Manager, Risk Strategy and Transformation, Risk Consulting (UKI) in City of London

Location: London

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The Opportunity

Risk Consulting is a dynamic group of people focused on helping our clients solve tomorrow’s problems today through integrated solution service offerings in the area of risk, such as internal audit, risk management and financial controls. Risk continues to move up the agenda and our team works with many of today’s front-running companies. Our clients want integrated, strategic, tech-enabled, end-to-end solutions and we deliver tailored risk offerings putting client value and relationships at the core of what we do. You can expect to work with senior client personnel and drive high quality work products. Our Risk team consists of talented colleagues who invite you to bring your natural curiosity and innovative thoughts to work each day. Working within our team, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture, and technology to become the best version of you. We offer excellent career development, diverse opportunities and fantastic work life balance including hybrid working. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.

Your Key Responsibilities

We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated manager to join our dynamic Risk Consulting team. The ideal candidate will bring:

• Keen interest in risk management and its practical implementation to business
• Strong understanding and skills within Governance, Risk and Controls related services
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work across multiple projects and competing timelines
• Collaboration and teaming skills to work across multi-skilled teams
• Keen interest in technology and application of technology to drive better client outcomes

Key responsibilities include:

• Managing multiple engagement teams and stakeholders, both internally and externally, taking full ownership of projects and relationships. Your focus will be on delivering impactful results, on time, within budget and in line with EY’s quality and risk management practices.
• Client Delivery and Project Management: Lead and manage multiple client engagements. Oversee planning, fieldwork and reporting of findings and recommendations to senior stakeholders. Ensuring high-quality deliverables, on time within budget.
• Technical Expertise: Act as a key advisor in discussing Governance Risk and Compliance related propositions, regulations and best practices with clients, including technology trends and application. UK Corporate Reform, US Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance, Global Internal Audit Standards and other industry-specific regulatory compliance requirements.
• Quality and Risk Management: Ensure compliance with EY’s quality and risk management processes across client acceptance, contracting and engagement delivery. Proactively identify and manage risks across engagements, escalating issues where appropriate.
• Stakeholder Management: Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders and proactively manage client expectations to ensure alignment on project goals, timelines and deliverables. Collaborate cross-functionally with other EY service lines and subject matter experts to deliver high quality insights. Collaborate with internal leader/s, provide regular updates on engagement progress and support internal decision-making through clear communication and proactive escalation and the ability to flex communication styles.
• Team Leadership and Development: Mentor and coach junior team members through effective supervision to develop their technical and professional skills. Support career development through performance reviews and providing timely, regular and actionable feedback. You will contribute to a positive team environment by demonstrating consistent commitment and optimism toward work challenges.
• Business Development: Build the EY brand through high quality delivery. Support in the identification of new opportunities and development of proposals. Build EY’s market presence through contribution to thought leadership and client events.
• Promoting EY’s values: Champion EY’s commitments to integrity, respect and teaming in all client and internal interactions. Foster an inclusive and diverse working environment where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute.
• Practice development: contribute to practice development and internal initiatives such as learning and development programmes and solution development.

Skills and Experience

You will be a trusted manager with proven technical expertise in risk, processes and controls that will complement our Risk Consulting teams in delivering high-quality solutions to our clients. Your skills and experience will include:

• Process and controls experience: Proven and relevant professional experience across core process and controls solutions (e.g. internal audit, SOX and internal controls) in consulting, government or industry. Extensive experience in process mapping, walkthroughs, risk analysis (strategic, financial, operational and compliance) and control identification and design assessment. The ability to act as a trusted advisor to clients on risk and control issues, such as controls remediation or Enterprise Risk Management.
• Technical skills and knowledge: In depth understanding of core business processes, associated risks, and leading practice controls. Strong leadership and communication skills, technical knowledge, and the ability to write at a publication quality level in order to communicate findings and recommendations to clients. Strong business acumen, including the ability to compile information quickly and accurately, and to test data and assumptions for informed decision-making.
• Engagement management: Track record demonstrating success in leading high-performing teams, mentor junior staff and foster a culture of collaboration and continuous learning. Experienced in managing complex project and multiple stakeholder groups including senior clients and internal leadership. Demonstrated ability to balance project management and delivery skills across a range of clients, including financial management, quality, and risk management requirements.
• Communication and interpersonal skills: Strong communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and build trust at all levels. Being an active listener, having self-awareness when dealing with others, and adapting your own approach to differences in individual style and backgrounds, recognising the risk of unconscious biases.
• Client delivery: Demonstrated success in delivering high-quality, client-focused solutions on time and within budget with a commitment to going above and beyond for clients.
• Commercial acumen: Commercially aware, with a track record of developing relevant propositions and sales collateral and supporting business development efforts.
• Technology and innovation: Proficient in understanding and experience in use of technology such as data analytics, automation, and AI in project delivery. Proficient across the Microsoft Office suite (e.g. PowerPoint, Excel and Word).
• Professional attributes: Self-starter with a proactive mindset, natural curiosity and commitment to delivering excellence for our clients. Ability to work in areas of uncertainty and navigate ambiguous situations, adaptable and inclusive, with strong self-awareness and the ability to work effectively across diverse teams. Up to date with industry trends, emerging risks, and the UK regulatory landscape. Adaptability and the ability to work effectively across diverse teams.

Other desirable skills and experience: Professional experience, skills and knowledge in the following areas is desirable but not essential; finance transformation, controls automation, programme assurance, IT control including analysing core systems (e.g., SAP and Oracle) to identify control weaknesses.

To qualify for this role, you should have:

• Professional experience in risk, process and controls services in a consulting, industry or public sector setting.
• Hold a relevant professional qualification (ACA, ACCA, CFA or hold post graduate/equivalent degree in relevant subjects).

What we look for:

We are interested to hear from entrepreneurial people who feed on the energy of a thriving global team. We seek a high level of drive, commitment to achieving solutions, and ability to work under pressure. We need people worthy of trust, who demonstrate enthusiasm, passion to grow fast and are highly motivated to support this purpose. There is an expectation to be able to travel outside of the assigned office, which may involve UK regional or international travel. We invite applications from all cultures, backgrounds and experiences and are proud of our culture where people from all walks of life can grow and thrive.

What we offer:

EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We strive to achieve the right balance for our people, enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities. While our client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites, our flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a lifestyle balance. We offer a competitive remuneration package. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions.

Plus, we offer:

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next, including having the opportunity to gain an EY Tech MBA which is an accredited MBA program offered to all EY professionals globally.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible. The exceptional EY experience. It’s yours to build. Apply now.

Please note: Prior to finalizing your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness. The information you provide is kept entirely confidential and will not be used to evaluate your candidacy. We collect this data to help us analyse our recruitment process holistically and implement actions that promote diversity and inclusiveness. While optional, we encourage you to provide this information to hold us accountable towards our goal of building a better working world.