service line
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Specialization
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First Assistant
Job description and summary
A career in the practice of Project Assurance Risk Assurance, within IT Risk Assurance services, will allow you to develop and implement strategies that help clients take advantage of enterprise technologies so that they can get a higher return on their investment, mitigate risk, streamline operations, and find operational inefficiencies. We help clients understand and challenge their existing risk profiles and develop strategies to build digital trust by embracing opportunities to stay competitive by building trust and resilience in their technology systems. We cover a wide range of disciplines, including risk assessment, operational and strategic IT operations, project management, application implementation, data integrity, cybersecurity, and accounting/audit.
To gain a competitive advantage, organizations are making an unprecedented amount of change around their technology but it is not without risk. Our team helps our clients manage these risks to avoid negative operational consequences by putting in place structures to mitigate deviations, improve portfolio, project management and align project with business.
To truly excel and make us fit for the future in an ever-changing world, each of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-driven 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 one 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. Professional skills and responsibilities at PwC for this management level include but are not limited to:
Use feedback and reflection to develop self-awareness and personal strengths and address areas of development.
Delegating others to provide extended opportunities, and coaching them to achieve results.
Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to organize unstructured problems.
Use a wide range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current industry trends or sectors.
Review your work and the work of others for quality, accuracy, and suitability.
Know how and when to use the tools available for a particular situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.
Seeking and seizing opportunities that allow exposure to different situations, environments and perspectives.
Use direct communication in an organized manner when influencing and communicating with others.
The ability to read situations and modify behavior to build good relationships.
Adhering to the company’s code of ethics and professional conduct.
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 firms 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 advisory, we work with our clients from business 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 – the United Arab Emirates, 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.