Senior Consultant, Workforce Transformation (Org Design/Change), Financial Services

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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, Workforce Transformation, 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 an Organisational Design/Change Senior Consultant to join our Financial Services, UK Workforce Transformation team and work with us to provide our clients with core offerings of Future Workforce, Future Organisation Design and Future Performance.

Overview of the role

You'll have the opportunity to work within a highly skilled, diverse, and passionate team to deliver transformative organisational design 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

• Contribute to day-to-day project delivery across transformation projects by bringing organisation design and consulting capability.
• Take ownership for project management activities such as project status reports, risk assessments and reporting.
• Take responsibility for contributing to organisation design development, bringing insights and design thinking to test and challenge solutions with wider project team. Work with management to refine and help in selecting the recommended organisational models to present to clients.
• 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.
• Support in communicating and embedding workforce transformation strategies and working with leadership to identify further opportunities areas to drive client and solution growth.
• 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:

• A good understanding of core Organisational Design/Target Operating Model/change management disciplines.
• Foundational understanding of the opportunities and risks associated with acquisitions, divestures, mergers, and the organisational design implications is preferred, not critical.
• Demonstrates good data analytical thinking and competency. Has experience in completing data analysis and current state assessment.
• Has good 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.
• Experience leveraging tools to expediate data collection, analysis and design is preferred, not critical.
• Demonstrates good business and commercial acumen.
• Has experience in project management including risk management, status update creation, reporting, project planning etc.
• Good communication and reporting capability.

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)
• 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.

• Experience of delivering org. design 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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