Description
& SummaryAt 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.
As a risk management generalist at PwC, you will provide advisory and practical support to teams across a wide range of specialist risk and compliance areas.
Role: Risk Programme Manager
Location: Guernsey or Jersey
Line of Service: Business Enablement
Grade: Manager
Contracted Hours per Week: 37.5 hours (or less by agreement)
PwC Channel Islands Overview
PwC is a highly dynamic professional services firm offering Advisory, Tax, Audit and other assurance services to a large portfolio of international and local clients. The Channel Islands firm employs 600+ staff in offices across Jersey, Guernsey and Alderney and is part of an international network of 151 PwC firms employing over 364,000 staff.
Job Summary
The Risk Programme Manager will lead the design, implementation, and oversight of strategic risk initiatives across the Firmwide Risk. This role is pivotal in ensuring that PwC’s risk posture remains robust, agile, and aligned with regulatory expectations and internal quality standards. The successful candidate will manage cross-functional programmes, drive operational excellence, and support the firm’s commitment to risk mitigation.
Responsibilities
The key areas of focus will be for you to manage:
Programme Leadership:
1. Lead and coordinate risk-related programmes, including risk assessments, regulatory compliance initiatives, and operational risk reviews.
Stakeholder Engagement:
2. Collaborate with senior leadership, including the Firmwide Risk Director, to align programme goals with strategic priorities. Act as a liaison between Risk, Business Enablement, and LoS teams.
Risk Framework Implementation:
3. Coordinate PwC’s QMSE framework and ISQM1 standards to ensure consistent and effective risk responses across BE teams
Reporting and Governance:
4. Provide regular updates to senior stakeholders, including dashboards, risk metrics, and programme status reports. Ensure documentation is audit-ready and compliant with internal and external standards.
Team Coordination:
5. Manage resources across multiple workstreams, including offshore support and SMEs for specific risk types where necessary. Facilitate onboarding and role clarity for new team members.
Direct Reports
This role reports to:
6. Risk Director
Qualifications & Certifications
7. Professional qualifications in risk management, project management or governance (desirable but not required). Willingness to obtain recognised credentials in these areas if not already achieved would be preferable.
Skills & Experience Required
Essential Skills
8. Proven experience in risk management or compliance within a professional services or financial institution.
9. Strong understanding of regulatory frameworks and operational risk controls.
10. Demonstrated ability to lead complex programmes with multiple stakeholders.
11. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence at senior levels.
12. Strong organisational skills in order to meet hard deadlines (e.g. regulatory returns)
13. Proactive, self-motivated and able to take responsibility for own work
14. Attention to detail, ability to work independently and critical self-review
15. Digital acumen
16. Enthusiastic, energetic and driven by a challenge
17. Ability to write process notes and maintain an audit trail from sourcing information through to submission of final reporting
Desirable Skills:
18. Experience with PwC’s internal frameworks such as QMSE and ISQM1
19. Familiarity with ServiceNow or similar platforms for risk control tracking
20. Professional certifications such as CRCM, CPA, or equivalent.
Right to work in Channel Islands
Due to Housing & Work restrictions in the Channel Islands, we are only able to consider candidates who currently hold the right to live and work in their respective islands.
Travel Requirements:
It is anticipated that this role will require travel between the islands of Jersey and Guernsey on an ad hoc basis.
The skills we look for in our people
All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, The PwC Professional.
The PwC Professional focuses on two core behaviours: Trusted Leadership and Distinctive outcomes. Trusted Leadership is underpinned by core behaviours that Inspire, Empower and Evolve, and Distinctive outcomes is underpinned by behaviours that Champion, Build and Deliver.
Diversity:
We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. We aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their unique strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business.
Education
Degrees/Field of Study required:Degrees/Field of Study preferred:
Certifications
Required Skills
Optional Skills
Accepting Feedback, Accepting Feedback, Active Listening, Analytical Thinking, Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Coaching and Feedback, Coaching and Training, Communication, Compliance Advisement, Compliance Oversight, Compliance Program Implementation, Compliance Risk Assessment, Confidential Information Handling, Contract Review, Contractual Risk Mitigation, Contractual Risk Monitoring, Contract Writing, Creativity, Crisis Management, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Data Security, Discretion and Business Ethics, Embracing Change, Emotional Regulation, Empathy {+ 37 more}
Desired Languages
Travel Requirements
Up to 20%
Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?
No
Government Clearance Required?
No
Job Posting End Date