FSO Risk Consulting - Financial Services Risk Mgmt, Regulatory Transformation, Director-Dublin

FSO Risk Consulting - Financial Services Risk Mgmt - Regulatory Transformation - Director – Dublin

General Information

Location: Dublin

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship: YES

Business Area: Financial Services Risk Management

Contract Type: Full Time - Permanent

EY is the only major professional services firm with an integrated Financial Services practice across Europe, the Middle East, India, and Africa (EMEIA). We connect our Asset Management, Banking and Capital Markets and Insurance clients to 6,500 talented people from 12 countries and 35,000 Financial Services colleagues around the world.

The Financial Services industry is undergoing significant transformation driven by rapidly evolving regulatory requirements, heightened supervisory scrutiny, technological disruption and increasing expectations around governance, risk management, and customer outcomes.

Our Financial Services Risk Consulting practice works with leading banking, insurance, asset management, and payments clients to help address these challenges through a combination of regulatory expertise, risk transformation capability, and technology-enabled solutions.

As we continue to grow, we are seeking talented professionals who combine deep technical expertise with the agility and adaptability to work across multiple risk disciplines. Successful candidates will support clients in designing, transforming, and embedding sustainable risk management capabilities while delivering meaningful business outcomes.

Our teams work across a broad range of areas including:

• Process and Controls Design, Testing and Transformation.
• Risk Operating Model Design and Implementation.
• Compliance and Conduct Risk.
• Financial Crime, Fraud Risk and Risk Transformation.
• Regulatory Change and Regulatory Transformation.
• Non-Financial Risk Management.
• Enterprise and Prudential Risk.
• Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC).
• Operational Resilience.
• Risk Data, Reporting and Analytics.
• Technology-Enabled Risk Transformation.

We are looking for professionals who can collaborate effectively across business, risk, compliance, operations, and technology functions and who are comfortable operating within complex and fast-changing regulatory environments.

We are seeking experienced Risk Consulting Directors to help lead and grow our Financial Services Risk Consulting business. This role is suited to senior professionals who combine deep technical expertise with a proven track record of developing client relationships, leading complex transformation programmes and driving commercial growth.

The Team and the opportunity

• Financial Services organisations are responding to increased regulatory scrutiny, evolving customer expectations, technological disruption and the need to strengthen governance, controls and risk management capability.
• Our practice supports clients in redesigning risk management capabilities, strengthening governance and control environments and delivering large-scale regulatory change and remediation programmes.
• Directors will play a leading role in shaping our market proposition and working directly with Executive, CRO, Chief Compliance Officer, Chief Controls Officer and Transformation leadership teams across the sector.

Your key responsibilities

• Lead complex client engagements across risk, compliance, financial crime and fraud, controls and regulatory transformation.
• Develop trusted advisor relationships with C-suite and senior executive stakeholders.
• Drive sales growth through market development, opportunity origination and proposal leadership.
• Shape and oversee large-scale regulatory remediation, financial crime and fraud risk transformation, broader risk transformation and controls transformation programmes.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams across multiple client engagements and capability areas.
• Build market propositions aligned to evolving regulatory priorities, supervisory expectations and client demand.
• Actively contribute to practice strategy, talent development and leadership across Financial Services Risk Consulting.

Key areas of interest

• Regulatory Transformation and Regulatory Change.
• Non-Financial Risk Transformation and Operational Risk.
• Compliance and Conduct Risk.
• Financial Crime and Fraud Risk, including financial crime controls, fraud risk management, AML, sanctions, transaction monitoring, customer due diligence and financial crime transformation where relevant.
• Process and Controls Transformation.
• Enterprise Risk Management and Risk Governance.
• Prudential Risk, including capital, liquidity, credit risk or model risk exposure where relevant.
• Operational Resilience, DORA, regulatory remediation and technology-enabled risk transformation.
• GRC enablement, workflow automation, risk analytics and controls digitisation.

 Skills and attributes for success

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Typically, 10+ years of relevant experience within Financial Services, Risk Consulting, regulatory advisory, compliance, financial crime and fraud risk, risk management or large-scale transformation environments.
• Proven experience leading complex client or internal transformation programmes.
• Strong executive stakeholder management capability and ability to influence senior decision makers.

Ideally, you will also have

• Demonstrated commercial capability, including sales origination, proposal development and account growth.
• Experience building, managing and developing high-performing teams.
• Strong understanding of the Irish and/or UK financial services regulatory environment.

Candidates are not expected to meet every criterion outlined above. We welcome applications from individuals who demonstrate strengths across some of these areas and have the capability and ambition to develop further.

Expectations & measures of success

• Be recognised as a trusted advisor on complex risk and regulatory matters.
• Create and convert market opportunities aligned to priority growth areas.
• Provide senior oversight to ensure high-quality client delivery and sustainable outcomes.
• Build capability within the practice through coaching, proposition development and talent leadership.
• Operate with agility across multiple risk domains while bringing depth in one or more priority capability areas.

What we look for

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

What working at EY offers

We offer a competitive remuneration package. Our comprehensive benefits 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: 

• Pension
• Discounted health insurance
• Web Doctor – Free unlimited online GP consultations for you and your family
• The purchase of additional annual leave
• Hybrid Working
• Free Gym membership
• Travel Pass
• Maternity & Paternity leave
• Bike to work Scheme
• Recognition Awards
• Cash incentives for referrals
• Work Mobile
• Tech MBA paid by EY
• Wellness rooms available in some offices

EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We strive to achieve the right balance for our people, enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities. While our client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites, our flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a lifestyle balance. 

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. 

About EY

As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, we’re using the finance products, expertise and systems we’ve developed to build a better working world. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime.

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.

As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. Reasonable accommodations are offered at every stage of our recruitment process. 

Are you ready to shape your future with confidence? Apply today.

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

IMPORTANT: Where Agency assistance is required, our Talent Team will engage directly with suppliers. CVs / Profiles should not be shared directly with Hiring Managers. Unsolicited CVs / Profiles supplied to EY by Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted for this role.