EY Manager - FS People Consulting Organisation Design London 

United Kingdom, England, London 

784311360

Managing global workforces is increasingly complex. People Consulting (PC) builds and improves organisational and individual performance, delivering a highly complex and challenging mission, especially in an ever-changing working environment. As a member of People Consulting, you’ll be part of a team with a wide variety of experiences and a supportive environment. When you join us, you will gain unique experiences and valuable knowledge working across capabilities, sectors and geographies and opportunity to take your career in the direction you want.

As a manager in our team, you will be responsible for managing the delivery of transformative projects for our clients, taking an employee-centric approach to delivery. You’ll work within a team to deliver innovative and insightful solutions, showcasing best-practice insights to support successful client delivery. As a manager, you will be responsible for providing day-to-day delivery support across project teams, contributing to effective go-to market strategies and supporting development of our overall people consulting capability and solution offering by providing counselling and upskilling opportunities to our more junior team members.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day project delivery across transformation projects by bringing solid organisation design and project management capability.
• Take ownership for project management activities such as project status reports, risk assessments and reporting.
• Manage and uphold client relationships.
• Manage delivery team, support effective teaming and upskill more junior members through on-the-job training
• Oversee and manage development of reports, deliverables, and communication assets to ensure successful delivery of engagement.
• Proactively raise risk and issues with leadership. Work with project team to develop mitigation plans and assess risk levels.
• Contribute to go-to-market activities by managing proposal development, supporting leadership in pitch preparation, and undertaking critical engagement management activities.
• Contribute to generating revenue by identifying and communicating additional engagement opportunities across existing client engagements
• Develop a good understanding of EY solution offerings across the firm and start building a personal network to bring the best of EY to our clients. Be comfortable in positioning the value that People Consulting can deliver alongside our other service line offerings

Key capabilities you should be prepared to bring to client facing and internal initiative teams include:

• Experience in Operating Model Development, Organisational Structure and Design, Strategic Workforce Planning, Capability Mapping, Organisational Assessment, and Organisational Governance, with success in current job applying one or more of these capabilities.
• Experienced in contributing to organisation design development, bringing insights and design thinking to test and challenge solutions with wider project team. Experience working with leadership to refine and help in selecting the recommended organisational models to present to clients.
• Good understanding of the opportunities and risks associated with acquisitions, divestures, mergers, and the organisational design implications is preferred, not critical.
• Clear data literacy and analytical competency. Has good experience in completing data analysis and current state assessment. Experience leveraging tools to expediate data collection, analysis and design is preferred, not critical.
• Has solid understanding of organisational effectiveness measures (such as spans of control, organisational layers, management ratios, grade structures) to assess maturity of organisational and operating model designs.
• Demonstrates good business and commercial acumen.

To qualify for the role, you must have:

• Relevant experience through one of the following: Professional services role with a global management consultancy firm or niche consultancy, internal human resources or organisational design role in industry or related line role in industry, in which you gained exposure to a large-scale project(s)
• Experience of delivering org. design projects across the Financial Services sector (ideally within banking)
• Experience working within both small and large multi-disciplinary teams to deliver functional and enterprise-wide transformation engagements.

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.