Audit Senior Associate - Asset Wealth Management - Pensions

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Job description

Quality is at the heart of what we do. Combining passionate people with leading technology, we work together to build trust in society. We put the team first and solve important problems by challenging the organisations we audit and being open to challenge ourselves. We take pride in our work and the profession, recognising audit as a deep specialism.

Hear from our UK Head of Audit about the evolution of the Audit and what opportunities PwC could have for you.

It's a really exciting time to be joining us. We're growing our teams across all areas of our Audit practice and investing a huge amount in our people, their skills and the technology available, as we continue to radically modernise our business and the way we serve our clients.

Learn more about The Future of Audit.

PwC's Asset and Wealth Management (AWM) practice is the market leading AWM audit business. Our business is a national practice comprising over 600 staff with a presence in 12 offices across the UK, and comprises both financial audit and non-audit assurance businesses.Working in AWM will provide opportunities to gain experience working across a variety of clients including FTSE listed, global private companies, private partnerships, funds and Private Equity and Venture Capitalist backed companies. You'll work across a wide variety of industry sectors including, Real Estate, Hedge Funds, Pensions, Private Equity, traditional Asset and Wealth management, as well as technology and asset servicing businesses. This breadth of client base gives our people an unmatchable opportunity to gain deep understanding and experience across the whole AWM sector.

The Role

As a Senior Associate in Asset Wealth Management , you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to

• Leading audit engagements from planning to completion
• Using feedback and reflection to develop self awareness, personal strengths and address development areas
• Delegating to others to provide stretch opportunities and coaching to help deliver results
• Developing new ideas and proposing innovative solutions to problems
• Using a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current trends in the business area
• Reviewing your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance
• Sharing relevant thought leadership
• Using straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing others
• Ability to read situations and modify behaviour to build quality, diverse relationships
• Upholding the firm's code of ethics and business conduct

Essential Skills and Experience

• Be a Chartered Accountant/ ACA / ACCA / ICAS qualified (or international equivalent)'.
• Or part Qualified and working towards your full CA / ACA / ACCA / ICAS (or equivalent) qualification or have equivalent work experience in Audit (you're an international candidate who technically qualifies in your home country by experience)
• Experience of financial accounting and reporting
• UK GAAP experience
• Experience of pension scheme audits (DB, DC, Hybrid, Mastertrusts)
• Knowledge of the Pensions SoRP
• The ability to learn quickly
• Strong project management skills
• The ability to work effectively in a team, building good working relationships with both colleagues and client personnel at all levels
• Experienced in coaching junior staff
• Passion for quality
• Experience of working to client deadlines

The location
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The skills we look for in future employees
All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, 'The PwC Professional' and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

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The Deal
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Diversity
Valuing Difference. Driving Inclusion.

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool because creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business, enabling us to solve important problems and deliver value to our clients. We encourage an inclusive culture where people can be themselves, are valued for their strengths and are empowered to be the best they can be. As an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we also support different ways of working offering flexible working arrangements. Learn more here about our work to support an inclusive culture.