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 IRM – 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, you have the unique opportunity to bring both functional and technical knowledge, including gaining experience delivering and leading a wide array of projects.
Your key responsibilities
As our Archer capabilities continue to grow, we are seeking a highly motivated Manager, focused on Archer architecture, design, build, and deployment, including leading end-to-end projects, developing resources/team members, and supporting pursuits/business development. 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 will lead and coach team members, both onshore and offshore, including developing both functional and technical skillsets required to address our client’s evolving needs. In addition, you will support business development activities ranging from responding to proposals to fostering relationships and setting the stage for the next phases of work or opportunities. You will be expected to Manage projects end-to-end working directly with our clients, including overseeing the day-to-day execution and interactions between our EY and client teams. 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 service delivery or as part of business development activities.
+ Foster an innovative and inclusive team-oriented work environment. You’ll play an active role in counselling and mentoring junior consultants within the firm.
+ Develop and foster relationships with client personnel at appropriate levels, including leading interactions with clients on a regular basis (e.g., workshops, meetings, interviews, status meetings, presentations).
+ 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.
+ Drive high-quality work products on your team within expected timeframes and budget.
+ 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.
+ 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.
+ Keep abreast of current business and industry trends related to both risk technology and our client’s business.
+ Demonstrate both functional and technical capabilities, professional knowledge, and ability to assimilate new knowledge.
+ Support 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 client relationships.
+ Prepare and deliver client presentation regarding an array of topics ranging from recommending solutions, discussing potential approaches, or pitching new work -working within Microsoft PowerPoint.
+ Leads and support client demonstrations of Archer and solutions – can coach the team and lead a demonstration on a solution enabled by technology (versus just demonstrating technology capabilities).
+ Contributes to the development of innovative solutions and thought leadership, and support relevant internal initiatives and networking required to go-to-market and drive growth.
To qualify for the role, you must have
+ A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, Finance, Accounting, Engineering, or a related field and 5 years of experience implementing Archer solutions/use cases.
+ Alternatively, must have a Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, Finance, Accounting, Engineering, or a related field and 4 years of work experience implementing Archer IRM solutions/use cases.
+ Certification from Archer as a Certified Administrator – Specialist or Certified Administrator – Professional. Older equivalent Archer certifications may be considered on case-by-case basis.
+ Experience leading a team to implement Archer functionality, including integrations with other systems using the Archer Data Feed Manager or API functionality.
+ Exposure and experience with Governance Risk and Compliance principl
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