FSO Risk Consulting - Financial Services Risk Mgmt - Manager - Dublin

FSO Risk Consulting - Financial Services Risk Mgmt - Manager – Dublin

General Information

Location: Dublin

Available for VISA Sponsorship: Yes

Business Area: Financial Services Risk Management

Contract Type: Full Time - Permanent

EY is the only major professional services firm with an integrated Financial Services practice across Europe, the Middle East, India, and Africa (EMEIA). We connect our Asset Management, Banking and Capital Markets and Insurance clients to 6,500 talented people from 12 countries and 35,000 Financial Services colleagues around the world.

The Financial Services industry is undergoing significant transformation driven by rapidly evolving regulatory requirements, heightened supervisory scrutiny, technological disruption and increasing expectations around governance, risk management, and customer outcomes.

Our Financial Services Risk Consulting practice works with leading banking, insurance, asset management, and payments clients to help address these challenges through a combination of regulatory expertise, risk transformation capability, and technology-enabled solutions.

As we continue to grow, we are seeking talented professionals who combine deep technical expertise with the agility and adaptability to work across multiple risk disciplines. Successful candidates will support clients in designing, transforming, and embedding sustainable risk management capabilities while delivering meaningful business outcomes.

Our teams work across a broad range of areas including:

• Process and Controls Design, Testing and Transformation
• Risk Operating Model Design and Implementation
• Compliance and Conduct Risk
• Financial Crime, Fraud Risk and Risk Transformation
• Regulatory Change and Regulatory Transformation
• Non-Financial Risk Management
• Enterprise and Prudential Risk
• Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC)
• Operational Resilience
• Risk Data, Reporting and Analytics
• Technology-Enabled Risk Transformation

We are looking for professionals who can collaborate effectively across business, risk, compliance, operations, and technology functions and who are comfortable operating within complex and fast-changing regulatory environments.

We are seeking experienced Managers to join our growing Financial Services Risk Consulting practice. Managers will play a critical leadership role in client delivery, leading workstreams and teams while helping clients navigate increasingly complex regulatory, risk and controls challenges.

We are hiring for Managers’ across 4 key areas:

• Regulatory Transformation.
• Compliance, Conduct & Financial Crime.
• Process & Controls.
• Non-Financial Risk.

Background & opportunity:

• Managers will work across a broad range of engagements, helping clients design, implement and transform risk management capabilities while supporting the delivery of major regulatory and business transformation programmes.
• The role is suited to professionals who can combine technical knowledge with structured delivery leadership, strong stakeholder management and the ability to operate across multiple risk disciplines.
• Managers will be expected to support both delivery excellence and practice growth through quality client work, team leadership and contribution to proposals and market material.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Lead workstreams and small to medium-sized engagement teams across risk, compliance, financial crime and fraud, controls and regulatory transformation projects.
• Manage delivery of regulatory implementation, financial crime and fraud risk remediation, controls transformation, risk framework and operating model engagements.
• Design practical risk frameworks, governance models, controls environments and target-state solutions.
• Lead client workshops, stakeholder interviews, status reporting and delivery governance activities.
• Support programme mobilisation, PMO, risk and issue management and implementation planning.
• Coach and develop Senior Consultants and junior team members through review, guidance and feedback.
• Contribute to business development, proposal preparation, credentials and proposition development.

Key areas of interest:

• Process and controls design, testing, remediation and transformation.
• Compliance frameworks, conduct risk, consumer protection, financial crime and fraud risk, governance and accountability requirements.
• Regulatory implementation, remediation programmes, change delivery and transformation PMO.
• Operational risk, enterprise risk, risk appetite, risk governance and risk framework enhancement.
• Risk operating model design and technology-enabled risk transformation, including GRC, automation, workflow and analytics.

Skills and Attributes for Success

To qualify for the role, you must have:

• Typically 6 to 10 years of relevant experience within Financial Services, consulting, risk, compliance, financial crime and fraud risk, controls, assurance or transformation environments.
• Experience leading workstreams and managing small to medium-sized project teams.
• Ability to convert regulatory, risk or controls requirements into practical delivery plans and client outputs.
• Strong written, analytical and presentation skills, with the ability to produce high-quality client deliverables.
• Confident stakeholder management across risk, compliance, operations, technology and business functions.
• Awareness of technology-enabled risk transformation and an interest in applying digital solutions to improve control and risk outcomes.

Expectations & measures of success:

• Deliver high-quality workstreams on time and to a strong technical standard.
• Build trusted day-to-day client relationships and manage delivery confidence.
• Balance technical quality, commercial awareness and pace of delivery.
• Develop junior team members and create an effective team environment.
• Operate flexibly across multiple risk consulting domains while building deeper expertise in one or more priority areas.

What we look for:

• Someone who is passionate about reaching their full potential and excelling in their career
• Someone with energy, enthusiasm and courage who enjoys solving complex problems and variety in their day-to-day working life
• Someone who enjoys working as part of a community which values integrity, respect, teaming, and inclusiveness

What working at EY offers

We offer a competitive remuneration package. 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:

• Support and coaching from some of the most engaging colleagues around
• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you

All our employees are given a benefits package which they can tailor to suit their individual preferences. Our range of benefits include:

• Pension
• Discounted Health Insurance
• Web Doctor – Free unlimited online GP Consultations for you and your family
• The purchase of additional annual leave
• Hybrid Working
• Free Gym Membership
• Travel Pass
• Maternity & Paternity Leave
• Bike to Work Scheme
• Recognition Awards
• Cash incentives for Referrals
• Work Mobile
• Tech MBA paid by EY
• Wellness rooms are available in some offices

EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We strive to achieve the right balance for our people, enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities. While our client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites, our flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a lifestyle balance.

Career Progression:

• When you join EY, you will be supported to ensure that you are enhancing your skills from day one.
• Continuous learning, where you can develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• As you grow and develop here, you’ll discover opportunities to help customise your career journey, so that it’s as unique as you are - success is defined by you, we will provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership, we will give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture, you will be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.
• We have embraced Hybrid working at EY, adding greater flexibility and autonomy to the roles of our employees.

About EY

As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction, and advisory services, we are using the finance products, expertise, and systems we have developed to build a better working world. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities, and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime.

Inclusion & Diversity

We hold a collective commitment to foster an environment where all differences are valued and respected, practices are equitable and everyone experiences a sense of belonging: Inclusion, diversity, and equity are part of who we are at EY. We believe that the highest-performing teams maximize the power of different perspectives and backgrounds. These teams are both diverse and inclusive and are willing to invite and learn from other perspectives. Our ability to include various viewpoints into our mindsets, behaviours and operations is fundamental to driving innovation, building strong relationships, and delivering the best solutions for our clients.

We recognise the strength that comes from having a diverse workforce and building a culture where we support all our people to achieve their potential. You will be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. Reasonable accommodations are offered at every stage of our recruitment process.

Are you ready to shape your future with confidence? Apply today.

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If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

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