PwC Job for a Financial Risk Management - Manager

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PwC is recruiting to fill the job position below:


Job Title: Financial Risk Management - Manager
Reference Number: 125-NIG00111
Location: Lagos
Department: Assurance
Job type: Permanent
Roles & Responsibilities

• Selling, developing and leading consulting projects for clients in Financial Risk Management.
• Building and maintaining value-adding client relationships.
• Act as a subject matter expert (SME), advising and supporting our financial services clients with regard to risk management and regulatory compliance.
• Participating actively in conferences and other events to support business development initiatives and meet prospective clients.
• Managing/overseeing project teams, identifying development needs within the teams, and building competence through mentoring, coaching and knowledge transfer.
• Contributing to knowledge sharing and development within the Risk consulting team.
• Provide inputs and drive initiatives for the development of thought leadership in financial risk and regulations.
• Ensuring effective monitoring of multiple risk management projects with tight reporting deadlines.
• Advising our financial services clients on their financial risk models, policies and governance.
• Supporting clients in the implementation of their Enterprise-wide Risk Management Frameworks.
• Identifying business opportunities for within existing and/or potential clients.
• Participating in business development and contributing to harness the business opportunities into successful wins.
• Developing and validating models to meet clients’ objectives and expectations.
• Delivering projects in various risk management areas and adding value to new and existing clients.

• A good University degree with a minimum of second class upper division.
• Completed Master’s degree, preferably in Econometrics, Mathematics or other quantitative areas of study.
• 5 to 7 years relevant work experience in the field of financial risk management in a banking industry or risk consulting environment.
• You should have an appreciable content knowledge of ALM, market, credit and liquidity risk management.
• A recognised professional certification such as FRM/PRM/CFA will be an added advantage.

• Good knowledge of Basel II/III & Solvency II derived principally from Basel II/Solvency II implementation project experience.
• Ability to build strong, long-term relationships with key client contacts across lines of service and leverage the PwC network.
• Ability to develop people through effective mentoring and coaching of team members.
• A good team player
• A good working knowledge of Microsoft Office tools.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Pro-active and entrepreneurial spirit, in combination with strong team work ethics.