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Senior AssociateJob Description & Summary
About the role
Our Financial Services Technology Risk and Resilience team helps FS firms navigate a fast-moving regulatory landscape while helping them to manage robust future-proof technology estates. From shaping digital resilience frameworks under the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) to helping firms enhance their technology risk maturity as they list we combine deep sector insight with leading technology to solve problems alongside our clients.
Key Responsibilities
Working with the engagement manager leader and broader engagement team you will support the manager with and at times take responsibility for various areas of the engagement which may include:
Delivering fieldwork on technology risk and digital resilience engagements.
Performing control walkthroughs sample testing and evidence review across technology risk and resilience domains and designing remediation plans to address any identified gaps.
Draft gap analysis and maturity assessment artefacts aligned to COBIT ITIL and other frameworks.
Support regulatory readiness and assurance projects (including supporting startups as they go. through the authorisations process).
Prepare working papers and writing reports for clients regulators and other internal and external stakeholders.
Build trusted relationships with client SMEs and control owners.
Contribute to thought-leadership blogs.
Supporting business development activities such as preparing responses to tenders creating proposal documents and supporting in the creation of market facing thought leadership.
Ownership of your personal development to ensure you are equipped with the skills relevant to the proposition now and in the future.
Coaching junior members of the team providing support training and feedback.
Engaging with the firms digital agenda and tools to help us deliver innovative solutions.
Essential Skills
Experience in technology risk IT audit digital resilience or related consulting within financial services.
Working knowledge of UK and European Technology and Resilience Regulation as well as frameworks such as COBIT ITIL NIST CSF and ISO 27001/22301.
Practical experience of control testing or assurance fieldwork (e.g. evidence sampling walkthroughs KRI analysis).
Strong communication skills able to translate technical findings into clear concise messages for business stakeholders.
Possession of strong team working and leadership skills including the ability to work as a team and under your own initiative
A willingness to learn new skills and help develop and innovate new client propositions
Strong oral and written communication skills (e.g. running walkthroughs report writing)
Demonstrable experience of using AI in current role
Preferred Skills
Progress toward professional certifications such as CRISC CISA CISSP CBCI ISO 22301 Lead Auditor or Prince2/AgilePM
Exposure to regulatory remediation programmes (e.g. s166 Skilled-Person reviews)
Demonstrable experience of working on multiple projects managing your time effectively to deliver high quality work to tight deadlines;
Technical financial services knowledge including an understanding of the Insurance Asset Management and Banking industries
Commercial acumen and an interest in how complex organisations operate; and
Strong analytical logic and problem-solving skills.
Education (if blank degree and/or field of study not specified)
Degrees/Field of Study required:Degrees/Field of Study preferred:Certifications (if blank certifications not specified)
Required Skills
Optional Skills
Accepting Feedback Accepting Feedback Active Listening Analytical Thinking Business Decisions Business Performance Management C-Level Presentations Communication Compliance Frameworks Compliance Policies Compliance Program Implementation Compliance Review Controls Testing Corporate Governance Creativity Embracing Change Emotional Regulation Empathy External Audit Finance Target Operating Model Finance Transformation Financial Reporting Fraud Detection Fraud Prevention Group Facilitation 17 moreDesired Languages (If blank desired languages not specified)
Travel Requirements
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Senior IC
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