Senior Associate - Cybersecurity, Risk & Regulation (Third Party Risk Management) - Mandarin Speaker

PwC

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Line of Service: Advisory

Industry/Sector: Technology

Specialism: Cybersecurity & Privacy

Management Level: Senior Associate

Job Description & Summary

A career in our Cybersecurity, Privacy and Forensics 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.

Our Third Party Risk Management (TPRM) team focuses on helping our clients assess, design, implement, and maintain an effective third party risk program. This includes pre and post contract stages for our clients, helping them evaluate the controls required pre-contracting with a vendor, contractor, or supplier, as well as post-contract from an ongoing monitoring perspective. Our TPRM team focuses on designing programs, operationalizing those programs, and change management across all risk domains of a third party program and assessments (ongoing monitoring efforts).

You will work with third parties all across the globe that support the operations of our clients to ensure adequate control environments are in place and help provide our clients comfort that both reasonable and defensible controls are in place. As more companies continue to outsource and move to cloud transformation, the demand for TPRM has quickly grown. You will help our clients transform their business, build trust amongst their ecosystem, manage risk effectively, and drive accountability and control with their third party connections.

Our team helps organisations develop TPRM business plans, cost-benefit analyses, target operating models, short/long-term strategies, and ultimately improve the effectiveness of their TPRM programs. In joining our team, you will work with xLoS professionals at PwC across all third party risk domains, including, but not limited to cybersecurity, privacy, human resources, legal, technology, financial, fraud, regulatory, and industry specific business risks.

As a Senior 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:

• Use feedback and reflection to develop self-awareness, personal strengths, and address development areas.
• Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities and coach to help deliver results.
• Develop new ideas and propose innovative solutions to problems.
• Use a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current trends in the business area.
• Review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy, and relevance.
• Share relevant thought leadership.
• Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing others.
• Able to read situations and modify behavior to build quality, diverse relationships.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Additional Job Description

• Team members will assist territory engagement teams in performing vendor assessment and managed services in accordance with territorial reporting guidelines.
• Team members would be expected to perform activities that will include:
• Preparation of vendor assessment reports which will include an analysis of the business profiling questionnaire and due diligence questionnaire of the vendor, review supporting documentation, performing research on the operations and other relevant information about the vendor/supplier.
• Assessment of compliance of vendors against set standards/controls, SOC and PCI reports, etc.
• Communicate with the clients and vendors to get clarification.
• Assist in the administrative requirements of the team.
• Team members would be required to apply learning from trainings and on-the-job experience to work requests and support continuous process improvement.
• Team members would be required to handle multiple tasks at the same time. Detailed focus when performing work and good project management skills when managing workload and maintaining timelines will be necessary.

Requirements

• Bachelors/Masters in Information Security
• Certifications (ISO 27001/ ISO 31000/ CISA/ CISSP/ITIL, etc.)
• Strong knowledge of information security concepts, risk and controls concepts
• Sound knowledge on IT controls (especially IT risks)
• Sound knowledge of Internal Controls and Compliance
• Experience with the Microsoft Office suite of products (i.e. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, etc.)
• Candidates should have strong verbal and written communication skills
• Knowledge/experience in fields of Vendor Risk Assessments, Internal Audit, External Audit / Statutory Audit projects
• Candidates should exhibit good client service skills with a strong focus on building relationships.

Travel Requirements: Not Specified

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship? No

Government Clearance Required? No

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