COMPLETE Senior Consultant (Tech Background) - Financial Services Business Consulting - Transformation Exec

Job Description

The opportunity

The EY Business Consulting team offers a broad range of functional and cross-country services dedicated to providing trusted advice to clients in the Financial Services industry across Wealth & Asset Management (WAM), Banking and Capital Markets (BCM) and Insurance sectors. The Financial Services industry is experiencing tremendous change in its technology landscape. This is an exciting time to join an evolving team and help our clients navigate the changing market and add value to their clients. As a Senior Consultant in our Transformation Execution Practice, you will pursue exciting transformation in WAM, BCM and insurance initiatives related to technology and design, plan, and deliver technology-enabled solutions for our clients.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Pursuing exciting business-led, tech-enabled transformation initiatives across the Financial Services sector
• Taking responsibility and leading the delivery of project streams and internal initiatives
• Collaborating with key stakeholders, business partners, and multi-disciplinary teams to help shaping ideas and designing solutions which leverage technology as a competitive advantage
• Applying storytelling skills and presenting recommendations to our clients in a clear and analytical manner
• Leveraging and further developing our global EY methodologies, frameworks, tools, accelerators, and enablers for a range of transformation goals
• Preparing and driving internal- and external topic roundtables and thought leadership sessions related to business-led, technology-enabled transformation
• Co-hosting events & preparing targeted client communications
• Helping to drive go-to-market and business development initiatives to continuously provide valuable solutions for our clients in a technology-enabled space

Skills And Attributes For Success

• You have fresh ideas, an innovative mind and have a strong desire to structure and solve problems
• You have at least 3 years of hands-on experience in a technology-driven setting (e.g., as a developer, solution architect, business analyst), are up to date with new technology trends and how they are re-shaping the financial services sector
• Bachelor’s or advanced graduate university degree (Master’s, MBA, PhD) in a STEM discipline (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), with evidence of excellent academic achievement
• Have an affinity for technology and a good technical understanding
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience in any of the following topics is considered a strong plus: Automation, Data Analytics, AI, Blockchain;
• Fluency in German and English is mandatory, Swiss German and any other language is a plus.

Ideally you will also have:

• Experience in TOM (target operating model) design and process improvements driven by technology transformation within different functions of the Financial Services industry
• Business Analysis and Requirements Engineering
• Experience in working with Agile and Design Thinking methodologies
• Experience in UX (user experience) design and review
• Project management experience in technology transformation projects, including the ability to recognize and track dependencies among projects and/or streams
• Experience in any of the following topics: Blockchain, systems integration, data modelling & architecture, API design, Robotic Process Automation
• Experience and/or interest in leading a small team as part of a project stream