SRC Generic_Senior Associate

At PwC, our people in risk and compliance focus on maintaining regulatory compliance and managing risks for clients, providing advice, and solutions. They help organisations navigate complex regulatory landscapes and enhance their internal controls to mitigate risks effectively. In regulatory risk compliance at PwC, you will focus on confirming adherence to regulatory requirements and mitigating risks for clients. You will provide guidance on compliance strategies and help clients navigate complex regulatory landscapes.

Focused on relationships, you are building meaningful client connections, and learning how to manage and inspire others. Navigating increasingly complex situations, you are growing your personal brand, deepening technical expertise and awareness of your strengths. You are expected to anticipate the needs of your teams and clients, and to deliver quality. Embracing increased ambiguity, you are comfortable when the path forward isn’t clear, you ask questions, and you use these moments as opportunities to grow.

Skills

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Respond effectively to the diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.
• Use a broad range of tools, methodologies and techniques to generate new ideas and solve problems.
• Use critical thinking to break down complex concepts.
• Understand the broader objectives of your project or role and how your work fits into the overall strategy.
• Develop a deeper understanding of the business context and how it is changing.
• Use reflection to develop self awareness, enhance strengths and address development areas.
• Interpret data to inform insights and recommendations.
• Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firms code of conduct, and independence requirements.
  
  

• Security strategy and governance projects (security strategy, operating model, org structure etc.)
• Assessments: Maturity assessment, Audit readiness, planning and framework assessment, cloud migration requirements, business case development, comparisons and vendor evaluation
• Frameworks: Design framework program objectives, first/second/third line of defense, vision and mission statements, current state assessment and gap analysis, roadmap planning and estimation for the program, program governance and target operating model for NIST, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, HITRUST, ISO, COBIT etc. and vendor evaluation.
• Good experience in performing Organization Standard/Policy GAP assessment and Maturity assessments with Industry best practices (NIST/ISO/PCI...etc.).
• Policy management (policy writing, policy review, policy lifecycle) projects
• Cloud architecture definition and assessment: development of cloud reference architecture, target state cloud architecture definition, compliance requirements, migration strategies.
• Must have hands on experience and well proficient in Cybersecurity standard creation, policy writing and maintenance
• Good understanding of Legal, Regulatory and Privacy requirements to integrate within the Cybersecurity Program.
• Good understanding of various components of an enterprise Cybersecurity program, including governance structures, Risk and Threat Management, key controls, key processes, Security architecture and Security training program
• Recommending Cybersecurity action plans for organizations to achieve their overall cybersecurity objective
• Good Knowledge and experience with GRC tools such as MetricStream, Open Pages, Archer and data analytics & \visualization tools used in the Industry such as PowerBI, Alteryx and Tableau.
• Experience in partnering with various functions within the Cybersecurity organization to capture and document the services and associated core processes, work instructions, and templates.
• Analyze the security posture of the organizations by assessing the design and implementation of security controls.
• Experience in Vendor risk management, Outsourcing risk management, Technology Risk, Information Security.
• Strong understanding of Cybersecurity and Risk Control frameworks and their adoption in the Supplier management domain.
• Experience in implementing effective and innovative technology solutions.
  
  

• Excellent written and oral communication skills, can express thoughts clearly, knows how to listen and is able to contribute in a team environment.
• Must communicate consistently and drive objectives, relying on fact-based decisions about risk that optimize the trade-off between risk mitigation and business performance.
• Demonstrates proven extensive abilities with leveraging creative thinking and problem-solving skills, individual initiative, and utilizing Office 365, MS Office (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint) and Google Docs.
• Ability to create domain specific training content and deliver trainings effectively
• Good presentation, project management, facilitation and delivery skills as well as strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Develop/implement automation solutions and capabilities that are clearly aligned to client business, technology and threat posture.
• Demonstrates ability to track developments and changes in the digital business and threat environments to ensure that theyre adequately addressed in client’s security strategy plans and architecture artifacts.
  
  

• MCA / BE / B Tech / MS (Field of Study: Computer and Information Science, Information Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Management Information Systems).
• Certification(s) Preferred: Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), or Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC)