Senior Consultant - Regulatory Insights in London

You will be expected to provide support to senior leadership as the team covers the regulatory waterfront across both conduct and prudential. As a Senior Consultant within the Regulatory Insights Team, typical engagements you can expect to be involved in designing or reviewing:

• Developing long-term views of the strategic direction of regulation
• Changing regulation (e.g. Duty of Care, Insurance pricing)
• Innovative business models and fit with regulation
• Developing regulatory models overseas
• Approach to climate change, ESG
• Senior manager appointments
• Approaches to authorisation
• Rapid communications for clients on changes to regulation

The successful candidate will be expected to play an important role in the delivery of engagements to clients undertaking investigations and articulating EY findings, conclusions and recommendations in writing or verbally. Support engagement leaders to deliver key projects on a day-to-day basis. Work on client site, managing teams where required. Analyse any potential emerging issues, support the development of an EY point of view and work with client-facing teams to develop an EY proposition. Help build proposals in response to new client opportunities. Work effectively as a team member sharing responsibility, providing support and updating senior members on progress.

We are looking for individuals who have a proactive attitude and are seeking the opportunity for personal and professional growth:

• Knowledge and experience of regulation
• Outstanding communication skills as well as commercial awareness
• Project management experience
• Ability to work in a client-facing and consulting role, with the ability to build networks and relationships
• There will be opportunity to travel in this role and to work across borders

To qualify for the role, you must have:

• Experience of working as a regulator, trade body, in regulatory affairs or regulatory consulting in another advisory firm
• Up-to-date knowledge of the regulatory environment

Ideally, you'll also have:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills for report writing and client presentations
• Ability to prioritise and challenge

EY's Financial Services practice is a unique industry-focused business unit that provides a broad range of integrated services to financial institutions and other capital markets participants, including banks, insurers and asset managers. We also work extensively with governments and regulators around the world.

EY UK’s Regulatory Insight Team operates across EMEIA and globally to provide deep regulatory expertise. Our aim is to deliver the latest in regulatory thinking to clients in the UK and internationally. Our objective is to be market-leading in the space where strategy, regulation and technology come together, looking at the regulatory agenda ahead and helping clients both comply with regulation, but also think about the design and delivery of regulation. We work closely with teams across EY delivering strategy, compliance, risk, financial crime and technology solutions.

As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, we’re using the finance products, expertise and systems we’ve developed to build a better working world. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime. And with a commitment to hiring and developing the most passionate people, we’ll make our ambition to be the best employer by 2020 a reality.

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.

Please note: Prior to finalising 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. We ask because it matters!

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with MyReward 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:

• Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around
• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you