GENERAL INFORMATION

Location: Ireland
Available for Work Visa Sponsorship: YES/NO
Business Area: Insurance/Finance/ Data/ Regulatory
Contract Type: Full-Time – Permanent
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, we are counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.
We offer a broad range of experiences that enable our people to grow professionally in a personalised way, while fostering a culture of global teaming and integration. We offer a range of leadership development programs, nurturing transformative leaders and behaviour that helps our people lead and inspire at EY and beyond. We are re-defining traditional career journeys and offering a range of diverse options for EY people to achieve success as defined by them and building strong foundations for future endeavours.
EY have a number of career opportunities available, and we are interested in meeting candidates who are looking for a new challenge, one where you can develop your range of skills significantly. Be that a move out of industry into practice, or from within practice into advisory services. We are looking for future leaders with a genuine creative vision and the confidence to make it happen. Our opportunities will allow you to apply your expertise to a variety of projects whilst offering you excellent career progression opportunities.

THE TEAM AND THE OPPORTUNITY

Our Finance Transformation team delivers globally integrated Finance service offerings to our clients. Our Finance team assists clients in building Finance functions that are business-focused, cost-effective and agile in meeting the needs of all their stakeholders.

These offerings include:

• Agile Business Finance – Delivering an optimised Finance function by ensuring a collaborative alignment between Finance, Business and Technology to build an Innovation-led Finance function to help empower teams, enhance capabilities and realise benefits faster.
• Value and Performance Management – Enabling Finance functions to identify and deliver sustainable long-term value through optimised planning, reporting and analytics.
• Global Business Services – Developing high performing operating models through process simplification, standardisation and leveraging enabling technologies.
• Finance Strategy and Operating Model – Development of a digital finance vision; target operating model; case for change, benefits realisation and transformation roadmap.

Key to many of our Finance Transformation engagements is the identification, evaluation and deployment of the right technology to support our clients’ business agenda. In particular, this involves intertwining our Finance and Shared Services portfolio with other offerings like cyber security, analytics, RPA and digital technologies.
We are seeking experienced insurance consulting professional who will contribute to the continued growth of our Finance Transformation services in Ireland.

SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES FOR SUCCESS

• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Understanding of Insurance and finance landscape and key trends in this space as well as wider implications on the Financial Services industry
• Quick to understand intricate business challenges and devise suitable solutions
• Be experienced of full project lifecycle from concept through to implementation
• Skilled at overcoming obstacles and barriers.
• Demonstrate professionalism and rapidly establish personal credibility
• Exhibit strong personal impact and resilience, with the ability to influence clients and stakeholders to secure support for major changes and critical decisions
• Collaborative team player with a forward-thinking mindset, self-motivated, thrives on new challenges, and quickly adapts to learning new knowledge
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with experience presenting to stakeholders

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work as part of a client engagement teams with diverse skills and backgrounds. Strong understanding of core business and finance operations gained through involvement/ delivery of projects.
• Exceptional problem-solving ability including logical reasoning, creative thinking and the ability to untangle complex issues for improving existing business processes and workflows
• Deliver high-quality work products within expected timeframes and on budget
• Demonstrate understanding in project management fundamentals, including RAID logs, status reports, and meeting minutes
• Collaborate with clients to identify their business goals, processes, and challenges, converting these insights into detailed functional requirements
• Facilitate workshops and interviews with stakeholders to collect and document business requirements, process flows, use cases, and user stories
• Support EY’s service offerings, actively contributing to a diverse range of service deliveries
• Innovate and develop creative solutions to client challenges, enhancing strategic and operational outcomes
• Articulate complex concepts clearly and effectively, both verbally and in writing, to ensure stakeholder understanding
• Maintain strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple tasks, consistently delivering high-quality results on schedule
• Cultivate and maintain trusted client relationships, representing EY with professionalism and establishing credibility
• Stay updated on the latest trends and developments in the Financial Services industry to foster innovation and contribute to Insurance practice development specifically in areas of thought leadership, RFP support, operations and training
• Work effectively within EY engagement teams and communicate clearly with both internal and external stakeholders, promoting a collaborative and productive team environment

TO QUALIFY FOR THE ROLE, YOU MUST HAVE

• Strong academic record including a third level degree, preferably in a Insurance/finance/data/risk, business, or project related area
• Minimum 2-5 years of experience in delivering change in an insurance function environment – gained either from prior experience in consulting or through a track record of delivering change/transformation projects in industry (Preferred industry experience include financial services, insurance, transformation, financial risk management)
• Exceptional analytical and communication skills with a proven ability to engage effectively with diverse stakeholders
• Proven experience in developing structured presentations using PowerPoint and analytic skills using Excel