Technology Risk - Assurance - Senior Manager

Technology Risk – Payments Assurance Senior Manager

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence. We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. Join EY and help to build a better working world.

We are a market leader across the Big-4 with significant new audit and advisory engagements across financial services clients and substantial projected revenue growth in the coming years. Our ongoing advancements in innovation and automation continue to place us ahead of our competitors. We maintain a clear focus on delivering high-quality, high-profile, multi-discipline, and multi-country projects, aiding clients in resolving their most complex IT and data challenges while prioritizing quality.

We are part of a single integrated financial services team with over 250 people in the FS UK Technology Risk team, serving some of the largest financial services institutions globally.

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.

• Establish, maintain, and strengthen relationships both internally and in the market. Be a trusted advisor to clients across various sectors (e.g., Banking and Capital Markets, Insurance and Wealth and Asset Management).
• Communicate complex messages and implement difficult decisions while building and maintaining strong relationships based on trust.
• 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.
• Demonstrate 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.
• Have responsibility for business and solution development, along with being focused on the external market, while maintaining strong client relationships and delivering exceptional client service and delivery outcomes.
• Manage multiple client teams and engagement types concurrently.

• Learn about EY, our clients, and their businesses.
• Understand the IT landscape of our clients with key focus on the payment domain and be able to assure and advise on the associated risks, including adoption of cloud, AI, and RPA.
• Coordinate, plan and deliver client engagements to identify risks, test controls and provide an opinion on the security of the clients’ IT environment.
• Establish and maintain strong relationships internally and externally, being seen as a trusted advisor to clients.
• Business development including client relationship management, proposition development, leading proposals, and supporting business development on strategic and global priority accounts.
• Excellent project management skills and experience in managing engagement economics, including budgeting, billing and fee management.
• Deliver exceptional client experience across all engagements through open and proactive communication, delivering high quality outcomes and deliverables.
• Use extensive knowledge of the client’s business/industry to identify technological developments and evaluate the risks and impacts on the client’s business.
• Build relationships with colleagues across the business, supporting them and promoting a collaborative culture and designing innovative solutions.
• Drive industry research and client thought…