Senior Manager, Banking & Capital Markets Platforms (Capital Markets focused)

Senior Manager, Banking & Capital Markets Platforms (Capital Markets focused)

Our UK Capital Markets technology and data capability helps our investment banking clients to deliver complex business and regulatory transformation, enabled by technology.

The Opportunity

EY’s Banking and Capital Markets clients are continuously responding to the multitude of demands on their middle and back offices – this includes client onbarding, post trade transformation (in the light of the shift to T+1 settlement and the move to clear US treasury products centrally), risk, regulatory and compliance.

 In order to complement our market reading Risk and Transformation practices, EY is rapidly scaling the data and technology skills needed to support effective delivery of post trade, risk and regulatory-driven transformation.

 In recent years we have helped investment banks improve their compliance with regulations such as the Basel 3 Regulatory Framework, FRTB, BCBS 239 and Trade and Transaction Reporting. Elsewhere, we are also supporting retail and corporate banks to respond effectively to regulations such as T+1 settlement and client onboarding.

 Data and technology is central to all of the above – and increasingly firms are looking to emerging technologies such as Generative AI to accelerate the pace of delivery and improve the outcomes they can achieve.

 While we predominantly serve the UK market, our clients are global, and we collaborate extensively with our fellow capital markets teams in EMEIA, the US and APAC

 We come at transformation problems in the following ways with respect to technology: 

• We are highly skilled at delivering and overseeing large scale technology change – from inception and requirements definition through to operational readiness. We prefer an agile methodology but are happy to work in whatever ways our clients demand. 

• We are increasingly bringing technology assets to clients to help accelerate transformation.. Our technology assets include proprietary EY tools as well as best-of-breed vendor tools. 

• We deploy team members from on-shore, near-shore and off-shore teams, and often work alongside our major alliance partners, such as Microsoft, ServiceNow, and Snowflake. Increasingly we collaborate with FinTech firms too. 

• We are passionate about keeping pace with the latest emerging technology. We have recently invested in senior hires in Cloud, Digital, Intelligent Automation and AI. But we aren’t interested in technology for the sake of technology – we combine the tech mindset with EY’s deep business and regulatory knowledge in order to deploy technology intelligently to solve business problems. 

• We are always mindful of the role we and our clients play in relation to long term sustainability and the drive to help financial services become a low carbon industry. We are already advising clients on sustainability and the enabling role that data and technology play.

We are looking for a Senior Manager to join our team due to high demand and expected growth.

Your Key Responsibilities

There are multiple aspects of the role:

• Business development; building and sustaining content-lead, deep senior client relationships within front, middle and back office functions of our clients. Whether we are responding urgently in a time of crisis, or carefully shaping a multi-year transformation, you will develop the strength of relationship that places EY “top of mind” at our major clients. 

• Engagement delivery; as a Senior Manager, you could be accountable for large scale delivery, or a subject matter resource as part of a broader team. You will bring technical expertise, and deep domain knowledge, and a mindset that can solve complex challenges. 

• Solution Development; you will use your data and technology domain expertise to help shape proprietary EY solutions and solutions that we co-develop with our alliance partners. 

• People leadership; you will be the type of person that continually expands their following, developing and growing junior people to become the superstars of the future.

Commercial and interpersonal skills 

• Ability to rapidly build rapport with MD and ED-level clients within middle office, back office, data and technology functions. You will likely have multiple senior client relations across a number of leading banks. 

• Ability to flex communication style from the simple to the technical, depending on the nature of senior stakeholders in the audience. 

• Ability to shape and create technology strategy and business cases for large scale transformation 

• Ability to lead and inspire teams and take accountability for delivery 

• Ability to demonstrate strong collaboration across a wide spectrum of colleagues, including internationally. A proven track record of working with offshore teams is essential. 

• High level of drive, commitment to achieving solutions and ability to work under pressure 

• Intellectual strength / flexibility to rapidly understand complex problems, apply critical thinking, and rationalise these into workable solutions which can then be delivered 

• Appreciation of EY’s solutions / go to market abilities and how these service client needs 

• A demonstrable commitment to diversity and inclusiveness

Banking & Capital Markets risk skills

• Good understanding of Front, Middle and Back Office functions within investment banks.

• Strong product knowledge, with the ability to face off to risk and front office functions in particular 

• Experience of working with Risk stakeholders within Risk Transformation programmes. Some knowledge of Basel 3 Framework, Basel IV, CRR II / CRD V, FRTB, IRRBB and Liquidity Risk would be valuable 
• Experience of working with Ops and Tech stakeholders within post trade transformation programmes. Knowledge of T+1 settlement, US Treasury Clearing and cost take-out techniques will be beneficial.

• A demonstrable interest in the digitisation of investment banks

• Understanding of the capital markets ecosystem (sell side, buy side, FMIs, service providers, vendors) 

• A point of view on how the investment banking industry will continue to evolve and how the technology, innovation and FinTech landscape will shape the future

Technical skills 

• Large scale programme delivery (Agile, DevOps, waterfall) – SCRUM qualifications would be beneficial. Robust understanding of the System Delivery Life Cycle. 

• Risk architecture experience – either as a divisional, enterprise or solution architect. 

• Data architecture, data lineage and all aspects of AI including, but not limited to, NLP, ML, deep learning and Generative AI 

• Experience of overseeing agile delivery using tools such as JIRA, Pivotal, Collab, Confluence 

• Experience of overseeing engineering based on the likes of SQL, SSIS, Python, Java, Scala, XML/FpML and Power BI 

• Cloud technology (knowledge of any or all of Azure, AWS and Google would be beneficial) 

• Experience of handling information security and privacy challenges 

• Interest and awareness in emerging technologies 

• Experience of front office/risk vendor packages, e.g. Murex. 

• An appreciation of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Academic and prior experience 

• A university degree, 2:1 (or equivalent) or above is usually preferred, however we would be open to outstanding candidates who may have followed an alternative academic path.

What we look for 

We are interested to hear from people with the right attitude for the job! That’s naturally curious and innovative people that feed on the energy of a thriving global team. You’ll need a balance of technical and analytical skills, a creative approach to work and strong communication skills. If you’ve got big ideas on how we can do better, this role is for you.

What working at EY offers

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team 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.

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

Join us in building a better working world. 

Apply now.

Please note: Prior to finalising your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness. The information you provide is kept entirely confidential and will not be used to evaluate your candidacy. We collect this data to help us analyse our recruitment process holistically and implement actions that promote diversity and inclusiveness. While optional, we encourage you to provide this information to hold us accountable towards our goal of building a better working world. We ask because it matters!

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