About Technology, Data & Analytics Technology, Data & Analytics is the largest single group of technologists within PwC, with 450 people working across the UK. We help clients solve important problems as they transform their businesses and technology and use data to drive decisions and provide services to their customers. We innovate, working with our clients to develop new tools and ways of working that deliver sustained outcomes. We work with prestigious clients including FTSE100 companies, mid market clients and government agencies. We offer a varied range of experience, a supportive team and an exciting career working in technology, data and analytics.

About the Team

Within Technology, Data & Analytics our Financial Services practice is the UK’s leading data and technology team where you will have extensive opportunities to work with the largest and most influential financial services clients in the UK and Globally. We utilise leading edge data and technology capabilities to help our clients deal with a number of challenges around data, data management, regulatory reporting, data transformation, cloud, ESG etc all underpinned by a deep set of skills around data and data analytics.

The role

Risk management and compliance in Financial Services (“FS”) continues to be in the top three priorities for advisory spend and PwC are market leaders in supporting our clients in this space.

Our FS clients are driven by the need to further accelerate their risk and compliance transformation as a result of (a) market, (b) client and (c) regulatory pressures - all of which are impacted by the post-pandemic recovery, digital disruption and geopolitical uncertainty. You will be joining a team which leads in supporting our FS clients with Risk and Compliance related challenges. Specifically, through technology and data enablement, we are looking to enhance the way we offer our services to our clients to help them overcome complex regulatory and operational challenges.

The essentials

You will have experience of the unique complexity of the Risk and Compliance landscape within the Financial Services sector driven by regulation, global operations and legacy business. This will enable you to help solve our clients’ challenges through the use of technology and data analytics, focussing on the use of an array of delivery models and data-led methodologies. The candidate will have experience with driving the development of technology enabled assets and taking these to market across the FS sector.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the ideation and development of technology and data enabled assets to solve our clients’ challenges

• Lead complex client engagements, engaging with senior stakeholders and regulators to solve problems in the Risk and Compliance space

• Deliver added value to clients by providing knowledge, ideas and solutions for improving their management of Risk and Compliance

• Integrate and embed a strong culture of technology and data-led thinking, supporting risk reduction and enabling rapid business insights, transformation and innovation

• Ability to lead engagements and teams to deliver against key requirements

• Manage delivery, and support the development of diverse and hybrid teams

• Demonstrate strong written and verbal communication to provide a clear articulation of policy and strategy, to report recommendations and engage with key stakeholders across both business and technology

• Proactively assist in the delivery of business change and conduct risk transformation projects, which may include managing several concurrent client programmes, reporting progress to Senior Managers and above.

• Develop strategies to solve complex technical challenges, help firms to rethink their approach to risk and control and work with our clients to create robust and sustainable change.

• Build and maintain effective working relationships with clients and help identify opportunities to broaden relationships with new and existing clients.

• Keep up to date with significant economic challenges and contribute to the development of your team’s technical acumen.

Additional Job Description

Preferred Skills

• Experience within Financial Services

• Experience within Risk and Compliance

• Experience with development and management of technology enabled assets

• Experience in some, or all of the following proposition areas: Model Validation, Consumer Duty, Trading / Front Office Risk, FS Compliance, Regulatory Reporting

• Experience in consulting

Risk
Risk is all around us and in our complex world, is changing all the time. Our teams bring people from diverse backgrounds together, using their skills and cutting-edge technology, to help solve complex problems. We are pioneers in a world of changing risk and our market leading services build resilient organisations. Join us and together, we can support our clients to rethink risk.

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