IFS - R&Q - Deals R&Q Manager

Job description / Role

Line of Service
Internal Firm Services

Specialism
IFS - Risk & Quality (R&Q)

Management Level
Manager

Job Description & Summary
A career in Risk Management, within Internal Firm Services, will provide you with the opportunity to advance and foster integrity based decision making and conduct by PwC professionals throughout our organisation. You'll focus on promoting and monitoring compliance with applicable external laws and regulations as well as internal policies and procedures to help manage PwC's regulatory, litigation, and reputational risk.

Our Risk and Quality team identifies and assists internal teams to mitigate and control client engagement risks. As part of the team, you'll provide advice to business teams within PwC on sound contract provisions, standards and approaches in accordance with PwC policies, principles and standards.

Opportunity

Deals R&Q are looking for an experienced Senior Associate/Manager candidate to join the Deals Risk and Quality ("R&Q") team based in Dubai. This individual will be supporting the Deals R&Q team to drive the risk and quality agenda across Deals.

About the Team

The Deals business is comprised of Infrastructure and Government, Business Recovery Services, Corporate Finance, Forensics Services and Transaction Services. The Deals R&Q team is a dynamic team that operates in the Deals fast-paced and exciting transaction-oriented business environment. The Deals R&Q team's primary purpose is to provide trusted advisor risk and quality advice to the Deals business in order to help client-facing teams effectively manage and mitigate legal, regulatory and reputational risk.

This role will have a broad range of activities including:

- Supporting the Deals R&Q team in queries from client facing staff and providing pragmatic advice and solutions to their R&Q queries.
- Building trusted relationships across Deals and other support teams, acting as a dedicated business advisor to Partners and Directors.
- Proactively providing support to teams pursuing larger, or more complex opportunities (e.g. cross-border working).
- Negotiating with clients on contracting challenges, with support from Office of the General Counsel and senior stakeholders in the business.
- Delivering training to partners and staff across Deals, including one-to-one sessions and seminar-based training.

This wide ranging exposure to the Deals business will support the selected individual's personal development and enable ongoing progression. To support you, you will work under the guidance / supervision of the Deals R&Q team. There is a great opportunity for the right candidate to learn and develop in this role.

The role will provide the successful candidate with

- The opportunity to work closely with Deals partners across the business.
- An opportunity to get involved with some of the most high profile, complex and risky engagements Deals are delivering.
- An ability to help Deals to deliver against strategy.
- The opportunity to work in a face paced, mentally stimulating, dynamic environment where no two days are the same.
- An opportunity to develop a solid Risk Management technical base.
- A stable working location.

Requirements

What you need

- Ability to communicate clearly with strong presentation skills and provide firm and concise advice.
- Clear understanding of commercial / client-facing issues and associated risk procedures and understanding of technology would be an advantage.
- Ability to interact with others & demands providing support and/or influencing, with the flexibility to change behavior where necessary.
- Intellectual capacity to make decisions with strong analytical, organisational and project management skills.
- A conscientious, ambitious team player, with good self-management skills and an ability to take initiative.

Knowledge, skills and abilities

- The selected individual will be a Manager or an experienced Senior Associate with client facing experience in working with a Financial Advisory firm or in an internal Risk & Quality role in a Big 4.
- The individual must be proficient in English and preferably an Arabic speaker (but not a must).

Context 

Delivering distinctive quality is core to the PwC brand and managing risk is an important and integral component of ensuring that whatever we do is sustainable and enhances our brand. Differentiating ourselves from our competitors is fundamental to winning new engagements and building lasting relationships with clients. This encompasses all aspects of the engagement life cycle from the initial decision on which opportunities to pursue through to proposal submission and successful delivery. Deals continues to grow across the region and there are increasingly complex quality and risk aspects that need to be addressed to support our continued success.

About the Company

At PwC Middle East, we've set out an ambitious purpose and strive to live it everyday: to solve important problems and build trust in society.

We're a community of solvers that come together in unexpected ways to build trust and create sustained outcomes. We solve important problems, support one another as we grow, develop and build fulfilling careers.

PwC provides industry-focused services for public and private clients across Assurance and Audit, Deals, Consulting, Tax and Legal. We draw on our development legacy that brings together the collective experience of over 7,000 people in our region with offices across 12 countries to solve for tomorrow.

We're striving to consistently deliver innovative work that builds trust and delivers sustained outcomes. And we're proud of the strength that comes from all our different backgrounds and experiences and we value everyone's uniqueness. We thrive in uncertainty, operate with integrity and leverage the diverse perspectives of our teams.

If you're looking for a place that fuels your ambition to make a difference, that matches your curiosity with continuous learning opportunities and reimagines ways of working to enable you to lead a more balanced life, then you're a future PwCer.