Financial and sustainability assurance evolved for your changing business needs – helping you build trust in what matters
Financial and sustainability assurance
Build trust to protect what matters
Trust has never been harder to earn, nor easier to lose. That’s why we’re moving the PwC audit into the future. Bringing together our multidisciplinary capabilities, technical depth, integrity, and objectivity to deliver quality and transparency—building trust that protects what matters.
What we bring to your audit
Better. Faster. Smarter
Our audit builds trust in what's gone before and powers what comes next. We raise questions earlier and focus on what matters most using forward-thinking technology—AI, machine learning, and automation—matched to your organisation's digital maturity. Streamlined data collection, testing, and real-time progress updates help reduce your team's administrative burden and give you clearer visibility at every stage.
As part of your audit, we’ll bring holistic, coordinated perspectives, not just from your audit team, but also from our firm leaders and multidisciplinary specialists—covering sustainability, human capital, cybersecurity, cloud, AI, valuation, and tax. By listening closely to you and your stakeholders, and leveraging detailed analytics and risk assessments, we provide richer audit insights. Our independent teams bring rigour, transparency, and the strength of PwC to every aspect of our work.
Maestro
An AI-native assurance platform, built for quality.
Maestro is our next-generation assurance platform—an AI-native environment that brings together risk assessment, data-driven analysis, and secure communication into a single, integrated experience. Designed around our auditors and built on professional standards and our global methodology, Maestro puts AI and advanced analytics at the core of the audit to enhance our testing and analysis, while keeping auditor judgement central to every engagement.
With Maestro, our teams and yours benefit from:
Innovative technology powering PwC’s financial statement audit
Across our global network, these capabilities are enhancing the financial statement audit today. They demonstrate the same drive for innovation and commitment to quality behind Maestro.
Real-time communication and coordination
Connecting your teams and ours, wherever you are in the world with streamlined, standardised communication at every stage of the audit.
- Secure, web-based information exchange and document management, available 24/7 and scalable for engagements of every size
- Consolidated notifications that reduce noise and help keep everyone focused on what matters
- Real-time tracking that supports faster resolution of open items
Efficient data acquisition
A faster, more consistent way to gather the information we need for the audit, with minimal disruption to your systems.
- A repeatable extraction process designed to fit alongside your day-to-day operations
- Data encrypted and compressed during extraction and transfer, supporting the protection of your information
- Standardised data formats ready for use within Maestro
Deeper insights from your data
Harnessing the power of data to strengthen our understanding of your business and enhance audit quality.
- Analysis across full populations of data to support sharper risk assessment and testing
- Combined trend and ratio analysis drawn from information already provided as part of the audit
- Visualisations that highlight patterns and potentially higher-risk transactions, supporting more focused audit conversations
Streamlined confirmations
Simplifying the confirmation process for your teams and ours through a centralised confirmation platform.
- Reduced effort and faster turnaround—pre-established connections with thousands of banks, law firms, and companies globally mean confirmations are routed quickly and reliably
- Responses delivered directly within the platform, with real-time visibility of progress
- An intuitive, consistent experience supported by the platform's security controls
Build trust and transparency through sustainability assurance
The way your organisation reports on sustainability influences stakeholder perceptions of your values and integrity. This, in turn, affects enterprise value and competitive advantage. To maintain stakeholder confidence, your reports must be relevant, reliable, and trustworthy.
Stakeholders expect sustainability reporting to meet the same rigorous standards as financial reports – particularly for investors who value independent assurance from a regulated professional services firm.
We bring together our capabilities and experience, with specialist subject matter expertise
Our audits are conducted in accordance with the applicable New Zealand Auditing Standards, while also including tests and procedures relevant to your circumstances. Whatever the size and nature of your organisation — from large NZX listed and privately-owned companies to high growth business, our focus is delivering audits that are tailored, efficient, and backed by our extensive industry knowledge and expertise.
Our capabilities
We help you think in new ways to create value and build trust, empowering you to do more—for your stakeholders, your people, your customers and society.
Industries and sectors
We work alongside you—with powerful tech and expertise—to turn your next move into your next advantage. Smart growth starts with deep insight.
