Senior Manager - Assurance (PwC Acceleration Center Kuala Lumpur) (September onwards)

Job Description & Summary

A career within External Audit services, will provide you with the opportunity to provide a range of Assurance services and business advice to a variety of clients from small, fast growing clients to large entities. Our clients are often well known brands and many have broad international reach. We focus on using the latest technology to reduce the level of manual testing ensuring you'll focus on the most valuable areas of client service and on enhancing corporate governance and the reliability of our clients information.

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

As a Senior Manager, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Encourage everyone to have a voice and invite opinion from all, including quieter members of the team.

• Deal effectively with ambiguous and unstructured problems and situations.

• Initiate open and candid coaching conversations at all levels.

• Move easily between big picture thinking and managing relevant detail.

• Anticipate stakeholder needs, and develop and discuss potential solutions, even before the stakeholder realises they are required.

• Contribute technical knowledge in area of specialism.

• Contribute to an environment where people and technology thrive together to accomplish more than they could apart.

• Navigate the complexities of cross-border and/or diverse teams and engagements.

• Initiate and lead open conversations with teams, clients and stakeholders to build trust.

• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

We're leading the way as technology-enabled advisors who provide value through digitization, automation and increased efficiencies - all made possible by equipping our professionals to succeed in a world where transactions are faster, more complicated and require a deeper level of sophistication. PwC Assurance provides unparalleled technical knowledge and specialization and industry insights, coupled with the One Firm knowledge that brings everything PwC offers to solving our clients needs.

Demonstrates intimate abilities and/or a proven record of success as a team leader and team member within the US Assurance practice of a global network of professional services consulting firms, including the following areas:

• Whole Leadership:Using failure as an opportunity for immediate learning, feedback, and new thinking for yourself and your team, establishing the root causes of issues and tackling them rather than just the symptoms, taking action to establish everyone has a voice, inviting opinion from all, including quieter members of the team, and being resilient and leading others through times of uncertainty and pressure.

• Global Acumen: Consider global and local perspectives when making recommendations, navigating the complexities of global teams and engagements, using available resources, and responding to requests from across the network

• Relationships: Simplifying complex messages, highlighting and summarizing key points, expressing your own ideas with conviction in a compelling, passionate and credible manner, and building trust with your teams and other stakeholders through open and honest conversations.

• Business Acumen:Making links between current issues and future trends facing markets and industries, the services we offer and client needs, moving easily between big picture thinking and managing relevant details, considering profitability and business strategy when making commercial decisions for the firm, anticipating the client/engagement team's needs, and developing and discussing potential solutions even before the client/engagement team realises they are required.

• Technical Capabilities: Developing specialization in one or more areas and taking action to protect the firm through implementing risk management and compliance procedures.

Demonstrates intimate abilities and/or a proven record of success in implementing and utilising automation and digitization in a professional services environment, including but not limited to:

• Innovating through new and existing technologies, along with experimenting with digitization solutions

• Working with large, complex data sets to build models and leveraging data visualization tools to provide insights to engagement teams and,

• Improving the business by creating capacity and delivering an enhanced employee and client experience.

Requirements:

• Minimum Years of Experience:At least ten years experience in auditing
• Credential Required:Public Accountant, or US Licensed CPA, or CPA/CA Equivalent in another Territory
• Oral and written proficiency in English required

Additional Application Instructions

Please attach the following documents along with your CV when you submit an online application:

• Academic Certificates and Transcripts, from SPM onwards (or equivalent)

• A copy of your NRIC or passport

• Recent passport size photo

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We will be commencing intake for this role from September onwards.

Education

Degrees/Field of Study required: Bachelor Degree - Accounting

Degrees/Field of Study preferred:

Certifications

Required Skills

Optional Skills

Desired Languages

English

Travel Requirements

0%

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship

No

Government Clearance Required

No