PWC

Digital Assurance & Transparency- Workday - Manager

PWC$99K — $252K *
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in related fields such as Accounting, Business Administration, or Computer Science.
  • Minimum of 5 years of experience with Workday controls auditing, consulting, or implementation.
  • Thorough knowledge of Workday security design and implementation.
  • Experience in designing risk and controls frameworks for business processes.
  • Strong understanding of Sarbanes Oxley compliance readiness.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and assessment of Workday security and controls.
  • Supervise and mentor team members, promoting their professional growth.
  • Manage client service accounts and project workstreams effectively.
  • Independently analyze and solve complex issues to deliver quality outcomes.
  • Ensure adherence to business process risk and control standards.
  • Cultivate and maintain strong client relationships.
  • Oversee implementation of Workday Security and enhance security protocols.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • 401k retirement plan options.
  • Paid holiday and vacation time.
  • Personal and family sick leave provisions.
Full Job Description
Industry/Sector
Not Applicable

Specialism
Assurance

Management Level
Manager

Job Description & Summary
At PwC, our people in audit and assurance focus on providing independent and objective assessments of financial statements, internal controls, and other assurable information enhancing the credibility and reliability of this information with a variety of stakeholders. They evaluate compliance with regulations including assessing governance and risk management processes and related controls.

In business transformation digital solutions at PwC, you will assist clients with business transformations leveraging large scale digital solutions such as SAP, Oracle, OneStream, Workday, Identity and Access Management tools and other business applications. You will utilise innovative solutions to help clients assess and manage risk and controls during their transformation journey. Working in this area, you will assess the client's approach for ERP security, business process and IT General Controls, while educating our clients on leading practice recommendations.

Enhancing your leadership style, you motivate, develop and inspire others to deliver quality. You are responsible for coaching, leveraging team member's unique strengths, and managing performance to deliver on client expectations. With your growing knowledge of how business works, you play an important role in identifying opportunities that contribute to the success of our Firm. You are expected to lead with integrity and authenticity, articulating our purpose and values in a meaningful way. You embrace technology and innovation to enhance your delivery and encourage others to do the same.

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

  • Analyse and identify the linkages and interactions between the component parts of an entire system.
  • Take ownership of projects, ensuring their successful planning, budgeting, execution, and completion.
  • Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables.
  • Develop skills outside your comfort zone, and encourage others to do the same.
  • Effectively mentor others.
  • Use the review of work as an opportunity to deepen the expertise of team members.
  • Address conflicts or issues, engaging in difficult conversations with clients, team members and other stakeholders, escalating where appropriate.
  • Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.


The Opportunity

As part of the Technology and Data - Tech team you are expected to design, implement, and assess security and controls for Workday applications. As a Manager you are expected to supervise, develop, and coach teams, manage client service accounts, and drive assigned client engagement workstreams by supervising teams and independently solving and analyzing complex problems to develop quality deliverables. You are expected to lead Workday Security implementations, manage client relationships, and maintain compliance with business process risk and control design.

Responsibilities

- Lead the design and assessment of Workday security and controls

- Supervise and mentor team members, promoting professional growth

- Manage client service accounts and project workstreams

- Independently analyze and solve complex issues to deliver quality outcomes

- Maintain adherence to business process risk and control standards

- Cultivate and sustain client relationships

- Oversee Workday Security implementations

- Drive enhancements in security protocols

What You Must Have

- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting & Finance, Accounting & Technology, Business Administration/Management, Computer and Information Science, Computer and Information Science & Accounting, Economics, Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance & Technology, Management Information Systems, Management Information Systems & Accounting

- At least 5 years of Workday controls auditing, consulting and/or implementation

What Sets You Apart

- Thorough knowledge of Workday security design

- Experience in Workday solutions implementation

- Designing business process risk and controls frameworks

- Identifying key risks and controls

- Understanding Sarbanes Oxley readiness

- Leading end-to-end Workday security implementations

- Conducting security design workshops

- Designing security for Workday Financials and HCM

- Configuring and implementing Workday Financials and HCM

Travel Requirements
Up to 40%

Job Posting End Date

The salary range for this position is: $99,000 - $252,450. For residents of Washington state the salary range for this position is: $99,000 - $297,000. Actual compensation within the range will be dependent upon the individual's skills, experience, qualifications and location, and applicable employment laws. All hired individuals are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. PwC offers a wide range of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, 401k, holiday pay, vacation, personal and family sick leave, and more. To view our benefits at a glance, please visit the following link: https://pwc.to/benefits-at-a-glance

As PwC is an equal opportunity employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment at PwC without regard to race; color; religion; national origin; sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity); age; disability; genetic information (including family medical history); veteran, marital, or citizenship status; or, any other status protected by law.

PwC does not intend to hire experienced or entry level job seekers who will need, now or in the future, PwC sponsorship through the H-1B lottery, except as set forth within the following policy: https://pwc.to/H-1B-Lottery-Policy.

Learn more about how we work: https://pwc.to/how-we-work

For only those qualified applicants that are impacted by the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, San Diego County Fair Chance Ordinance, and the California Fair Chance Act, where applicable, arrest or conviction records will be considered for Employment in accordance with these laws. At PwC, we recognize that conviction records may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship to responsibilities such as accessing sensitive company or customer information, handling proprietary assets, or collaborating closely with team members. We evaluate these factors thoughtfully to establish a secure and trusted workplace for all.

About PWC

PwC is a multinational professional services network of firms headquartered in London, United Kingdom, operating as partnerships under the PwC brand. PwC ranks as the second-largest professional services network in the world and is considered one of the Big Four accounting firms, along with Deloitte, EY and KPMG. PwC firms operate in 157 countries, 742 locations, with 276,000 people. As of 2020, 26% of the workforce worked in the Americas, 26% in Asia, 32% in Western Europe, 5% in Middle East and Africa and 11% in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
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Size
284,000 employees
Industry
Founded
1998

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