Risk Assurance Consultant
Location: London
Career Level: Consultant (CL9)
Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.
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As a team:
You'll learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture that thrives on shared success, diverse ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways
If you’re looking for a challenging career working in a vibrant environment with access to training and a global network of experts, this could be the role for you. As part of our global team, you'll be working with cutting-edge technologies and will have the opportunity to develop a wide range of new skills on the job.
In our team you will:
- Learn about risk assurance concepts and methodologies including planning, risk evaluation and controls testing.
- Develop valuable insights and experience in business practices and consulting acumen.
- Gain first hand exposure to a variety of businesses within financial services (e.g. retail banking, global markets, asset management, insurance, etc.)
- Gain direct experience in functional areas within financial organisations (e.g. sales, trading, risk management, operations, compliance, financial crime, etc.)
- Work in a dynamic environment alongside colleagues and leaders that have deep industry and specialist knowledge that you will have opportunity to learn from.
In this role you will:
- Engage directly with client management and staff to conduct interviews, workshops, and meetings.
- Review businesses, products and processes to assist in risk identification & evaluation.
- Assess control processes and their effectiveness in mitigating/controlling relevant risks.
- Perform sample-based testing of controls to evaluate their operating effectiveness.
- Prepare well-articulated and thorough audit working papers (documentation of processes/risks/controls and details of audit testing performed).
- May also assist in drafting audit reports intended for Board & Executive level audience.