Project Accelerator Experienced Associate

At PwC, our people in project portfolio management focus on optimising project portfolios to drive strategic business outcomes. These individuals oversee project selection, prioritisation, and resource allocation to facilitate successful project delivery.

In project management at PwC, you will oversee and coordinate various projects to facilitate successful delivery within budget and timeline. You will leverage strong organisational and communication skills to effectively manage teams and stakeholders.

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.

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.

• At least 1 year/busy season in Audit

• Bachelor's Degree in (Prefered) Finance, Accounting, Management Information Systems & Accounting, Computer and Information Science & Accounting, Accounting & Technology (Other relevant degrees) Management Information Systems, Computer and Information Science, Information Science, Economics, Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance & Technology, Business Administration/Management, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Mathematical Statistics, and/or other relevant degrees. OR
• Chartered Accountant or equivalent (such as ICAEW / ACCA / MICPA-CAANZ / CPA Australia)

• Identifying opportunities to enhance and/or automate tools and templates, and assist with the research and evaluation of those opportunities to drive standardized delivery of service offerings; and,
• Addressing creatively business challenges through the use of software tools;
• Managing projects with effective prioritization/time management skill in order to handle multiple projects simultaneously;
• Using written and verbal communication skills, including problem/conflict resolution;
• Creating professional networks (internal and external) and building relationships at all levels of seniority and lines of the organization;
• Exercising appropriate judgment regarding confidential and sensitive information; using judgment to see the long-term impact of issues/ideas;
• Keeping stakeholders informed, including initiating and maintaining positive working relationships; -
• Leveraging and developing relationships to become a trustworthy and reliable resource capable of influencing stakeholder decisions;
• Using technology to enhance, automate. and/or standardize processes to increase efficiencies;
• Possess knowledge of the audit process and understanding of fiscal planning, management, engagement economics, and budgeting;.
• Have knowledge and understanding of project management concepts, methodologies, and tools;
• Have experience analyzing and aggregating project and program-level metrics into executive-level dashboards and/or status reports;
• Have the ability to perform structured and objective analysis & develop recommendation / make decisions given incomplete and conflicting information;
• Have the ability to prioritize and perform work with minimum direction in a complex, diverse environment with rapidly changing priorities;
• Have proficient communication skills (both verbal and written) that enable clear, effective, persistent yet tactful and tailored interaction with varied audiences (upward & downward), with sensitivity to culture;
• Sustain attention to detail to ensure high accuracy;
• Self-starter; ability to anticipate needs and define a path forward with minimal guidance;
• Self-learner, ability to use Firm resources to upskill; focusing on the project management functionality of the Assurance tools (i.e., Aura, Connect, FlexForecast); and
• Technically competent with software including but not limited to Google G-Suite and Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Tableau, and Alteryx
• Fluent English speaker

• Manage and ensure the timely delivery of projects by developing (as applicable) the project plan (with the engagement team’s assistance), assessing risks throughout, driving conclusions, and reviewing / challenging the output produced by the team;
• Track progress of the project against the plan and reporting on status to key stakeholders;
• Schedule and lead, as necessary, internal taking stock or huddle US/RTM team meetings. Provide feedback on the status of the project to the team at agreed points, such as the taking stock meeting;
• Monitor that required US/RTM engagement team members will be available at the right time to complete the audit work;
• Develop positive working relationships with audit team members (on site US team members, specialists, and Remote Team Members (RTMs)) and the client (as applicable);
• Maintain record of team huddle meetings and matters discussed, including actions to be taken. Update the team’s project plan and other tools (Aura, Connect, etc) to reflect changes to actions and responsibilities;
• Recommend, as applicable, project process improvements to improve effectiveness and quality of the project;
• Act as the focal point of information relating to the achievement of the project plan (for example, the project accelerator uses information received from the team to help achieve visibility of the project status and support good knowledge sharing practices.);
• Coordinate US/RTM engagement team members’ access to tools, client systems, Google drives, etc;
• Schedule team and client meetings as needed and ensure right attendees are included and agendas are shared 24 hours ahead of the meeting;
• Assists the engagement team, including RTMs, with any other administrative/logistics matter;
• Timely Escalates issues to appropriate stakeholders and proposes solutions;
• Own inventory of engagement templates that need to be rollforward and perform template roll forwards for these (i.e., engagement letters, representation letters, opinions);
• Ability to work outside local working hours (See Time Zone/Working Overlap section); and
• Ability to apply a logical and analytical approach to work, tracking finances.

Degrees/Field of Study required: Degrees/Field of Study preferred: Not Specified No No