Senior Consultant, Insurance, Business Transformation

at  EY

THE OPPORTUNITY

The commercial insurance and reinsurance market is on an exciting, complex, and fast-moving transformation journey, where incumbent and new market participants are responding to the rapid emergence of new technologies, market cycle volatility, market-wide modernisation, and evolving regulatory requirements to drive competitive advantage.
Our Insurance Business Transformation team is at the centre of this modernisation agenda, helping clients make more informed decisions on how to optimise their businesses, drive growth, realise efficiencies and improve their customer journeys. This could be re-designing or simplifying operating models, improving processes, implementing data and technology-driven solutions - often guiding a client through the lifecycle of their transformation programme.
Drawing on its reputation for providing deep industry experience and leading consulting services to the Insurance market - and to support our clients in successfully executing ambitious transformation agendas - EY is now expanding its Insurance Business Transformation team.
The team’s purpose is to create a lasting, positive impact on the Insurance industry through an inclusive, diverse, and connected team of driven individuals, with the courage to lead and inspire those around them. To enable this purpose, we are seeking exceptional, passionate individuals with proven experience in Specialty and / or General Insurance markets to join our team.
Whether you’re an experienced consultant or an ambitious industry professional interested in being part of a growing team where you contribution is valued and your work makes a difference, we want to hear from you.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Key responsibilities we seek from Senior Consultants within our Insurance Business Transformation team include:

• Working as part of a team to support the design and delivery of complex, strategic end-to-end operating model and business transformation projects.
• Engaging with client stakeholders on a daily basis to understand the challenges their businesses are facing, and helping to tailor solutions to address these.
• Analysing and owning complex information and data to translate into simple and clear analysis, delivering impactful presentations and supporting the production of client deliverables.
• Supporting the development of market wide propositions, proposals and bids for new clients and projects.
• Contributing to the growth of our practice through learning & development and supporting graduates and industry placement students who are seconded into the team on a rotational basis.

TO QUALIFY FOR THE ROLE YOU MUST HAVE ALL OR THE MAJORITY OF THE FOLLOWING:

• Demonstrable experience of working within Specialty and / or General Insurance markets, whether in a provider’s business or external advisory role.
• An understanding of how market trends and business challenges are affecting insurers, reinsurers, brokers and other market participants within Specialty or General Insurance markets.
• Experience in supporting change and transformation initiatives and an understanding of end-to-end business driven change through the full lifecycle (discovery, business requirements definition, design and implementation).
• Excellent client stakeholder management skills and the ability to build relationships.
• A team player attitude; openly supporting, encouraging and sharing knowledge with colleagues.
• The ability to coach and mentor junior colleagues and provide on-the-job training.
• A commitment to actively engaging with our DE&I agenda and championing social purpose-driven change.
• A strong interest and commitment to developing and delivering leading edge solutions to insurance industry clients.
• A willingness to contribute towards the development of our internal practice.