Senior Manager - Cyber Risk Advisory

Line of Service

Advisory

Industry/Sector

FS X-Sector

Specialism

Advisory - Other

Management Level

Senior Manager

Job Description & Summary

At PwC, our people in audit and assurance focus on providing independent and objective assessments of financial statements, internal controls, and other assurable information enhancing the credibility and reliability of this information with a variety of stakeholders. They evaluate compliance with regulations including assessing governance and risk management processes and related controls.

Those in internal audit at PwC help build, optimise and deliver end-to-end internal audit services to clients in all industries. This includes IA function setup and transformation, co-sourcing, outsourcing and managed services, using AI and other risk technology and delivery models. IA capabilities are combined with other industry and technical expertise, in areas like cyber, forensics and compliance, to address the full spectrum of risks. This helps organisations to harness the power of IA to help the organisation protect value and navigate disruption, and obtain confidence to take risks to power growth.

Role: Senior Manager – Cyber Risk Advisory

Location: Guernsey/Jersey

Line of Service: Advisory - Risk Assurance Services

Grade: Senior Manager

Contracted Hours per Week: 37.5

PwC Channel Islands Overview

PwC is a highly dynamic professional services firm offering Advisory, Tax, Audit and other assurance services to a large portfolio of international and local clients. The Channel Islands firm employs 600+ staff in offices across Jersey, Guernsey and Alderney and is part of an international network of 151 PwC firms employing over 364,000 staff.

Job Summary:

The PwC CI Cyber Risk Advisory team helps clients to understand their cyber risks and define and execute a strategy which enables the business to deliver its objectives within their desired risk envelope.

We support client leadership teams to define their risk appetite and a proportionate target state of cyber capability and maturity to deliver it; we define operating and governance models to make cyber security a sustainable capability which responds to evolving business priorities; we deliver complex multi-year transformation programmes both uplifting clients’ cyber security capability and baking cyber security into other transformation agendas.

You will be part of a growing team and will work closely with other PwC member firms to deliver services to our local clients. You will have access to the top Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Risk Assurance professionals at PwC across the globe and our extensive network of Alliance partners.

As a Senior Manager, you will coordinate teams of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution.

Responsibilities:

• Overseeing and managing and delivering cyber security and cyber risk projects, including reviewing documentation and reports, and quality assuring the work produced by junior team members.

• Owning engagement commercials (including budgets and timelines).

• Leading teams across a portfolio of cyber risk projects and clients.

• Working as a subject matter expert in your field to support a team, and/or managing a larger team in delivering engagements at scale.

• Building and maintaining client relationships and establishing credibility by demonstrating knowledge of various aspects of cyber security and identifying opportunities where PwC can assist.

• Identifying client issues and qualifying opportunities for PwC to respond to those challenges and working with senior members of the team in developing client proposals and solution offerings.

• Leading teams to respond to RFP’s and produce proposals to address client cyber security challenges.

• Contributing to PwC’s voice in the market through delivering commercial campaigns aligned to cyber risk and authoring thought leadership

Direct Reports:

• This role reports to:

○ Director

○ Head of Risk Assurance Services

• Reporting to this role:

○ Associates

○ Senior Associates

○ Managers

Qualifications & Certifications:

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably Information Technology related.

• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), ISC2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) or ISACA Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC).

Skills & Experience Required:

Essential skills:

Demonstrates extensive knowledge and/or a proven record of success in:

• Providing industry-leading practices in cyber risk management and regulatory compliance

• Leveraging knowledge of common regulatory requirements as well as industry frameworks such as NIST CSF, ISO27001, COBIT, COSO and PCI

• Managing and overseeing large projects involving information security, technology risk management, cybersecurity or cyber risk management.

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in similar role.

Travel Requirements:

Some travel will be required in this role (up to 25%).

The skills we look for in our people:

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, Evolved PwC Professional.

The Evolved PwC Professional focuses on two core behaviours: Trusted Leadership and Distinctive outcomes. Trusted Leadership is underpinned by core behaviours that Inspire, Empower and Evolve, and Distinctive outcomes is underpinned by behaviours that Champion, Build and Deliver.

Diversity:

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 as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. We aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their unique strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business. https://pwc.to/2vY6KZm.

Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)

Degrees/Field of Study required:

Degrees/Field of Study preferred:

Certifications (if blank, certifications not specified)

Required Skills

Optional Skills

Accepting Feedback, Accepting Feedback, Accounting and Financial Reporting Standards, Active Listening, Analytical Thinking, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Platform, Auditing, Auditing Methodologies, Business Process Improvement, Coaching and Feedback, Communication, Compliance Auditing, Corporate Governance, Creativity, Data Analysis and Interpretation, Data Ingestion, Data Modeling, Data Quality, Data Security, Data Transformation, Data Visualization, Embracing Change, Emotional Regulation, Empathy, Financial Accounting {+ 32 more}

Desired Languages (If blank, desired languages not specified)

Travel Requirements

Up to 20%

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

Yes

Government Clearance Required?

Yes

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