Technology Risk - Assurance - Senior Manager

Technology Risk – Payments Assurance Senior Manager

Technology is at the heart of most modern organisations. As well as opening a world of opportunities, technology exposes organisations to a variety of risks. We help our clients to identify and manage these risks to protect their stakeholders. As a Senior Manager within our Technology Risk team with key focus on payment assurance, you will help our clients identify and manage their technology risks whilst simultaneously gaining skills to develop a career in a fast‑growing professional services organisation.

Working with some of the world’s most prestigious Financial Services (FS) organisations you will be an integral part of our Technology Risk team, part of Assurance Advisory within EY UK.

As a Technology Risk Senior Manager you will be an influential member of our Technology Risk team, and you will have the opportunity to work on a range of IT Assurance and Advisory projects. These include IT Payments Internal Audit, IT components of Regulatory Reviews and other assurance activities with clear focus on payments domain, Cyber assurance, Emerging Technology risk including AI, Trust in Robotics Process Automation and other controls related work within FS.

This portfolio also includes collaboration with our wider Assurance and Consulting colleagues to help clients protect their reputation by mitigating their business, financial reporting and IT risks, on a broad range of topics where design or effectiveness reviews over IT and data controls are required.

As a Senior Manager, it is essential to establish, maintain, and strengthen relationships both internally and in the market. You will be seen as a trusted advisor to your clients across various sectors (e.g. Banking and Capital Markets, Insurance and Wealth and Asset Management). You will communicate complex messages and implement difficult decisions while building and maintaining strong relationships based on trust.

You will adapt to diverse cultural and personal styles to work effectively with various differences, concerns, and motivations, fostering the creation of teams that leverage diverse skills and strengths from across the organisation. Additionally, you will demonstrate an awareness of group dynamics to promote an inclusive approach that results in timely, authentic feedback and coaching being provided to all colleagues and team members.

You will have responsibility for business and solution development, along with being focused on the external market. At the same time as maintaining strong client relationships and delivering exceptional client service and delivery outcomes you will need to manage multiple client teams and engagement types.

• Learning about EY, our clients and their businesses
• Understanding the IT landscape of our clients with key focus on payment domain and being able to assure and advise on the associated risks. This would include but is not limited to areas such as their adoption of cloud, use of Artificial Intelligence and Robotic Process Automation.
• Coordinate, plan and deliver client engagements to identify risks, test controls and provide an opinion on the security of the clients’ IT environment.
• Establishing, maintaining, and strengthening relationships both internally and in the market, to be seen as a trusted advisor to clients.
• Business development including client relationship management, proposition development and leading proposals, supporting business development activities on strategic and global priority accounts.
• Excellent project management skills and experience in managing engagement economics, including budgeting, billing and fee management.
• Delivering an exceptional client experience across all engagements, through open and proactive communication, along with high quality outcomes and deliverables.
• Using extensive knowledge of the client’s business/industry to identify technological developments and evaluate the risks and impacts on the client’s business.
• Building relationships with colleagues across the business, supporting them and promoting a collaborative culture and design innovative…