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PricewaterhouseCooper (PWC) Nigeria is recruiting to fill the vacant position of:
Job Title: Governance, Risk & Compliance Senior Manager
Location: Lagos
Reference Number: ADSP00020
Job Description
We are looking for a Senior Manager to serve as the bridge between Governance, Risk and Compliance unit strategy implementation and management of complex engagements as a senior member of the assignment team in addressing clients’ enterprise risk and regulatory profile, advising on the overall management and performance of their business, with a focus in compliance management, business continuity, risk and governance, and treasury management
Responsibilities
- Develop and manage Governance, Risk & Compliance solutions while keeping abreast with technical industry issues
- Lead in delivering significant business results through delivering strategic insights on the ability of a business to sustain growth and profit and assessing transformational improvements across operational settings while utilizing strategic and creative thinking, individual initiative
- Engage successfully in complex, broad and often ill-defined business issues through deep understanding of both the particular enterprise and industry specific issues
- Contribute to development of a business vision and leading complex projects
- Identifying and addressing client or management needs: build, maintain, and utilize networks of client or management relationships; manage resource requirements, project workflow and budgets
- Lead and manage a broad range quantitative and qualitative research, applying the full suite of both primary and secondary analytical approaches from operational benchmarking to strategic voice of the customer.
- Lead projects of high complexity through projects plans, economics, monitoring and evaluating risks, budgets and delivery of projects as per required standards
- Participating actively in industry thought leadership initiatives including projects with regulators and clients
- Lead, manage, coach, develop and mentor direct reports
- Strategically participate in the firm's activities
Requirements
- A good first degree and relevant post graduate qualification
- MBA and academic concentrations in Accounting, Finance or Economics are preferred
- Post graduate qualification in legal studies
- Minimum of 7 years’ strategy and operations experience in consulting, 2 years relevant experience in senior management role in a large/global or fast growing organization
- Experience outside market of operation will be an added advantage
- Experience in building and maintaining strong relations with senior level clients and key industry contacts
- Demonstrated leadership skills and experience leading projects and diverse teams
- Experience designing sustainable risk management and compliance processes and structures, including governance and oversight, standards and processes, tools and technology, metrics and reporting.
- Experience leading and managing assignments that assisting clients with achieving a competitive advantage by managing risk and compliance in a streamlined manner and creating greater resilience to risk. .
- Demonstrates thought leader-level abilities with, and/or a proven record of success directing efforts, identifying and addressing client needs: developing and sustaining extensive client relationships using networking, negotiation and persuasion skills to identify and sell potential new service opportunities; preparing and presenting complex written and verbal materials; defining resource requirements, project workflow, budgets, billing, collection
- Demonstrates extensive intimate abilities and/or a proven record of success as a team leader: leading teams to generate a vision, to establish direction and motivate members, as well as create an atmosphere of trust, leverage diverse views, coach staff, to encourage improvement and innovation
- Strong analytical and problem solving capabilities
- Specialist in Governance, Risk & Compliance consulting
- Demonstrable industry knowledge and expertise in at least one the following industries – Financial Services, Government Agencies, Consumer products and Telecommunication, Energy and Mining
- Working knowledge and understanding of compliance and risk review procedures, business processes and internal controls are desirable
- Business Development skills – Entrepreneurial and Commercial Thinking
- Exceptional Presentation, Communication and Facilitation skills
- Negotiation skills – Persuading and Influencing
- Demonstrable creativity and innovation
- Exceptional Client Service – delivering results and meet client expectations
- Adapting and responding to change
- Leading and Supervising teams and team activities
- Decide and Initiate action to achieve key business results within area of responsibility
- Excellent Relationship and Networking skills - Proven track record of dealing with senior client contacts
- Understand and live the PwC values
- Project Management skills - ability to manage across multiple and complex projects
- Application of technical expertise
Application Closing Date
28th February, 2014
Method Of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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