Job Description
Job Title: Senior Associate, Data Assurance
Location: Guernsey or Jersey
Line of Service: Risk Assurance Services
Grade: Senior Associate
Contracted Hours per Week: 37.5
PwC Channel Islands Overview:
At PwC CI, we help you build, accelerate, and sustain momentum in a world that never stops
moving. With our tech-forward and people-empowered network, we provide expert
assurance, tax and advisory services to turn challenges into opportunities. Leveraging
deep expertise and advanced capabilities, we ensure you’re ready for any future, helping you
act boldly and achieve real results.
Job Summary:
The Risk Assurance Services (RAS) team at PwC takes pride in helping clients to identify,
measure and manage their risk profile more effectively. Our specialists offer knowledge and
expertise, which extends to clients’ internal controls, internal audit, technology risk, cyber
security, non-financial reporting, and regulatory compliance.
Our Data Assurance specialists focus on providing data analytics and information risk
management assurance services supporting external financial statement audit
engagements. Our capabilities support a wide range of businesses and industry sectors,
across the Channel Islands with a focus on Financial Services.
As a member of the RAS, Data Assurance practice you will work within an assurance team
structure as part of a multi-functional engagement team, interacting directly with clients.
You will also have excellent opportunities to be involved in strategic initiatives and provide
input into shaping the future direction of the practice.
Responsibilities:
The Risk Assurance Services (RAS), Data Assurance team in the Channel Islands have
exciting opportunities in Jersey and Guernsey for experienced individuals to join our team.
As a credible candidate you will have developed core skills in a wide range of data
transformation and analysis practices, with a strong background in both consulting
and audit and an understanding of how to responsibly apply AI tools and
technologies as part of your work. You will have developed skills in specialised data
transformation and visualisation tools and applied these to the evaluation of
accounting, financial and wider issues whilst working as part of a high performing
team.
You will need to be capable of applying these core skills in a variety of business
situations to maximise the client value and impact over Digital Audit, Controls
Assurance and Data Assurance engagements.
Responsibilities include:
• Participating in a Data Assurance team as a Lead Senior, supporting external FS
audit teams in the delivery of external financial statement audit engagements
• Completing planning procedures and client walkthroughs relating to the
understanding of the IT environment, associated systems, reports and databases.
• Designing and developing data analytical procedures to support efficient and
effective audit testing.
• Documenting the use of data analytical procedures to appropriate standards required
for audit procedures.
• Using leading digital assets and related tooling to complete testing.
• Using data analysis techniques to support the assessment of the design,
implementations and operating effectiveness of IT General Controls, application
controls and related dependencies including the testing of key reports and interfaces
• Undertaking project management activities to support the effective delivery of Data
Assurance engagements to agreed time and budget.
• Fostering the adoption and use of technology in alignment with business rules within
the Risk Assurance team, including the adoption and use of AI.
• Helping to train and upskill staff members in the latest tools as coaching them as part
of wider client engagements
• Building relationships both internally within the PwC network and externally with
senior client management teams on ongoing engagements
• On-going development of in-depth industry experience and process expertise
Direct Reports:
• This role reports to:
o Manager, Senior Manager, Directors, Partners
• Reporting to this role:
o Associates
Qualifications & Certifications:
• Strong academic background such as a Bachelor or Master’s Degree in a subject
related to Accounting, Information Technology or Business Studies
• Formal accounting qualification, or part qualification with a desire to focus on Data
and a future Data Science / Data Engineering qualification.
• Data Science / Data Engineering BSc or equivalent
• Technology Risk supporting qualification (e.g. ITIL, COBIT, CRISC, ISO22301, CBCI,
ISO27001 LA, ISO22301 LA)
Skills & Experience Required:
Essential skills:
• Experience of internal or external audit and assurance engagements as a data
assurance specialist
• Excellent project management skills including great organisation, highly motivated
work ethic, the ability to drive projects forward, managing own and others time; and
hold more senior team members accountable to delivering high quality pieces of work
• Strong team working skills and experienced in developing junior staff
• Well-developed listening and questioning techniques
• Strong desire for personal continuous improvement
• Following formal methodologies and applying risk and quality standards
• Excellent verbal skills and report writing capability
• Ability to work autonomously without the need for day-to-day direct management
• Proficient relationship builder
• Accounting Path: Data assurance and accounting experience including planning,
delivering and reviewing a diverse range of engagements and reviews (data
focused), coupled with experience in evaluating and performing risk assessments at
a task and organisational level
• Understanding of accounting and financial information systems and typical data
structures and end-to-end processes
• Data Science Path: Technical data science and/or engineering experience with
associated understanding of IT infrastructure, database design and knowledge of
data analytical techniques, coupled with experience in evaluating IT risks and
leveraging data to perform tests of IT and system driven controls
• Understanding of accounting and financial information systems and typical data
structures and end-to-end processes
Desirable skills:
• Knowledge of the Financial Services sector and familiarity with the local Channel
Islands market
• Experience in providing specialist support to external FS audit teams
• Project management certification (e.g. PRINCE2, or Agile)
• Data and analytics experience with competency with tools including Alteryx, SQL,
Python, PowerBI and Power Platform.
• Cyber Security / Privacy engagement experience, with a relevant supporting
qualification (e.g. CISM, CISSP, GIAC)
• Artificial Intelligence tooling experience and familiarity with using agentic technology
to support procedures including Claude and ChatGPT.
• Technology Risk engagement experience, with relevant supporting qualification (e.g.
ITIL, COBIT, CRISC, ISO22301, CBCI, ISO27001 LA, ISO22301 LA)
• Experience of performing internal audit engagements, with a relevant supporting
qualification (CIA)
Travel Requirements:
Limited travel will be required in this role; this will be project dependent.
The skills we look for in our people:
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.
The PwC Professional focuses on five core attributes; whole leadership, business acumen,
technical capabilities, global acumen and relationships. We use this framework to recruit,
develop, and assess our people, at all grades and in all areas of our business, because we
expect all of our people to be leaders.
Diversity:
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 as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. We aim to
encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their unique
strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business.
https://www.pwc.co.uk/diversity