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The opportunity : Consultant - Risk Consulting - Internal Audit Insurance - Mumbai/Delhi/Pune

FS :

Amid comprehensive regulatory change, today’s financial services institutions are focusing on digital transformation, convergence and disruption from an array of non traditional competitors — all while meeting greater demands for trust and transparency.

We recruit, train and foster a diverse set of people who give their minds to building the future of financial services. Together, we explore new perspectives with innovative and innovative thinking to deliver exceptional client service and ensure that what we do today, counts for tomorrow.

CNS - Risk - Process & Controls :

Financial Services Risk - helps clients in the financial sector to identify, manage and monitor the risks in their business. It is done through a transformative and agile approach including process and procedures, risk, data modeling and analytics, reporting to stakeholders and third parties, business requirements (for software selection and IT implementation), analysis of assets and liabilities, and capital and liquidity management.

Your key responsibilities

The current role requires executing internal audit and other risk consulting engagements for asset managers or reviewing investment processes for insurance companies. As part of the role, the candidate is expected to:

• Perform end-to-end internal audits from planning to reporting including process understanding, walkthroughs, preparation of risk and control matrix / audit work program, control testing to assess their design and operating effectiveness, preparation of audit report and agreeing issues/ actions with management.

• Have an in-depth understanding of the asset management industry risks/ issues / trends and endto-end investment process (front, mid and back office processes) for all asset classes including fixed income, equities, derivatives, real estate, private equity/ hedge funds and alternatives.

• Have thorough knowledge and understanding of Internal Audit and SOX/ ICFR methodology and IIA requirements.

• Deliver / manage engagements to time, cost and high quality.

• Identify key areas of improvement in the client's business processes and add value by preparing insightful recommendations.

• Contribute to business development activities such as preparing proposals, lead identification

• Always comply with the firm’s quality and risk management policies

Skills and attributes

• Excellent oral and written communication skills

• Ability to work independently with minimum supervision

• Ability to quickly learn and handle new areas / solutions by leveraging internal and external knowledge sources

• Proactively anticipate engagement related risks and escalate issues as appropriate

• Strong relationship management skills to actively establish stakeholder / client (process owner/functional heads) and internal relationships

• Team player looking for opportunities to contribute to wider team goals

• Proficient in MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) skills, data analytics

• As part of a high-performing team, the individual should be self-motivated and willing to stretch to meet client and practice requirements

• Ability to work on multiple engagements/ clients concurrently

• Willingness to work across time zones and flexible to travel in future if needed

To qualify for the role you must have

· A CA or master's degree in Science or master's degree in arts or master's in business, accounting, finance, or a related discipline

3 to 5 years of experience

What we look for

People with the ability to work in a collaborative manner to provide services across multiple client departments while following the commercial and legal requirements. You will need a practical approach to solving issues and complex problems with the ability to deliver insightful and practical solutions. We look for people who are agile, curious, mindful and able to sustain postivie energy, while being adaptable and creative in their approach.

What we offer

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

Job Summary:

MDM Hub).

This role involves architecting and developing MDM solutions, managing data quality, and ensuring data governance practices across the enterprise.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and implement end-to-end MDM solutions using Informatica MDM platform.
• Configure Data Models, Match & Merge rules, Hierarchies, Trust Framework , and workflows.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, data architects, and developers to gather and analyse requirements.
• Perform data profiling, cleansing, standardization, and validation for master data domains.
• Implement data governance and stewardship workflows for maintaining data quality.
• Monitor MDM performance, manage error handling and system tuning.
• Prepare and maintain technical documentation, deployment guides , and support materials.
• Provide technical support and troubleshooting during and post-deployment.
• Stay up to date with Informatica MDM product updates, industry trends, and best practices.

Required Qualifications:

• 3-7 years of experience in Informatica MDM development and implementation .
• Strong understanding of MDM architecture, data modelling, and metadata management .
• Hands-on experience with Informatica MDM Hub, e360, IDD, SIF, MDM Provisioning Tool , and ETL/ELT .
• Experience with data quality tools (Informatica DQ or others) and MDM integration patterns .
• Understanding of data governance principles and master data domains (customer, product, vendor, etc.).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Informatica MDM certification(s).
• Experience with IDMC MDM – MDM SaaS
• Familiarity with data governance platforms (e.g., Collibra, Informatica Axon).
• Exposure to Agile/Scrum delivery methodologies.
• Experience in large-scale MDM implementations in domains like Retail, Manufacturing, Healthcare, or BFSI.

EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.

Your key responsibilities

• Client Interaction: As a trusted advisor, you will harvest requirements from the client and translate these into a solution that meets the objectives and principles agreed with the client. You will be part of a pursuit team and lead the technology aspect of it. You will be leveraging your technical knowledge, experience & deep understanding of both – project scope & EY’s technology (focus: SAP-build technology) capabilities/products. You are a technical leader, serving as a liaison among business partners, delivery leadership and pursuit stakeholders.
• Pursuit shaping: This is critical role in the architecture & solution design lifecycle cutting along the pursuit lifecycle. As a Technology Presales Architect, you are a technical leaders with strong understanding of technology and ability to apply it to drive business outcomes. You will provide guidance for the solution & pursuit definition, presales thought leadership, ascertain technical delivery possibilities & costs involved for the top critical business solution implementations - based on various available EY Technology products, tools & processes.
• Technology Presales development by working with a wide variety of internal stakeholders, namely Product Owners (SAP Technology Officers and Product Managers), Business Owners (in the Service Lines), EY SAP Delivery Teams and GDS (Global Delivery Services). The Technology Presales Architect is involved in envisioning, design and development of the pursuit design and response, with a broad focus around EY’s SAP delivery and technology capabilities for the enterprise, industry, platform and solutions. Any identified technology gaps will be addressed through established channels such as available Innovation and product capabilities.

Essential Functions of the Job:

• Presales / Pursuit Architecture & Solutioning for mid to large scale pursuits
• Provide thought leadership of a Technology Presales Architect with the service line pursuit /business teams during deal development, pursuit & close phases.
• Having deep understanding of SAP Technology and EY’s SAP drivers, products, tools & processes to stitch the right solution that delivers value add for the client
• Establish Presales standards, guidelines and procedures to overall increase the success rate of client pursuits for EY overall (and the EY SAP alliance particularly)
• Hands on in creating E2E solution architecture with an alignment with overall EA and IT Roadmap of specific clients.
• Shape RFP responses and bring in incisive insights from Tech experience.
• Bringing the outside in approach, ensure an objective analysis and provide actionable recommendation in the form of underpinned solutions.
• Current As-is Architecture as well as Transition Architecture and roadmap steps to reach the Target Architecture
• Address identified technology gaps during a pursuit cycle to the respective innovation and product teams and come up with innovative, creative mitigation plans / solutions.
• Understand the impact of (emerging) technology, and when this will have impact in what form and how does the business and IT capture that value (translation of potential and impact).
• Identify ways to reduce costs and bringing efficiencies through strong expertise and working knowledge of EY’s technical & business architecture
• Pro-actively contribute to the development of the Presales community and be an ambassador for good Architecture. Assist in onboarding new Technology Presales Architects.
• Maintain relationships with relevant delivery / competence centre teams and actively ensure that implemented solutions follow the (approved) designs, not only during a project but during the entire application life cycle.
• Interact with stakeholders on presales issues and strategic improvements where such expertise is required.
• Coach business owners and pursuit leads on technology presales during the pursuit lifecyle.
• Ensure proper pursuit / deal architecture and technology roadmaps are documented using the templates, Architecture tooling and conforms to standards and utilizes the available reference models.
• Actively work to identify, communicate, mitigate and resolve technology issues and risks. In case solutions cannot be 100% compliant with standards proactively seek input from the relevant function in order to obtain step-out approval.
• Collaborate with Technology Product Teams, influence the Product backlogs and priorities according to the findings of your Presales / pursuit engagements

Skills and attributes for success

• Knowledge on Industry solutions / products.
• Strong tech background – stints in deal development, architecture & strategy or being associated with a technology start-up.
• Having worked on large scale multi-technology, data, analytics deals.
• Technology all-round expertise – Applications, Infrastructure, Digital, Security.
• Having technical / data / application / integration architecture experience.
• Responding to RFPs, shaping client proposals.
• Expertise on solution write-up, making client presentations.
• Excellent Communication Skills in English both written and spoken. Ability to interact with a global audience of customers, partners and a global team
• Good business acumen with outstanding ability in developing strategic ongoing customer relationships, gaining trust of stakeholders and respect for the company through technical leadership.
• Ability to identify technical risks before they occur and to develop mitigation and avoidance strategies.
• Awareness of portfolio management (and the associated principles, tools and techniques).
• Organized and methodical. Ability to initiate, plan and develop according to plan though coping with a level of uncertainty and risk.
• Rigorous, thorough and with a taste for detail.
• Leadership & negotiating skills and ability to drive change using influence and networking.
  

Ideally, you’ll also

• Individual contributor role, hence, should know the art of influence without authority
• Strong experience in offshore/onsite working model and working with different geographies and cultures.
• Certifications and/or experience in Agile Delivery and DevOps would be desirable.
• Architectural training/certifications like TOGAF or IASA is desirable.
• Knowledge on service management framework, especially on areas of service strategy and design (ITIL V3/V4) would be an added advantage
• Regular international and domestic travel.
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 15+ years of technology, business development & thought leadership.