Senior Consultant, Operational Resilience, Cyber, Financial Services

Location: London

Date: 27 Feb 2025

Cyber & Resilience – Consulting – Enterprise Resilience Senior Consultant

EY focuses on high-ethical standards and integrity among its employees and expects all candidates to demonstrate these qualities. 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. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.

EY is a global leader in Consulting, Assurance, Tax, and Transaction services. We make a difference by helping our people, our clients and our wider communities achieve their potential.

The opportunity

The team you join - EY’s UKFS Cyber & Resilience Practice is part of a global team of over 5,000 professionals focused on developing and delivering cutting edge security and resilience transformation programmes. We have large scale plans to expand our already market leading Cyber & Resilience practice and anticipate continued growth throughout the next five years.

The role

The role is primarily focused on the development, delivery and assurance of operational and digital resilience programmes and related disciplines. You will support the delivery of resilience programmes, as well as foundational resilience disciplines such as business continuity, crisis management and testing.

Your role will require you to lead teams or parts of teams on engagements of different sizes under the guidance of senior team members. You will help to create a positive learning culture and will coach and counsel junior team members to assist in their professional development.

Your key responsibilities

You will be working across a portfolio of engagements with our financial services clients, reporting to a Manager or Senior Manager. Your responsibilities will include:

• Supporting our clients in developing and enhancing their resilience frameworks and capabilities.
• Helping clients understand the regulatory requirements they are faced with.
• Conducting resilience assessments, gap analyses, and impact tolerance assessments.
• Facilitating simulation exercises and providing training to client teams.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure a holistic approach to resilience.
• Evaluating and creating measures and controls to implement the regulatory requirements.
• Keeping abreast of regulatory changes and industry best practices in resilience.
• Contributing to thought leadership and business development activities.
• Assisting in overseeing project metrics by organising staffing, tracking budget, and proactively communicating risks and issues to project leaders.

Skills and attributes for success

You will have a broad background across resilience and business continuity with an understanding of and interest in one or several of the following areas:

• Resilience regulatory requirements and managing vulnerabilities.
• Business continuity management and impact assessments.
• Design and implementation of governance frameworks.
• Incident and crisis management policies.
• Information security and non-financial operational risk frameworks.
• Data privacy and implementation of data protection programmes.

To qualify for the role, you must have:

• Strong academic record including a relevant undergraduate degree.
• 2-3 years’ experience in a relevant industry.
• A passion for collaborating with a team and clients to solve complex problems.

What we look for

We are interested in professionals who can demonstrate a breadth of skills and experience in a collaborative and innovative environment. A Big 4 background or comparable consulting experience is helpful, although EY will provide ongoing training and support to develop your consulting skills.

What working at EY offers

• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career.
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you.
• Excellent training and development prospects.
• Support, coaching and feedback from our collaborative colleagues.
• An excellent team of senior colleagues.
• A competitive remuneration package.

Way of working

EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements.

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.