Risk & Quality Senior Associate - 18 months FTC

Line of Service

Internal Firm Services

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

IFS - Risk & Quality (R&Q)

Management Level

Senior Associate

Job Description & Summary

A career within Risk and Compliance services, will provide you the opportunity to work with a team that provides clients with extensive risk and controls technical knowledge and sector specific experience. You’ll have the opportunity to develop a holistic approach to risk that protects businesses, facilitates strategic decision making and enhances efficiency by assisting management in the assessment of project risks and controls.

Our Risk and Compliance Generalist - Practice Support team helps PwC assess, design and develop solutions to manage diverse risks. You’ll help PwC develop a consistent, coordinated, and sustainable strategy.

Role: Risk and Quality Senior Associate - Secondment (18 FTC)
Location: Guernsey or Jersey
Line of Service: Risk & Quality - Business Enablement
Grade: Senior Associate
Contracted Hours per Week: 37.5 hours

PwC Channel Islands Overview
PwC is a highly dynamic professional services firm offering Advisory, Tax, Audit and other assurance services to a large portfolio of international and local clients. The Channel Islands firm employs 600+ staff in offices across Jersey, Guernsey and Alderney and is part of an international network of 151 PwC firms employing over 364,000 staff.

Risk Function
The Risk Function comprises:
● Firmwide risk - including Information Protection and the Chief Data Office
● Line of Service (LoS Risk)
● Compliance
● Independence
● Ethics & Business Conduct (E&BC).

Job Summary:
As a Risk and Quality Risk Senior Associate, you will work alongside Firmwide Risk Manager and the Independence and Ethics Director to support the delivery of risk and compliance projects including network standards assessments, QMSE reporting processes for Compliance, Independence and E&BC, policy work and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM). A key part of the role will include working with Functional Areas Leads, where you will be given insight into how the Firm manages risk in the face of increasing Network and regulatory requirements.

You will also have the opportunity to work on a number of other risk and quality projects, including the Firmwide Risk Register, defining the SLAs with other Network Firms, and supporting the Firm to comply with Information Security and Business Continuity requirements.

Our team culture emphasises mutual support and continuous professional development, ensuring you have ample opportunities to receive coaching as a part of this secondment.

Responsibilities:
Annual Network Standards compliance assessment process:

● Identifying updates to the access lists for each assessment and communicating these to the Archer Provisioning Team.
● Preparing update spreadsheets for the FALs, which set out the prior year questions, responses and findings, and any current year changes (new or removed questions).
● Roll forward and pre-populate the current year assessments as much as possible. Live assessments are accessed through the Archer system.
● Communicate with the relevant teams and support them, as required, to complete their assessments. Agreeing appropriate timelines for completion and review by the FAL.
● Perform an initial review of the assessments as they are completed, highlighting any potential issues/gaps.
● Prepare the TSP assessment summary ahead of the TSP Confirmation sign off.
● Tracking attendance at Network Standards calls and supporting FALs in the R&Q Pillar with the actions arising from these calls.

Other risk and quality activities are likely to include:
● Populating the Findings Tracker as required following confirmation of findings from internal and external reviews and assessments.
● Assist in communicating findings to relevant leads and documenting remediation plans.
● Ongoing monitoring of findings and remediation plan completion.
● Preparing reports on the status of findings for the Firmwide Risk Management Meeting.
● Collate and maintain a Firmwide Risk Register.
● Liaising with relevant FALs to document updates to the Firmwide Risk Register.
● Preparing reports on top risks, ageing risks, new risks etc. as required for reporting to the Firmwide Risk Management Meeting and Risk and Quality Committee.
● Supporting the development and implementation of an ERM System, and thereafter assisting in the maintenance of the system.
● Supporting the Firm to maintain compliance with ISO 27001 - Information Security and ISO 22301 - Business Continuity.
● Defining, updating and reviewing the Service Level Agreements with other Network Firms for Services delivered to the Risk and Quality Pillar.
● Reviewing and updating Network Risk Management Policies, including related CI Supplements.
● Reviewing and updating Network Standard and QMSE Risk Assessments and Mapping for Compliance.
● Reviewing, updating and maintaining QMSE process notes for Firmwide Risk and Quality.
● Supporting the Firmwide Risk Manager with the R&Q Committee Meeting Agenda and recording any decisions made outside this meeting; including updates to and maintenance of the action tracker.
● Supporting the Risk and Quality Pillar with annual training, including training materials and liaising with L&D on administrative matters.
● Other ad hoc projects for the Risk and Quality Pillar

Direct Reports:
● Reporting to the Independence and Ethics Director and the Firmwide Risk Manager.

There are no direct reports into this role.

Qualifications & Certifications:
● A relevant professional qualification (e.g. ACCA, ICAEW, ICA Diploma, IRM qualification, etc.) would be beneficial.
● Further study support is also available.

Skills & Experience Required:
Essential skills:
● Strong organisational skills
● Enthusiastic, energetic and driven by challenge
● Excellent communication skills – with the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders at all levels
● Proactive, self-motivated and able to take responsibility for own work
● Attention to detail
● Project management

Desirable skills:
● Team player, respected by the leadership team, the managers and the staff

Travel Requirements:
It is anticipated that this role will require travel between the islands of Jersey and Guernsey approximately once or twice a month.

The skills we look for in our people:
All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, The PwC Professional.

The PwC Professional focuses on five core attributes; whole leadership, business acumen, technical capabilities, global acumen and relationships. We use this framework to recruit, develop, and assess our people, at all grades and in all areas of our business, because we expect all of our people to be leaders.

Diversity:
We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. We aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their unique strengths. Creating
value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business. https://www.pwc.co.uk/diversity

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Travel Requirements

Up to 20%

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No

Government Clearance Required?

No

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