SATIC - Consulting risk Management

PwC - Global; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 600 000 - 900 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global consulting firm is seeking a dedicated Manager for their risk management team in Johannesburg. The position involves overseeing operational risks, mentoring junior staff, and advising teams on complex issues. Candidates should possess strong analytical, leadership, and communication skills. This full-time role offers opportunities for personal development while contributing to the consulting strategy and risk management practices. Join a high-performing team committed to delivering quality service to clients.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical skills to assess complex issues and provide pragmatic recommendations.
• Demonstrated leadership capabilities in guiding and mentoring team members.
• Effective communication skills for senior-level interactions.

Responsibilities

• Manage operational risk by advising teams on a wide range of matters.
• Drive Risk & Quality Management for the consulting business.
• Mentor and develop junior staff to deliver quality outcomes.

Skills

Analytical skills

Leadership

Communication

Organizational skills

Problem-solving

Coaching

Job description

Management Level

Manager

Job Description & Summary

At PwC, our people in risk and compliance focus on maintaining regulatory compliance and managing risks for clients, providing advice, and solutions. They help organisations navigate complex regulatory landscapes and enhance their internal controls to mitigate risks effectively.

As a risk management generalist at PwC, you will provide advisory and practical support to teams across a wide range of specialist risk and compliance areas.

Enhancing your leadership style, you motivate, develop and inspire others to deliver quality. You are responsible for coaching, leveraging team member’s unique strengths, and managing performance to deliver on client expectations. With your growing knowledge of how business works, you play an important role in identifying opportunities that contribute to the success of our Firm. You are expected to lead with integrity and authenticity, articulating our purpose and values in a meaningful way. You embrace technology and innovation to enhance your delivery and encourage others to do the same.

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Analyse and identify the linkages and interactions between the component parts of an entire system.
• Take ownership of projects, ensuring their successful planning, budgeting, execution, and completion.
• Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables.
• Develop skills outside your comfort zone, and encourage others to do the same.
• Effectively mentor others.
• Use the review of work as an opportunity to deepen the expertise of team members.
• Address conflicts or issues, engaging in difficult conversations with clients, team members and other stakeholders, escalating where appropriate.
• Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.

Does having PwC as a client appeal to you?

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have PwC as your client? Are you interested in acting as a trusted business advisor to the firm, supporting and driving our business? Do you enjoy continual learning, collaborating, solving problems and are you comfortable reacting quickly in high pressure situations? Are you logical, analytical, pragmatic, strong in influencing skills and interested in working with leaders in the Consulting business on a daily basis?

Consulting Risk Management is currently recruiting for individuals to join our team of talented, driven and successful business advisors. We partner with the business to enable it to win and deliver work whilst managing risk within the firm. We regularly interact with the Leadership Teams across the firm, including individual Consulting Business Units, members of the Consulting Executive, One Firm Risk Management Leadership and members of the Board. On a day to day basis, we split our time between advising the business on risk related matters (such as working closely with individual teams on higher risk engagements throughout the engagement lifecycle), and working on strategic projects to simplify, strengthen and modernise how risk is managed. We are lucky to work in an incredible team, where we successfully balance the needs of the individual, the team and the business and have fun whilst doing it.

About the Consulting Risk Management Team

The Consulting Risk Management (CRM) team is a group of risk management professionals. We work strategically, hand in hand with UK leadership, engagement leaders and teams helping them navigate the numerous and often unexpected challenges that developing and delivering exceptional client service brings. You will be joining a high performing risk management team with a wealth of experience.

We support the Consulting business through the entire engagement lifecycle by providing a consultative and collaborative approach to risk management, enabling delivery of complex, multi-million-pound, multi-territory, tech-enabled transformation projects for our clients.

About Consulting

The UK Consulting Line of Service is in the business of transformation. We combine strategy, technology and management consulting expertise to help organisations succeed. We deliver a wide variety of services to our client base, including large-scale, complex technology implementations and transformations.

The role

The CRM team is seeking a curious, motivated and agile Manager to join our team. This is a varied, interesting role that provides an opportunity for personal development - no two days will be the same! The role includes a variety of responsibilities, including operational risk management by advising teams across the Consulting business on a wide range of matters such as contractual and delivery risk on engagement opportunities alongside more strategic projects to improve how risk is managed across the firm.

The successful individual will have the opportunity to develop beneficial relationships across the UK firm including with specialists from our legal, conflicts, data protection and compliance teams, while gaining an invaluable insight into our Consulting strategy. You will be provided with coaching to allow you the opportunity to become a subject matter expert in the field of risk management and gain valuable transferable skills including leadership, influencing, negotiation and analytical skills.

Key activities within the role include;

• Driving Risk & Quality Management for the business
• Providing support to the business through our query advisory service, advising client facing teams with regard to risk management issues, as and when they require assistance and guidance.
• Advising and supporting engagement teams in managing the wide range of risks related to the development of opportunities and delivery of services to clients. You will be aligned to support one of our Solutions and will have the opportunity to learn about the services they provide and build relationships with key individuals in this team.
• Helping to upskill and knowledge share with the business on risk matters such as key changes to process and policy.
• Opportunities to advise teams on the risks associated with their use of technology and provide support for teams who are proposing to launch new services.
• Transformation / projects
• Contribution to and influencing of the development and revision of policies and methodology and working with teams to successfully implement those changes.
• Proactively identifying and driving forward continuous improvement opportunities to improve the way we manage risk.
• Responsibility for taking on the rewarding task of assisting in the identification of the training needs of the Consulting population and contributing to the design and delivery of key risk management training for Partners and staff.

The essentials

• An ability to develop and maintain strong relationships built on trust within the business and wider risk management community.
• The ability to analyse complex issues, use multiple sources of information to develop solutions, apply judgement and provide pragmatic recommendations.
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to drive, manage and deliver multiple tasks and projects, even when under pressure, and be open to working in a changing environment.
• The potential to analyse and assess information, including contracts, regulatory and legislative materials, to be able to give accurate and practical advice.
• Desire to develop technical skills and be prepared to seek out knowledge on risk and compliance issues.
• Ability to communicate clearly and with self-confidence to all levels of staff, including at the most senior levels.
• Effective oral and written communication with the ability to provide well-reasoned and self-assured responses, even when challenged.
• An ability to take the initiative but keep others informed of progress and escalating issues where appropriate.
• Strong reporting skills, with an ability to develop templates and review draft reports, along with strong change management skills including behavioural and cultural change.
• Ability to line manage and coach a small team of more junior staff

Preferred Skills

• Experience from working in a Consulting client facing role particularly in relation to technology-enabled transformations, technology products, digital offerings, emerging technology or tech alliances, and/or a risk or compliance role, is desired but not essential. You will receive coaching and the opportunity to become a subject matter expert in the field of risk management.
• Experience of line managing more junior staff is desired, but not essential.

Travel Requirements

Up to 20%

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No