Senior Associate Stakeholder Assurance - Banking & Capital Markets

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Stakeholder Assurance - Trust and Transparency Solutions

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 stakeholders.

Our Stakeholder Assurance team plays a critical role in the corporate governance framework by providing independent assurance that protects the business against risk, informs strategic decision making and improves overall performance. Our team helps business leaders gain a competitive advantage by establishing reliable systems and processes when working with third parties. Simply put, we 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.

Your role

This role will see you working on a variety of challenging non-audit assurance assignments. You will have the opportunity to work on a wide variety of clients, from established global banking clients to emerging FinTechs and start-ups looking to disrupt the traditional financial markets. Our clients are seeking our assurance over a growing range of topics including:

• Service organisations

• Technology platforms

• ESG KPIs and metrics

• Benchmarks and indices

• Cyber security

• Crypto assets

• Payments and emoney

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,

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 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.

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