Line of Service

Assurance

Industry/Sector

FS X-Sector

Specialism

Assurance

Management Level

Intern/Trainee

Job Description & Summary

At PwC, we help clients build trust and reinvent so they can turn complexity into competitive advantage. We’re a tech-forward, people-empowered network with more than 370,000 people in 149 countries. Across audit and assurance, tax and legal, deals and consulting we help clients build, accelerate and sustain momentum. Find out more at www.pwc.com.

Our Financial Services Assurance Practice works with organisations to strengthen trust and transparency by building, maintaining and providing trust over financial reporting in a fast changing, technology-driven world. As Asia’s top financial services practice, our audit approach is at the leading edge of best practice. We draw upon our extensive industry knowledge for our clients including top blue chip companies in the asset management, banking, capital markets, and insurance sectors. We provide our clients with insights, empowered by leading technologies, into marketplace developments and global opportunities.

We are looking for suitable candidates with strong academic background in computer science/information systems/ software development in the Financial Services Assurance’s Digital Innovation Garage (DIG) team. You will bring in your knowledge, skills and interest in programming and software development to leverage data and help design and develop solutions that make our financial services audits more automated, data-driven and insightful.

 

Responsibilities:

You will work as part of DIG to by contributing to the below activities:

 

Digital solutions:

• Support senior team members in gathering business requirements, data requirements, data analysis, and testing for data strategy, data roadmap, and data solution implementation projects.

• Support technology and data solution assessments to provide point-of-view and recommendations.

• Utilize your academic and/or internship-based exposure to work on digital solution building projects involving the below technical areas: 

• Strong in at least one of the programming languages (Python / R / Java/C#)

• Intermediate to advanced skills in MS Excel (VBA is a strong plus)

• Automation tools such as ABBYY, UiPath

Audit innovation and data analytics:

• Design and development of data cleansing routines utilizing typical data quality functions involving standardization, transformation, rationalization, linking and matching that leverages knowledge within data, master data, metadata and technology management.

• Deployment of global tools across the Financial Services Assurance practice

• Helping audit teams and clients to identify and extract required data from complex IT systems

• Work with audit teams to efficiently deliver standard and high-quality data analysis

• Analyse complex data including bespoke analysis

• Utilize your academic and/or internship-based exposure to work on assignments involving the below technical areas:

• Working with relational databases and writing SQL queries

• Techniques of predictive analytics, web scraping and Natural Language Processing using Python/R

• Using analytical and visualisation software such as Alteryx, Power BI and Tableau to access, transform, integrate, analyse and visualise client data to help solve real problems and provide real business insights through identification of anomalies and unusual patterns and trends in data

Requirements:

• Students who are keen to develop themselves in the profession

• Are highly motivated, enthusiastic, confident and creative

• Have a good co-curricular activities record

• Possess strong interpersonal and communication skills

• Are service-oriented and committed to teamwork and excellence

 

Got a question? Email to [email protected].

Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)

Degrees/Field of Study required:

Degrees/Field of Study preferred:

Certifications (if blank, certifications not specified)

Required Skills

Optional Skills

Accepting Feedback, Accepting Feedback, Accounting Method Changes, Active Listening, Alteryx (Automation Platform), Auditing, Business Process Improvement, C# Programming Language, Communication, Data Analysis, Data Visualization, Data Wrangling, Emotional Regulation, Empathy, Finance, Financial Risk Analysis, IBM Db2, Inclusion, Intellectual Curiosity, Java (Programming Language), Microsoft Power Business Intelligence (BI), Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools, Optimism, Oracle Applications, Python (Programming Language) {+ 5 more}

Desired Languages (If blank, desired languages not specified)

Travel Requirements

Not Specified

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No

Government Clearance Required?

No

Job Posting End Date