Guardian Jobs 2023 – Risk and Controls

About the job

PWC

The world of risk is changing. Today’s business environment is different. More complex. More connected. More volatile. While this environment makes it much harder to predict where new risks will come from, we believe that it represents an opportunity for businesses to transform and innovate. We work with our clients to protect and strengthen every aspect of their business; from people to performance, systems to strategy and business plans to business resilience. Through our invaluable insights and independent assurance we can help our clients to discover and unlock real value.

Our capabilities, scale and ability to bring together leading-edge specialists to tackle the toughest risk situations helps us create a sustainable competitive advantage. But it’s our people, their curiosity and the inclusive, collaborative culture that sets us apart. Difference makes a difference and individuality is celebrated and embraced. We’re investing in growth and innovation. Our people are supported by the right tools and technology to strengthen our business and stay at the cutting-edge of new techniques. We nurture bold and dynamic behaviours to push the boundaries and be truly distinctive in the market.

Business Risk and Controls

On our Financial Services – Risk Business, Risk and Controls programme, you’ll have the opportunity to work with a variety of clients across the Banking, Insurance and Asset & Wealth management sectors.The world is becoming increasingly complex, technology is disrupting almost every aspect of how organisations operate, and the pace of change is unprecedented.

Organisations have to be more aware of, and responsive to, the risks and opportunities facing them. Governance, risk and controls is a board level topic and offers a diverse and purposeful career. In the initial years of the Financial Services – Business, Risk and Controls pathway you’ll be deeply involved in understanding and assessing a client’s business from a financial, regulatory and operational risk perspective and identifying the related mitigation techniques needed to ensure the business strategy can be successful and resilient.

Programme

Our graduate training programme is underpinned by a development framework that broadens and deepens your knowledge. You’ll learn from hands-on coaching and an outstanding variety of work, picking up business, personal and technical skills you can use across the network, and throughout your career.

What You’ll Do

You’ll work in teams with a culture of support and development that means you’ll benefit from working alongside highly experienced professionals and get insight on how organisations operate. You’ll build your own professional disciplines and expertise; learning how to provide advice and assurance to Boards and Executive teams while also assessing and implementing risk, regulatory and reporting strategies across the 3 lines of defence.You’ll benefit from a training programme created by our learning and development specialists. What you get out of it is the opportunity to build the skills and experience you need to grow your career as a risk specialist.

Within Financial Services Business Risk & Controls you will have the opportunity to experience different areas of our practice and all three industry sectors, Insurance, Banking and Asset Wealth Management, which will include being part of projects in resilience, change, internal audit, conduct regulation and prudential regulation. Working across our practice will provide you with a broad and agile skill set which is fundamental to the growth of our business.

You’ll also be studying towards your Chartered Accountancy qualification with the option to review whether you wish to continue your studies after the first year. This will be in addition to benefiting from a training programme created by our learning and development specialists.

What You’ll Gain

You will develop a breadth and depth of business advisor core skills and understanding of frameworks through exposure to a variety of businesses and financial services sectors. You will have the opportunity to work with a diverse group of corporates (including international, national and local clients) and wider stakeholders in the economy including the government and regulators.

You’ll also work towards the Chartered Accountant (ACA/CA) qualification with the option to review whether you wish to continue your studies after the first year.

What You’ll Need

You’ll need to have achieved or be on track to pass an undergraduate degree or above in any subject. We determine whether you’re on course to pass based on the grades you achieved in your last completed year of academic study.

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Do you need a work permit?

Please take some time to confirm your eligibility for the role. We welcome applications from all candidates but there are restrictions to some areas of our business and some points you should note on our website.

Please note that PwC is unable to sponsor any candidates for some roles as the Home Office’s eligibility criteria will not be satisfied. For a list of these roles, please review the ‘Important information’ section of the work permit page on our website.

The Deal

We want all of our people to feel empowered to be the best that they can be, which is why we have ‘The Deal’.

Find out more about our firmwide Employee Value Proposition: https://www.pwc.co.uk/careers/about-us/the-new-deal.html

Diversity

Valuing Difference. Driving Inclusion

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool because creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business, enabling us to solve important problems and deliver value to our clients. We encourage an inclusive culture where people can be themselves, are valued for their strengths and are empowered to be the best they can be. As an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we also support different ways of working offering flexible working arrangements. Learn more here about our work to support an inclusive culture.