Career Opportunities at PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

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Financial Services Risk & Regulation – Manager

• Job TypePermanent   Full Time
• QualificationBA/BSc/HND   MBA/MSc/MA
• Experience6 years
• LocationLagos
• Job FieldFinance / Accounting / Audit

Reference Number: 125-NIG00174
Department: Assurance

Job Profile

• PwC’s Financial Services Risk & Regulation (FSRR) professionals help clients understand, assess, mitigate and resolve all issues, driven by risk management, capital management and compliance, which prevent the achievement of their strategic goals.
• Our strength is our ability to operate across all the stages of design, execution and assurance of all risk management and compliance arrangements.
• We work with a broad range of corporate and public organizations to develop robust financial risk management frameworks that satisfy compliance demands, contribute to better decision making and enhance performance.
• The scope of our work covers the full spectrum of financial risks such as credit risk, market risk, operational risk and liquidity risk; economic capital, capital management, stress testing, risk modeling and validation; regulatory compliance issues; and internal liquidity adequacy assessment process.
• There is a particular emphasis currently on the implementation of Basel II/III and other current local and international regulatory and risk management initiatives.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Building and maintaining value – adding client relationships.
• Selling, developing and leading consulting projects for clients in Financial Services Risk & Regulations.
• 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 within existing and/or potential clients.
• Participating in business development and contributing to harness the business opportunities into successful wins.
• 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.
• 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.
• Acting 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.

Experience & Qualification

• A good University Degree with a minimum of Second Class division.
• Completed Master’s Degree, preferably in Econometrics, Mathematics or other quantitative areas of study.
• At least 6 years’ work experience in the financial services industry, preferably in a major bank, consultancy firm or regulatory agency.
• Expertise and hands-on experience in at least one of FRM’s core areas, e.g. Basel II/III, credit risk, market risk, operational risk,
• Excellent analytical skills
• Motivated and committed
• Strong project management and coordination skills.
• Client service-oriented and accustomed to taking a proactive approach.
• A recognised professional certification such as FRM/CFA will be an added advantage.
• Deep content knowledge in credit, operational, market and liquidity risk management.
• Expertise in Basel II/III & Solvency II derived principally from Basel II/Solvency II implementation project experience.

Additional Information

• Strong technology and model building skills with 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.
• Ability to build strong, long-term relationships with key client contacts across lines of service and work closely with C-suite executives.
• Ability to leverage resources within the PwC network, and collaborate with strategic third parties to develop and implement new and existing market propositions across our services industry.
• Ability to develop people through effective mentoring and coaching of team members.
• Flexibility to support other service areas beyond your core areas of competence.

Head, Listing Business – HLB 002

• Job TypePermanent   Full Time
• QualificationBA/BSc/HND   MBA/MSc/MA
• Experience10 – 15 years
• LocationLagos
• Job FieldFinance / Accounting / Audit

Reference Number: 130-PEO00854
Department: People & Change Nigeria

Job Summary

• The Head, Listing Business Division will be responsible for all primary listing efforts of the Company, the Branch Network, and the listing of State Owned Enterprises.
• This role reports to the CEO and is also a part of the Executive Management Team.
• The ideal candidate will be a Capital Market industry professional with an understanding of the Primary Market, experience working with Issuing Houses and strong relationship management skills.

Key Accountabilities

• Owns and drives the marketing strategy to attract new companies, Corporate bonds, and other corporate financing instruments to be listed
• Retains and maintains the relationship with existing listed companies to achieve the targeted market capitalisation
• Prepares Dual-Listing agreements with regional and international exchanges
• Builds and maintains strategic partnerships with the Federal and State Governments to attract State Owned Enterprises to be listed
• Manages overall Profit and Loss (P & L) portfolio for listing efforts across equities, corporate bonds, and related products
• Develops the required Key Performance Indicators for the Listings Business Division to ensure the delivery of first class service
• Develops and implements strategies for advocacy and engagement to drive listing efforts across International and Domestic Enterprises
• Manages annual and quarterly budgeting for the division and oversees the same for reporting departments (Primary Markets, Branch Network, State Owed Enterprises)
• Leads and manages team to achieve the listing target of the company
• Ensures that the branch network is efficiently and profitably run

Requirements, Education and Experience

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Statistics, Law or related fields
• A Master’s degree or MBA is an added advantage
• Professional certification and/or active membership of the Chartered Institute of Stock Brokers ( CIS)
• Minimum of 10 – 15 years’ industry experience and at least 5 – 7 years in senior management position
• Experience working with Issuing Houses
• Experience in sourcing bonds/ companies
• Experience in investment banking is highly desirable

Data & Analytics-Senior Associate

• Job TypeFull Time
• QualificationBA/BSc/HND
• Experience3 – 5 years
• LocationLagos
• Job FieldICT / Computer

Reference Number: 125-NIG00173
Department: Assurance

Roles & Responsibilities

• Demonstrate leadership potential by coordinating project teams and testing their work for quality in line with PwC standards.
• Serve as team lead on D&A projects.
• Demonstrate machine learning techniques for addressing a variety of problems (e.g. consumer segmentation, revenue forecasting, image classification, etc.).
• Building machine learning models and systems, interpreting their output.
• Moving D&A models from development to production.
• Demonstrates abilities using Python, R;
• Ability to use data storage technologies: SQL, NoSQL,;
• Efficient use of data processing tools: R(dplyr, etc), Python (Numpy, Pandas, etc.), Spark, cloud-based solutions such as GCP DataFlow;
• Exhibit advance analytics and machine learning capabilities using libraries in R and Python, TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, Spark MLlib;
• Visualization: R-Shiny, Python (Matplotlib, Seaborn, bokeh, etc.), PowerBI, Qlik, Tableau;
• Machine learning algorithms (e.g. k-nearest neighbors, random forests, ensemble methods, deep neural networks, etc.) and when it is appropriate to use each technique.
• Compliance program assessments; development of compliance risk frameworks and processes; development of compliance training materials, etc
• Work with various PwC teams to conduct business diagnostics, providing recommendations for improvement of clients’ company-wide policies/processes and implementing such initiatives.
• Conducting research and support with development of capability, proposals and training materials.
• Provide coaching to junior staff or less experienced team members to develop technical competence and administrative skills.
• Report project progress and obstacles to engagement manager/leader.
• Support in identifying new opportunities for service delivery.

Experience & Requirements

• Minimum Degree Required: Bachelor’s degree Engineering, Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Informatics, Operations Research, or other quantitative disciplines.
• Minimum of 3-5 years’ experience.
• Experience in industry.
• Ability to communicate clearly with colleagues and senior clients.
• A proven track record of establishing and maintaining strong relationships.
• A proactive approach to problem solving, delivering results and meeting client expectations.
• Strong Statistical and programming skills and technical depth.
• Project management skills – ability to manage across multiple and complex projects.
• Ability to multi-task simultaneous client engagements.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills (presentation & facilitation).
• Demonstrable creativity and innovation.
• Strong analytical and problem solving capabilities

Method of Application

Use the link(s) below to apply on company website.

• Financial Services Risk & Regulation – Manager
• Head, Listing Business – HLB 002
• Data & Analytics-Senior Associate