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Hello - hope everyone is having a great weekend. I'm looking into risk assurance opportunities at Meta, especially Application Manager, Controls (min 5 YOE) and Manager, Compliance (min 12 YOE). I am a Senior Manager with 9 years of IT risks assurance experience. Does anyone have any thought on which position I should apply? If anyone currently at Meta could share your experience, that would also help. If anyone is open to providing referrals, I could provide my background. Facebook (Meta)
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I've never heard someone manage a 100 person team and not have direct reports. Even the most seasoned of the PMs don't have such expansive head count. Who are you counting as whom you think you're managing
There are about 60 control owners many have 1-3 delegates for certain tasks. They are the folks I have regular touchpoints with and have to stay on top off depending on the issues of the day. But there is also 10 external folks performing the assessment I have to stay on top of. And about 30 or so senior leadership folks I routinely have to work with and manage up on. None of these folks are reporting to me for their daily BAU, just the elements of their roles that plug into this project. But from my perspective, I’m constantly people managing, I.e. when can we expect this to complete, what are the problems associated with completing this matter, troubleshooting with them, providing guidance and feedback (from a risk perspective) associated with their deliverables, having big picture discussions to help them orient their work. So outside of admin stuff like reviews and HR matters, my day is like all people management.
PwC 1, i appreciate the insights, I would say you probably don’t have a perfect sense of the full scale of the project team from an internal perspective. My external folks probably think I have a smaller team than I actually do. (Example, you may only be aware of 1 control owner for a control you’re testing, but I’ve got a five person team I’m working with for that individuals control).
PwC 1, for sure thats exactly what I am. I’m a manager but operate at more of a Director level based on my peers. I also manage an executive committee and a more focused external enterprise cybersecurity assessment. I’m just trying to figure out how I can translate that into managing a small team (ideally 3-5 directs). My org follows a tech model so it’s pretty lean and flat for the most part. So if I was going to evaluate opportunities, could I find roles similar to mine that afford 3-5 directs?
Senior Associate 1, in many ways my role is worse than directly managing 100 people, in the sense that people with that many reports have a series of higher level directs and semi-directs underneath them that will filter out most of the daily nonsense. I instead have to deal with 100 people hitting me up when anything remotely related to my projects impacts them. I literally get like 10-25 people a day that reach out to me to solve problems, on top of all of my actual deliverables. I’m not trying to pretend I’m a CEO here, but my reality is what it is. Thanks for being helpful. 👎
I’ve worked on an engagement which covered 5k odd controls over 4 continents. That was a 35 member team. 100 people? That’s got to be one big project!