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First Assistant
Job description and summary
A career in our IT audit services practice, within Risk and Compliance Services, will provide you with the opportunity to work with a team that provides clients with broad risk and controls technical knowledge and industry-specific expertise. You will have the opportunity to develop a comprehensive approach to risk that protects businesses, facilitates strategic decision-making, and enhances efficiency by assisting management in assessing project risks and controls.
Our team uses current and emerging technologies to assist clients with financial reporting, compliance and operational controls. You will provide services related to controls related to financial reporting, compliance and operational processes, including business procedures and IT management controls.
In order to truly excel and make us fit for the future in an ever-changing world, each of us at PwC needs to be a goal-oriented and values-based leader at every level. To help us achieve this, we have a 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 about the skills we need as individuals to be successful and advance in our careers, now and in the future.
As a Senior Assistant, you will work as part of a problem solver team, helping to solve complex business problems from strategy to implementation. PwC’s professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:
Experience in conducting full risk and control assessments (planning to execution)
Experience in leading engagements covering information security frameworks such as ISO 27001, COBIT, NIST, CIS, SOC 2, and COSO.
Strong experience in reviewing business process controls, internal controls and risks for IT and SOC reports
Strong knowledge base of technology, IT practices and standards, infrastructure risks and controls in the areas of information security
Good understanding of the risks and controls related to cloud solution platforms (eg PaaS, SaaS, IaaS) with a perspective on leading practices certifications in CISSP, CRISC, CISM or CISA
A foundational understanding of ERP environments (eg Oracle, SAP, Dynamics) will be an added advantage.
PwC companies help organizations and individuals create the value they are looking for.
We are a network of companies in 158 countries with approximately 169,000 people committed to providing quality assurance, tax and advisory services. PwC is the brand under which the member companies of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited (PwCIL) operate and provide services. Together, these companies make up the global PwC network.
In the three main areas of business or service assurance lines, tax and consultancy, we work with our clients from start-ups to the world’s leading organizations to measure, protect and promote the things that matter most to them.
We help our people learn, discover, develop and make a real difference throughout their working lives. We have great ambitions for growth.
The Middle East region of PwC is part of what we call the central bloc and includes the United Kingdom, Europe, Africa as well as the Middle East. The region consists of 12 markets – UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Libya, Iraq and Palestine.
Established in the region over 40 years ago, PwC already employs over 4,500 people and is well on its way to becoming the number one professional services company in the Middle East.