Transformation Risk & Advisory, Manager

Transformations risk and advisory team continues to grow, offering strategic risk management to support digital transformation across our client base.

Responsibilities

- Assist in assessing large, complex digital transformation programs/projects based on best‑practice knowledge and prior experience.
- Identify key transformation delivery risks and provide advice and recommendations for effective mitigation.
- Analyze program information and data to uncover key insights on program performance and develop improvement recommendations.
- Assist in developing and executing assurance strategies and plans for programs and projects.
- Manage all phases of client engagements, including supervising PwC teams, ensuring high‑quality deliverables and managing engagement economics.
- Deliver compelling presentations and lead impactful conversations with senior client leaders.
- Engage in business‑development activities, including responding to requests for proposals.
- Build consensus and create positive outcomes for all parties by managing varied viewpoints.
- Pursue opportunities to develop existing and recent skills beyond the comfort zone.
- Coaching others and encouraging their ownership of development.
- Contribute to practice growth and deliver on the firm’s people value proposition.
- Uphold the firm’s code of ethics and business conduct.

Qualifications & Experience





- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business or a related field.
- Extensive experience delivering and/or assessing large digital transformation programs, including leading performance assessments, programme gateway reviews, and risk‑based reviews.
- Designing program management and/or assurance strategies.
- Strong understanding of the digital‑transformation project/program implementation life‑cycle and associated risks.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to negotiate, problem‑solve and influence.
- Proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project and JIRA.
- Project‑management certification (e.g., PMIPMBOK, APMBOK, PRINCE2, MSP, MoR, Agile or Benefit Realization) is desirable.

Additional Requirements

- A security clearance is mandatory; applicants must meet the Government of Canada eligibility requirements.

Compensation

Salary range is $84,700 – $134,700. Base salary is determined by skills, experience, qualifications, and work location. Employees may also qualify for variable incentive programs.

EEO Statement

PwC Canada acknowledges that we work and live across Turtle Island, on the land that is now known as Canada, which is the land of the ancestral, treaty and unceded territories of the First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples. We recognize the systemic racism, colonialism and oppression experienced by Indigenous peoples and are committed to allyship and solidarity.

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