Overview
Senior Consultant, Operational Resilience, Financial Services – EY
Join EY to help build a better working world. EY focuses on high ethical standards and integrity, with a global scale, support, inclusive culture, and opportunities to develop your career in a diverse, collaborative environment.
Your Role
The role is primarily focused on the development, delivery and assurance of operational and digital resilience programmes and related disciplines. This includes helping clients understand and navigate UK and international resilience-related regulations (e.g., UK FCA/PRA Operational Resilience, Digital Operational Resilience Act). You will support the delivery of resilience programmes and foundational resilience disciplines such as business continuity, crisis management and testing. You will lead teams or parts of teams on engagements of varying sizes under guidance, anticipate delivery risks, and coach junior team members to support their professional development. You will model EY values in your leadership.
Your Key Responsibilities
* Working across a portfolio of engagements with financial services clients, reporting to a Manager or Senior Manager. Responsibilities include:
* Supporting clients in developing and enhancing resilience frameworks and capabilities.
* Helping clients understand regulatory requirements.
* Conducting resilience assessments, gap analyses, impact tolerance assessments and tests to identify single points of failure and develop remediation roadmaps.
* Facilitating simulation exercises and providing training to client teams.
* Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure a holistic approach to resilience.
* Evaluating and implementing measures and controls to meet regulatory requirements in diverse client environments.
* Staying current with regulatory changes, industry best practices, and contributing to thought leadership and business development.
* Assisting in overseeing project metrics by organizing staffing, tracking budget, and communicating risks and dependencies to project leaders.
Skills And Attributes For Success
You will have a broad background across resilience and business continuity with interest in areas such as:
* Resilience regulatory requirements around business services/critical functions, mapping testing and managing vulnerabilities.
* Business continuity management and impact assessments.
* Governance frameworks, processes, and controls design and implementation.
* Incident and crisis management policies, procedures, and practice.
* Information security and non-financial operational risk requirements and frameworks.
* OCIR/RRP; security policies and controls aligned with regulation and/or ISO standards.
* Data privacy and GDPR programme implementation.
Qualifications
To qualify for the role, you must have:
* Strong academic record with a relevant undergraduate degree.
* Experience in a relevant industry (desirable: 12+ months in resilience, continuity or cyber).
* A passion for collaborating with a team and clients to solve complex problems.
Additional Requirements (Desirable)
* Experience in Financial Services, Consulting, Government Organisations or Military.
* Experience in resilience, business continuity, IT service continuity, crisis management, risk management, IT audit, incident management and response, third-party risk management and related areas.
* Resilience/continuity related qualifications (e.g., CBCI/AMBCI/MBCI, ISO22301 auditor, ISO27001 auditor).
* Project/programme qualifications (Prince II, Scrum, Agile).
* Information security and/or risk qualifications (CRISC, CISSP, CISA or equivalents).
What We Look For
We seek professionals who build technical expertise and demonstrate collaboration and innovation. A Big 4 or comparable consulting background is helpful; EY provides ongoing training and support. If you are motivated to help businesses thrive and build a safer, more resilient world, this role is for you.
What Working At EY Offers
* Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career.
* Flexibility to handle your role in a way that suits you.
* Excellent training and development prospects through programmes and on-the-job learning.
* Support, coaching and feedback from collaborative colleagues.
* A strong team of senior colleagues to manage workload and support your growth.
* International, diverse, and inclusive work environment.
* Competitive remuneration with a Total Rewards package including flexible benefits.
Way Of Working
EY is committed to inclusion and flexible working arrangements. Client-facing professionals may travel and be based at client sites, with flexibility to balance personal priorities while delivering excellent client service.
Company Information
EY | Building a better working world. Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence across assurance, consulting, tax, and strategy and transactions in more than 150 countries.
Seniority level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Finance and Sales
Industries
* Professional Services
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