Conflicts - Associate

PricewaterhouseCoopers

The role involves the following:
- Carrying out appropriate checks to identify potentially conflicting engagements based on PwC policy and guidance
- Reviewing information provided by engagement teams and ensuring any outstanding information is chased with teams or any corrections are completed
- Initial analysis of the search results in order to ascertain where there is a conflict of interest, and to clear the matter to proceed or to escalate where appropriate
- Escalating to the Conflicts Team Manager and seeking appropriate guidance and training, as needed
- Discuss findings and conflicts analysis with engagement teams and LoS R&Q teams
- Manage daily volume of cases as assigned to the team
- Liaise with engagement teams to ensure correct information is provided on the request submission and also to confirm full legal names of all entities involved, their relationship and the scope of work
- Carry out urgent requests as needed
- Set up ethical walls as per the firm s policies and guidance
- Be involved in regular monitoring of ethical walls processes
- Answer any ad hoc queries from engagement teams

Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

- Ensuring delivery of high quality and timely response that meets the needs of the business and is delivered to high client delivery standards
- Meeting the SLAs and KPIs for the team in terms of turnaround times and volumes
- Identifying issues and any training needs and escalating these to the Conflicts Team manager
- Understanding of the firm's risk management including global and local conflict of interest policies.
- Proactive in coming up with solutions
- Continue to develop internal relationships and your PwC brand
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Learn about how the various R&Q processes work and add value to teams
- Use tools and techniques to support research, analysis and problem solving
- Communicate confidently in a clear, concise and articulate manner verbally and in written form
- Build rapport quickly with others and engage personally with colleagues and teams