Associate - Business Solutions

The Vietnam Assurance practice is planning for significant growth in its Risk Assurance business. A career within Risk Assurance Services (Business Solutions) will provide you with the opportunity to provide a broad range of services. It will enable you to assist a variety of clients from small, fast-growing clients to large entities, many of which will be well-known brands, with broad international reach, in optimizing control and risk management activities, organizational and sustainability strategy, and other policies and procedures.
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.

Key responsibilities:

As an Associate, you will 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 level include but are not limited to:

• Use feedback and reflection to develop self-awareness and personal strengths and address development areas.

• Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems;

• Use a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current industry or sector trends;

• Know how and when to use the tools available for a given situation and be able to explain the reasons for your choices;

• Seek and embrace opportunities that give exposure to different situations, environments and perspectives;

• Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when connecting with others;

• Be able to read situations and modify behavior to build quality relationships;

• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Job requirements:

Basic qualifications:

• Minimum degree required: Bachelor’s degree

• Candidates should have studied at least one of the following subjects: Accounting, Finance, Economics, Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance & Technology, Business Administration/Management, Engineering, Accounting & Technology, Mathematics or relevant subjects.

Preferred qualifications:

Preferred knowledge/skills: Candidates should have basic skills and abilities related to risk and controls around different business processes, with prior experience at a professional services firm or large enterprise as a consultant, auditor or business process specialist, and a proven record of success in completing deliverables such as the following:

• Identifying key risks and controls, demonstrating knowledge of Sarbanes-Oxley readiness, and optimising controls, including configurations of controls around security and business processes and within IT environments

• Applying internal control principles and business/technical knowledge (in areas such as information technology general controls and application controls), applying financial reporting concepts, and applying professional scepticism

• Leading adaptions of work programmes, performing assessments, and using PwC's proprietary or other relevant tools to evaluate controls, security, SOD, and potential for optimisation

• Exhibiting project management skills, including developing project plans, budgets, and deliverables schedules

• Creating a positive environment, monitoring workloads of the team while meeting client expectations, and respecting the work-life quality of team members. This includes providing candid, meaningful feedback in a timely manner and keeping leadership informed of progress

• Interacting with clients on solutions and executing projects on client engagements, forming client relationships and demonstrating an understanding of the client's business