Insurance - Senior Associate Risk Assurance Business Process & Control
- Recruiter
- PwC
- Location
- London (Greater)
- Salary
- Competitive
- Closing date
- 4 Oct 2019
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- Employer Sector
- Financial Services, Accountancy Practice, Professional Services
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Job Type
- Assurance, External Audit Manager, Risk
Job Details
A career in our Business Resilience Risk - Client Services practice, 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.
As the business environment becomes more complex, resilience continues to climb the agenda of organisations. Our team help organisations build resilience solutions that work in practice, applying this through all our services, from capability reviews to crisis rehearsals.
Responsibilities
As a Senior Associate, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience, helping our clients solve their complex business issues from strategy to execution. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to
Proactively assist in the management of several clients, while reporting to Managers and above
Train and lead staff
Establish effective working relationships directly with clients
Contribute to the development of your own and team’s technical acumen
Keep up to date with local and national business and economic issues
Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients
Continue to develop internal relationships and your PwC brand
Required skills
Confident and resilient, comfortable asserting yourself with senior clients
Strong technical risk management knowledge and proven ability to support the development and implementing practical risk management processes
Experience of the financial services industry, ideally insurance
Knowledge of prevailing corporate governance requirements
Solid financial and commercial acumen and understanding
Strong presentation skills and experience planning and facilitating workshops / risk exercises with senior level audiences
Robust diligence, ability to pay close attention to detail and strong report-writing skills
Familiarity with common risk analysis techniques, understanding of scenario modelling etc.
Strong inter-personal communication skills with ability to build trust and rapport with diverse internal and external stakeholders
Ability to deliver on a small number of simultaneous projects
Proven team management skills, including coaching and development of junior resources
Ability to work as part of a team and independently with little management oversight
Commercially focused and strong business development skills
Risk Assurance
We’re a leading provider of trust in the digital world - in the eyes of our people, our clients and our stakeholders. Today's business environment is different. More complex. More connected. Companies not only face new and unknown risks, but also new and untapped opportunities. Our team is at the forefront of this change, join us to be a part of transforming how risk is perceived and capitalised on.
Not the role for you?
Did you know PwC offer flexible contract arrangements as well as contingent work ( ie temporary or day rate contracting)?
The skills we look for in future employees
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’ and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.
Learn more here www.pwc.com/uk/careers/experienced/apply
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. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.
Learn more here www.pwc.com/uk/diversity
Company
Your career is just that; yours. You choose it. You live it. You make it happen. To get the best from it, you need the best opportunities. That’s why opportunities are at the heart of a career with us. Opportunities to grow as an individual, to build lasting relationships and make an impact in a place where people, quality and value mean everything.
What we do
We’re one of the world’s leading professional services organisations. From 158 countries, we help our clients, some of the most successful organisations on the globe, as well as its most dynamic entrepreneurs and thriving private businesses, to create the value they want. We help to measure, protect and enhance the things that matter most to them.
Where you could work:
- Assurance
- Consulting
- Financial Advisory/ Deals
- Human Resource Services
- Internal Firm Services
- PwC Legal LLP
- Tax
- Technology
As a leading professional services network we’re confident we can offer outstanding training and development opportunities, exposure to multi-disciplinary teams, and support from industry-leading experts. Discover where your talent could take you and join an employer that focused on helping you reach your full potential.
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