Assurance - Financial Services - Technology Risk - Manager - UK Wide

EY; Manchester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading professional services firm seeks a Technology Risk Manager to join their Assurance team. This role involves managing IT audit engagements, fostering client relationships, and ensuring high-quality service delivery while coaching junior staff. Ideal candidates will have experience in financial services and a strong understanding of IT risks.

Benefits

Flexible Working Arrangements

Continuous Learning Opportunities

Diverse and Inclusive Culture

Qualifications

• Experience managing and delivering complex external IT audits.
• Good technical understanding of SOX and IT audit methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Manage client engagements and lead meetings to identify risks.
• Coach and counsel junior team members for professional growth.
• Maintain strong client relationships and deliver high-quality outcomes.

Skills

Client Relationship Management

Attention to Detail

Team Management

Risk Management

Education

Relevant Industry Certification

Job description

Assurance - Financial Services - Technology Risk - Manager - UK Wide

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Technology is at the heart of most modern organisations. As well as opening a world of opportunities, technology exposes organisations to a variety of risks. We help our clients to identify and manage these risks to protect their stakeholders. As a Manager within our Technology Risk team, you will help our clients identify and manage their technology risks whilst simultaneously gaining skills to develop a career in a fast-growing professional services organisation. Working with some of the world’s most prestigious Financial Services (FS) organisations you will be an integral part of our Technology Risk team, part of Assurance Advisory within EY UK.

The opportunity

We are a market leader across the Big-4 with significant new audit engagements across financial services clients and substantial projected revenue growth in the coming years. Our ongoing advancements in innovation and automation continue to place us ahead of our competitors. We maintain a clear focus on delivering high-quality, high-profile, multi-discipline, and multi-country projects, aiding clients in resolving their most complex IT and data challenges while prioritising quality. We are part of a single integrated financial services team with over 250 people in the FS UK Technology Risk team, serving some of the largest financial services institutions globally.

As a Technology Risk Manager you will be an influential member of our Technology Risk team, and you will have the opportunity to work on a range of IT Assurance projects. There include IT External Audit Support (known in EY as FAIT or Financial Audit IT), IT Internal Audit, IT components of Regulatory Reviews and other assurance activities (e.g. client money, Solvency II, IFRS17, Section 166, Service Organisation Controls Reporting), Cyber assurance, Emerging Technology risk including AI, Trust in Robotics Process Automation and other controls related work within FS. This portfolio also includes collaboration with our wider Assurance and Consulting colleagues to help clients protect their reputation by mitigating their business, financial reporting and IT risks, on a broad range of topics where design or effectiveness reviews over IT and data controls are required.

Your Key Responsibilities

An important part of your role as a Manager is to be considered as a primary contact for both the client and the team, engaging in regular discussions with the client regarding future trends, and playing a part in owning and growing the EY relationship with the client. You will contribute to fostering a positive and inclusive learning environment while coaching and counselling junior team members in their professional growth. Consistent with our commitment to quality, you will also play a crucial role in upholding exceptional client service, quality, and delivery standards. At the same time as maintaining strong client relationships and delivering high quality outcomes, you will need to manage team and project resources and budgets effectively. The variety of engagements our team participates in creates a flexible environment offering numerous opportunities for professional growth and development across assurance and consulting domains.

Skills And Attributes For Success

• Learning about EY, our clients and their businesses.
• Understanding the IT landscape across a portfolio of clients and being able to assure and advise on the associated risks. This would include but is not limited to areas such as their adoption of cloud, use of Artificial Intelligence and Robotic Process Automation.
• Managing client engagements and leading client meetings to identify risks, test controls and provide an opinion on the security of the clients’ IT environment.
• Fostering and maintaining excellent client relationships and expectations, being seen as a direct point of contact for client and team.
• High quality outcomes and deliverables underpinned by a keen attention to detail. Meeting stakeholders' needs by maintaining a global mindset and ensuring consistency and technical excellence.
• Building relationships with colleagues across the business, supporting them and promoting a diverse and collaborative culture.
• Managing team and project resources and budgets effectively
• Creating a positive team environment, providing constructive feedback tailored to each person’s style and environment.
• Getting involved with industry research and client thought leadership.
  
  

To qualify for the role you must have

• Demonstrable professional experience in managing and delivering complex and global external IT Audits (FAIT) on FS clients.
• Experience managing and delivering a portfolio of IT external audit clients, with timely delivery, cost efficiency, and high audit quality.
• Hands on experience in managing and delivering:
• IT general controls (ITGC) and IT automated controls audits
• Third Party Controls Reporting – SOC1, SOC2, ISAE3402, AAF
• Audit data analytics and automated control testing
• Third Party Risk Management and Information Security audits
• Good technical understanding of SOX, and IT audit methodologies.
• Experience in managing and delivering client engagements including scoping, financial management, managing delivery risk, production, quality and review of deliverables.
• Hand on approach to build and maintain excellent relationships across a range of FS clients and other stakeholders.
• Experience within the FS industry and a sound understanding of the FS technology landscape.
• Thorough understanding of UK and EMEIA FS regulatory environment.
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholder communities with varying levels of experience.
• Experience working for a professional services consultancy firm, major financial institution or blue-chip industry firm in IT external audit, IT internal audit, or IT risk management is highly preferred but not essential.
  
  

Ideally, you will also have

• Ability to engage with diverse stakeholders and manage cross functional projects.
• An eagerness and track record in establishing and leading high-performance teams and supporting and coaching individual team members.
• Relevant industry certification such as CISA, CISSP, CISM, CGEIT, ITIL, PMP, or other specialised IT certifications.
• Proven experience in managing, delivering and owning the client relationship over:
• Assurance over regulatory remediation programmes
• Assurance over payments, front-to-back-office controls, change programmes, and Operational resilience
• Reviews of emerging technologies e.g. Cloud, AI, RPA
  

What We Look For

As a trusted business advisor specialising in the Technology Risk field, you will be responsible for identifying, addressing, and resolving questions that have not yet been considered by our clients. If you are ready to take on a wide range of responsibilities and are committed to building a better working world by helping organisations to identify and manage their technology risks whilst simultaneously gaining skills to develop a career in professional services, this role is for you.

What Working At EY Offers

EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We strive to achieve the right balance for our people, enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities. While our client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites, our flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a lifestyle balance.

We offer a competitive remuneration package. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. 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.
  
  

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

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