FSO - Business Transformation - CCSB Banking - Senior Consultant

EY; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 97,000 - 178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Total Rewards package

Job summary

EY is seeking a Senior Consultant in the CCSB Banking practice to help modernize credit lifecycle processes, operating models, and data-enabled workflows for financial services clients. You will join multidisciplinary teams delivering strategic programs, with opportunities to mentor, lead workstreams and drive value using AI-enhanced tools.

The role emphasizes collaboration, adaptability, and deep industry knowledge, with travel up to 50% and a focus on building credible client solutions and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree plus approximately 2-6 years of related work experience.
• Relevant experience through consulting, advisory or transformation project delivery, ideally within financial services; or hands-on experience in banking operations.
• Strong written and verbal communication, presentation and client-service skills.
• Ability to travel – on-site with clients up to ~50% over a year, with potential international travel.

Responsibilities

• Support the delivery of a project workstream, creating and reviewing high-quality work products.
• Help ensure consistent delivery across peers and team members, and respond to client requests.
• Contribute to analysis behind the story by supporting current-/future-state assessments, operating model designs, benchmarking and business cases.
• Coach and mentor newer team members and campus hires, sharing knowledge and helping them ramp.
• Foster client relationships at appropriate levels.
• Contribute to internal EY initiatives, points of view and business development, in addition to client-facing work, to further EY's brand and people development.

Skills

Banking knowledge

Leadership

Communication

Analytical thinking

Client service

AI curiosity

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Microsoft Copilot

Claude

Replit

Job description

Location: New York, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence.

We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. Join EY and help to build a better working world.

EY is the only professional services firm with a separate business unit – the Financial Services Organization (FSO) – dedicated exclusively to the financial services marketplace. Our FSO Business Transformation practice helps global, super-regional and regional financial services clients improve performance in a rapidly changing environment. We assemble experienced, multidisciplinary teams, apply proven global methodologies, and draw on the full breadth of EY’s reach, capabilities and knowledge to deliver on strategic operations, technology, product, data, compliance and risk programs for leading U.S. institutions.

About The Team

Our Corporate, Commercial and Small and Medium Enterprise (CCSB) Banking practice is EY’s wholesale and commercial credit transformation franchise. We help banks reimagine how credit and lending get done – modernizing the end-to-end credit lifecycle, redesigning operating models, and embedding AI and automation into the way our clients run their business. Our engagements range from focused, multi-week efforts to large-scale, multi-year transformation programs. While the areas below represent our core strengths, our clients also look to us for support across a broad range of their most pressing challenges:

• Credit and lending transformation across the end-to-end credit lifecycle
• Target operating model design and process re-engineering
• Lending operations, core platform modernization, and migrations
• Data and technology enablement, workflow and automation
• Cash management, transaction banking, treasury and payments modernization
• AI- and agentic-enabled operating models

Increasingly, our work – and our clients’ ambitions – are being reshaped by AI. We build the business cases, points of view and value frameworks that help clients unlock capacity across their operations, and we invest heavily in bringing modern AI tooling into our own ways of working.

The opportunity

As a Senior Consultant, you will be part of a fast-moving, high-growth practice that offers variety, challenge, responsibility and the opportunity to realize your leadership potential. You will help solve clients’ most challenging strategic and operational problems while building deep content expertise in the corporate, commercial and SME banking space. If you want to serve marquee clients, work with talented colleagues and reach your full potential, EY Consulting is for you.

We are looking for people who bring real depth in corporate, commercial and SME banking, and we recognize that depth is built in more than one way. We are equally interested in candidates from two backgrounds: bank operators — people who have worked inside a bank in credit, underwriting, lending or loan operations, portfolio management, middle-office or business-line roles, and who understand first-hand how the work actually gets done — and consulting and advisory professionals who have delivered transformation, operating model, process or technology change for banks, whether from a consulting firm, an internal strategy or transformation team, or a vendor or fintech serving the industry.

Prior consulting experience is appreciated, but it is not a requirement. If you have spent your career inside a bank rather than advising one, we encourage you to apply. We will teach you the consulting toolkit, and we value the operating experience and industry credibility you bring to our clients from day one. Across both tracks, our ideal candidate is already putting AI to work using tools such as Microsoft Copilot, Claude and Replit to research faster, sharpen analysis, and draft and prototype ideas — and is eager to help us bring that same thinking to our clients.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Support the delivery of a project workstream, creating and reviewing high-quality work products
• Help ensure consistent delivery across peers and team members, and respond to client requests
• Contribute to the analysis behind the story by supporting current-/future-state assessments, operating model designs, benchmarking and business cases
• Coach and mentor newer team members and campus hires, sharing knowledge and helping them ramp
• Foster client relationships at appropriate levels
• Contribute to internal EY initiatives, points of view and business development, in addition to client‑facing work, to further the development of our brand, our business and our people

Skills And Attributes For Success

• A collaborative team player who thrives working alongside others rather than as an individual contributor
• Comfortable in a dynamic, flexible environment – able to balance multiple commitments and shifting priorities
• Proactively seeks out opportunities to take on new things and stretch and grow your skillset
• Ability to learn and adapt quickly to new scenarios, content and circumstances
• Consistently mentor and support your peers and junior resources
• Strong communication, critical‑thinking, analytical and organizational skills, and a relentless focus on exceptional client service
• Curiosity about how technology, data and AI can be used to work smarter – and a willingness to bring modern AI tools into your day‑to‑day work

To qualify for the role, you must have

• A bachelor’s degree plus approximately 2-6 years of related work experience
• Relevant experience through one of two tracks: consulting, advisory or transformation project delivery, ideally within financial services; or hands‑on experience in corporate, commercial or SME banking, bank operations, lending operations, or middle‑office functions
• Strong written and verbal communication, presentation, client‑service and technical‑writing skills, coupled with a genuine interest in deepening industry and content knowledge in the CCSB space
• The ability to travel – you will likely spend time on‑site with our clients, up to approximately 50% over the course of a year, and travel may be international

Ideally, you’ll also have

The following are preferred but not required – we are just as interested in your potential and your willingness to learn:

• Hands‑on experience applying AI tools such as Microsoft Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT or Replit to everyday work, from research and analysis to drafting, prototyping and automation
• Experience with target operating model design, process re‑engineering, current-/future-state assessment, or gap analysis
• Exposure to lending operations, core platform modernization, system conversions or client migrations
• Knowledge of transaction banking and treasury management – including cash management, commercial card, payments, treasury operations and corporate finance
• Experience supporting business cases, benchmarking or KPI/value frameworks for a transformation program

What We Look For

We’re interested in curious, self‑motivated people who bring a genuine point of view and the drive to make it happen. You’ll have plenty of autonomy in this role, so you’ll also need the initiative to seek out opportunities to improve our current relationships, our ways of working and our team. If you have a genuine passion for helping businesses achieve their full potential – and for growing alongside the talented people around you – this role is for you.

What Working At EY Offers

We offer a competitive compensation package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to our business. Our Total Rewards package includes medical and dental coverage, both pension and 401(k) plans, flexible vacation time to use at your discretion, a generous number of observed holidays, and a range of programs and benefits designed to support your physical, financial and social well‑being. Plus, we offer:

• A collaborative environment where everyone works together to create a better working world
• Excellent training and development prospects – including a strong culture of AI and technical upskilling – through both established programs and on‑the‑job training

About EY

As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and consulting services, we hire and develop the most passionate people in their field to help build a better working world. This starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime.

What We Offer You

• We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to the business. The base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $97,300 to $178,300. The base salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $116,700 to $202,600. Individual salaries within those ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography. In addition, our Total Rewards package includes medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, and a wide range of paid time off options.
• Join us in our team‑led and leader‑enabled hybrid model. Our expectation is for most people in external, client serving roles to work together in person 40-60% of the time over the course of an engagement, project or year.
• Under our flexible vacation policy, you’ll decide how much vacation time you need based on your own personal circumstances. You’ll also be granted time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well‑being.

EY focuses on high-ethical standards and integrity among its employees and expects all candidates to demonstrate these qualities.

EY | Building a better working world

EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets.

Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.

EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions. Fueled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.

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