Risk Services - Valuations Specialist Assistant Manager/Manager

Line of Service
Assurance

Industry/Sector
FS X-Sector

Specialism
Conduct and Compliance

Management Level
Senior Associate

Job Description & Summary
At PwC, we help clients build trust and reinvent so they can turn complexity into competitive advantage. We're a tech-forward, people-empowered network with more than 370,000 people in 149 countries. Across audit and assurance, tax and legal, deals and consulting we help clients build, accelerate and sustain momentum. Find out more at www.pwc.com.

Our Risk Assurance Practice provides an invaluable safeguard in today's complex operating environment with insights and independent assurance. We work with clients to deliver business control to help them to protect and strengthen every aspect of their business from people to performance, systems to strategy, business plans to business resilience. We help clients manage, mitigate and control risks from potential cybersecurity breaches to possible breaks in the supply chain. We assess and prepare businesses by looking into their technology, finance, data analytics, regulatory requirements, data security and privacy, internal audit, and the third parties our clients rely on, to help clients deliver quality results and meet their strategic objectives.

ResponsibilitiesYou will be a part of Risk, Regulatory and Compliance in Risk Services, and you will experience a dynamic and fast-paced working environment. From potential start-ups to renowned local and global financial institutions, clients look to you for audit, regulatory, listing, private placement, corporate change and other business-related risk, valuation, and compliance advice.

• Manage a wide range of topics to ensure integrity and control over all aspects of valuation
  
• Perform Independent price verification to ensure that the financial instruments (OTC or private) are fair valued
  
• Provide valuation support to financial services and general audit engagements
  
• Exercise seasoned judgment when a call on valuation is required and ensuring audit trails are documented
  
• Perform market, liquidity, credit, and counterparty credit risk model reviews and validation (including stress and regulatory related models)
  
• Assist with business developments or new market opportunities (e.g. new clients, services, proposal formulation, presentations, etc)
  
• Manage key stakeholder relationships, including communication of the scope of work, findings and observations, industry updates, etc
  
  

• 4 - 8 years of relevant working experience in functions like risk management, risk analytics, valuation control or methodology preferred
  
• Good University degree from quantitative or STEM disciplines, preferably a Masters (Financial Engineering, Quantitative Finance, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Engineering, etc)
  
• Solid knowledge of financial markets products across Credit, Rates, FX, Equities and Private Assets
  
• Advanced Excel, VBA, SQL, Python skills are essential and experience with Machine learning would be an advantage
  
• Advisory working experience related to ICAAP/MAS 637 is a plus but not a requirement
  
• Persuasive, persistent with high stress tolerance to manage stringent and moving deadlines
  
• Well organized and able to work independently
  
• Effective interpersonal, ability to influence and communication skill
  

Required Skills

Optional Skills
Accepting Feedback, Accepting Feedback, Active Listening, Analytical Thinking, Anti-Bribery, Anti-Money Laundering Compliance, Business Ethics, Code of Ethics, Communication, Compliance and Governance, Compliance and Standards, Compliance Auditing, Compliance Frameworks, Compliance Program Implementation, Compliance Reporting, Compliance Review, Compliance Risk Assessment, Compliance Training, Controls Compliance, Creativity, Cybersecurity Risk Management, Data Analysis and Interpretation, Data Protection Management (DPM), Disability Support, Embracing Change + 30 more

Desired Languages (If blank, desired languages not specified)

Travel Requirements
Not Specified

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship
Yes

Government Clearance Required
Yes

Job Posting End Date