Assurance - Financial Services Forensic Data jobs at Ey in United Kingdom, London

Manager, Learning and Development, Financial Services

Transforming the world of work, together we are:

• Revolutionising employee experiences

• Innovatively building capability and learning solutions

• Redesigning organisations, evolving cultures and driving behavioural change

• Successfully navigating a dynamic and complex regulatory change environment

As a member of People Consulting, you will:

• Contribute to and lead workstreams across a diverse range of complex engagements in the financial services sector.

• Design and create innovative solutions for clients, adapting methods and practices to fit client needs.

• Proactively manage stakeholder relationships, building trusted relationships with clients.

• Identify new opportunities, contribute to preparation of proposals and wider business development activities.

• Manage the operational aspects and risk management of client engagements.

• Coach and provide learning opportunities for junior team members.

• Contribute to delivery of wider strategic goals across PC and participate in initiatives that support the growth of the firm as a whole.

With a specific focus on learning, you will:

• Shape, develop and deliver learning programmes, with our account teams and other practice areas (standalone or as a part of larger transformation programmes) in areas such as (but not exhaustive):

• Designing and building the learning function of the future.

• Developing learning strategies (at enterprise level or specific transformation programme level), including learning technologies, and subsequent execution.

• Creating impactful learning solutions – including the design, development, and deployment of learning assets (digital and non-digital).

• Driving strategic change and organization performance through learning initiatives (including learning analytics).

• Lead pursuit and delivery teams to deliver client projects and business development activities to ensure quality and operational excellence for our teams.

• Lead and manage complex learning projects and programmes of work including managing teams of employees, stakeholders, third party providers and learning design teams.

• Develop our learning offerings and products available across a variety of subjects, from Risk and Regulation, to Sustainability, helping develop our business and assume responsibility for different team initiatives and activities.

• Bring your innovation, understanding of the industry and latest trends to ensure to delivery of market-leading, relevant and targeted solutions and content rich thought leadership to clients.

Skills and attributes for success:

• Authenticity and strong personal impact, able to influence and persuade stakeholders to gain support for major changes and key decisions.

• A growth mindset and a desire to challenge established practices.

• Ability to lead complex projects or programmes of work using an Agile approach and adapt to changing requirements or inputs.

• Skilled in leading workstreams, facilitating and working collaboratively with team members, and empowering teams to maximise performance.

• Resilience and ability to work under pressure to deliver pragmatic solutions; confidence and ability to recognise and manage potential challenges during client assignments.

• Creative thinking, using agile methods and innovative approaches to tackle complex problems and to deliver insightful, practical and sustainable solutions.

To qualify for this role, you must have:

• A comprehensive understanding of adult learning theory and behavioural change principles

• Core consulting skills gained through working in a professional services firm, global consultancy, boutique consultancy or an in-house role with exposure to large-scale programmes of work.

• Experience in architecting learning solutions, including analysis, design, content development, and train the trainer, to ensure measurable outcomes within large, complex organisations.

• Experience of managing learning vendors alongside internal and/or client teams/stakeholders to drive target outputs/outcomes.

• Ability to translate and operationalise learning strategy.

• Ability to proactively build relationships and manage stakeholders, including providing robust advice, constructive challenge, influencing decisions, delivering difficult messages and managing performance issues.

• Strong project management and written and verbal communication skills, and experience of producing robust analysis, reports, papers and presentations.

• Experience of designing learning across different formats.

Ideally, you’ll also have:

• Experience of working across financial services: banking, insurance, and wealth and asset management.

• Relevant degree-level education and/or professional qualifications.

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. 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.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality immigration advice and manage a diverse portfolio of client engagements.
• Ensure technical excellence and compliance with immigration regulations and EY risk policies.

• Build strong client relationships and proactively identify process improvements and opportunities. Manage engagement economics, including budgets, billing, and cash collection.
• Research and apply current immigration developments and policy changes to client solutions.
• Contribute to the development of internal training, communications, and service offerings.
• Support a culture of inclusion, collaboration, and exceptional client service.

About You

• Experienced immigration professional, ideally with expertise in UK Skilled Worker/GBM category.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and presentation skills.
• Strong organizational and project management abilities, able to manage multiple deadlines.
• High attention to detail with sound commercial and strategic judgment.
• Proficient in MS Office and immigration case management software.
• Client-focused, proactive, and solutions-oriented team player.

What We Offer

• Global Exposure: Work with international clients and collaborate across EY’s global network.
• Career Progression: Lead high-impact projects and shape your professional journey.
• Support & Coaching: Learn from industry leaders and receive ongoing mentoring.
• Flexible Working: Hybrid model (minimum two days in the office) with a focus on work-life balance.
• Total Rewards: Competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and exclusive EY perks.
• Inclusive Culture: A workplace where you belong, feel valued, and can thrive.

To help create the best possible experience during the recruitment process, please let us know if you require any disability-related adjustments or accommodations.

The world around us is changing, through Generative AI transforming our daily work, and a changing macroeconomic climate. Our clients are going through significant change as a result of new compliance requirements, transformation and business needs.

Your responsibilities

Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Lead end-to-end delivery of projects (physical and virtual), assessing engagement risks and opportunities, driving the right outcomes for our clients
• Lead and manage client relationships and interactions, enabling and influencing strategic and operational decisions
• Lead on firm-wide campaigns and go-to-market initiatives including business development and pursuit activities for new and existing clients, developing the delivery of high-quality proposals
• Develop and present exceptional reports & presentations (PowerPoint, Word, etc.) for project deliverables, capturing problem statements and solutions/ recommendations for our clients
• Lead on internal financial, quality and risk management on client projects
• Lead your own and FAAS team’s development of functional and technical skills by establishing a culture of highest performing teams and inclusive behaviours
• Create an environment that encourages and drives innovation based on experience with the client, market, service line, functional group and EY

To qualify for the role, you must have:

• An accountancy qualification (e.g., ACA, CPA, ACCA, CIMA) or equivalent
• Financial Reporting and/or an Assurance/audit background
• Extensive experience working in assurance, consulting or transformational roles within Big 4, Consulting firms, and/or industry
• Experience in one or more of the below:

• • Accounting, Finance and Reporting related processes gained through Big 4, Consulting or industry environment e.g.,:

• • Record-to-Report (R2R), Financial & Non-financial Reporting
  • Financial Close, Consolidation and Reporting

• Experience in Business and Finance Transformation & Change programmes; managing senior stakeholders across Finance and the business, identifying improvement/optimisation opportunities, enabling and influencing client decision-making

• Process, Risks and Controls design, implementation and testing experience over Financial, Operational and Reporting processes using leading practice frameworks (e.g., COSO, SOx)
• Data analytics, including utilisation of technology to be able to automate extraction, preparation and presentation of information to present to senior stakeholders, including use of data warehousing, ETL and visualisation solutions
• Finance systems application design, build and implementation e.g., ERP (e.g., SAP, Oracle), EPM (e.g., SAC, CCH Tagetik) and/or other reporting automation solutions (e.g., BlackLine)

Other relevant experience may include whilst not limited to:

• Accounting and Regulatory change (e.g., Corporate Reform, SOx)
• Experience of Finance Data and architecture including general ledger, subledgers, master data structures, data objects etc.
• Experience of wider finance related processes including elements within Order-to-Cash (O2C), Procure-to-Pay (P2P) and Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
• Experience of non-financial reporting, including ESG reporting and relevant regulatory frameworks
• Internal finance function experience in Financial Reporting roles

We’re interested in leaders with a genuine creative vision and the confidence to make it happen. You can expect plenty of autonomy in this role, so you’ll also need the ability to take initiative and seek out opportunities to improve our current relationships and processes. If you’re serious about your career with us and ready to take on some of our clients’ most complex issues, this role is for you.
What we offer

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 your career
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be a leader.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

Apply now.

Prior to finalizing your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness. The information you provide is kept entirely confidential and will not be used to evaluate your candidacy. We collect this data to help us analyse our recruitment process holistically and implement actions that promote diversity and inclusiveness. While optional, we encourage you to provide this information to hold us accountable towards our goal of building a better working world. We ask because it matters!

Your key responsibilities

• Work as part of a delivery team on complex Data Transformation programs, primarily leading on data architecture and data modelling, with additional roles likely to include leading on business analysis, data strategy and solution design

• Lead Data Modelling Activities: Develop conceptual, logical, and physical data models for core insurance domains (e.g., Policy, Premiums, Claims, Risk, Bordereaux) aligned to Lloyd’s CDR and Accord data standards.
• Blueprint Two Alignment: Interpret Lloyd’s CDR specifications to design data structures that support consistent capture, storage, and exchange of data across the insurance value chain.
• Foundation for Transformation: Establish data modelling standards and principles, naming conventions, and metadata standards, design patterns as the basis for the upcoming data transformation programme.
• Business Engagement: Collaborate with business SMEs from underwriting, claims teams, operations, and finance to capture requirements, resolve data definitions, and validate models.
• Data Quality & Governance: Define master data and reference data structures to ensure completeness, accuracy, and regulatory compliance.
• Tooling & Standards: Leverage data modelling tools (e.g., ERwin, PowerDesigner, SQL Data Modeler, etc.) and maintain modelling repositories.
• Collaborate with enterprise architects, solution designers, and data platform teams to embed data models into the technology landscape.

• Contribute to client proposals, RFP responses, and thought leadership related to data strategy, data architecture and data transformation initiatives

To qualify for the role you must have some or all of the following:

• Proven experience in data modelling within London Market Commercial and Specialty Insurance markets. Strong understanding of Lloyd’s market operations, London Market processes, Core Data Record specifications.
• Expertise in building conceptual, logical, and physical data models for core insurance entities and processes.
• Understanding of different Data Modelling approaches – i.e. relational data model, 3rd normal form, Dimensional data model, Star /Snowflake Schema, Data Vault etc.
• Good understanding of Data Warehousing design concepts (e.g. Inmon & Kimbal style of data architectures.
• Experience translating regulatory and market standards into practical, implementable data structures.
• Knowledge of insurance reference data (e.g., class of business codes, market participant codes, currency codes).
• Familiarity with relational database design and dimensional modelling principles for reporting/analytics.
• Proficiency with one or more data modelling tools (e.g., ERwin, PowerDesigner, SQL Developer Data Modeler).
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and facilitation skills.

What we look for

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. 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.

Skills and attributes for success

Client Management and Business Development:

• Develop/maintain productive relationships with client management including C Suite executives.
• Develop new business development initiatives, go to market campaigns, sales sprints, leading end-to-end bid processes, engagement delivery and knowledge management with a proven experience of achieving sales targets greater than £1m per year.
• Stay informed of the client's industry, and recognise key performance drivers, business trends, and emerging technical/industry developments.
• Strong problem solving skills to support clients on a comprehensive range of issues in relation to financial crime, fraud, regulatory and compliance, litigation and other adverse events in the Financial Services industry across Banking and Capital Markets, Insurance and Wealth and Asset Management sectors.

Engagement Delivery and People Management:

• Lead complex Data and AI-led assignments, review the work prepared by the engagement teams to ensure that it meets EY’s quality standards and the client’s expectations.
• Monitor engagement progress to manage and mitigate risks and resolving any issues that may arise during the project. Ensure successful completion of project objectives within timescales and budget.
• Direct management of senior client stakeholders, investigators, internal and external auditors, lawyers and regulatory authorities during sensitive and sometimes adversarial situations.
• Lead the development of training, recruiting, resourcing projects, and/or other practice-wide needs to create a positive work and learning culture.
• Define best practices, processes, and standards to ensure realisation of measurable improvement in value, effectiveness, efficiency and quality of services delivered to clients.

To qualify for the role you must have

Extensive deep expertise in:

• Financial Services industry, focused on financial crime, forensics, fraud, legal and regulatory compliance
• End to end data engineering and data science life cycle including data discovery, ETL, data analysis/machine learning, data visualisation/reporting and latest Gen AI and Agentic AI technologies
• Leading large and complex data and AI-driven programmes and innovating reusable tech solutions through problem solving
• Developing and mentoring data engineering and data science teams

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Previous Big 4 and large consulting firms experience is an advantage.

What we look for

We’re not just looking for strong technical skills – we’re interested in people that can nurture relationships, both internal and external, and are committed to intimately understanding our clients’ needs. If you’re looking to become part of elite group of data engineers and data scientists where you’ll make a measurable difference across some of the most prestigious businesses around, this role is for you.

What 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.

Please note;

Prior to finalizing your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness. The information you provide is kept entirely confidential and will not be used to evaluate your candidacy. We collect this data to help us analyse our recruitment process holistically and implement actions that promote diversity and inclusiveness. While optional, we encourage you to provide this information to hold us accountable towards our goal of building a better working world. Read more about our commitment to diversity& inclusiveness

Your client impact

• Design, develop, and deploy end-to-end machine learning models for complex business problems across forecasting, optimization, and prediction domains
• Build and fine-tune large language models (LLMs) for enterprise applications including document intelligence, conversational AI, and decision support systems
• Deep understanding of solving data science and AI enabled problems in supply chain, finance, commercial or operations domain or AI agents with reasoning capabilities using LLMs
• Translate business requirements into technical AI/ML features, model selection, architecture decisions
• Conduct exploratory data analysis and communicate insights to stakeholders
• Collaborate with data engineers, architects, and business analysts on integrated solutions
• Build feature engineering pipelines and automated data preparation workflows
• Design AI solutions for commercial transformation including pricing optimization, customer segmentation, and revenue management

• Develop scalable AI/ML pipelines on Databricks, Azure Machine Learning, and/or Snowflake platforms

• Contribute to proposals and technical assessments for new opportunities

Required Qualifications

• Essential: Strong level of hands-on experience developing and deploying machine learning models in production environments
• Essential: Proven experience building and implementing LLM-based solutions (GPT, Claude, Llama, Mistral, or similar)
• Deep understanding of machine learning algorithms including supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning approaches
• Strong proficiency in statistical modeling, time-series forecasting, and predictive analytics
• Experience with deep learning frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras)
• Knowledge of prompt engineering, RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation), and LLM fine-tuning techniques
• Understanding of natural language processing, computer vision, and recommender systems

• Essential: Hands-on experience with at least one of: Databricks (MLflow, AutoML), Azure Machine Learning, or Snowflake (Snowpark ML, Cortex)
• Strong programming skills in Python and proficiency with ML libraries (scikit-learn, pandas, NumPy, XGBoost, LightGBM)
• Familiarity with distributed computing frameworks (Spark, Dask, Ray)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset with attention to detail
• Ability to work independently and drive projects from ambiguous requirements
• Story telling with data and insights from the outputs

Preferred Experience

• Finance Forecasting: Revenue prediction, cashflow modeling, financial planning, risk modeling
• Energy Optimization: Load forecasting, grid optimization, demand response, renewable energy prediction
• Predictive Maintenance: Equipment failure prediction, anomaly detection, remaining useful life estimation
• Supply Chain Planning: Demand forecasting, inventory optimization, logistics planning, procurement analytics
• Commercial Transformation: Price optimization, customer lifetime value, churn prediction, marketing mix modeling

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree (Master's or PhD) in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, or related quantitative field
• Big 4 or tier-1 consulting firm experience
• Certifications such as:
• Databricks Certified Machine Learning Professional
• Azure AI Engineer Associate or Data Scientist Associate
• SnowPro Advanced: Data Scientist
• AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty
• Experience with generative AI platforms (Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Vertex AI)
• Knowledge of graph neural networks, reinforcement learning, or causal inference
• Experience with AI governance, model risk management, and regulatory compliance

General Information

Contract Type: Permanent, Full-Time

Recruiter: Matthew Creane

If you are currently working in practice or industry accounting and would like to know more about what a career in EY could look like for you, please get in touch.

To qualify for these role you must have

• Qualified Accountant - e.g., ACA, ACCA, CPA, CA(SA) qualified OR equivalent
• Minimum 3.5 years assurance experience
• Minimum 2 years as an audit senior manager
• Experience with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) & US GAAP
• Minimum of 18 months' left on your valid Passport to facilitate Work Permit & Visa applications (where applicable)

Ideally, you'll also have

• High Technical Knowledge
• Clearly demonstrate an on-going commitment to personal and professional development through continuing education and development.
• Experience with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) with US GAAP experience preferable

What we look for

• Proven track record of outstanding performance.
• Worked on Large PLC/ Multinational clients within the Industrial, Commercial & Technology sector.
• Ability and willingness to work primarily on challenging and complex projects

We offer a competitive remuneration package. Our comprehensive benefits 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:

• Support and coaching from some of the most engaging colleagues around.
• 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.

All our employees are given a benefits package which they can tailor to suit their individual preferences. Our range of benefits include:

• Hybrid Working
• Pension/Discounted Health Insurance
• Web Doctor
• Purchase of Additional Annual Leave
• Free Gym Membership
• Travel Pass
• Maternity & Paternity Leave
• Bike to Work Scheme
• Referral Bonuses & Recognition Awards
• Tech MBA paid by EY

Career Progression

• When you join EY, you will be supported to ensure that you are enhancing your skills from day one.
• Continuous learning, where you can develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• As you grow and develop here, you’ll discover opportunities to help customise your career journey, so that it’s as unique as you are - success is defined by you, we will provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership, we will give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture, you will be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.
• We have embraced Hybrid working at EY adding greater flexibility and autonomy to the roles of our employees.