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Forvis Mazars
Location:
Greater London, United Kingdom
Job Category:
Other
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Yes
Job Reference:
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Job Views:
8
Posted:
02.03.2025
Expiry Date:
16.04.2025
Job Description:
Forvis Mazars cares about your career progression, offering individually designed career paths that help you pursue your interests, match your changing needs, and explore your true potential. We work with diverse, prestigious clients across a range of sectors and geographies, giving you the opportunity to constantly update and grow your skills for lifelong professional development.
About the team
Our Business Services team is a collective of creative, strategic, forward-thinking business enablers. Together the People & Culture, Change, IT, Innovation, Operations, Clients & Markets Finance and Quality & Compliance and Enterprise Risk Management teams (ERM) make it their mission to ensure Forvis Mazars has the right tools, technology, strategies and services in place to deliver exceptional client service and future-proof our growing business.
About the role
* As a Risk Senior Manager within the ERM Team (Second Line) you will have the opportunity to help support and embed an effective risk management practice into the first line (Business teams/Service Lines) and promote maturity across the Service Lines in the firm by delivering proactive, high quality and value-added services as part of a central Risk Function at Forvis Mazars.
* This internal facing role will principally involve working with the Business Unit Leaders, Service Lines Leaders and risk owners in designing, implementing, and helping to ensure controls are operating effectively to manage the associated risks. You will initially work closely with the Enterprise Risk Director (Second Line) and key stakeholders and Subject Matter Experts, with a view to strengthen the first line focussing initially on Quality and Risk teams and risk owners across the business in managing risk and building an awareness and education to uplift the role and how we manage risk across the firm.
* Engage with first line risk owners, and wider business (incl. Internal Audit and Quality and Compliance) to provide subject matter expertise and advise the business response, management and mitigation of material risk exposures and red flags.
* Support, and design, potential control mechanisms and treatment plans to manage risk exposures or vulnerabilities in the risk area.
* Assessing and challenging the risk owners on risk assessments and scorings in line with the firm's risk matrix and methodology.
* Shape, build and drive high quality risk management processes, frameworks and culture across the organisation.
* Embed a positive culture of confident and informed risk taking through training, communication, and promotion of the risk framework.
* Perform other duties as may be assigned from time to time.
What are we looking for?
* Experience in risk management, ideally with experience of working in a risk related role within a First Line or Second Lines.
* Experience in assessing control effectiveness and identifying potential weaknesses in their design and to manage associated risks.
* Experience working with senior stakeholders and influencing decisions around appropriate actions to take that manage the associated risks.
* Professional qualifications in Risk Management such as IRM certification, or relevant degree in risk management is required.
* Working in a professional services firm or audit background is desirable.
* Leadership experience to influence and challenge the business agenda to focus on key risk and compliance agendas.
* Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder management skills including presentation to senior personnel.
* Maintaining control and stability under pressure whilst recognising the deadline or urgency to be dealt with in a rapidly changing environment.
About Forvis Mazars
Forvis Mazars is a leading global professional services network. The network operates under a single brand worldwide, with just two members: Forvis Mazars LLP in the United States and Forvis Mazars Group SC, an internationally integrated partnership operating in over 100 countries and territories.
Both member firms share a commitment to providing an unmatched client experience, delivering audit & assurance, tax and advisory services around the world. Together, our strategic vision strives to move our clients, people, industry and communities forward. Through our reach and areas of expertise, we help organisations respond to emerging sustainability issues in the global marketplace including human rights, climate change, environmental impacts and culture.
We are one diverse, multicultural, multi-generational team with a huge sense of connection and belonging. This is a place where you can take ownership of your career, get involved, believe in yourself and put your ideas into action.
At Forvis Mazars, we empower our people and celebrate individuality. We thrive on teamwork and are agile. We have bold foresight and give people the freedom to make a personal contribution to our shared purpose. We support one another to deliver quality, create change and have a deeper understanding, to help make an impact so that everyone can reach their full potential.
Being inclusive is core to our culture at Forvis Mazars; we want to ensure everyone, whether in the recruitment process or beyond is fully supported to be their unique self. Our aim is to make the recruitment process as accessible and inclusive as possible - please contact us to discuss any changes you may require so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.
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