Client Advisor jobs in Australia

Sector Client Executive – Insurance

As an Industry Account Centric Client Executive (CE), you will play a pivotal role in driving growth and delivering exceptional client service (ECS) to our insurance clients. You’ll leverage your deep industry expertise and enterprise sales experience to understand client challenges, introduce transformative solutions, and create strategic alliances that deliver measurable impact. This role focuses on global account strategy, rigorous account planning, and relationship development across major insurance organisations.

Your key responsibilities

• Lead global account strategy and growth, driving revenue and deepening relationships with major insurance clients.
• Work with EY’s leadership team to manage one of our largest and most complex accounts through the origination of new opportunities and the development of sincere, lasting client relationships.
• Manage the sales process for a portfolio of strategic opportunities, including identifying and closing new business.
• Drive the sales of large, complex technology-enabled transformation projects and managed services engagements, ensuring alignment with client needs and organisational goals.
• Take ownership of understanding client challenges and engaging the right EY resources to architect and close new business opportunities.
• Ensure consistent pricing and contractual arrangements within the account.
• Conduct win/loss reviews to determine what factors caused the firm to win or lose business and proactively share this information with the account team.
• Coach the account team regarding account management activities, including the account management system.
• Experience within a professional services environment will be highly regarded and help you thrive in this role.

Skills and attributes for success

• Ability to build and sustain trusted relationships with C-suite executives, leveraging influence and executive presence to drive strategic outcomes.
• Deep understanding of the insurance sector combined with commercial acumen to identify opportunities and negotiate complex agreements.
• Proven capability to lead account strategy and foster innovation, introducing transformative solutions and alliances that deliver measurable client impact.

Ideally, you’ll also have the skills and attributes below but don’t worry if you don’t tick all the boxes. We’re interested in your aptitude, attitude and willingness to learn.

• Demonstrated experience selling to, or managing relationships with, C-suite executives and heads of business units within Financial Services.
• Experience in leading complex, multi-stakeholder enterprise sales cycles within the insurance or broader financial services sector.
• Strong influencing skills and the ability to navigate a matrixed organisation, balancing client priorities with firm objectives.
• A proven ability to lead virtual teams brought together around an account opportunity.
• Detailed financial knowledge gained through selling complex solutions.
• A high degree of self-drive and tenacity, with the ability to proactively manage your own priorities in an autonomous environment.

What we offer you

At EY, we’ll fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learn .

• Career development: At EY, your career is yours to shape! We’ll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences
• Flexible work arrangements: Our flexible work policies empower you to balance your professional and personal life, fostering a culture of trust and autonomy.

• A comprehensive benefits package : From a yearly wellness incentive, to access to additional 8 weeks of flex leave per year, and family-friendly policies, including 26 weeks of gender-neutral paid parental leave, we cater to your diverse needs to help you thrive both personally and professionally

Acknowledgement of Country

Our preferred applicant will be required to undertake employment screening by EY or our external third-party provider.

© 2025 Ernst & Young Australia. A member firm of Ernst & Young Global Limited. All Rights Reserved. Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation.

Sector Client Executive - Wealth and Asset Management

As our Client Executive – Wealth & Asset Management, you’ll play a pivotal role in delivering exceptional client service to leading wealth and asset management organizations. You’ll drive global account strategy, lead client-facing business development, and build senior-level relationships that create long-term value.

Your key responsibilities

• Lead global account strategy and growth, driving revenue and deepening relationships with major wealth and asset management clients.
• Work with EY’s leadership team to manage one of our largest and most complex accounts through the origination of new opportunities and the development of sincere, lasting client relationships.
• Manage the sales process for a portfolio of strategic opportunities, including identifying and closing new business.
• Drive the sales of large, complex technology-enabled transformation projects and managed services engagements, ensuring alignment with client needs and organisational goals.
• Take ownership of understanding client challenges and engaging the right EY resources to architect and close new business opportunities.
• Ensure consistent pricing and contractual arrangements within the account.
• Conduct win/loss reviews to determine what factors caused the firm to win or lose business and proactively share this information with the account team.
• Coach the account team regarding account management activities, including the account management system.

Skills and attributes for success

• Ability to build and sustain trusted relationships with C-suite executives, demonstrating strong executive presence and influencing skills.
• Commercial acumen and sector expertise to identify opportunities, negotiate complex agreements, and deliver client-centric solutions.
• Proven capability to lead account strategy and foster innovation through alliances and digital transformation initiatives.
• Experience within a professional services environment will be highly regarded and help you thrive in this role.

Ideally, you’ll also have the skills and attributes below but don’t worry if you don’t tick all the boxes. We’re interested in your aptitude, attitude and willingness to learn.

• Demonstrated experience selling to, or managing relationships with, C-suite executives and heads of business units within Financial Services.
• Experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder enterprise sales cycles within wealth and asset management or broader financial services.
• Strong influencing skills and ability to navigate a matrixed organisation, balancing client priorities with firm objectives.
• A proven ability to lead virtual teams brought together around an account opportunity.
• Detailed financial knowledge gained through selling complex solutions.
• A high degree of self-drive and tenacity, with the ability to proactively manage your own priorities in an autonomous environment.

What we offer you

At EY, we’ll fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learn .

• Career development: At EY, your career is yours to shape! We’ll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences
• Flexible work arrangements: Our flexible work policies empower you to balance your professional and personal life, fostering a culture of trust and autonomy.

• A comprehensive benefits package : From a yearly wellness incentive, to access to additional 8 weeks of flex leave per year, and family-friendly policies, including 26 weeks of gender-neutral paid parental leave, we cater to your diverse needs to help you thrive both personally and professionally

Acknowledgement of Country

Our preferred applicant will be required to undertake employment screening by EY or our external third-party provider.

© 2025 Ernst & Young Australia. A member firm of Ernst & Young Global Limited. All Rights Reserved. Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation.

Client Executive – Wealth & Asset Management

As our Client Executive – Wealth & Asset Management, you’ll play a pivotal role in delivering exceptional client service to leading wealth and asset management organizations. You’ll drive global account strategy, lead client-facing business development, and build senior-level relationships that create long-term value.

Your key responsibilities

• Lead global account strategy and growth, driving revenue and deepening relationships with major wealth and asset management clients.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior executives, shaping transformative solutions and introducing strategic alliances that deliver measurable impact.
• Champion innovation and collaboration, leveraging EY’s global network and cutting-edge capabilities to solve complex client challenges.

Skills and attributes for success

• Ability to build and sustain trusted relationships with C-suite executives, demonstrating strong executive presence and influencing skills.
• Commercial acumen and sector expertise to identify opportunities, negotiate complex agreements, and deliver client-centric solutions.
• Proven capability to lead account strategy and foster innovation through alliances and digital transformation initiatives.

Ideally, you’ll also have the skills and attributes below but don’t worry if you don’t tick all the boxes. We’re interested in your aptitude, attitude and willingness to learn.

• Experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder sales cycles within wealth and asset management or broader financial services.
• Familiarity with digital transformation, managed services, and alliance-based solutions to help clients innovate and grow.
• Strong influencing skills and ability to navigate a matrixed organization, balancing client priorities with firm objectives.
• A track record of driving revenue growth and building long-term strategic relationships in a professional services environment.

What we offer you

At EY, we’ll fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learn .

• Career development: At EY, your career is yours to shape! We’ll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences
• Flexible work arrangements: Our flexible work policies empower you to balance your professional and personal life, fostering a culture of trust and autonomy.

• A comprehensive benefits package : From a yearly wellness incentive, to access to additional 8 weeks of flex leave per year, and family-friendly policies, including 26 weeks of gender-neutral paid parental leave, we cater to your diverse needs to help you thrive both personally and professionally

Acknowledgement of Country

Our preferred applicant will be required to undertake employment screening by EY or our external third-party provider.

© 2025 Ernst & Young Australia. A member firm of Ernst & Young Global Limited. All Rights Reserved. Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation.

As an Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) professional, you’ll focus on bringing solutions and strategies to advance our clients' work and asset management capabilities. You’ll work with high-performing teams that drive growth and deliver exceptional client service, ensuring you play your part in building a better working world through better working assets.

As a Senior Manager, you will be responsible for driving the sales pipeline and designing Maximo/Maximo Application Suite (MAS) EAM solutions for customers. Your objectives will include increasing revenue, profitability, and market competitiveness; ensuring solutions meet customer requirements; and designing and delivering complex solutions as per customer needs.

Your Key Responsibilities

The EAM Senior Manager will provide Maximo/MAS consulting services to EAM clients, helping them improve business performance.

• Develop external eminence across the sub-capabilities in the EAM space.
• Promote an effective forum for sharing EAM expertise.
• Strengthen our collective EAM knowledge, helping resolve our clients' EAM challenges.
• Work with the business development team to jointly assess customer opportunities.
• Capture Maximo/MAS requirements and design end-to-end solutions addressing customers’ business drivers.
• Support the development of new Maximo/MAS opportunities in conjunction with the business development teams.
• Provide consultancy to customers in the development of their requirements, where appropriate.
• Actively participate in the RFI/RFP process and develop proposals in line with customer needs, liaising and qualifying with other colleagues as necessary.
• Present technical solutions to customers, both formally and informally, as required.
• Author high-quality, informative content with solution descriptions and diagrams as part of the RFI/RFP process.
• Be the voice of the market; gather and consolidate market observations and trends.
• Validate order documentation before submitting it to the delivery team.
• Provide additional information and advice to the Service Delivery and Operations team during implementation to drive successful delivery engagements that are profitable and of the highest quality.
• Provide various levels of reports for top opportunities, weekly progress reports, and ad-hoc reports requested by management.
• Maintain and upskill knowledge of various products, services, and industry practices.

Skills and Attributes for Success

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, especially around breaking down complex structures into digestible and relevant points for a diverse set of clients and colleagues at all levels.
• Ability to challenge and inspire both co-workers and clients to think about difficult situations in new and transformative ways.
• Promote diverse and inclusive teaming and leadership.
• Provide innovative commercial insights for clients, adapt methods and practices to fit operational team and cultural needs, and contribute to thought leadership.
• Actively contribute to improving operational efficiency on projects and internal initiatives.
• Consistently drive projects to completion with high quality, in line with our commitment to quality.
• Lead teams or parts of teams on engagements, anticipating and identifying risks and escalating issues as appropriate.
• Help create a positive learning culture, coach and counsel junior team members, and help them develop.

To Qualify for the Role, You Must Have

• A bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Technology, Engineering, Marketing, Economics, Finance, or a related field.
• A minimum of 8 to 10 years of related work experience or a graduate degree and 7 years of related work experience.
• A minimum of 8 years of experience delivering Maximo/MAS services to EAM clients.
• Experience leading teams, managing engagement economics, and business development.
• Flexibility to work across advisory services if needed.
• Proven work experience in one or more of the following areas: Utility (Transmission, Distribution, Generation, Nuclear), Oil and Gas, Media and Entertainment, Regulatory, Customer, Supply Chain, Finance Transformation, implementation.
• Ability to travel 60+%; valid driver’s license and US passport required.

Ideally, You’ll Also Have

• Experience with Schedule, Dispatch, and Mobile.
• Compatible Units experience.
• Project Systems, structure, WBS creation, and accounting linkage experience.
• Master’s degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Additional EAM product experience.
• EAM Configuration tools experience is desired.

Consultant and Senior Consultant - Technology Risk - Financial Services

As our Consultant or Senior Consultant, you’ll use your passion for Technology Risk with Financial Services experience, to join our diverse team. You will focus on providing IT Risk management services to our financial services clients. You will work with our banking, insurance, and wealth management clients to develop and deliver exceptional Technology Risk Services.

All while maintaining work-life balance through hybrid working.

Your key responsibilities

• Support financial audit teams by identifying financial reporting related IT risks, evaluating ITGC design and operating effectiveness and testing application controls
• Control assurance reporting, including GS007, ASAE3150, SOC1, SOC2 etc.
• Provide a broad range of Technology risk services, relating to regulatory compliance, e.g. regulatory compliance services to CPS 234 and CPS 230
• Identify, evaluate and manage risks derived from an organisation engaging with a third party

Skills and attributes for success

• Financial services industry-based knowledge and experience.
• Knowledge of, and experience in, IT audit supporting external audits, controls assurance reports, internal auditing, IT risk management strategies and techniques
• A result orientated and commercially client focused mindset
• Use knowledge of the current IT environment and industry IT trends to identify the engagement and client service issues.

Ideally, you’ll also have the skills and attributes below but don’t worry if you don’t tick all the boxes. We’re interested in your aptitude, attitude and willingness to learn.

• A passion for emerging technologies and willingness to work within a team to advise clients on how to manage IT risks.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities.
• Comfort to take on unfamiliar tasks and regularly learn new skills.
• Maintain awareness of current industry IT trends and regulations.

What we offer you

At EY, we’ll fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learn .

• Career development: At EY, your career is yours to shape! We’ll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences
• Flexible work arrangements: Our flexible work policies empower you to balance your professional and personal life, fostering a culture of trust and autonomy.

• A comprehensive benefits package : From a yearly wellness incentive, to access to additional 8 weeks of flex leave per year, and family-friendly policies, including 26 weeks of gender-neutral paid parental leave, we cater to your diverse needs to help you thrive both personally and professionally

Our preferred applicant will be required to undertake employment screening by EY or our external third-party provider.

© 2025 Ernst & Young Australia. A member firm of Ernst & Young Global Limited. All Rights Reserved. Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation.

As our Manager in Audit, you’ll help our clients meet their reporting requirements by accurately reporting on financial statements and providing meaningful insights into accounting and reporting matters.

Your key responsibilities

• Manage the audit engagement by defining audit strategy, in consultation with the Senior Manager / Partner, and executing it in compliance with our policies and protocols.
• Effectively manage the Audit process with appropriate consideration of audit risk issues and accounting technical matters.
• Lead and manage fieldwork on clients’ sites including liaising with other departments to ensure the smooth delivery of the Audit process.
• Leverage your expertise in accounting frameworks (IFRS) and in related financial reporting matters.

Skills and attributes for success

• Proven experience in delivering external audit and assurance engagements.
• Experience leading the planning, execution and reporting on audits.

• A degree and/or progress towards/completion of a recognised accounting qualification (CA, CPA, ACCA or equivalent)

Ideally, you’ll also have the skills and attributes below but don’t worry if you don’t tick all the boxes. We’re interested in your aptitude, attitude and willingness to learn.

• The ability to create a positive learning culture, and coach and counsel junior team members to help them to develop.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills and a collaborative approach.

• The ability to develop and maintain strong relationships with clients, addressing their concerns and providing value added recommendations.

What we offer you

At EY, we’ll fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learn .

• Career development: At EY, your career is yours to shape! We’ll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences
• Flexible work arrangements: Our flexible work policies empower you to balance your professional and personal life, fostering a culture of trust and autonomy.

• A comprehensive benefits package : From a yearly wellness incentive, to access to additional 8 weeks of flex leave per year, and family-friendly policies, including 26 weeks of gender-neutral paid parental leave, we cater to your diverse needs to help you thrive both personally and professionally

Our preferred applicant will be required to undertake employment screening by EY or our external third-party provider.

© 2025 Ernst & Young New Zealand. A member firm of Ernst & Young Global Limited. All Rights Reserved. Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation.