At 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. In regulatory risk compliance at PwC, you will focus on confirming adherence to regulatory requirements and mitigating risks for clients. You will provide guidance on compliance strategies and help clients navigate complex regulatory landscapes.
Role: Independence, Ethics and Business Conduct - Quality & Control Framework Lead
Location: Jersey/Guernsey
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: This role supports the Independence, Ethics and Business Conduct Team in maintaining the firm’s integrity, ethical conduct and compliance with independence standards. The Manager will lead operational execution of compliance monitoring, training, reporting, and process improvements, ensuring alignment with global and UK policies. This role is central to PwC’s mission to build trust in society and solve important problems. By proactively identifying ethical risks and promoting principled behaviour, the Ethics and Business Conduct Manager helps safeguard the firm’s reputation and ensures that PwC remains values and quality driven.
The Independence, Ethics and Business Conduct team plays a critical role in ensuring that employees and the firm remain independent of our clients in accordance with applicable independence and ethical standards and fulfilling the Firm’s reporting obligations to the wider PwC network. We do this by the following: carrying out monitoring with the Firms’ policies and procedures; ensuring we keep policies and procedures up to date; providing training to employees; maintaining and providing input to client deliverables and templates; issuing a number of reports/communications to Staff and the Leadership team, as well as the PwC Network.

Eligibility / Qualification Required:

Qualifications & Certifications:

• A relevant professional qualification (i.e. ACCA, ICAEW). Further study support is also available.

Skills & Experience Required:

Essential skills:

• Solid understanding of independence and ethics requirements, including IESBA guidelines, a global firm’s network standards, and risk management policies.
• Ability to assess and mitigate risks related to independence, ethics, and business conduct.
• Analytical capability to interpret regulatory requirements and evaluate their impact on firm operations.
• Experience in compliance monitoring and audit, applying a risk-based approach.
• Skilled in interpreting data and producing clear, actionable reports.
• Ability to resolve issues pragmatically and develop effective solutions.
• Experience drafting policies and designing controls to ensure compliance with relevant standards and regulations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with stakeholders at all levels, including regulators.
• Commercial awareness and ability to align compliance solutions with business strategy.
• Commitment to fostering an inclusive and psychologically safe working environment.
• Experience designing and delivering.
• Demonstrated leadership in managing self and others, with strong collaboration and team management skills.

Desirable skills:

• Familiarity with PwC’s Code of Conduct and its practical application, as well as Network Standards, PwC Risk Management Policies and PwC Methodologies.
• 3-5 years relevant experience in audit, independence and ethics.
• Experience with compliance systems implementation projects.
• Proficiency in compliance-related technologies.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to recommend practical compliance solutions.
• Experience and knowledge on how to go about driving ethical culture, responding to cultural shifts, and implementing firm-wide campaigns and initiatives.

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 five core attributes: whole leadership, business acumen, technical capabilities, global acumen and relationships. We use this framework to recruit, develop, and assess our people, at all grades and in all areas of our business, because we expect all our people to be leaders.

Required Skills:

Accepting Feedback, Accepting Feedback, Active Listening, Analytical Thinking, Anti-Bribery, Anti-Money Laundering Compliance, Business Ethics, Coaching and Feedback, Code of Ethics, Communication, Compliance and Governance, Compliance and Standards, Compliance Auditing, Compliance Frameworks, Compliance Program Implementation, Compliance Reporting, Compliance Review, Compliance Risk Assessment, Compliance Training, Controls Compliance, Creativity, Cybersecurity Risk Management, Data Analysis and Interpretation, Data Protection Management (DPM), Disability Support {+ 35 more}

How to Apply:

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General Conditions:

Travel Requirements:

This role may require you to travel between our PwC Jersey / Guernsey (depending on where candidate based) and UK offices from time to time (circa 4 - 6 times per annum). You may also be required to attend training in other locations.

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://www.pwc.co.uk/diversity

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