Risk Consulting - Archer - Senior Manager - Multiple Locations

at EY in Chicago, Illinois, United States

Job Description

EY focuses on high-ethical standards and integrity among its employees and expects all candidates to demonstrate these qualities. At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.

Risk Technology – Archer – Senior Manager (Open Location)

The risk landscape is continuously changing due to market volatility, geopolitical crises, widespread economic changes, regulatory reforms, and cyber threats. Organizations are increasingly seeking to establish, mature, and optimize risk and compliance activities to manage risk more efficiently and effectively, including providing greater visibility to risks – enabling decision-making. In addition, organizations are focused on realizing greater value out of their risk and compliance functions and driving efficiencies/cost savings. However, clients continue to struggle with utilizing available technology capabilities, including risk technology, to automate and enable their programs, or to achieve integrated risk management (IRM) – connecting processes and data required to manage risk and compliance. As a member of Risk Technology, you will help our clients assess, design/architect, and implement technology solutions to optimize their risk and compliance programs across risk disciplines (e.g., integrated risk management, enterprise risk management, IT risk management, cyber risk management, third party risk management, internal controls, compliance, internal audit). You will have the opportunity to serve as a Risk Technology consultant, bringing both functional and technical knowledge well-sought after by our clients – both addressing their needs as well as bringing insights to help them achieve their business objectives.

The opportunity

The ability to grow both personally and professionally as a result of working for a global, multi-disciplinary consulting firm in which you will have the opportunity to work across sectors, competencies, and with resources of a diverse background to solve our clients’ challenges or realize their business objectives. As a Risk Technology consultant and Senior Manager, you have the unique opportunity to bring both functional and technical knowledge, including gaining experience pursuing and leading a wide array of projects. In addition, you will have the ability to develop and foster client relationships at senior levels of an organization, critical to our account centric approach and your personal growth. These types of relationships, often at the c-suite or board levels, provide a significant opportunity to develop your career and brand along with directly contributing to the growth of EY.

Your key responsibilities

As our Archer capabilities continue to grow, we are seeking a highly motivated Senior Manager, focused on Archer architecture, design, build, and deployment, including leading business development activities, developing internal, client and alliance relationships, driving the delivery of engagements, and developing our EY and client teams. You will work with multi-disciplinary team members, within Risk Technology and across other competencies, to help clients automate and mature their risk and compliance programs utilizing Archer. You develop teams, both onshore and offshore, including developing both functional and technical skillsets required to address our client’s evolving needs. In addition, you will lead business development activities ranging from responding to proposals to fostering relationships and setting the stage for the next phases of work or opportunities – thinking ahead and helping the client think about what’s next in their journey. You will be expected to regularly engage with clients, including working with project leads/sponsors as well as client executives. You will also work with our alliance teams and partners to drive go-to-market activities, including developing your and EY’s brand in the marketplace. As EY is a global leading professional services organization, you will be working with talented individuals and within a culture built on teaming, integrity, and collaboration, and for however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime.

Skills and attributes for success

+ Strong project management skills to effectively lead a project from start to finish, including directly interacting with client teams and leading and motivating our EY team members.

+ Proactively engages with EY team members and clients in as part of business development and service delivery, including working with account teams, competency leads, and alliance partners.

+ Foster an innovative and inclusive team-oriented work environment. You’ll play an active role in counselling and mentoring junior consultants within the firm – and helping identify the skillsets required in respond to changing client needs.

+ Develop and foster relationships with client personnel at appropriate levels – should be able to develop and own relationships, including driving client centricity and bringing relevant insights.

+ Consistently deliver quality client services, execute engagement quality, and risk management processes, monitor progress, manage risk, and make certain that key stakeholders are kept informed about progress and expected outcomes.

+ Manage your engagement economics, including meeting client expectations and milestones in line with budget (and comfortable having conversations regarding economics and scope).

+ Advise, challenge, and bring relevant insights to clients regarding:

+ Archer solutions, use cases, and functionality, including experience from working with other clients.

+ Archer industry practices and roadmaps – where the technology capabilities are headed and address our clients’ evolving needs and objectives – and connect that back to their own objectives (and business objectives).

+ How Archer and other risk technology capabilities fit into a client’s ecosystem (e.g., architecture, integrations).

+ Enabling risk and compliance processes utilizing risk technology capabilities (e.g., GRC, analytics, emerging tech).

+ Risk technology solution architecture, including how Archer capabilities can support or connect with both upstream and downstream processes (as an example, procurement processes connecting to third party risk processes).

+ Delivery models, including adjusting to or enabling a client’s preferred development life cycle (e.g., agile).

+ Supporting risk technology capabilities post go-live, whether transitioning to the client or positioning EY to provide ongoing support as part of a co-source or managed services delivery model.

+ Providing feedback to clients as to their options in solving a problem or achieving a desired outcome, including potentially communicating or challenging their thinking to get to the best outcome.

+ Challenging a client’s requirements and helping them connect dots across other areas of the organization they may not be considering – helping both EY and the client be ahead of the game.

+ Keep abreast of current business and industry trends related to both risk technology and our client’s business.

+ Engage with EY account teams and other leaders/competencies delivering services on accounts, including identifying ways to drive adjacent opportunities or pull in other capabilities helping to our clients.

+ Demonstrate both functional and technical capabilities, professional knowledge, and ability to assimilate new knowledge.

+ Lead business development activities, including responding to proposals, developing level of effort/pricing estimates, contributing to or directly writing statements of work/change orders, and building cli