September 2027 - Data Enablement (Non-CPA) - 8 month Co-op - Calgary

PwC•Calgary, AB

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

At PwC Canada, we’re more than a professional services firm—we’re a community of solvers tackling the world’s most important problems. As a co-op in our Risk Services practice, you’ll be part of a diverse, inclusive team that values your perspective and empowers you to make a real impact. You’ll build relationships, gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies, and contribute to work that matters—whether its helping clients navigate complex challenges or driving trust in their reporting. Throughout your co-op term, you’ll be supported by experienced professionals and exposed to our innovative AI and digital tools to help you build future-ready capabilities in data, technology, and business acumen. You’ll also gain firsthand experience of busy season and see how risk assurance work unfolds in real time. Whether you're working from a PwC office, a client site, or remotely, you’ll be part of a collaborative environment that encourages curiosity and continuous learning. Grow here, go further. At PwC, our people in data and analytics focus on leveraging data to drive insights and helping our clients make informed business decisions. A career in our Data Enablement practice, within Risk Services, will provide you with the opportunity to empower our business partners (external clients and other PwC operational units) to solve the problems that matter using data-driven insights. Being human-led, tech-powered, we put the right controls, processes, and structures in place, so our people and clients make confident, data-backed decisions to deliver on our promise of trust. With connectivity being a key enabler of our strategy, our objective is to become the most connected firm - connected to our clients, our communities and to each other. PwC follows an Activity Based Work model, where our PwC professionals engage in a diverse range of activities from our offices, from client sites, or our home.

Requirements

Motivated to learn about technologies, IT practices and standards, infrastructure-related best-practices in the areas of security and IT, as well as IT control frameworks
Motivated to learn programming languages such as Python, SQL and utilizing advanced data-platforms such as Databricks
Motivated to learn about analyzing the impact of data and IT risks and internal controls on organizations’ financial, strategic, and operational objectives
Proven ability to manage multiple tasks in a dynamic and constantly evolving environment
Recognized strong analytical, conceptualization, and problem-solving skills
Ability to work independently or as part of a team
Strong skills in prioritization and problem-solving

Responsibilities

Redefine how PwC delivers the audit of tomorrow by building a strong understanding of commonly used client information systems (ERPs) to develop automated solutions to problems encountered by existing engagement teams.
Engage with clients in highly specialised assurance tasks, using advanced data analysis and automation to deliver results. Includes testing of key client reports, testing over client's ERP system conversions, creating Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) pipelines and developing solutions for industry specific assurance.
Help clients manage their data better and feel confident that the information generated from their business data is reliable and can help them make the right business decisions using advanced data analysis techniques and capabilities.
Work with clients to understand and set up and optimize the process to acquire comprehensive datasets used as the foundation of PwC's audits. This includes implementing the cutting-edge technology (such as PwC Extract) for data extraction and transformation to facilitate end to end automation.