Technology Consulting, Financial Services, Senior - Risk Technology

Job description

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.

Technology Consulting, Financial Services, Senior – Risk Technology

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!

We help leading financial institutions in the world stay ahead of key regulatory requirements in the Banking and Capital Markets, Asset Management, Insurance spaces and Private Equity spaces and provide integrated advisory, assurance, tax and transaction services.

We aim to deliver industry leading regulatory and technology insights to help our clients mitigate risks to their business. At EY, we hire professionals from around the world who have a diverse range of financial services, regulatory and technology backgrounds. This allows us to provide a broad range of advisory services in areas such as financial crimes, consumer compliance, regulatory transformation, traded products and wealth management.

You’ll get to work on cutting edge disruptive technologies and assist with building and implementing new technology solutions and products to address challenges faced by the banking industry.

The opportunity

We have multiple opportunities available in both our Financial Crimes and Financial Risk Technology teams.

As a member of the Financial Crimes Technology Consulting team, you’ll assist global financial services firms with technology improvement in a broad range of regulatory compliance areas. You’ll be assisting initiatives that provide strategic enhancement of IT systems or operational processes supporting financial crimes and fraud risk management. You’ll be in a client facing role focused on delivery of regulatory remediation, process and technology improvement, and delivering insights to our clients through enabling technologies in anti-money laundering (AML), sanctions, and fraud.

As a member of the Financial Risk Technology team, you’ll help clients manage credit, market and liquidity risk across regions and regulatory regimes. We provide full lifecycle services to enable the implementation of best practice risk management processes and systems. We help clients respond to emerging risk and regulatory developments through implementing agile methodologies.

The Risk Technology practice focus areas include Credit risk technology solutions, Treasury risk technology solutions, and Trading and market risk technology solutions.

Your key responsibilities

You will work with the team to deliver strategic enhancement of IT systems or operational processes supporting regulatory compliance within financial services firms. You and your team will interact with clients to gain in-depth understanding of our clients’ unique needs and goals, and focus on delivery of regulatory remediation, process and technology improvement, and provide insights to our clients through enabling technologies. You’ll implement technology performance improvement using deep subject matter knowledge to address specific business concerns involving fraud prevention, detection and implementation. You’ll also be involved in fraud risk assessments, process improvement, data analytics, and fraud system implementation.

Skills and attributes for success

• Able to work as a team with technology consultants through all phases of project life-cycle
• Understand emerging issues, industry trends, regulations and new technologies relevant to financial crimes regulatory compliance
• Demonstrate deep technical capabilities and professional knowledge along with the ability to quickly assimilate new knowledge
• Leverage prior domain experience in banking and capital markets, insurance or asset management
• Financial and risk background combined with technical skills to enable you to deliver practical, executable plans that enable our clients to succeed on their technology transformation agenda

To qualify for the role you must have

• A bachelor’s degree and a minimum of two years of related work experience at a financial services company or comparable experience working as an advisor to a financial services company or a graduate degree and approximately one to two years of related work experience; the degree would be in either of the following: computer science, engineering, information systems, management technology, statistics, or a related field
• Ability and comfort level in researching client inquiries and emerging issues relating to risk management, including regulations, industry practices and new technologies
• Enterprise IT implementation experience leveraging Agile and/or Waterfall methodologies
• Hands-on experience in one or more phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC), including requirements definition, architecture design, configuration and testing
• Valid driver’s license in the US and a valid passport required
• Willingness and ability to travel both nationally and internationally to meet client needs
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 80%

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Experience working with one or more technology platforms in the financial services risk and compliance domains
• Business requirements using agile methodologies and tools e.g., JIRA
• OOP Programming languages (Java preferable)
• Scripting Technologies (Python preferable)
• Databases (e.g. Oracle, Sybase, MySQL, Big data technologies like Hadoop)
• Reporting/Visualization Tools (Spotfire, Tableau, Qlik)
• Financial crimes technology (e.g. Nice Actimize, Oracle Mantas, Pega, Fircosoft, Safe Banking Systems, LexisNexis Bridger)
• Experience working with visualization tools (e.g. Spotfire, Tableau, Qlikview)
• Fraud technology (e.g. Actimize, Mantas, Threat Metrix, Biocatch, Nuance, SAS Fraud Management, FALCON, Trusteer, RSA)

• Experience in one or more of the following analytical areas:
• Machine learning, link analysis and relationship discovery systems, quantitative model development (i.e., statistical model development), data mapping and conversion using extract-transform-load (ETL) development)
• Experience in one or more of the following areas:
• Definition and design of business, functional and technical requirements;
• System selection and implementation support;
• Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC);
• Quality Assurance and testing (QA);
• Program/project management and implementation planning (PMO)

• Experience in one or more of the following subject areas:
• Anti-Money Laundering (AML); Transaction Monitoring;
• Know-Your-Customer (KYC) and Customer Due Diligence (CDD);
• Sanctions and payment screening;
• Trading compliance within brokerage, banking and asset management;
• Asset management compliance, surveillance and forensics;
• Fraud - employee, card, deposit, payment, mobile
• Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) or Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) certifications
• Fraud transaction monitoring, fraud incident investigations, fraud business process evaluation and fraud risk assessments

What We Offer

We offer a competitive compensation package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to our business. In addition, our Total Rewards package includes medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, and a wide range of paid time off options. Under our flexible vacation policy, you’ll decide how much vacation time you need based on your own personal circumstances. You’ll also be granted time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being. Plus, we offer:

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

About EY

As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, we hire and develop the most passionate people in their field to help build a better working world. This starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities and creative freedom to make things better. Through diverse experiences, world-class learning and individually tailored coaching we develop outstanding leaders who play a critical role in building a better working world for our people, for our clients and for our communities. So that whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime.

If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

Join us in building a better working world. Apply now.

What we offer

We offer a competitive compensation package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to our business. In addition, our Total Rewards package includes medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, and a wide range of paid time off options. Under our flexible vacation policy, you’ll decide how much vacation time you need based on your own personal circumstances. You’ll also be granted time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

The exceptional EY experience. It’s yours to build.

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