Audit and Assurance - Business Transformation Digital Solutions - Manager

PwC Acceleration Center India; Kolkata District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in Kolkata is seeking a Manager for Audit and Assurance focused on Business Transformation Digital Solutions. The role entails leadership in diverse client engagements, leveraging digital solutions like Oracle, ensuring quality and compliance, and mentoring team members. Candidates must have 7-9 years of experience, with a strong background in system transformations and communication skills to collaborate with international teams. This position offers opportunities for professional growth and development in a dynamic consulting environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in System Transformation (Pre/Post Implementation) projects.
• Must have experience with Oracle Cloud Fusion or Oracle EBS.
• Familiarity with SDLC controls and supporting artifacts.

Responsibilities

• Assisting clients with business transformations leveraging Oracle solutions.
• Ensuring client engagements are managed effectively.
• Coaching team members and ensuring project quality.

Skills

Analytical skills

Project ownership

Mentoring

Conflict resolution

Professional standards adherence

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s Degree in Accounting or Management Information Systems

7-9 years of relevant experience

Chartered Accountant preferred

Certifications such as CISA, CISSP, or CISM preferred

Tools

Oracle Cloud Fusion

Oracle EBS

IT application testing tools

Job description

Audit and Assurance - Business Transformation Digital Solutions - Manager

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. In business transformation digital solutions at PwC, you will assist clients with business transformations leveraging large scale digital solutions such as SAP, Oracle, OneStream, Workday, Identity and Access Management tools and other business applications. You will utilise innovative solutions to help clients assess and manage risk and controls during their transformation journey. Working in this area, you will assess the client’s approach for ERP security, business process and IT General Controls, while educating our clients on leading practice recommendations.

Enhancing your leadership style, you motivate, develop and inspire others to deliver quality. You are responsible for coaching, leveraging team member’s unique strengths, and managing performance to deliver on client expectations. With your growing knowledge of how business works, you play an important role in identifying opportunities that contribute to the success of our Firm. You are expected to lead with integrity and authenticity, articulating our purpose and values in a meaningful way. You embrace technology and innovation to enhance your delivery and encourage others to do the same.

Skills

• Analyse and identify the linkages and interaction between the component parts of an entire system.
• Take ownership of projects, ensuring their successful planning, budgeting, execution, and completion.
• Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables.
• Develop skills outside your comfort zone, and encourage others to do the same.
• Effectively mentor others.
• Use the review of work as an opportunity to deepen the expertise of team members.
• Address conflicts or issues, engaging in difficult conversations with clients, team members and other stakeholders, escalating where appropriate.
• Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.

Job Role

As a member of the System Transformation - Oracle Team, you’ll work on diverse engagements across audit and non-audit clients, providing assurance over the controls dimensions of large-scale business transformations. Our focus is on helping clients gain confidence in their internal controls, governance and risk management processes and related controls, data governance, quality, reliability, lineage, and reporting as they implement new systems and processes.

In system transformation solutions at PwC, you will assist clients with business transformations leveraging large scale digital solutions such as Oracle. You will utilize innovative solutions to help clients assess and manage risk and controls during their system transformation journey. Working in this area, you will assess the client’s approach for SDLC, ERP security, business processes, key reports and IT General Controls, while educating our clients on leading practice recommendations.

Enhancing your leadership style, you motivate, develop and inspire others to deliver quality. With your growing knowledge of how business works, you play an important role in identifying opportunities that contribute to the success of our Firm. You are expected to lead with integrity and authenticity, articulating our purpose and values in a meaningful way. You embrace technology and innovation to enhance your delivery and encourage others to do the same. We will provide the training and development you need to upskill and succeed, even if all the skills aren’t initially in your toolkit. The candidate will report to Manager. The AC team functions as an extension of our overseas Engagement Teams and works closely with those teams as well as directly with clients.

Requirements

• Experience/exposure to System Transformation (Pre/Post Implementation) projects.
• Must have Oracle Cloud Fusion/Oracle EBS experience.
• Familiarity with System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) controls and their supporting artifacts.
• Experience in documenting walkthroughs for business and IT processes and SDLC activities.
• Experience in testing IT application/automated controls (ITACs) within the General Ledger, Procurement, Payables, Order Management, Receivables, Assets, etc. modules of Oracle.
• Experience in testing key reports, ensuring the risks (completeness and accuracy) related to IPE (Information Produced by Entity) are addressed.
• Strong communication skills to effectively collaborate with US-based teams and clients.
• Thriving in a dynamic consulting environment, with a desire to grow within this setting.
• Managing client engagements and internal projects, including budgets, risks, and quality assurance.
• Supporting Engagement Managers in drafting client deliverables for review by Engagement Leaders. Developing and maintaining internal and external relationships.
• Identifying and pursuing business opportunities, supporting line management in proposal development, and managing, coaching, and supporting team members.
• Supporting Engagement Managers with engagement scoping and planning activities.
• Coaching team members in task completion.
• Collaborating effectively with local and regional teams and clients.
• Managing project economics for engagement teams.
• Conducting basic review activities and providing coaching to junior team members.

Good to Have

• Pre-implementation assessment experience, specifically assessing application security and controls.
• Risk Management Cloud (RMC) experience.
• SOX audit and controls experience.
• Stay updated on emerging technologies and latest development in Oracle and System transformation field.
• Experience in coaching/overseeing junior team members.
• Flexibility to attend meetings based in US time zones to cater to client needs.
• Good understanding of audit / controls domain.
• Consulting mindset would have an edge to deliver observations and recommendations to client.

Education/Qualification

• Bachelors or Master’s Degree in Accounting, Management Information Systems or equivalent.
• Minimum Years of Experience: 7-9 years of relevant experience.
• Chartered Accountant would be preferred.
• Certifications such as CISA, CISSP, or CISM are preferred.