Location:  Dublin 2

Other locations:  Primary Location Only

Salary: Competitive

Requisition ID:  1729194

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Your Key Responsibilities:

Within FSO Business Consulting and our Business Transformation Delivery practice, you’ll work as part of a high-performing team of problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience, helping financial services organisations solve their complex business opportunities and challenges from strategy to execution. As a Business Transformation Director, you will:

  • With a proven track record, lead large and complex (multi-year / multi-million) business transformations end-to-end.
  • Be responsible for building valuable relationships with our clients and to develop a track-record of delivery that is recognised throughout the market.
  • Deliver key strategic business transformations for Financial Services clients, ensuring service quality on one or more engagements at a time, leveraging your knowledge and sector experience to deliver Business, IT and Regulatory driven transformations.
  • Manage the overall business transformation end to end within the scope, quality, time and budget terms of reference and in accordance with EY and client delivery standards.
  • Work with the programme team (all parties) EY Partners and client programme leadership, business and technical leads, operational risk and internal audit teams.
  • Own the delivery relationship with the client.
  • Provide leadership and guidance to the overall business transformation team, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.
  • Be able to represent the programme at the necessary client governance sessions at an ExCo level and EY internal meetings (Account Level, Competency meetings etc.)
  • Have a detailed understanding of the costs, forecasts and actuals and manage the master resource list.
  • Draw on EY’s capabilities in our Business, Technology, People and Risk Consulting practices as well as experience from our global consulting network.
  • Work with a global team of experts to develop unique and innovative solutions as well as benefitting from best-in-class training and development and bring the right insights and capability at the right time for our client engagements.
  • Lead EY FSO Business Consulting business development activities, such as proposals, thought leadership and producing input for client events.
  • Lead EY Business Consulting operations ensuring that all operational metrics are met for utilisation, timesheet and related internal engagement management processes and system inputs.
  • Manage and coach our people to help them navigate their career in EY, support them with their personal development and the necessary performance management processes (LEAD).
  • Seamlessly work through ambiguous problems, defining client needs, approach to resolving complex engagements and recommending solutions that deliver value to stakeholders.
  • Write sharp and concise documents at a suitable for C Suite client level with minor review for Partners.
  • Deliver presentations to C Suite client level and handle live feedback from clients.
  • Own the management of difficult and challenging C Suite client stakeholders, to provide comfort and reassurance.
  • Independently lead complex engagements from inception to completion ensuring coordination with client’s strategic objectives.
  • Manage engagement revenue and billing associated with programme / project.
  • Actively develop our people through mentoring colleagues to achieve their career goals and building high-performing, cross-sub-service line delivery teams.
  • Shape solutions for complex, ambiguous problems by bringing the cross-service line and EMEIA capability of EY to the client.
  • Translate client needs into an EY commercial solutions that bring together EY subject matter domains to deliver value and differentiated outcomes to our clients
  • Own, develop and maintain senior client relationships presenting insights and innovations that will impact their area and organisation future state and where EY can help.
  • Ensure Service Quality best practices and standards are delivered on. Delivery of engagements to planned margin. Adhere to firm standards supporting effective engagement management.
  • Guide and mentor our delivery teams with practical experience of the implementation of Business Transformations.
  • Create thought leadership pieces that build the reputation of our teams: including public blogs, interviews and speaking at industry conferences on Business Transformation topics.