Company Info
PricewaterhouseCooper (PwC) Nigeria has been operating in Nigeria since 1953 through its predecessor firms of Coopers & Lybrand and Price Waterhouse. We’re one of the leading professional services firms in the country with offices in Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt, over 1000 staff and 31 resident partners.
1). Manager – Experience Centre (Disruption Team)
Job Requisition ID: 263841WD
Location: Lagos
Job type: Full time
Line of Service: Internal Firm Services
Specialism: IFS – Internal Firm Services – Other
Management Level: Manager
Travel Requirements: Up to 20%
Job Description & Summary
- Trends and emerging technologies are changing the world we live in. These fundamental global shifts are reshaping societies, economies and behavioral norms everywhere as traditional business models are continuously being disrupted.
- A career with the Disruption team at the PwC Experience Centre, will provide you with a unique opportunity to help our clients anticipate and understand disruptive forces, by rethinking their business models and their core purpose.
- You’ll focus on assisting clients as they incorporate emerging technologies such as automation, machine learning, data & analytics, open-source technologies etc. into their processes to deliver better quality output and contribute more strategically to sustainable growth
The Team
- The disruption Team is at the core of innovation and emerging technology development, discovery, deployment, and support activity. Our mission is to develop disruptive & innovative technologies and products that drive the evolution of how we deliver our services now and in the future.
- The key technology domains we are currently focused on include business process automation, data curation, industrialized analytics, machine learning & AI and scalable delivery platform.
Responsibilities
You will be trusted to work with limited supervision within the team. Therefore, you must be pro-active and independent in running various aspect of projects, and confident in making critical decisions when information may be limited. You’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers with a ‘dare to think’ mentality your responsibilities will include:
- Interpret client’s business strategy and determine risks and opportunities that are presented by disruptions in client markets.
- Design and model innovative solutions for clients and assist with implementation support
- Bring the best of PwC by working and connecting with teams with relevant people in the different Lines of Services to generate insights and areas for collaboration.
- Manage prime team functions and activities geared towards driving visibility and revenue generation for the PwC Experience Centre
- Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify disruption research opportunities with new/existing clients.
- Develop high-performance atmosphere within the team and contribute to the development of your own and team’s technical acumen
- Coordinate all cross-functional activities, represent customers internally and collaborate with leaders in varied areas on allocation across projects and resource planning.
- Function as strategic partner to the Associate Director of disruption & innovation at the PwC Experience Centre
- Lead and direct different cross-functional programs and projects of varied sizes and types concurrently.
- Contribute and influence strategic direction for senior leadership using informal and formal communication.
- Coordinate new product prototyping and testing
- Assist clients identify and prioritize disruptions in the form of actionable responses.
- Assist in the management and delivering of large transformational projects through prototyping, mock-ups, and simulations.
- Define and collate Disruption methods, tools, and playbooks
- Keep abreast with local and national business and economic issues
- Other functions of the position include successful management of the team, event/workshop coordination & managing client visits, and day-to-day operational business integrations with partners and sponsors.
Experience and Qualifications
- First Degree in any discipline with minimum of Second-Class Division.
- M.Sc or MBA (preferred)
- Prior experience at a Consulting firm, high-growth Organization or start-up Fintech, banking, or financial services background is preferred
- Minimum Years of experience: 8 + years of proven success in digital/technology related roles with at least 4+ year experience in leading teams.
Preferred Skills:
- Demonstrates proven abilities to develop strategy; as well as proven success and thorough abilities to write, communicate, facilitate, and present cogently; to and/or for all levels of industry audiences, clients and internal staff and management
- Demonstrates proven success in roles and thorough abilities to identify and address client needs, which include the following: developing and sustaining deep client relationships using networking, negotiation, and persuasion skills to identify and sell potential new service opportunities; preparing and presenting complex written and verbal materials; and defining resource requirements, project workflow, budgets, billing, and collection
- Understanding and application of design thinking & agile methodology
- Good knowledge of consulting across a broad scope of transformational offerings across front and back office.
- Evidence of excellent influencing skills and the capability to challenge and manage senior stakeholders.
- Strong project management orientation.
- Comfortable working in a tech-driven environment with the ability to coordinate multiple stakeholders.
- A highly capable, self-motivated individual who can direct the full array of functions and is continuously striving to improve services and enhance the attractiveness of the center.
- Have demonstrated track record in the innovation community and experience with running a rapidly changing and growing environment.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills and can effectively communicate and coordinate teams.
- Very effective team collaboration skills with both internal and external stakeholders.
Application Closing Date
24th February, 2023.
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2). Disruption Associate
Job Requisition ID: 356634WD
Location: Lagos
Job type: Full time
Line of Service: Internal Firm Services
Specialism: IFS – Network Management
Management Level: Associate
Travel Requirements: Up to 20%
Job Description & Summary
- A career in our Innovation Development practice, within Innovation services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients’ redesign, redefine, and redeploy their assurance and/or tax departments to be a strategic asset across the enterprise.
- You’ll focus on assisting clients as they incorporate increased automation, machine learning, data & analytics, Open Source technologies into their processes to deliver better quality output and contribute more strategically to organisational decision making.
- Our team helps our clients create a guided path to innovation by developing the right methods that generate insight based ideas, and to select, produce and commercialise the most valuable and viable results.
- You’ll focus on software driven innovation strategy, software technology diligence, operating model design, software product planning and management, and software architecture and cloud strategy.
- To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level.
- To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.
Skills and Responsibilities
As an Associate, 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:
- Invite and give in the moment feedback in a constructive manner.
- Share and collaborate effectively with others.
- Identify and make suggestions for improvements when problems and/or opportunities arise.
- Handle, manipulate and analyse data and information responsibly.
- Follow risk management and compliance procedures.
- Keep up-to-date with developments in area of specialism.
- Communicate confidently in a clear, concise and articulate manner – verbally and in the materials I produce.
- Build and maintain an internal and external network.
- Seek opportunities to learn about how PwC works as a global network of firms.
- Uphold the firm’s code of ethics and business conduct.
Application Closing Date
24th February, 2023.
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3). Risk & Quality Associate
Job Requisition ID: 415337WD
Location: Lagos
Job type: Full time
Line of Service: Internal Firm Services
Travel Requirements: Up to 20%
Specialism: IFS – Risk & Quality (R&Q)
Management Level: Associate
Job Description & Summary
- A career in Risk Management, within Internal Firm Services, will provide you with the opportunity to advance and foster integrity based decision making and conduct by PwC professionals throughout our organisation.
- Our Risk Management Generalist – Practice Support team focuses on promoting and monitoring compliance with applicable external laws and regulations as well as internal policies and procedures to help manage PwC’s regulatory, litigation, and reputational risk.
- To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level.
- To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional, our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.
- As an Associate, you’ll work as part of a team of Risk Managers, Ethics & Compliance, helping to manage risk and drive quality. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this Associate level include but are not limited to:
Key Responsibilities
- Identify unmitigated or partially mitigated business risks, which can result in material financial, operational, regulatory, or reputational risks for the firm
- Collect and collate monthly data for Risk Appetite metrics and ensure adherence to the risk escalation guidelines for breach of limits.
- Track and monitor open actions related to incidents and risk issues requiring follow-up and resolution.
- Maintain all pertinent records relating to incident reporting through closure.
- Prepare risk reports (monthly, quarterly and annually) to Management and ad-hoc requests for risk data/information
- Monitor inherent risk profiles in the business and the control environments, and be innovative on risk mitigation and process improvement activities
- Carry out responsibility for assessing compliance with firm’s quality controls around client and engagement acceptance and continuance.
- Monitor/ internal control compliance with firm’s policy with respect to Information and Data Protection.
- Perform necessary controls / safeguards to mitigate risk exposures on Anti-Money Laundering subjects, Joint Business Relationship (JBR), Acceptance and Continuance checks, etcetera.
- Provide training support to staff members with navigating established risk management practices within the firm’s services.
- Perform periodic review and testing of all R&Q processes to monitor staff compliance with risk and independence requirements
Educational and Experience Requirement
- First Degree in any discipline with minimum of Second-Class Upper Division.
- Experience: At least 2 years’ work-related experience.
Required Skills and Competencies includes:
- Excellent communication Skills.
- Has strong multitasking, attention to details and organizational skills.
- Possesses the willingness to learn and embrace change and to adapt new work techniques
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft office suites.
- A team player, with good self-management skills and an ability to take initiative.
Deadline: 15th February, 2023.
How to Apply: Interested and qualified candidates should use the links below to apply: