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Job Description

Role: Cyber Manager, Risk Assurance Services

Location: Guernsey or Jersey

Line of Service: External Audit

Grade: Manager

Contracted Hours per Week: 37.5/hours for role

PwC Channel Islands Overview

At PwC CI, we help you build, accelerate, and sustain momentum in a world that never stops

moving. With our tech-forward and people-empowered network, we provide expert assurance,

tax and advisory services to turn challenges into opportunities. Leveraging deep expertise and

advanced capabilities, we ensure you’re ready for any future, helping you act boldly and achieve

real results.

Risk Assurance Services

Our team focuses on helping our clients manage cyber risk on a domestic and global scale.

You’ll work with our clients aligning a number of different cyber, privacy and industry

frameworks and requirements to their business. These include, but are not limited to: NIST

CSF, ISO27001, ISO27005, ISO22301, COBIT, ITIL, NCSC, MCSS, CCM, PCI-DSS, SWIFT

CSP, GDPR, NIS-D, etc. Our team designs, implements, and maintains effective cyber

programs that help our clients manage the risks and regulatory compliance obligations, as well

as control framework commitments to their Board/stakeholders.

We help our clients across the domains of identify, protect, detect, respond and recover by

working closely with PwC UK to deliver operationally critical Managed Cyber Defence and

Identity Management services.

Job Summary:

A career in our Risk Assurance practice as a Cyber Manager will provide you the opportunity to

solve our clients most critical business and data protection related challenges. You will be part

of a growing team driving strategic programs, data analytics, innovation, deals, cyber resiliency,

response, and technical implementation activities. You will have access to not only the top

Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Risk Assurance professionals at PwC, but at our clients and

industry analysts across the globe. You will be part of a team that not only assesses

organisational compliance but helps clients implement solutions and strategically think through

the best way to manage in a cost-effective, yet defensible manner.

Responsibilities:

As a Manager, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex

business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this

management level include but are not limited to:

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• Pursue opportunities to develop existing and new skills outside of comfort zone.

• Act to resolve issues which prevent effective team working, even during times of change

and uncertainty.

• Coach others and encourage them to take ownership of their development.

• Analyse complex ideas or proposals and build a range of meaningful recommendations.

• Use multiple sources of information including broader stakeholder views to develop

solutions and recommendations.

• Address sub-standard work or work that does not meet firm's/client's expectations.

• Develop a perspective on key global trends, including globalisation, and how they impact

the firm and our clients.

• Manage a variety of viewpoints to build consensus and create positive outcomes for all

parties.

• Focus on building trusted relationships.

• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Direct Reports:

● This role reports to:

○ Senior Manager, Director, Head of Risk Assurance Services

● Reporting to this role:

○ Senor Associates

○ Associates

Qualifications & Certifications:

Minimum Degree Required:

Bachelor Degree, preferably Information Technology related

Minimum Years of Experience:

5 year(s)

Certification(s) Preferred:

Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Security

Manager (CISM), ISC2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), ISACA

Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC)

Skills & Experience Required:

Demonstrates extensive knowledge and/or a proven record of success in:

• Providing industry-leading practices in cyber risk management and regulatory

compliance.

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• Leveraging knowledge of common regulatory requirements as well as industry

frameworks such as NIST CSF, ISO27001, COBIT, COSO and PCI.

• Managing and overseeing large projects involving information security, technology risk

management, cybersecurity or cyber risk management.

Demonstrates extensive abilities and/or a proven record of success in:

• Designing and implementing enterprise-wide cyber risk governance frameworks.

• Developing detailed business risk scenarios and cyber threat models.

• Assessing enterprise-wide business risks and cyber threats.

• Designing and implementing cyber risk management controls.

• Monitoring and reporting of cyber risks, threats and vulnerabilities.

• Designing KRIs and metrics to build risk reports for management.

• Developing, implementing and testing cyber resiliency plans.

• Using tools and technology to provide data analytics and business intelligence on cyber

threats, risk and vulnerabilities.

• Developing cyber risk management strategies and operating models for clients.

• Building and operationalising complex cybersecurity and cyber risk management

programs for clients.

• Preparing concise and accurate documents, leveraging and utilizing MS Office and

Google Suite to complete related project deliverables.

• Managing project financials in line with agreed-upon budgets.

• Creating a positive working environment by monitoring and managing workloads of the

team – balancing client expectations with the work-life quality of team members.

• Keeping leadership and engagement management informed of progress and issues.

Travel Requirements:

Up to 25%.

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, Evolved PwC Professional.

The Evolved 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

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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.

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Job Description

Role: Manager, Alliance Driver, Risk Assurance Services

Location: Guernsey or Jersey

Line of Service: Advisory

Grade: Manager

Contracted Hours per Week: 37.5

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:

As part of the Risk Assurance Team, you will drive the Microsoft Alliance strategy for our Firm.

As a manager you will supervise and develop teams, manage client accounts, and facilitate the

successful execution of strategic initiatives while maintaining quality standards.

Those in Alliance at PwC will be responsible for establishing partnerships with companies to

better serve our client’s needs. You will build relationships to complement PwC’s strategy

through execution capabilities that allow PwC to deliver multi competency programmes and

solve client’s most critical business issues. Working in this area, you will develop and execute

the strategy and business plan, focus on market penetration and revenue growth, and identify

opportunities for solution development and industry alignment. You will also build relationships

with key Alliance executives, identify synergies between the technology and the Firm and

collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities:

We are seeking an experienced Manager to join our Risk Assurance Services practice to be the

focal point for our key technology Alliance relationships.

Responsibilities include:

• Manage client accounts to confirm alignment with strategic initiatives.

• Drive the execution of exceptional deliverables across projects.

• Identify and implement unique propositions for the Microsoft Alliance.

• Foster collaboration and communication within the Alliance team.

• Confirm adherence to professional standards and quality benchmarks.

• Analyse market trends to inform strategic direction and pipeline development.

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Direct Reports:

● This role reports to:

○ Senior Manager, Director/s

● Reporting to this role:

○ Associate

○ Senior Associate

Qualifications & Certifications:

• Minimum Degree Required:

Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s degree preferred

Certification(s) Preferred:

• MBA, Chartered Institute of Marketing, MSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science

Skills & Experience Required:

Essential skills:

• 5 year(s) of Partner & Alliance Management, relationship management experience with

a track record of driving demand generation and driving successful programs.

• You excel in relationship management, collaboration and in building and nurturing

strategic partnerships.

• You have excellent communication skills – both oral (for interviews/meetings,

presentations) and written (for designing and writing engaging reports which

communicate recommendations and actions succinctly and clearly convey the message

in a way which is appropriate for the audience and rooted in the client’s needs).

• You have a keen eye for detail and strong focus on encouraging quality work by all team

members, and a constructive approach to developing and mentoring colleagues with

those goals in mind.

• You have experience helping client’s effect substantial and complex business change,

and experience of assuring or enabling change at scale is desirable.

• You have experience providing expert strategy, risk and technical advice, guidance and

support on technology solutions, both in business-as-usual and for live and planned

projects within our clients’ business.

Travel Requirements:

Limited travel will be required in this role (up to 25%).

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, Evolved PwC Professional.

The Evolved PwC Professional focuses on two core behaviours: Trusted Leadership and

Distinctive outcomes. Trusted Leadership is underpinned by core behaviours that Inspire,

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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. https://pwc.to/2vY6KZm.