Tax & Legal Services - MERC Tax - Risk & Quality - Associate

Job description / Role

Tax & Legal Services - MERC Tax - Risk & Quality - Associate (6 months Fixed Term) - Amman

Line of Service
Tax

Specialism
General Tax Consulting

Management Level
Associate

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.

Client Administrative Assistant provides excellent client service. They're a specialist strong team, who sit alongside the business and support them in tasks that vary from client risk management checks, project organisation, to finance system control and much needed e-administration.  It's an incredibly interesting and challenging role that provides the opportunity to work directly with our client facing teams and clients.

What we're looking for

- Enthusiasm and passion to deliver exceptional client service to our business units
- Confidence with client onboarding process
- Excellent proven organisation, multi-tasking skills and enjoyment in building strong working relationships.

Requirements

The role would suit an experienced project coordinator or KYC/AML subject matter expert used to the demands that exceptional business administration requires.

The role includes:

- Preparing and assisting with client risk management onboarding process
- Project planning, progress monitoring and reporting
- Understanding and administering our risk management process
- Create Opportunity set-up / job code creation within our internal risk management and finance systems
- Know your client - Checking the client background - getting information from the internet.
- CES checking - to establish independence issues
- Client opportunity set-up in Salesforce and within internal systems
- Completion of risk assessment entry to be approved by the Job Partner, ensuring the following have been performed and cleared:
- Relationship checks / conflict checks - forward the list to the MIC for checking / confirmation
- Client's AML - completion based on the information gathered from the background checking of the client
- Ensure the risk assessment is inline with the engagement letter
- Monitoring of risk assessment entries to ensure they are compliant with Firm's risk management policies and standards. 
- Performing random engagement compliance reviews on files assessment 
- Raise any concerns regarding inadequate and bring to the attention of senior management.  

Experience required:

- Project management 
- Risk Management 
- Client Onboarding including Know Your Client and Anti Money Laundering

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.