Financial Services - Capital Markets - Manager

EY is a leader in serving the global financial services marketplace and the only professional services firm with a separate business unit dedicated to the financial services industry the Financial Services Organization (FSO). Our focused model and bold ambition have put us at the center of the events that continue to reshape and redefine our industry working side by side with a range of clients from our most venerable institutions to dynamic new entrants across Banking and Capital Markets Wealth and Asset Management and Insurance. Our purpose is to help build a financial services industry in which financial institutions are trusted and flourish and the global economy is healthy growing and secure. If you have a passion for rallying together to solve complex challenges then come join our dynamic FSO team!

The opportunity

The Capital Markets team helps clients to solve their most challenging strategic problems: modernizing their infrastructure dealing with regulatory change defining their digital client strategy enhancing their client service experience and adjusting their long-term business mix. Our teams work across our clients front middle and back offices as well as at the industry level to drive performance improvement across sell-side buy-side and market infrastructure participants in the capital markets.

Your key responsibilities

Youll be responsible for managing client engagements working with high-performing teams to analyze evaluate and enhance our clients capital markets businesses. You will interface with clients at all levels of an organization to help them solve their most challenging questions and support the Capital Markets practice in developing new offerings and thought leadership to take to market enhancing our capabilities and services.

Skills and attributes for success

You will spend most of your time assisting on all phases of client delivery in an exciting variety of projects. You will have a keen interest and understanding of the capital markets across the trade and client life cycle; the tools that are used across the front middle and back office; and a keen interest in innovation digital strategy and driving efficiency for our clients. You will be a critical thinker with strong analytical and communication skills.

To qualify for the role you must have

A bachelors degree in Accounting Finance Economics or Business with 5 years of relevant experience working at a financial services company or comparable experience working as an advisor to a financial services organization; or a masters degree in business administration (MBA) with 3 years of relevant experience working at a financial services company or comparable experience working as an advisor to a financial services organization.

A minimum of 2 recent years of experience in capital markets.

Proven experience in managing small midsize and large businesses functions or projects in the capital markets sector

Knowledge of a range of financial products including derivatives equities and fixed income; foreign exchange; and commodities

Knowledge of industries including investment banking broker-dealers custody fund administration and investment management

Worked in a strategy-focused role across the front middle or back office where you will have driven change and transformation that had a real impact to the business

The ability to travel - you will likely spend a significant amount of time on-site with our clients. Travel may be international. Many clients are not within range of public transportation.

Ideally youll also have

Experience working in a front office and sales strategy role or in a technology and operations strategy role; you will have insights into inefficiencies in businesses and how to improve organizational performance

Experience in defining and delivering digital and data-led transformations and you will be passionate about innovation

Expertise cultivating mid- to senior-level relationships with clients and the ability to interact with clients up to the C-suite level

An understanding of clients needs and will develop new service offerings to meet their needs including providing advice on defining and designing business strategy operations and other functional strategies process framework guidelines and target operating models; improving business processes; and supporting business integration

Expertise in policies procedures governance design and operations in relevant areas such as trade life cycle front-office structure broker-dealer operations clearance and settlement client onboarding treasury operations collateral management and regulatory regimes

What we look for

We are looking for passionate leaders with strong visions to lend subject-matter expertise to improve Capital Markets processes. If you have a genuine desire to help businesses achieve their full potential this role is for you.