Senior Consultant - Regulatory Insights

Overview

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Senior Consultant, Regulatory Insights

EY's Financial Services practice is a unique industry-focused business unit that provides a broad range of integrated services to financial institutions and other capital markets participants, including banks, insurers and asset managers. We also work extensively with governments and regulators around the world. EY UK’s Regulatory Insight Team operates across EMEIA and Globally to provide deep regulatory expertise. Our aim is to deliver the latest in regulatory thinking to clients in the UK and internationally.

Our objective is to be market leading in the space where strategy, regulation and technology come together, looking at the regulatory agenda ahead and helping clients both comply with regulation, but also think about the design and delivery of regulation. We work closely with teams across EY delivering strategy, compliance, risk, financial crime and technology solutions. The team reports to Christopher Woolard CBE, who is a partner at EY, EMEIA consulting leader for financial regulation and Chairs EY’s Global Regulatory Network.

Christopher was interim CEO at the Financial Conduct Authority and also served on the Bank of England Financial Policy Committee, IOSCO Board and FSB Strategic Risk Committee.

• You will be expected to provide support to senior leadership as the team covers the regulatory waterfront across both conduct and prudential.
• As a Senior Consultant within the Regulatory Insights Team, typical engagements you can expect to be involved in designing or reviewing:
• Developing long-term views of the strategic direction of regulation
• Changing regulation (eg Duty of Care, Insurance pricing)
• Innovative business models and fit with regulation
• Developing regulatory models overseas
• Approach to climate change, ESG
• Senior manager appointments
• Approaches to authorisation
• Rapid communications for clients on changes to regulation

The successful candidate will be expected to:

• Play an important role in the delivery of our engagements to clients undertaking investigations and articulating EY findings, conclusions and recommendations in writing or verbally
• Support engagement leaders to deliver key projects on a day to day basis
• Work on client site, managing teams where required
• Analyse any potential emerging issues, support the development of an EY point of view and work with client facing teams to develop an EY proposition
• Help build proposals in response to new client opportunities
• Work effectively as a team member sharing responsibility, providing support and updating senior members on progress
• We are looking for individuals who have a proactive attitude and are seeking the opportunity for personal and professional growth.

• Knowledge and experience of regulation
• Outstanding communication skills as well as commercial awareness
• Project management experience
• Ability to work in a client facing and consulting role, with the ability to build networks and relationships
• There will be opportunity to travel in this role and to work across borders

Experience of working as a regulator, trade body, in regulatory affairs or regulatory consulting in another Advisory firm

• Up to date knowledge of the regulatory environment

• Strong written and verbal communication skills for report writing and client presentations
• Ability to prioritise and challenge

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 MyReward 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, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues…