Advisory Director - Financial Services - Risk & Governance


Company:: PwC
Location:: Los Angeles, CA
Job Type:: Full Time
Category:: Retail Banking, Asset Management


Posted:: 1/30/2013

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Job Description

The Financial Services industry is operating in a challenging environment due to global economic pressure, increasing regulatory demands and capital requirements as well as significant operational and technology changes. Our growing Financial Services Advisory practice provides management, technology and risk consulting services to help major financial institutions around the world respond to their most complex business challenges. The Financial Services Advisory practice is composed of three industry sectors: Asset Management, Banking & Capital Markets and Insurance.

Our Risk & Regulatory consultants help clients understand and address their enterprise risk and regulatory profile. This high performing team advises clients on the overall management and performance of their business, with a focus in compliance management, business continuity, risk and governance, and treasury management.
Position/Program Requirements
Knowledge Preferred:
Demonstrates proven expertise and and success conducting for clients, enterprise risk management program development, including:
- Monitoring and reporting risk, risk assessments and prioritizations
- Assisting with facilitating the definition of an organization's risk appetite and tolerance in alignment with their organization's strategy
- Designing sustainable risk management and compliance processes and structures, including governance and oversight, standards and processes, tools and technology, metrics and reporting.
- Assisting clients with achieving a competitive advantage by managing risk and compliance in a streamlined manner and creating greater resilience to risk.
- Assisting with the structuring of an engagement and providing guidance to staff in the performance of risk and compliance engagements.
An obtained Masters of Business Administration and academic concentrations in Accounting, Finance or Economics are preferred.

Skills Preferred:
Demonstrates proven thought-leader level abilities and success with assessing the effectiveness and efficiency of risk and compliance programs, including:
- Considering leading standards (e.g. COSO, ERM), regulatory requirements and supervisory expectations.
- Designing and implementing data classification and mapping models based on regulatory and business requirements, including providing requisite dashboards and reporting.
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

Skills Preferred:

Minimum Years of Experience Necessary:

10

Minimum Degree(s) and Certification(s) Required:

Minimum Degree(s) and Certification(s) Required: Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts degree required.

Additional Requirements

Travel requirements: 60%-80%

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