Digital Assurance & Transparency - Data Analytics Manager

Key Skills

Microsoft-Excel, Java Programming, Oracle, Python Programming, SQL, QlikView, Tableau, R Programming, C# Programming

Job Description

A career in our Analytics Data Assurance practice, within Risk Assurance Compliance and Analytics services, will provide you with the opportunity to assist clients in developing analytics and technology solutions that help them detect, monitor, and predict risk. Using advanced technology, we’re able to focus on establishing the right controls, processes and structures for our clients to ensure that decisions are based on accurate information and assure that information provided to third parties is accurate, complete, and can be trusted. Our team helps business leaders navigate evolving risks by staying ahead of uncertainty by developing smart infrastructure and harnessing data through analytics. As a part of the team, you’ll help us develop cost effective technology solutions that focus on delivering relevant, actionable intelligence that executives need to understand operations and manage critical risks.

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

As a Manager, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Develop new skills outside of comfort zone.
• Act to resolve issues which prevent the team working effectively.
• Coach others, recognise their strengths, and encourage them to take ownership of their personal development.
• Analyse complex ideas or proposals and build a range of meaningful recommendations.
• Use multiple sources of information including broader stakeholder views to develop solutions and recommendations.
• Address sub-standard work or work that does not meet firm's/client's expectations.
• Use data and insights to inform conclusions and support decision-making.
• Develop a point of view on key global trends, and how they impact clients.
• Manage a variety of viewpoints to build consensus and create positive outcomes for all parties.
• Simplify complex messages, highlighting and summarising key points.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Job Requirements and Preferences:

Basic Qualifications:

Minimum Degree Required:

Bachelor Degree

Required Fields of Study:

Accounting, Management Information Systems, Management Information Systems & Accounting, Statistics, Mathematical Statistics, Accounting & Finance, Accounting & Technology, Computer and Information Science & Accounting, Computer Systems Analysis & Accounting, Computer Engineering & Accounting

Minimum Years of Experience:

5 year(s) of consulting, data analysis, compliance, internal audit or risk experience or military/intelligence community leadership experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

Degree Preferred:

Master of Business Administration

Preferred Knowledge/Skills:

Demonstrates extensive abilities and/or a proven record of success as a team leader in the following areas:

• Understanding of Finance, Accounting or Auditing;
• Effectively communicating (verbally and in written form) to articulate problems, make decisions and to independently engage with business stakeholders throughout various phases or the project;
• Operating in a professional services firm or large enterprise as a consultant, auditor or business process specialist; or the equivalent of industry or military/intelligence community experience;
• Identifying and obtaining new service opportunities and taking the opportunities through the sales cycle, including the following: defining resource requirements, project workflow, budgets, and billing and collection;
• Identifying and addressing client needs, including developing and sustaining client relationships;
• Leading of teams to generate a vision, establish direction and motivate members, create an atmosphere of trust, leverage diverse views, coach staff, and encourage improvement and innovation;
• Performing on project teams and providing deliverables involving multiphase data analysis related to the evaluation of compliance and risk issues;
• Identifying risk requirements and data sources, as well as understanding how to create decision-oriented deliverables;
• Evaluating business processes, compliance and risk, the leadership to exercise oversight over projects involving database concepts, including building relationships between data sources and tables, grouping data, and producing cohesive analyses;
• Leveraging data manipulation and analysis technologies inclusive of Microsoft SQL Server, SQL, Oracle, and/or DB2;
• Understanding of IT architecture and solution development through the use of R, Python, Java, C# or other programming languages; and,
• Understanding of data visualization tools such as Spotfire, Tableau, Microsoft BI, and Qlikview.

Demonstrates extensive abilities and/or a proven record of success as a team leader in the following areas:

• Creating a positive environment by monitoring workloads of the team and respecting the work-life quality of team members, providing feedback in a timely manner, and keeping leadership informed of progress and issues;
• Working seamlessly in a virtual environment to complete projects with team members based in various locations, domestically and globally;
• Identifying and addressing client needs, including developing and sustaining meaningful client relationships and understanding the client's business;
• Utilizing project management skills in relation to data management projects, including developing project plans, budgets, and deliverables schedules;
• Thinking creatively and using individual initiative, and flexibility in prioritizing and completing tasks;
• Researching and analyzing pertinent client, industry, and technical matters; and,
• Utilizing negotiation and persuasion skills to sell potential opportunities, including a proven track record with identifying and converting potential engagement opportunities and developing market presence.