Wholesale Banking - Non-Financial Risk & Regulatory - Senior Manager

PwC; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A global professional services firm is seeking professionals with expertise in wholesale banking financial services risk and control projects. You will manage client relationships, lead significant business change initiatives, and apply transformative technologies including AI. Candidates should have excellent communication skills and strong attention to detail, with experience in risk management and the ability to work under pressure. The role is based in London and offers exciting challenges in the banking sector.

Qualifications

• Experience in risk and control projects within banking.
• Ability to manage relationships with senior stakeholders.
• Experience in business change and conduct risk projects.
• Strong ability in developing strategies for technical challenges.
• Proven track record of pursuing commercial opportunities.
• Staying updated with economic challenges for team development.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong analytical and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead sustainability and related projects.
• Build client relationship networks.
• Report progress to Directors and above.
• Innovate new client propositions.
• Provide management information.

Skills

Experience in wholesale banking financial services risk

Stakeholder management

Business change leadership

Strategic problem solving

Commercial awareness

Strong communication skills

Attention to detail

Ability to work under pressure

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

Within our Financial Services Risk practice, the Banking Non-Financial Risk & Regulatory Transformation team works with our banking and capital markets clients on their most pressing risk and regulatory programmes. This is an exciting time to join the growing team of over 120 individuals covering retail, wholesale and capital markets. We work across Front Office, Risk, Compliance, Finance and Sustainability functions.

Our teams are self-starting, agile and thrive on new and diverse challenges. Our clients are global, as are their biggest challenges. We operate globally, working with the global PwC network to bring the best of PwC to our clients.

You will be passionate about client service and the fast-paced changing nature of the banking sector. We are particularly interested in individuals who embrace tech-enabled ways of working and are excited about the potential of AI and other transformative technologies.

Recent projects have included:

• Trading supervision and controls reviews and remediation
• Design and implementation of 1st and 2nd line Non-Financial Risk functions
• Compliance technology deployment
• Compliance function transformation initiatives
• Booking model changes and trade migration initiatives
• Retail banking customer redress programmes
• Sustainability reporting support and operating model design
• Governance and controls reviews and remediation (including w.r.t. transaction reporting, algorithmic trading, trader mandates)

You will take a leading role across a range of sustainability and related projects to build a broad range of expertise and be passionate about delivering value and insights to your clients. You'll invest time in building your client relationship network and thrive on taking on new challenges in unfamiliar situations.

the skills and experience we're looking for:

• Experience working within wholesale banking financial services risk and control projects either from a consulting, banking or regulatory background.
• Experience working with senior stakeholders, developing effective working relationships and providing insightful management information.
• Leading significant components of business change and conduct risk transformation projects, which may include managing several concurrent client programmes, reporting on progress to Directors and above.
• Developing strategies to solve complex technical challenges, helping firms to rethink their approach to risk and control, and working with our clients to create robust and sustainable change, including through the incorporation of technology enablement and AI.
• Taking a leading role in pursuing commercial opportunities with new and existing clients and in developing and innovating new client propositions
• Keeping up to date with significant economic challenges and share insights to support the development of your team's technical acumen.
• Strong commercial awareness, sound reporting skills and experience leading teams whilst working under your own initiative.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Strong attention to detail, including robust analysis and presentation skills (Excel, Powerpoint, Power BI/Tableau)
• The ability to work under pressure and deal with ambiguity.