Controls Advisory Senior Manager - Governance, Risk & Compliance - SOx

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Job description

About PwC
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.

About Risk
Risk isn't going to disappear and the complex, ever changing environment makes it much harder to predict where new challenges will come from. But it represents an opportunity for businesses to transform and innovate, and discover hidden value. From the boardroom to back office, we work to protect and strengthen every aspect of business; from people to performance, systems to strategy. Through our invaluable insights and independent assurance we help discover and unlock real value.

There is a huge amount of business change caused by disruption, including technology, regulation, or a factor in the broader environment such as Brexit and that gives rise to risk and uncertainty. Helping our clients identify and address those risks to give them and their stakeholders confidence in their business is the purpose of our new Risk Line of Service. As a business, we have been providing services related to risk within our wider Assurance practice. On 1 July 2020, we established this new Line of Service to better use the scale and breadth of our practice including many of the firm's experts in areas such as regulation, cyber security, listings, actuarial, accounting, controls and internal audit.

About C&G Commercial and Government GRC

Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) sits within our Risk practice as one of the fastest growing areas of the business.

Being a member of the C&G GRC team in Risk will see you working on a variety of challenging and career-advancing engagements. You will work across a diverse range of well-known clients within our Commercial and Government practice and have the opportunity to work on really exciting projects right from the start. We work with some of the top companies in the world across a wide range of commercial industries, as well as world class Government & Public Sector organisations.

We help organisations in building resilience throughout their organisation with excellence in governance, risk management, compliance and control.

We split GRC into 4 sub-propositions: Enterprise Risk Management, Controls Advisory, Compliance and Deals:

• Risk Management - Designing and implementing risk management frameworks to help Boards identify, assess and manage the most significant risks in their organisation.

• Controls Advisory - Designing, implementing and testing processes and controls, working with clients to develop and maintain robust internal controls over their key business processes. As an example, we work with a number of businesses to implement SOx (Sarbanes-Oxley) programmes to prepare them for a listing on the US stock exchange, or with UK listed organisations who are preparing for a response to the BEIS consultation.

• Compliance - Helping clients embed compliance with policies and regulatory requirements throughout their organisation, and implement monitoring and reporting frameworks.

• Deals - We perform an assessment of our clients' readiness for a proposed deal, through to delivering the Financial Position and Prospects Procedures (FPPP) report for stakeholders in the deal process.

The role
Our Governance, Risk and Compliance practice is currently expanding and we're seeking talented, high performing professionals with strong controls advisory skills to join our team as a Controls Advisory Senior Manager.

We are looking for individuals to take a leading role on SOX and ICFR (Internal controls over financial reporting) controls engagements, particularly in relation to the upcoming changes for organisations through UK Corporate Governance reform. We are looking for individuals with a strong background in process risk and controls, who can take a leading role in building the practice, winning work, owning client relationships and leading teams to deliver complex engagements to senior stakeholders.

If you're successful you'll undertake client work which could include

• Leading teams to deliver a portfolio of client facing and internal projects, including monitoring engagement progress and budget
• Acting as a controls / SOx / ICFR subject matter expert on engagements and developing thought leadership
• Developing and managing relationships with senior client stakeholders across a portfolio
• Identifying and developing new client opportunities
• Managing the delivery of proposals and bids

You will also have people responsibilities including

• Developing junior team members through effective coaching and supervision
• Creating a positive and inclusive team environment

The essentials

• Technical knowledge and practical experience of controls design, implementation and testing
• A chartered or certified accountancy qualification (ACA or equivalent)
• Possession of strong team working and leadership skills
• ​A willingness to learn new skills and help develop and innovate new client propositions
• Ability to communicate clearly with colleagues and clients at all levels
• Strong report writing skills

Preferred Skills

• A strong understanding of SOX compliance requirements

• Demonstrable experience of working on multiple projects, managing your time effectively to deliver high quality work to tight deadlines;
• Commercial acumen and an interest in how complex organisations operate; and
• Strong analytical, logic and problem-solving skills.

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. Click here to find out more about everyday inclusion at PwC and how we support our people.

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.

Risk
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.

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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:

The Deal
We want all of our people to feel empowered to be the best that they can be, which is why we have 'The Deal'.
Find out more about our firmwide Employee Value Proposition:

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.