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.
FSO Senior Manager Technology Change Delivery: This position could be located in NY (primary), NC, VA, PA, IL.
EY is the only professional services firm with a separate business unit (“FSO”) that is dedicated to the financial services marketplace. Our FSO teams have been at the forefront of every event that has reshaped and redefined the financial services industry. If you have a passion for rallying together to solve the most complex challenges in the financial services industry, come join our dynamic FSO team!
The opportunity
EY Financial Services is a unique, industry-focused business unit that provides a broad range of integrated services that leverage deep industry experience with strong functional capability and product knowledge. The Technology Consulting practice works with clients to analyze, formulate, design, mobilize and drive strategic transformation initiatives. We advise clients on their most pressing strategic challenges and opportunities surrounding business strategy, customer, growth, profit optimization, innovation, technology strategy, and digital transformation. We also have a unique ability to help our clients translate strategy into actionable technical design, and transformation planning/mobilization. Through our unique combination of competencies and solutions, EY’s Financial Services Technology Consulting team helps our clients sustain competitive advantage and profitability by developing strategies to stay ahead of the rapid pace of change and disruption and supporting the execution of complex transformations.
Technology Change Delivery Overview
Technology Change Delivery (TCD) is part of EY’s Global Technology Consulting competency, ?providing technology and agile transformation management services to clients with speed. TCD is comprised of 3 main competencies:
1) Agile Transformation: Agile Transformation provides customer-centric Agile transformation services by supporting leaders with designing, planning and executing their value delivery needs
2) Transformation Management (TMO): TMO helps clients to structure and govern transformation programs to achieve desired outcomes and provide business value
3) Project Management as a Service (PMaaS): PMaaS supports change delivery with experienced practitioners serving as Project Managers and Scrum Masters
Your Key Responsibilities
As a Senior Manager in the Technology Change Delivery practice, you will be responsible for managing technology solutions for a diverse set of financial services clients. This role is accountable for building business and driving thought leadership for our clients. You are also responsible for managing engagements and developing high-performing teams to drive maximum value to our clients. Senior managers are expected to work across accounts to build and maintain trusted client relationships and are experienced in driving sales in the market.
Additional responsibilities include:
+ Provide high-quality client services by directing daily progress of engagement work
+ Manage team performance and coach team members as they support engagement deliverables
+ Leading engagement economics and service quality
+ Help recruit, develop, and retain Technology Change Delivery (TCD) professionals through coaching and mentoring
+ Act as representative of the FSO and Technology Consulting practice to external audiences
+ Perform job responsibilities either in person, virtual or hybrid as required
+ Travel in accordance with client and other travel obligations
+ Be at client office or EY office 2-3 days [SER1] [LB2] [SD3] per week
Skills and attributes for success
+ Domain experience in Banking & Capital Markets, Insurance, and/or Wealth and Asset Management
+ Experience in building strong teams with a solid understanding of technology program and project management agile delivery management and IT change
+ Lead, manage, and motivate diverse teams of professionals with different backgrounds
+ Knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Project Online, Jira, Jira Align, Azure DevOps
+ Experience building dashboards in PowerBi or Tableau
+ Excellent written and oral communications skills
+ Self-starter with demonstrated ability to effectively handle multiple, competing priorities, and tight deadlines in fast-paced environment
+ Previous Big 4 or experience or equivalent
To qualify for the role you must have
Background:
+ A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems Management, Accounting, Finance, Project/Business Management, or a related field
+ A minimum of 10 years of post-bachelor’s work experience (or 8 years for Master’s degree)
+ Minimum of 6 years must be in relevant work experience at a financial services company or comparable experience working as a consultant in a professional services firm delivering advisory services
Functional & Technical Skillset:
+ Experience in roadmap development, project planning (while aligning to overall vision), milestone & dependency identification
+ Understanding of the current IT environment and industry trends to identify the engagement and client service issues
+ Broad knowledge of the IT function and how IT enables the business through effective strategic planning, governance and management discipline
+ Experience leading large scale, global and transformative programs
+ Experience in program portfolio delivery inclusive of resource alignment, governance methodology, program operating model initialization, dependency management among multiple workstreams
Consulting & Sales Skillset:
+ Ability to act as day-to-day client contact on the project engagement; and deliver executive-level presentations that drive actions and decisions
+ Experience in communicating technical study conclusions through written reports and presentations, using tools such as PowerPoint/Excel/Word/Visio/Project
+ Proven delivery skills including the ability to scope/size a project; staff a team with the appropriate skill set; provide subject matter direction to a team
+ Go-to-market experience and proven ability to generate new or additional sales
+ Ability to identify opportunities and help generate sell-on work during client engagements by understanding a range services and offerings
+ Experience in creating points of view on relevant industry trends, solutions, methodologies, and analytical frameworks and tools as well as participation in external marketing activities (publication or speaking event)
Ideally, you’ll also have
+ IT Transformation / Complex Program Management
+ E2E Enterprise System Implementations and Change Management (and associated regulatory expectations)
+ Transformation Governance and Management
+ Software Technical Delivery
+ Agile Transformation and Coaching
+ Business and IT Alignment
+ IT Systems Integration and Separation
+ IT Service / Delivery Management, including Shared Services
+ IT Cost Optimization, Budget / Financial Management and Enterprise Resource Management
+ Knowledge of standard IT methodologies and processes such as PMBOK, Prince2, Six Sigma, CMMI, product management, systems development life cycles
+ Experience using tools such as, Rally, Jira, Jira Align, ServiceNow(Strategic Portfolio Management tool (SPM)), MS Power Platform, Microsoft Project Online, Microsoft Azure DevOps (ADO), SNOW SPM, Clarity, Planview