Digital Asset Risk and Control Specialist

Digital Asset Risk and Control Specialist

The opportunity
We are looking for a Manager to join our Oceania Technology Risk team, with the purpose of increasing our team’s ability to support a growing need to provide both assurance and non-assurance procedures over digital asset product offerings. This opportunity is offered on a flexible full-time basis at any of EY’s offices across Australia. We would be particularly stoked to have women apply for this role. 

You will work within the Digital Asset team to help our clients who are adopting blockchains, investing in digital assets, building platform services such as exchanges and custody solutions, and Stablecoin issuers. Your role will be to enhance their security posture, mature their risk and controls framework in line with emerging regulation, leading practices and industry frameworks. You will work across a spectrum of fintech, crypto natives, regulated financial institutions and traditional industries who are adopting the technology across their business operations. 

This role can be performed from any of our EY offices across Australia. Our roles can potentially be adjusted to work flexibly with reduced hours. Please speak with us about potential options.

Your key responsibilities

This is an exciting period in the adoption of the technology with incoming regulation set to provide certainty for companies who’ve been sitting on the sidelines. You will have the opportunity to build on your strong Risk and Control skills and enthusiasm for digital assets by working with some of the most innovative companies and vendors within Oceania and globally through EY’s global blockchain network. You will be given all the skills, knowledge, and exciting learning opportunities to build your career, and the chance to make a real impact. 

You will: 

• Help clients identify, assess, and manage technology, operational, and regulatory risks arising from blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) implementations. Your primary focus will be on designing and evaluating control frameworks, governance models, and risk mitigation strategies for digital asset products
• Translate blockchain security risks into business, regulatory, and operational impacts for executive stakeholders. 
• Align blockchain implementations with regulatory and compliance frameworks (e.g. ISO 27001, NIST, SOC 2, financial services regulations). 
• Support clients with custody, digital asset governance, and operational resilience models. 
• Contribute to internal and client-facing security policies, standards, and control frameworks.
• Lead client workshops, system reviews, process walkthroughs and executive briefings. 
• Support proposal development, solution shaping, and delivery oversight. 
• Mentor junior consultants and contribute to firm-wide blockchain risk and control capability development.

Skills and attributes for success

• Strong background in security architecture (application, cloud, or infrastructure).
• Hands-on experience with EVM based blockchain protocols.
• Experience configuring and working with major digital asset custody platform architectures, such as MPC, Multi-Sig, HSM
• Experience developing or performing security audits on Smart Contracts and virtual machines (Solidity / EVM preferred).
• Experiencing hardening wallets, custody models, and key management systems (KMS, HSMs).
• Experience securing cloud-native architectures (AWS, Azure, GCP) in blockchain contexts.
• Knowledge of development tools within the EVM stack (Solidity, Web3.js, JS, Truffle/Hardhat, etc).
• A strong academic record, including a degree (preferably a master’s degree) focussed on technology, i.e., Computer Science, Software Engineer, etc.

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. 

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

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