Financial Services Assurance – Senior Manager

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.

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 now seeking for suitable & capable talents with strong Financial Services audit experience to join our Financial Services Assurance team to assist with participating in a broad range of statutory audit assignments for our Asset Management clients. Together we can build trust in society and solve important problems.

Key responsibilities:

• Define and manage projects to meet objectives and budget
• Demonstrate knowledge of risk management and ability to deliver high quality work
• Direct and coach junior team members
• Manage both internal and external stakeholders
• Understand the client’s issues and manage the expectations of different stakeholders by translating expectations into quality & balanced output/deliverables
• Address client needs by bringing relevant expertise from the firm to client discussions, while also converting service opportunities into proposals/business.

Requirements:

• Relevant accounting qualifications
• 6-8 years of demonstrable experience in a similar role at a Big 4 accounting firm
• Experience in statutory and regulatory audits of Asset Management clients
• Sound understanding of IFRS/SFRS and SAS/ISA. US GAAP knowledge would be useful
• Excellent project management and team working skills
• Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to demonstrate an understanding of commercial issues facing businesses in this sector
• Effective day-to-day management of clients; building and maintaining client relationships is crucial