FSO Risk Consulting - Financial Services Risk Mgmt – Senior Consultant – Dublin

General Information

Location: Dublin

Available for 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 talented Senior Consultants to support the continued growth of our Financial Services Risk Consulting practice. This is an opportunity for ambitious professionals to broaden their experience across regulatory change, controls, compliance, risk transformation, and governance programmes.

We are hiring for Senior Consultants across 3 key areas:

Regulatory Transformation.
Compliance, Conduct & Financial Crime.
Process & Controls.

Background & opportunity:

Senior Consultants will work directly with client teams and senior colleagues to support the delivery of risk, controls, compliance and regulatory transformation engagements.
The role is suited to individuals with strong analytical capability, attention to detail and a desire to build broad Financial Services Risk Consulting experience.
Successful candidates will develop technical depth while building the consulting, stakeholder and delivery skills required for future progression into management roles.

Your Key Responsibilities:

Conduct risk and controls assessments, including process walkthroughs, controls design reviews and testing activity.
Support regulatory gap analyses, impact assessments, implementation planning and remediation programmes.
Document and evaluate business processes, risk frameworks, control environments and governance arrangements.
Analyse regulatory requirements, client data, process documentation and risk/control information.
Develop client presentations, reports, findings packs, workshop material and recommendations.
Participate in client workshops, stakeholder interviews and project governance meetings.
Support delivery across multiple capability areas, including regulatory transformation, compliance and conduct, financial crime and fraud, process and controls and non-financial risk.

Key areas of interest:

Risk management, compliance, financial crime and fraud risk, internal audit, controls assurance or regulatory change.
Operational risk, enterprise risk, conduct risk, fraud risk, governance or process improvement.
Process mapping, control documentation, control testing and remediation support.
Regulatory analysis, gap assessment, implementation support and PMO activity.
Risk data, reporting, analytics, GRC solutions or technology-enabled controls.

Skills and Attributes for Success

To qualify for the role, you must have:

Typically 3 to 6 years of relevant experience within Financial Services, consulting, risk, compliance, financial crime and fraud risk, internal audit, controls, assurance or transformation teams.
Strong analytical capability and attention to detail.
Ability to document processes, assess controls and summarise findings clearly.
Strong Excel, PowerPoint and written communication skills for client deliverable development.
Ability to work collaboratively in project teams and flex across multiple topics or workstreams.
Interest in developing across risk, regulatory, controls and technology-enabled transformation domains.

Expectations & measures of success:

Produce high-quality analysis, documentation and client deliverables.
Demonstrate curiosity, ownership and proactive problem solving.
Build credibility with clients and internal teams through reliable delivery.
Develop broad capability across Financial Services Risk Consulting while building technical depth.
Show readiness to progress through stronger stakeholder management, delivery discipline and team contribution.

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 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:

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 are 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 are using the finance products, expertise, and systems we have 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 will 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.

To help create the best experience during the recruitment process, please describe any disability-related adjustments or accommodations you may need.

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.

FSO Risk Consulting - Financial Services Risk Mgmt - Senior Consultant - Dublin

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