EY Financial Services - Capital Markets Senior Consultant 

United States, New York, New York 

448383672

Your key responsibilities

You’ll be responsible for assisting on client engagements, working with high-performing teams to analyze, evaluate and enhance our clients’ capital markets businesses. You will interface with clients at all levels of an organization to help them solve their most challenging questions and support the Capital Markets practice in developing new offerings and thought leadership to take to market, enhancing our capabilities and services.

Skills and attributes for success

You will spend most of your time assisting on all phases of client delivery in an exciting variety of projects. You will have a keen interest and understanding of the capital markets across the trade and client life cycle; the tools that are used across the front, middle and back offices; and a keen interest in innovation, digital strategy and driving efficiency for our clients. You will be a critical thinker with strong analytical and communication skills.

To qualify for the role you must have

· A bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or Business with 3+ years of relevant experience working at a financial services company or comparable experience working as an advisor to a financial services organization; or a master’s degree in business administration (MBA) with 2+ years of relevant experience working at a financial services company or comparable experience working as an advisor to a financial services organization.

· A minimum of 2 recent years of experience in capital markets.

· Proven experience in managing small, midsize and large businesses, functions or projects in the capital markets sector

· Knowledge of a range of financial products, including derivatives, equities, and fixed income; foreign exchange; and commodities

· Knowledge of industries, including investment banking, broker-dealers, custody, fund administration and investment management

· Worked in a strategy-focused role across the front, middle or back office where you will have driven change and transformation that had a real impact to the business

· The ability to travel — you will likely spend a significant amount of time on-site with our clients. Travel may be international. Many clients are not within range of public transportation.

Ideally you’ll also have

· Experience in managing mid-level relationships with clients and interaction with clients up to the C-suite level

· An understanding of the needs of clients and experience developing new service offerings to meet their needs

· Expertise in policies, procedures, governance, design and operations in relevant areas, such as trade life cycle, front-office structure, broker-dealer operations, clearance and settlement, client onboarding, treasury operations, collateral management and regulatory regimes

What we look for