Broader Assurance Solutions – Digital Risk & Resilience – Manager

PwC

Dublin

On-site

EUR 85,000 - 120,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

PwC Ireland seeks an experienced Manager for its Digital Risk and Resilience team. You will lead and deliver a broad portfolio across financial services, aviation, energy, and more, advising on embedding risk management and improving resilience.

You will mentor teams, grow client relationships, and contribute to proposals while helping organisations comply with DORA and related regulations. This role blends leadership with deep technical risk expertise.

Qualifications

3–5 years’ experience in digital risk, operational resilience, cybersecurity, or related fields in a professional services firm or large industry setting.
Deep knowledge of operational resilience frameworks and regulatory landscape including DORA, NIS2.
Hands-on service mapping and dependency mapping; testing against impact tolerances.
Experience designing and facilitating scenario tests and crisis simulations with executive participants.
Proven track record in ICT governance, third‑party risk, cyber incident management, and control testing.

Responsibilities

Advise clients on embedding digital, cyber and third‑party risk management into governance and risk frameworks.
Lead engagements designing and improving clients’ operational and digital resilience.
Map people, processes, technology, data and third parties underpinning key functions; identify failures and remediation gaps.
Design and run severe‑but‑plausible scenario testing from desktop to live simulations (cyber, third‑party, cloud outages).
Support crisis simulation for senior stakeholders; chair exercises and lead debriefs and action tracking.
Support ICT third‑party risk management from due diligence to ongoing monitoring.
Help clients build DORA registers and prepare for regulatory reporting.
Coordinate internal audit reviews focused on technology and collaborate with other teams.
Develop junior team members and support business development through proposals and thought leadership.

Skills

Digital risk

Operational resilience

Cybersecurity

Regulatory knowledge

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in commerce/finance/tech/computer science

Certifications such as CISSP/CISA/CISM/CRISK/ITIL (desirable)

Job description

Why Join PwC Ireland?

At PwC Ireland, you’ll be part of a purpose-driven organisation dedicated to building trust in society and solving our clients’ most complex challenges. Here, diverse teams collaborate across sectors and geographies to deliver innovative solutions that make a real difference. We invest in your growth through continuous learning, leadership development, and access to cutting-edge technology, empowering you to shape your career and impact the future of business and society.

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Manager to join our leading Digital Risk and Resilience team. Reporting to the Digital Risk and Resilience partner, you will execute on or lead a team in the delivery of a broad portfolio of complex and strategic client engagements across multiple industries including financial services, aviation, energy and utilities, pharmaceuticals, asset and wealth management, telecommunications, social media, and technology. Our Digital Risk and Resilience team supports Irish and global organisations in navigating IT, cybersecurity and third‑party risk related challenges encountered as part of day‑to‑day operations. We help our clients be more resilient and prepare them to respond to disruptions caused by these risks materialising. We also support them to comply with regulatory obligations under regulations such as DORA. As a Manager, you will lead the day‑to‑day delivery of client engagements, manage and coach team members, and act as the main point of contact for client stakeholders. You will also help grow the practice, contributing to proposals, building relationships with existing clients, and developing our offerings as regulations like DORA continue to settle in.

What you will do

Advise clients on embedding digital, cyber and third‑party risk management into their existing governance and risk frameworks.
Lead engagements assessing, designing and improving clients’ operational and digital resilience.
Map the people, processes, technology, data, facilities and third parties that underpin important business functions; identify single points of failure, concentration risk and substitutability gaps; and translate mapping outputs into prioritised remediation roadmaps.
Design and run severe‑but‑plausible scenario testing programmes, from desktop walkthroughs through to live simulations, covering cyber attack, third‑party and cloud outage, data integrity and ransomware scenarios; evidence whether clients can remain within impact tolerance and report findings to boards and regulators.
Support crisis simulation and tabletop exercises for senior stakeholders, including executive committees, boards and incident response teams designing injects and scenario narratives, chairing the exercise on the day, challenging decision‑making in real time, and leading structured debriefs, lessons‑learned reporting and tracking of resulting actions.
Support clients with ICT third‑party risk management, from due diligence and contractual compliance through to ongoing monitoring and exit planning.
Help clients build and maintain DORA registers of information and prepare for ICT incident classification and regulatory reporting.
Scope, coordinate and deliver internal audit reviews focused on technology, working alongside other teams such as our internal audit and cyber teams.
Manage, review and develop junior team members, and support business development through proposals and thought leadership and building and maintaining client relationships.

Who we are looking for

3 to 5 years’ experience in digital risk, operational resilience, cybersecurity, or related fields within a professional services firm or large industry environment.
In-depth knowledge of operational resilience frameworks and regulatory landscape including regulations such as DORA, NIS2, and sector‑specific compliance requirements.
Hands‑on experience of service mapping and dependency mapping, and of setting and testing against impact tolerances.
Experience preferrable in designing and facilitating scenario tests and crisis simulation exercises, including with executive‑level participants.
Proven track record leading complex projects focused on areas such as ICT governance, third‑party risk, cyber incident management, and control testing.
Strong leadership skills with experience managing team performance, fostering collaboration, and mentoring diverse teams.
Exceptional stakeholder management skills with experience advising senior executives; A bachelor’s degree in commerce, finance, technology, computer science or similar fields; Relevant industry qualifications or certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISA, CISM, CRISK, ITIL, etc.) are desirable.

Our commitment to you

We’re committed to building an inclusive culture that empowers our people to thrive and feel a sense of belonging at PwC. We seek to attract talented people from different backgrounds with diverse perspectives who can bring innovation and creativity. At PwC, your hard work doesn’t go unnoticed. We celebrate your achievements not just within the firm, but among your peers as well.

Our rewards are designed to fit your unique lifestyle and needs.
And because being part of PwC should be rewarding every day, you’ll have access to PwC perks a handpicked selection of exclusive discounts, experiences, and extras just for being part of our team.

Application support

We are committed to an inclusive recruitment experience. If you require any adjustments during the application or interview process, please let us know (ie_experiencedhireteam@pwc.com). All requests will be treated confidentially and supported wherever possible to help you showcase your strengths.

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