EY FS Business Consulting - Insurance Finance 

Ireland 

518268694

General Information

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship:YES/NO

Contract Type:Full-Time – Permanent

These offerings include:

• Agile Business Finance – Delivering an optimised Finance function by ensuring a collaborative alignment between Finance, Business and Technology to build an Innovation-led Finance function to help empower teams, enhance capabilities and realise benefits faster.
• Value and Performance Management – Enabling Finance functions to identify and deliver sustainable long-term value through optimised planning, reporting and analytics.
• Global Business Services – Developing high performing operating models through process simplification, standardisation and leveraging enabling technologies.
• Finance Strategy and Operating Model – Development of a digital finance vision; target operating model; case for change, benefits realisation and transformation roadmap.

Your key responsibilities

• Work as part of a client engagement teams with diverse skills and backgrounds. Strong understanding of core business and finance operations gained through involvement/ delivery of projects.

• Exceptional problem-solving ability including logical reasoning, creative thinking and the ability to untangle complex issues for improving existing business processes and workflows

• Deliver high-quality work products within expected timeframes and on budget

• Demonstrate understanding in project management fundamentals, including RAID logs, status reports, and meeting minutes
  • Collaborate with clients to identify their business goals, processes, and challenges, converting these insights into detailed functional requirements
  • Facilitate workshops and interviews with stakeholders to collect and document business requirements, process flows, use cases, and user stories
  • Support EY's service offerings, actively contributing to a diverse range of service deliveries
  • Innovate and develop creative solutions to client challenges, enhancing strategic and operational outcomes
  • Articulate complex concepts clearly and effectively, both verbally and in writing, to ensure stakeholder understanding
  • Maintain strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple tasks, consistently delivering high-quality results on schedule
  • Cultivate and maintain trusted client relationships, representing EY with professionalism and establishing credibility
  • Stay updated on the latest trends and developments in the Financial Services industry to foster innovation and contribute to Insurance practice development specifically in areas of thought leadership, RFP support, operations and training
  • Work effectively within EY engagement teams and communicate clearly with both internal and external stakeholders, promoting a collaborative and productive team environment

Skills and attributes for success

• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Understanding of Insurance and finance landscape and key trends in this space as well as wider implications on the Financial Services industry
• Quick to understand intricate business challenges and devise suitable solutions
• Be experienced of full project lifecycle from concept through to implementation
• Skilled at overcoming obstacles and barriers.
• Demonstrate professionalism and rapidly establish personal credibility
• Exhibit strong personal impact and resilience, with the ability to influence clients and stakeholders to secure support for major changes and critical decisions
• Collaborative team player with a forward-thinking mindset, self-motivated, thrives on new challenges, and quickly adapts to learning new knowledge
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with experience presenting to stakeholders

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Strong academic record including a third level degree, preferably in a Insurance/finance/data/risk, business, or project related area
• Minimum 2-5 years of experience in delivering change in an insurance function environment – gained either from prior experience in consulting or through a track record of delivering change/transformation projects in industry (Preferred industry experience include financial services, insurance, transformation, financial risk management)
• Exceptional analytical and communication skills with a proven ability to engage effectively with diverse stakeholders
• Proven experience in developing structured presentations using PowerPoint and analytic skills using Excel

Ideally, you will also have

• Previous experience in Consulting or relevant industry experience in a Financial Institution.
• Knowledge of regulations such as IFRS 17 and Solvency II is an advantage.
• Project Management Cert/Qualification/ACCA/CIMA/ACA​is an advantage.
• Lean six sigma qualification is an advantage.
• Project Management and/or Agile certification

What we look for

• Someone who enjoys working as part of community which values integrity, respect, teaming, inclusiveness and building high performing teams
• Someone with energy, enthusiasm and courage who enjoys solving complex problems and variety in their day-to-day working life
• Someone who is passionate about reaching their full potential and excelling in their career

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:

• 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:

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.

Inclusion & Diversity

• We hold a collective commitment to foster an environment where all differences are valued and respected, practices are equitable and everyone experiences a sense of belonging: Inclusion, diversity, and equity are part of who we are at EY. We believe that the highest-performing teams maximize the power of different perspectives and backgrounds. These teams are both diverse and inclusive and are willing to invite and learn from other perspectives. Our ability to include various viewpoints into our mindsets, behaviours and operations is fundamental to driving innovation, building strong relationships, and delivering the best solutions for our clients.

We recognise the strength that comes from having a diverse workforce and building a culture where we support all our people to achieve their potential. You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.