Senior Consultant - Financial Services Risk Consulting

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Senior Consultant - Financial Services - Risk Consulting

The opportunity

You will engage with a range of leading financial services clients across various sectors, including insurance, superannuation, and banking, providing you with a broad spectrum of experiences. Utilising cutting-edge tools and artificial intelligence, you'll assess and improve the adequacy, efficiency, and effectiveness of clients' operational processes, controls, activities, policies, and systems. You'll tap into EY's extensive global network to discover and implement solutions that address our clients' most pressing challenges and assist them on their paths to transformation.

Your key responsibilities

• Guide clients in understanding and managing their business risks, ensuring the reliability of their business information.
• Deliver internal audit services that align with and support the client's overall business strategy, including assessments, diagnostics, internal audit transformations, and providing outsourcing or co-sourcing services.
• Advise clients on risk management, identifying, measuring, and analysing operational or enterprise risks.
• Examine new legislation to assess its impact on the client's risk exposure and assist clients in addressing compliance, financial, and operational risks.
• Conduct internal control testing, develop comprehensive internal audit plans, and offer internal audit services that adapt to the needs of the client.
• Evaluate the client's existing internal controls to identify and mitigate potential risks.

What we look for 

• Proficient in key business processes, risks, controls, and internal auditing techniques such as process walkthroughs, risk analysis, and control testing within the Financial Services environment.
• Capable of fostering relationships with colleagues to promote a collaborative culture and with clients to gain insights into their businesses.
• Experienced in applying structured project management and documentation, with knowledge of risk-based internal audit methodologies.
• Skilled in leading teams and clients in creating and executing internal audit plans that meet professional standards and objectives.
• Expert in advising clients on managing business risks, ensuring the validity of business information, and maintaining client service quality.
• Keeps abreast of assurance industry trends and updates the team on the client’s internal audit environment, focusing on compliance, financial, operational, and strategic risks.
• Professional accreditations and qualifications will also be considered favourably but not essential (CPA, CISA, CA, CIA, CISM, CISSP, CBCP, CIPP)

What we offer you

At EY, we’ll fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learn more. 

• Career development: At EY, your career is yours to shape! We’ll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences ey.com/au/careerdevelopment 
• Flexible work arrangements: Our flexible work policies empower you to balance your professional and personal life, fostering a culture of trust and autonomy.
• A comprehensive benefits package: From a yearly wellness incentive, to access to additional 8 weeks of flex leave per year, and family-friendly policies, including 26 weeks of gender-neutral paid parental leave, we cater to your diverse needs to help you thrive both personally and professionally www.ey.com/au/benefits    
• Salary: We offer a competitive salary which is open to negotiation pending on skills and experience.

Acknowledgement of Country

EY acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands on which EY offices are located around Australia. We pay our respects to their cultures, and to their Elders — past, present, and emerging. Find out more about our vision for reconciliation at ey.com/en_au/careers/indigenous 

Diversity, equity, and inclusiveness (DE&I) are core to who we are, how we work and how we live our values. We encourage applications from people of all ages, nationalities, abilities, cultures, sexual orientations, and gender identities and are committed to providing an equitable and barrier free recruitment experience for all. We encourage you to share any support and adjustments you need to be your best and participate equitably in our recruitment process. We understand sharing your needs with us can be daunting, so if you have questions before or during your application, we welcome you to get in touch at contactrecruitment@au.ey.com or +61 3 8650 7788 (option 2). Anything you tell us will be kept completely confidential. 

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