Finance Change & Controls Director

A career within our Finance Change and Controls team will provide you with the opportunity to help companies on their risk and control frameworks, general accounting and finance advisory, IFRS 9 and 17 account standards, managing finance change programmes. We form part of a big team with over 70 people and offer a broad range of services. Our team is self-starting, agile and thrive on bringing past experiences to new and diverse challenges. They are happy to work as individuals or as part of multi-disciplinary teams to provide hands-on, client facing services to our clients across the Insurance, banking, brokerage, and several other financial sectors - depending on your previous skills and experience.

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

As a Director, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Support team to disrupt, improve and evolve ways of working when necessary.
• Arrange and sponsor appropriate assignments and experiences to help people realise their potential and support their long-term aspirations.
• Identify gaps in the market and spot opportunities to create value propositions.
• Look for opportunities to scale efficiencies and new ways of working across multiple projects and environments.
• Create an environment where people and technology thrive together to accomplish more than they could apart.
• I promote and encourage others to value difference when working in diverse teams.
• Drive and take ownership for developing connections that help deliver what is best for our people and stakeholders.
• Influence and facilitate the creation of long-term relationships which add value to the firm.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Essential skills and experience:

• Significant experience of working within established professional services/consulting organisations or banks specifically focussed on regulatory/business change and/or front to back trading governance, risk and controls.

• A proven track record of successfully supporting and leading client engagement, or large projects

• Strong client relationship, stakeholder management and inter-personal skills, with a good track record of dealing with stakeholders

• Good commercial awareness, sound reporting skills and the ability to work under your own initiative

• The ability to apply good judgement during engagements and to support conclusions reached to more senior level personnel both internally and externally

• Agility – an interest in working in a dynamic environment and on different types of projects in the insurance, asset and wealth management or banking arena

• Relevant qualification – ACA, CFA etc

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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Application support
If you’re a person with a disability, if you’re neurodivergent, or if you have a condition that you believe may affect your performance during our selection process, we’ll be happy to make reasonable adjustments to our processes for you. Learn more.