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. This job is for a Manager in Software Asset Management, developing long term software management strategy and goals, and ensuring license compliance.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience on software asset management
- Excellent knowledge of the Hardware Asset Management process
- Strong experience with asset management and discovery tools like Snow, Flexera, ServiceNow SAM Pro
- Experience with developing, implementing, and refining SAM processes and procedures
- Intermediate Excel skills
- Excellent English language skills (verbal and written)
- Experience working in a virtual environment
- Experience interpreting licensing terms and conditions, licensing knowledge and product use rights for defined software titles.
- Participated or lead in software audits
- Understand standards like ISO/IEC 19770-1; ISO/IEC 5230 etc.
- Ability to deal tactfully with vendors, suppliers, and contractors who provide a broad spectrum of products and services
- Highly competent at interpreting data, analyzing problems, and formulating solutions to present to management level and above
- Knowledge of Active Directory, virtualization technologies, network topologies, software vendor license agreements and licensing terms
- Understands and masters the software licensing for at least three big publishers like Microsoft, Oracle, VMWare, SAP etc.
- Familiar with Microsoft O365 or similar tools
- Knowledge around Free and Open-source software (FOSS) licensing
- Assess, design, and implement key process related to Software compliance
- Software license compliance for major software publishers
- Operations and deployment of SAM and SCA tools
- Contract & Spend management including Optimization
- Co-ordinate with multiple teams, like IT, Infrastructure Management, Finance, Procurement, Legal as required
- Work on automation areas for Discovery and Reporting
- Performing and interpreting gap analysis
- Develop risk remediation strategies
- Ensures license compliance is met, and that any noncompliance issues are addressed quickly and efficiently.
Benefits
- We reward your contributions, support your wellbeing, and offer inclusive benefits, flexibility programmes and mentorship that will help you thrive in work and life.