Assurance - Specialized Services - Associate (FTH)

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 financial statement audit at PwC, you will focus on obtaining reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report that includes the auditor’s opinion.

Driven by curiosity, you are a reliable, contributing member of a team. In our fast-paced environment, you are expected to adapt to working with a variety of clients and team members, each presenting varying challenges and scope. Every experience is an opportunity to learn and grow. You are expected to take ownership and consistently deliver quality work that drives value for our clients and success as a team. As you navigate through the Firm, you build a brand for yourself, opening doors to more opportunities.

Skills Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Apply a learning mindset and take ownership for your own development.
• Appreciate diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.
• Adopt habits to sustain high performance and develop your potential.
• Actively listen, ask questions to check understanding, and clearly express ideas.
• Seek, reflect, act on, and give feedback.
• Gather information from a range of sources to analyse facts and discern patterns.
• Commit to understanding how the business works and building commercial awareness.
• Learn and apply professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), uphold the Firm's code of conduct and independence requirements.
• You will play an integral role in PwC’s core assurance/DAT services provided to clients.
• Understand the process workflow related to work requests from initiation through completion, understand how workflow is managed within the firm's workflow management tool, understand optimal and required manner in which to document results of work performed.
• Participate in a wide range of projects and collaborate across multiple work streams or teams; consistently demonstrating creative thinking, individual initiative and timely completion of assigned work.
• Consistently demonstrate teamwork dynamics by working as a team member: understand personal and team roles; contribute to a positive working environment by building solid relationships with team members; and proactively seek guidance, clarification, and feedback.
• Serve as participant on communications with numerous engagement teams.

You will have the opportunity to specialize in some of the following:

• Financial statement review procedures based on understanding of relationships between supporting documentation and financial statement documents in accordance with auditing standards.
• Initiate the third party confirmations, track responses, verify responses, agree confirmation balances with that provided by engagement team
• Prepare documents based on audit policy and standard templates, including information gathering and population of templates and documents.

Additional Responsibilities

• Perform work and provide related deliverables in accordance with DC User Guide instructions as applied to engagement teamwork request submissions
• Maintain working knowledge of DC User Guides
• Monitor time and manage deadlines

Qualification B.Com/M.Com or any equivalent qualification + CA Inter Experience 0-4+ year