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Description
A career in our Financial Services Audit practice, within External Audit services, will provide you with the opportunity to provide a range of Assurance services and business advice to a variety of clients from small, fast growing clients to large entities. Our clients are often well known brands and many have broad international reach. We focus on using the latest technology to reduce the level of manual testing ensuring you’ll focus on the most valuable areas of client service and on enhancing corporate governance and the reliability of our clients’ information.
Our team helps financial organisations navigate regulatory complexity while strengthening trust and transparency in their business. Our clients cover industries within banking and capital markets, private equity, insurance, and consumer finance. While many of the rules of business have changed, the fundamentals haven’t. You’ll work alongside senior members of the client’s management team in planning the audit process from beginning to end, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and fair presentation of our client’s information.
Why join our team and work in Banking, Insurance and Aviation Finance?
By choosing a career with PwC - BIA you will join a team of over 200 specialist professionals, in a business that is rapidly growing, with huge potential for professional advancement.
You will work with some of the leading companies in these industries and be part of a talented and experienced PwC team. Our Banking, Insurance & Aviation Finance practices have developed strong teams of individuals with the core competencies necessary to advise clients on complex technical issues in a highly-regulated and rapidly-changing environment.
We audit 2 of the 5 licensed domestic retail banks, 6 of the top 9 life assurance companies, 4 of the top 10 non-life insurance companies and the largest global owner/lessor of commercial aircraft in Ireland. The Banking & Insurance industries face huge challenges from changing regulation and reporting requirements. Our core audit teams work alongside highly skilled specialists including Treasury, Actuarial, Market Risk, Credit Risk, Aviation Finance, Pensions and Regulatory teams. We have also established ourselves as the leading Irish firm providing services to support many of the Aviation Finance companies that make Ireland Europe's leading aircraft leasing location. More than 50% of the world’s commercial aircraft are owned by Irish companies.
Our Banking, Insurance & Aviation Finance client base provides great opportunities to work on interesting and topical areas to develop your understanding of the key issues facing these industries. This broad base provides our people with varied and rewarding career opportunities. Most of our clients are based in Dublin, typically near the city centre or within the IFSC.
We are keen to hear from candidates with the following:
1. Excellent knowledge of accounting and auditing, preferably obtained in a "Top 10” environment;
2. Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or similar qualification) with at least 4 year post qualification;
3. Strong technical knowledge;
4. Worked with a diverse portfolio of clients;
5. Capable of working on your own initiative;
6. Ambitious and want to pursue a career in practice;
7. Strong interpersonal skills are essential.
At PwC we help our people to learn, discover, develop and make a difference all the way through their working lives. Opportunities exist in our Banking, Insurance & Aviation Finance group.
Responsibilities
As a Manager, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience, helping our clients solve their complex business issues from strategy to execution. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:
1. Proactively lead the practice by setting strategy, drive the development of new business in the market, and provide technical advice across disciplines;
2. Building strong networks within the firm to spot and capitalise on opportunities to get involved in projects that others are leading across a number of different business units and sectors;
3. Identifying and discussing key issues with our clients to identify potential opportunities;
4. Responsibility to shape and deliver various projects that exceed the expectations of our clients and our own assignment quality criteria;
5. Manage and deliver large projects by developing the project team, assessing engagement risks throughout, driving conclusions, and reviewing / challenging the output produced by the team;
6. Responsibility for management of engagement financials;
7. Helping to grow and develop our team through hands on training and coaching.
Why you’ll love working for PwC (Benefits)
We want you to love every minute of your career. But we get it: each stage of life comes with a new set of priorities and demands. This is why we support you with a range of financial and non-financial rewards and benefits. There’s something for everyone. Here’s just a flavor:
1. A competitive compensation package with a defined career path;
2. Defined Contribution Pension Plan;
3. Subsidised healthcare insurance;
4. Wedding leave and gratuity, paid maternity leave, new parent leave;
5. Flexible working arrangements;
6. On-site gym and shower facilities, fitness classes and wellbeing services;
7. On-site restaurant, shop, dry cleaning service and phenomenal coffee, treats and eats in our newly refurbished food market Plant & Bean;
8. Commitment to digital transformation. All our employees attend our Digital Academy Training;
9. A dedicated team of Learning and Development professionals who work to deliver an evolving training framework. It’s our goal to continuously develop our employees' technical and professional skills;
10. Training is centered around the “PwC Professional” our global leadership framework. It focuses on developing your core skills to become an authentic and inclusive leader for all levels;
11. You’ll be paired with mentors to help you develop your skills, diversify your experience and support you in achieving your career goals;
12. We’ve over 3,000 people working in PwC Ireland, and we hire over 300 graduates every year along with 300+ experienced hires so there is always lots going on with different societies and social events and you can get involved in as many or as little as you want;
13. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is really meaningful to us also and last year we were certified by the Business Working Responsibly Mark;
14. Creating a diverse workforce that is representative of the communities we serve is hugely important to us and last year we signed up to Elevate - the Inclusive Workplace Pledge;
15. Be Well, Work Well is our name for everything we do to help our people stay well and the support we provide when they need it.
Education
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Degrees/Field of Study preferred:
Certifications
Required Skills
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Desired Languages
Travel Requirements
Not Specified
Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?
No
Government Clearance Required?
No
Job Posting End Date
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