Senior Consultant, Digital Assets, FinTech

Digital assets in the UK are entering a more practical phase, moving beyond pilots towards real products, operating models and market infrastructure. That shift is creating important strategic choices for financial institutions across banking, markets, payments, wealth and asset management. It's creating phenomenal market momentum and transformation potential.

Within EY's Financial Services FinTech team, we're looking to expand our team to help clients navigate this transition and turn momentum into tangible outcomes. You will contribute to the delivery of high profile and complex engagements across a wide range of financial services clients.

The opportunity at EY is to help shape the future of financial services by bringing together the best of FinTech innovation, deep sector knowledge, strategic relationships and transformational delivery capabilities. Digital assets are increasingly moving from experimentation toward practical application across financial services, creating new opportunities and strategic choices for firms across banking, capital markets, payments, wealth and asset management, and insurance.

Clients are exploring how digital assets and related technologies can support new products, new operating models, enhanced infrastructure, and more efficient movement, servicing and custody of assets and money. Against this backdrop, EY is continuing to invest in its FinTech and Digital Assets propositions. We are looking for a Senior Consultant to help develop our market position in this space, with a particular focus on digital assets from a product, innovation and commercialisation perspective.

You will sit within the Financial Services FinTech team, working closely with leadership across Banking & Capital Markets, Wealth & Asset Management, Insurance and Payments, as well as colleagues from strategy, risk, technology, operations, tax and regulatory teams. You will play a leading role in helping clients understand where digital assets are becoming relevant, how they translate into business value, and what it takes to execute effectively.

Your key responsibilities include:

• Conducting market assessments, peer benchmarking and trends identification to define the status quo.
• Performing current state analysis and gap assessments to reach target state, including identifying and implementing remediation actions.
• Developing current state and future state target operating and commercial model designs.
• Defining the product roadmap, including the definition of the vision, business benefits and use cases.
• Supporting the development of business and technical requirements for product development.
• Supporting the implementation of new products and/or platforms.
• Leading workstreams within complex, multidisciplinary engagements spanning strategy, risk, regulation, technology, transformation and operations, ensuring high-quality delivery and strong client outcomes.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams (technology, regulatory, compliance) to deliver holistic client solutions.

We are looking for individuals with a combination of the following:

• Experience in digital assets, ideally with exposure to areas such as tokenisation, stablecoins, digital custody, blockchain-enabled payments, market infrastructure, digital asset servicing, or broader blockchain-enabled financial products.
• A strong understanding of how digital assets intersect with the priorities of financial institutions, including growth, product innovation, distribution, operating model change, infrastructure modernisation, risk management and regulatory evolution.
• Experience leading complex transformation, innovation or strategy work within financial services, FinTech, digital assets, market infrastructure or consulting.

To qualify for the role you should ideally have:

• Experience delivering complex strategic, innovation or transformation work for major financial services clients.
• Experience gained in one or more of the following environments: a leading consulting firm, a financial institution, a FinTech or digital assets firm, a market infrastructure, exchange, custody or platform business.
• Exposure to digital asset platforms, exchanges, custodians, or fintechs.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• A constructive and action-oriented approach.
• A self-starting attitude with the ability to think and act quickly.
• Experience of operating in a project-based environment.

We are seeking professionals with good knowledge of DLT and digital assets processes and products, to join our growing team to build our business and support our clients build more resilient, efficient and profitable businesses. We are looking for a proactive problem solver with:

• Strong analytical capabilities.
• An ability to operate in ambiguous and rapidly evolving environments.
• Commercial awareness and the ability to link insights to business value.
• A passion for innovation in financial services and digital assets.

We offer an attractive remuneration package where you'll be rewarded for your performance. 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.
• 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.