Senior Consultant, Workforce Transformation & People Experience

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 have the opportunity to take your career in the direction you want.

At EY, we are uniquely and strategically positioned to advise industry leaders in the face of increasing disruptions, an ever-changing workforce and evolving business landscape.

Within People Consulting, we help our clients to solve their most complex people and employee-related challenges. We help our clients harness their people agenda by ensuring they have the right people, with the right capabilities, in the right place, for the right cost, doing the right things. We put employees at the heart of what we do, delivering human-centric transformations that go beyond traditional change programs.

The Opportunity

We are looking for talented Senior Consultants to join either our Workforce Transformation and/or our People Experience teams as part of our UK Financial Servies People Consulting team.

Our Workforce Transformation team provides solutions across Future Performance, Future Workforce and Future Organisation Design

Our People Experience team provides solutions across Change management & communications, Culture & ways of working, Digital people experience and Future HR

Overview Of The Role

You’ll have the opportunity to work within a highly skilled, diverse, and passionate team to deliver transformative projects for our clients. You’ll have the opportunity to support development of innovative and insightful solutions, working for a range of clients across the Financial Services sector. As a Senior, you will be an integral member of the delivery team, supporting project leadership and management to ensure smooth day-to-day running of our projects and supporting in effective project management activities. You will actively contribute to go-to market opportunities and provide mentoring to our more junior team members.

Key Responsibilities applicable for both Workforce Transformation and People Experience

• Contribute to day-to-day project delivery across transformation projects by bringing project management and consulting capability.
• Take ownership for project management activities such as project status reports, risk assessments and reporting.
• Support in managing client relationships. Support in developing reports, deliverables, and communication assets to ensure successful delivery of engagement.
• Proactively raise risk and issues with management. Work with project team to develop mitigation plans and assess risk levels.
• Contribute to go-to-market activities by supporting proposal development, supporting management and leadership in pitch preparation, and undertaking critical engagement management activities.
• Support leadership in securing new engagement activity by identifying and communicating additional engagement opportunities across existing client engagements.
• Develop an 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
  
  

Skills And Attributes For Success

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

For Workforce Transformation specifically.

• Prior 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 management to refine and help in selecting the recommended organisational models to present to clients.

Experience of delivering org. design and/or change/communications projects across the Financial Services Sector is preferred (incl. Banking and Capital Markets, Insurance, Wealth, and Asset Management, FinTechs )

What We Look For

We are interested to hear from people with the right attitude for the job! That’s naturally curious and innovative people that feed on the energy of a thriving global team. You’ll need a balance of technical and analytical skills, a creative approach to work and strong communication skills. If you’ve got big ideas on how we can do better, this role is for you.

What Working At EY Offers

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.
  
  

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

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