Assurance Technology NGA, Risk & Quality - Senior Manager

Line of Service

Assurance

Industry/Sector

Technology

Specialism

Assurance

Management Level

Senior Manager

Job Description & Summary

In today’s dynamic digital environment, effective digital enablement must be underpinned by strong Risk and Quality to ensure innovation is implemented responsibly. Delivering for our clients in a highly regulated industry means that all our transformation efforts need to be developed and implemented in compliance with our risk and quality standards - to ensure that we satisfy the expectations of our clients, the regulators and the market itself.

The Assurance Technology Digital Enablement and Risk & Quality support functions within Assurance Digital and Transformation (ADT) are responsible for delivering key activities that enable the implementation of technology while identifying, controlling, and monitoring technology risks in support of the wider Assurance practice. 

We are seeking an experienced, highly motivated, and proactive Senior Manager, ideally with strong knowledge of internal processes, procedures, digital implementations, and ISQM 1, to work closely with key stakeholders to ensure new technologies are implemented successfully and in line with our risk and quality standards. 

 

This exciting role provides the opportunity to work directly with very experienced partners and their teams across a diverse range of technological resources.  Within PwC, technological resources covers a broad range of tools and initiatives including:  

• global and local digital tools,  

• business unit innovations, and 

• external third party tools and service providers.   

Key areas of focus of the Assurance Technology Digital Enablement and Risk & Quality Senior Manager include:  

• Lead the strategy, planning and execution of NGA Change Management activities in territory - including leadership alignment, stakeholder management, skills and behaviours, and sustainability, as well as, ensuring impacted stakeholders successfully adopt the change, while forming new habits and ways of working.

• Lead a portfolio of Digital Enablement projects - working closely with key stakeholders to deliver and support the adoption of globally developed technology. 

• Maintain an inventory of technological resources and execute an annual plan to assess the reliability of the technological resources utilised. 

• Risk Assessment - Assess risks related to the use of Assurance technological resources that support our system of quality management. 

• Compliance – Design, implement, operate and monitor controls for these resources that align with PwC Technology Risk frameworks (NAST, QMSE) and support ISQM 1 compliance.

To deliver the above - the Assurance Technology Risk & Quality Manager would be expected to:   

• Prepare and execute territory level change and implementation strategy.   

• Understand the key considerations to be delivered when implementing any new technology (Risk Assessment, Methodology, Training). 

• Build relationships, collaborate