Systems Process Assurance Products & Services Experienced Associate recruitment

Are you interested in the opportunity to work for an industry-leading company that services Fortune 500 companies, and will give you the experience and exposure you need to build your career? If you are, then PricewaterhouseCoopers (www.pwc.com/us) network of firms is the firm for you. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) is well placed to help clients meet the challenges and opportunities of the US marketplace in the areas of assurance, tax, and advisory. We offer the perspective of a global network of firms combined with detailed knowledge of local, state and US national issues. More than 163,000 people in 151 countries across our network share knowledge, experience and solutions to develop fresh perspectives and deliver practical advice.

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Our Assurance practice collaborates with clients, so that the financial information they report to the investing public and other stakeholders is clear and reliable. When we fulfill our role as Assurance professionals, by standing firm on quality and integrity, we have a direct impact on how well the world's capital market system functions.

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As a member of the Systems and Process Assurance team, you will provide services related to controls around the financial reporting process, including business process and IT management controls. Our team members provide multiple services:
• Financial and operation applications controls reviews
• Business process controls reviews
• Database security controls reviews
• IT general controls reviews
• Third party assurance and other opinion services
• Sarbanes-Oxley readiness and controls optimization services
• Pre- and post-implementation assurance reviews
• Project assurance services
• IT security governance reviews

Key issues we help our clients address are:
• Assisting our clients to optimize their risk and internal control activities, including SOX readiness/optimization activities
• Ensuring IT is aligned to organizational strategy, responsive to a changing business climate, with clearly defined policies and procedures
• Enhancing the process of developing robust controls around pre- and post-implementation system reviews through a clearly defined project management methodology
• Performing third party and other opinion-level services in response to service organization requests from customers for information about internal controls
• We assist ERP clients to optimize and sustain a 'real-time' controls environment at an enterprise level

PricewaterhouseCoopers Technology Practice provides industry-focused assurance, tax and advisory services for public and private clients. More than 120,000 people in 144 countries connect their thinking, experience and solutions to build public trust and enhance value for clients and their stakeholders. Our industries — semiconductors, software, life sciences, computers and networking and the investors that fuel them — profoundly influence our lives.

Some of the challenges the PwC Technology Practice addresses are:
• Convergence and Consolidation
• Efficiently Raising and Spending Venture Capital
• Going Public and Managing Financial Market Expectations
• Maximizing the Value of Intellectual Property
• Outsourcing and Offshoring
• Redirecting Growth in the Global Economy
• Revenue Recognition
• Beating the Competition for Knowledge Workers
Knowledge Preferred:

Some knowledge of financial reporting concepts and information technology general controls concepts in the areas of systems development, change management, computer operations and access to programs and data

Fundamental understanding of security and control for some of the following technologies and/or enterprise applications: Unix, Windows, NT, mainframe, AS400, SAP, PeopleSoft, J.D. Edwards, Oracle Financials, Oracle Financial databases, networks etc.

Fundamental understanding of security and control for some of the following technologies and/or enterprise applications: Unix, Windows, NT, mainframe, AS400, SAP, PeopleSoft, J.D. Edwards, Oracle Financials, Oracle Financial databases, networks etc.

Skills Preferred:

Working knowledge of appropriately applying internal control principles and business/technical knowledge including Application Controls, IT General Controls and financial reporting concepts.

Minimum Years of Experience Necessary: 1

Minimum Degree(s) and Certification(s) Required:

BA or BS in Accounting or Management Information Systems or business related field (provided that the candidate has demonstrated the required minimum number of hours for CPA and/or CISA licensure per respective state regulations)

CPA or CISA exam must be passed for promotion to senior associate, licensure preferred.
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