PwC: EA/Chief of Staff to Global Risk Services Leader (Secondment)

This is an excellent 6 to 12 month secondment opportunity for a highly motivated, high performing and experienced Senior Manager or Director, with a passion for PwC and our Risk business, to support the Global Risk Services Leader.

This role reports into the Global Risk Services Leader Sam Samaratunga and interacts more broadly with the X-LoS Risk Services global leadership team, and the Global Risk Services team.

This is a key role in coordinating and driving the Risk Services network across the globe.

Responsibilities:

The EA/Chief of Staff to the Global Risk Services leader plays an important trusted role and needs to engage and operate effectively with senior xLoS stakeholders. The focus of this role is to support the Global Risk Services leader in driving forward collaboration and growth across the Risk Services network.

Key responsibilities include:

• Contributing to the development of the Risk Services strategy, and working with the X-LoS Risk Services leadership team to drive it’s implementation across the network
• Supporting the Risk Services leadership team in strategic projects to drive change and growth across the business
• Building a strong network at a global, regional and local levels to take the best activities/ideas/assets from our business and disseminate across the network to facilitate greater engagement, faster communication and collaboration
• Preparing key documents for leadership meetings
• Drafting and issuing communications as appropriate
• Keeping up with trends in the Risk Services market to support strategy setting for the business e.g, reviews analyst reports, market insights, competitor analysis
• Working with the regional and territory reps to drive the strategy across the network
• Determining the budget to deliver the strategy and regular monitoring of results to understand the drivers for our business and the impact of the strategy
• Leading the Global Risk Services project team and working with the different strategy workstreams to implement and support the execution of the strategy

Skills required:

This is a high profile role with significant exposure to the senior leadership team in the firm. This role is likely to suit a high performing and experienced Senior Manager or Director with the following qualities and experience:

• Strong communication skills – especially recognising challenges of working with people of all grades and nationalities, ability to flex style to different cultures and personalities
• Experience working with senior stakeholders/ business leaders at the partner and senior partner level and be able to build strong working relationships as well as influencing at all levels by flexing their style
• Has the ability to stand back and understand the wider picture, with a sound business understanding as well as being commercially and risk aware
• Excellent organisational skills, needs to be able to think and plan ahead and prioritise/manage multiple tasks at once
• A self motivated person who can work with autonomy, capable of operating in an ambiguous and dynamic environment
• Global acumen and a keen interest in learning about how our business functions on a firmwide/cluster/network level
• Ability to meet deadlines and work to a fast pace in a virtual setting
• Agility – an ability to learn quickly
• Has a pragmatic and objective approach to problem-solving

The role is open to candidates in all UK locations but will require frequent travel to London with presence of 2-3 days a week to facilitate coordination and sharing with UK and global teams who are London based. This is a secondment/cycle of experience opportunity for approximately 6-12 months and the successful applicant will transition into the role as soon as possible.