Risk and Regulatory- FS - Prudential - Cyber Risk & Regulatory - Senior Associate -BLR/HYD/KOL/MUM

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 Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.
  
  

Reporting

• Position reports to the [SM/Director/Manager]
  
  

Key Skills And Responsibilities

• As a Senior Associate, you’ll work as part of a team with extensive consulting and industry experience, helping our clients solve their complex business issues from strategy, implementation of regulatory change, regulatory gap analysis, remediation of compliance gaps, and responding to regulatory developments.
• Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:
• Working as part of a project team day-to-day liaison with clients
• Identifying the impact of prudential regulatory change and supporting clients to adapt to the challenges a new regulatory landscape presents
• Working on projects relating to various components of regulatory calculation and reporting under Pillar 1 (e.g. requirements for credit risk, market risk, leverage ratio, large exposures, liquidity reporting and other related areas);
• Regulatory gap assessments;
• Review, implementation and/or remediation relating to regulatory reporting and associated governance and control frameworks;
• Preparing regulatory analysis and reports.
  
  

Essential Skills

• Good written, numerical and verbal communication skills
• Knowledge and experience of at least one of retail, commercial, wholesale and/or investment banking sectors
• At least four experience in financial services prudential requirements.
• Hands-on experience in relation to regulatory reporting/COREP – either from an implementation standpoint or in a review capacity
• Strong relationship management skills as well as experience in managing teams.
• Experience of problem solving and being able to implement and deliver solutions tailored to a client’s needs
• The technical skills we are looking for are specific to Pillar 1 reporting requirements. We need individuals with skills in a combination of the following:
• Good level of understanding of COREP and other PRA prudential regulatory reporting requirements and associated governance and controls frameworks, as applicable
• Good level of understanding of the end-to-end reporting life cycle for retail and/or wholesale banks, associated policies, procedures, controls and governance
• Good level of understanding of regulatory requirements for one of credit risk, market risk, counterparty credit risk, leverage ratio, large exposures or liquidity reporting
• Technical experience and expertise in existing and future regulation (i.e. Basel 3.1)
• Furthermore, any working knowledge of Gen AI, Python would be beneficial (optional).
• Any hands on experience of working on regulatory reporting platforms such as Axiom, Regnology, SuadeLabs would be preferred.
  
  

Client Management

• Develop strong working relationships with the client teams.
• Maintain excellent rapport and proactive communication with the stakeholders and clients.
  
  

Operational Excellence

• Suggest ideas on improving engagement productivity, including through the use of technology, and identify opportunities for improving client service.
• Ensure compliance with engagement plans and internal quality & risk management procedures.
  
  

People Related

• Display teamwork, integrity, and leadership. Work with team members to set goals and responsibilities for specific engagements.
• In addition to being an exceptional individual contributor, manage engagements and relevant teams allocated for the same.
• Foster teamwork and innovation.
• Utilise technology & tools to continually learn and innovate, share knowledge with team members and enhance service delivery.
• Conduct workshops and technical training sessions for team members.
• Be actively involved in team building activity for strong group/team synergy
• Contribute to the learning & development agenda and knowledge harnessing initiatives
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's/Master’s Degree in Commerce / Economics / MBA/ BBA (or) Chartered Accountant
• Experience in retail, wholesale, commercial or investment banking and capital markets
• Experience in working in a regulatory reporting team at a bank
• Candidates with 4-6 years of relevant experience in similar role, preferably with a “Big 4” or equivalent