planning, delivering and reviewing a diverse range of engagements and reviews (IT controls focus), coupled with experience in evaluating and performing risk assessments at a task and organisational level

• Understanding of Internal Controls Frameworks e.g. COSO and end-to-end processes

• Experience of performing non-audit assurance engagements, such as ISAE3402/ SSAE18 reports

• Expected qualification: formal accounting qualification, or part qualification with a desire to focus on IT controls and a future ISACA CISA certification

• IT Audit Path: Technology controls audit and advisory experience with associated understanding of IT infrastructure and knowledge of related cyber security threats, coupled with experience in evaluating IT risks and performing tests of IT and system driven controls

• Understanding of Control Objectives for Information Technology (COBIT) and placement within wider internal controls frameworks

• Experience of performing non-audit assurance engagements, such as ISAE3000 (SOC2) /SSAE18 and/or ISO27001/22301 audit engagements

Desirable skills:

• Knowledge of the Financial Services sector and familiarity with the local Channel Islands market

• Experience in providing specialist support to external FS audit teams

• Data and analytics experience with competency with tools including Alteryx, SQL, Python, PowerBI and PowerPlatform.

• Cyber Security / Privacy engagement experience, with a relevant supporting qualification (e.g. CISM, CISSP, GIAC)

• Artificial Intelligence tooling experience and familiarity with using agentic technology to support procedures

• Technology Risk engagement experience, with relevant supporting qualification (e.g. ITIL, COBIT, CRISC, ISO22301, CBCI, ISO27001 LA, ISO22301 LA)

• Experience of performing internal audit engagements, with a relevant supporting qualification (CIA)

Travel Requirements: 

Limited travel will be required in this role; this will be project dependent.  

The skills we look for in our people:

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, Evolved PwC Professional.

The Evolved PwC Professional focuses on two core behaviours: Trusted Leadership and Distinctive outcomes. Trusted Leadership is underpinned by core behaviours that Inspire, Empower and Evolve, and Distinctive outcomes is underpinned by behaviours that Champion, Build and Deliver.

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. We aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their unique strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business. https://pwc.to/2vY6KZm 

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, Accounting and Financial Reporting Standards, Active Listening, Analytical Thinking, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Platform, Auditing, Auditing Methodologies, Business Process Improvement, Communication, Compliance Auditing, Corporate Governance, Creativity, Data Analysis and Interpretation, Data Ingestion, Data Modeling, Data Quality, Data Security, Data Transformation, Data Visualization, Embracing Change, Emotional Regulation, Empathy, Financial Accounting, Financial Audit {+ 24 more}

Desired Languages (If blank, desired languages not specified)

Travel Requirements

Up to 40%

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

Yes

Government Clearance Required?

Yes

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