Senior Consultant - Ernst & Young in Belfast

At EY, we're all in to shape your future with confidence. We'll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. Join EY and help to build a better working world.

The opportunity

Our TD team sits within the Business Consulting pillar of EY's Consulting practice. With a clear purpose of 'building a better working world', EY's TD team is committed to delivering exceptional client services across a range of sectors, including the public sector (particularly health), energy and utilities, financial services and telco.

In EY, our approach to delivering exceptional programme/project management and transformation services for our clients is underpinned by three defining features of our approach:

• Purpose-led Transformation: Having shifted to becoming a purpose led organisation in 2013, we, at EY, have seen the benefits of purpose-led transformation for ourselves. And we are now using this proven approach to inform our client engagements.
• Collaborative teamwork: In TD, we take a very proactive approach to ensuring that our teams are 'more than the sum of the parts' and that all members of the team are supported in their career development and progression.
• Delivering exceptional client service: EY's Service Quality tools are designed to provide a process of continuous improvement, using a portfolio of tools and enablers designed to support the Consulting Strategy by embedding service quality into delivery of all of our engagements.

Your key responsibilities

• Supporting consistent delivery of high-quality project deliverables on time and within budget.
• Managing and monitoring project logs, including project plans, risk and issue logs, project budgets, resource plans, etc.
• Developing and updating project reports, including status reports.
• Supporting development of clear, high-quality work products for clients (with guidance).
• Helping to shape creative and innovative solutions to address client business and technology issues.
• Assisting in managing financial aspects of engagements by organising staffing, tracking fees and communicating issues to project leaders.
• Communicating effectively with the EY engagement team, the client and internal and external stakeholders, as required.
• Working confidently with clients, to support building 'trusted advisor' relationships.

Skills and attributes for success

• Experience in a management consultancy or similar advisory role in industry or the public sector.
• Project Management experience of supporting projects, programmes and transformations, including supporting with project planning and monitoring, resource management (including project finances), benefits realisation, etc.;
• A strong academic record including a third level degree, preferably in a business, technology or project management related area.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills including Word, Excel, Project.
• Good understanding of project governance and change management principles.
• Experience of working across our focus sectors (government; health, utilities; transport; and telco) is desirable.
• Additional professional qualifications, such as Prince2®, PMP or equivalent qualifications are desirable.
• You must have full working rights to work in Ireland to be considered for this role.

What we look for

We're interested in candidates with a genuine creative vision and the confidence to make it happen. You can expect plenty of autonomy in this role, so you'll also need the ability to take initiative and seek out opportunities to improve our current relationships and processes. If you're serious about auditing and ready to take on some of our clients' most complex issues, this role is for you.