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Senior Associates - Stakeholder Assurance Risk and Controls



A career in our Performance Assurance practice, within Process Assurance services, will enable you to assist clients in optimising control activities, organisational strategy, and policies and procedures. You'll conduct transaction testing, perform readiness assessments, and leverage various technical Information Technology controls (e.g. databases, operating systems, data warehouses, and reporting tools) in order to help our clients achieve optimal operational efficiency.



Our team helps business leaders gain a competitive advantage by establishing reliable systems and processes when working with third parties. Simply put, you'll focus on providing an independent perspective on how a company is responding to risks helping enhance transparency between our clients and their stakeholders and building confidence around key dependencies.

As the need to do the right thing - and to be seen to be doing it - becomes a business imperative to survive and thrive, all organisations need to ensure that they take a proactive approach to understanding, managing and presenting their business to secure their reputation and maintain trust more effectively. A career in Stakeholder Assurance puts you at the heart of our proposition to assist our clients in bridging the trust gap between their organisation and their stakeholder needs.

What we offer

A career in Stakeholder Assurance will enable you to assist clients in optimising control activities, organisational strategy, and policies and procedures. You'll conduct transaction testing, perform readiness assessments, and leverage various technical Information Technology controls (e.g. databases, operating systems, data warehouses, and reporting tools) in order to help our clients achieve optimal operational efficiency.

Your role

This role will see you working on a variety of challenging, career-advancing risk, controls and non-audit assurance assignments. You will work exclusively in the asset and wealth management industry, with a wide range of asset and wealth management clients, from boutique UK based asset managers to global organisations. You'll be constantly learning and your ideas will be welcomed in an atmosphere of collaboration and teamwork. In your role you will deliver engagements, coach and supervise teams and work with our management team to help us grow the business,

About you

You will have experience in understanding an organisation's objectives, risks, risk management priorities, regulatory environment, and the diverse needs of its critical stakeholders. In particular, the ability to gain a detailed understanding of our client's customer requirements and apply this to non-financial assurance standards.

Responsibilities

Understanding complex client processes to provide advice and help develop non-audit assurance solutions to meet client needs and issues.Planning and delivering assurance assignments or other similar types of reviews for a diverse range of governance, risk, regulatory, operational and financial activities, within set deadlines.Building effective working relationships with clients.Managing the expectations of a client stakeholders.Managing teams to deliver a project both on time and on budget.Taking a role in leading and coaching junior staff.Building a network of industry contacts through attending external industry events and PwC hosted events.Conducting work in accordance with the relevant industry standard and PWC's Quality Assurance standards.Developing and supporting new opportunities and propositions.Some opportunities to get involved in responsible investment related assurance services over processes, controls and data.Some opportunities to get involved in regulatory assurance work with clients to help them report with confidence to stakeholders on their complianceOur

Requirements

We would like to hear from candidates who have knowledge, experience and skills in some of the following areasDesigning and testing internal controls, ideally gained within the asset and wealth management sector, however candidates with experience gained in other industries will be considered;Planning and delivering complex non-financial assurance engagements, and reviewing and directing controls testing plans.Some knowledge of assurance standards such as ISAE3000, ISAE 3402, AAF 01/06, AT-C 205 / SSAE 18, and SOC2.Client handling and relationship management.An ability to challenge and escalate issues effectivelyDelegating asks to more junior members of staff, and providing supervision/coachingLeading work effectively in a variety of multi-location teams.

Location:
London



Salary:
Competitive

Role closing date: 20th of October 2020

The location

The skills we look for

Our people are curious and put quality first and foremost. They are inclusive and invest in themselves and their teams. They adapt to new challenges with flexibility, agility and intelligence. They speak up, role modelling constructive challenge whilst also being open to challenge themselves. They take pride in their profession, their work and their passion to deliver to the highest quality.

Diversity

Valuing Difference. Driving Inclusion.

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 because creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business, enabling us to solve important problems and deliver value to our clients. We encourage an inclusive culture where people can be themselves, are valued for their strengths and are empowered to be the best they can be. As an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we also support different ways of working offering flexible working arrangements. Learn more here about our work to support an inclusive culture.