Senior Manager - Risk - Risk transformation - Oil & Gas

Ernst & Young

Kuwait City, Kuwait

Ref: NP946-16

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

As a Risk Senior Manager, you'll build valued relationships with external clients and internal peers and develop a portfolio of business by focusing on high impact opportunities. You'll lead presentations and proposals for projects and provide subject matter insight to bids and proposals. Drawing on your skills and experience, you'll create innovative commercial insights for clients, adapt methods and practices to fit operational team and cultural needs, and contribute to thought leadership.

You'll package overall project findings into clear, concise, high-quality work products. You'll also provide subject matter guidance on one or more services, leveraging your knowledge and experience to shape Ernst & Young's services to meet client problems.

Driving improvements in business processes, you'll serve as a role model for quality and risk management and confirm that project teams understand and comply with Ernst & Young's guidelines. You'll work to build, manage and motivate high-performing teams, and help our staff to develop sustainable competencies.

Client responsibilities
- Manage financial aspects of engagements and communicate significant issues, fees and estimates-to-complete to partners and clients
- Help partners generate new business opportunities and build client networks and relationships
- Understand Ernst & Young's service offerings and actively identify opportunities to better serve clients
- Build strong internal relationships within Ernst & Young Advisory Services and with other services across the organization

People responsibilities
- Develop people through effectively supervising, coaching, and mentoring all levels of staff
- Conduct performance reviews and contribute to performance feedback for all levels of staff
- Contribute to people initiatives including recruiting, retaining and training Risk professionals
- Contribute to an educational program to continually develop interpersonal and technical skills of staff
- Understand and follow workplace policies and procedures and communicate these to all levels of staff

Requirements

- Industry related certification (e.g., CPA/CA, CMA, RICS)
- Seven years of related work experience
- Strong skills in project management and engagement closure
- Experience of/and interest in recruiting and professional development
- Proficiency with MS Office
- A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Business or other related field
- Experience in a management role
- International business experience preferred

Additional skills requirements
- Strong analytical, interpersonal and communication skills
- Demonstrated integrity, values, principles, and work ethic
- Proficiency in Arabic language skills are highly desirable

Risk management protects business performance and contributes to sustainability in results. It's about achieving a clear understanding of risks and developing plans to manage them. As part of our team of risk professionals, you'll work with multinational businesses and public sector organizations to develop an integrated, holistic approach to risk and control. You'll help them benefit from their investments in internal controls and have greater confidence they can respond to whatever the future may hold.

You'll be engaged in delivering some of the most significant and class-leading internal audit and risk engagements globally. As part of our market-leading global network of risk professionals, you'll gain the valuable experience you need to become a successful risk advisor.

You'll also team with our performance improvement professionals in multidisciplinary engagements with major global clients, helping them transform and sustain their business performance. At Ernst & Young, we recognize that it's the perspetives, skills and enthusiasm you bring to our clients that makes the difference.

About the Company

EY is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services. The insights and quality services we deliver help build trust and confidence in the capital markets and in economies the world over. We develop outstanding leaders who team to deliver on our promises to all of our stakeholders. In so doing, we play a critical role in building a better working world for our people, for our clients and for our communities.

EY refers to the global organization, and may refer to one or more, of the member firms of Ernst & Young Global Limited, each of which is a separate legal entity. Ernst & Young Global Limited, a UK company limited by guarantee, does not provide services to clients. Information about how EY collects and uses personal data and a description of the rights individuals have under data protection legislation are available on our site.

The MENA practice of EY has been operating in the region since 1923. For over 95 years, we have grown to over 7,500 people united across 21 offices and 16 countries, sharing the same values and an unwavering commitment to quality. As an organization, we continue to develop outstanding leaders who deliver exceptional services to our clients and who contribute to our communities. We are proud of our accomplishments over the years, reaffirming our position as the largest and most established professional services organization in the region

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