Digital Asset Risk and Control Specialist

Digital Asset Risk and Control Specialist

The opportunity
We are looking for a Manager to join our Oceania Technology Risk team with the purpose of increasing our teams ability to support a growing need to provide both assurance and non-assurance procedures over digital asset product offerings. This opportunity is offered on a flexible full-time basis at any of EYs offices across Australia.

You will work within the Digital Asset team to help our clients who are adopting blockchains investing in digital assets building platform services such as exchanges and custody solutions and Stablecoin issuers. Your role will be to enhance their security posture mature their risk and controls framework in line with emerging regulation leading practices and industry frameworks. You will work across a spectrum of fintech crypto natives regulated financial institutions and traditional industries who are adopting the technology across their business operations.

This role can be performed from any of our EY offices across Australia. Our roles can potentially be adjusted to work flexibly with reduced hours. Please speak with us about potential options.

Your key responsibilities

This is an exciting period in the adoption of the technology with incoming regulation set to provide certainty for companies whove been sitting on the sidelines. You will have the opportunity to build on your strong Risk and Control skills and enthusiasm for digital assets by working with some of the most innovative companies and vendors within Oceania and globally through EYs global blockchain network. You will be given all the skills knowledge and exciting learning opportunities to build your career and the chance to make a real impact.

You will:

• Help clients identify assess and manage technology operational and regulatory risks arising from blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) implementations. Your primary focus will be on designing and evaluating control frameworks governance models and risk mitigation strategies for digital asset products
• Translate blockchain security risks into business regulatory and operational impacts for executive stakeholders.
• Align blockchain implementations with regulatory and compliance frameworks (e.g. ISO 27001 NIST SOC 2 financial services regulations).
• Support clients with custody digital asset governance and operational resilience models.
• Contribute to internal and client-facing security policies standards and control frameworks.
• Lead client workshops system reviews process walkthroughs and executive briefings.
• Support proposal development solution shaping and delivery oversight.
• Mentor junior consultants and contribute to firm-wide blockchain risk and control capability development.

Skills and attributes for success

• Strong background in security architecture (application cloud or infrastructure).
• Hands-on experience with EVM based blockchain protocols.
• Experience configuring and working with major digital asset custody platform architectures such as MPC Multi-Sig HSM
• Experience developing or performing security audits on Smart Contracts and virtual machines (Solidity / EVM preferred).
• Experiencing hardening wallets custody models and key management systems (KMS HSMs).
• Experience securing cloud-native architectures (AWS Azure GCP) in blockchain contexts.
• Knowledge of development tools within the EVM stack (Solidity JS Truffle/Hardhat etc).
• A strong academic record including a degree (preferably a masters degree) focussed on technology i.e. Computer Science Software Engineer etc.

What we offer you

At EY well fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learnmore.

• Career development:At EY your career is yours to shape!Well develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences work arrangements:Our flexible work policies empower you to balance your professional and personal life fostering a culture of trust and autonomy.
• A comprehensive benefits package:From a yearly wellness incentive to access to additional 8 weeks of flex leave per year and family-friendly policies including 26 weeks of gender-neutral paid parental leave we cater to your diverse needs to help you thrive both personally and professionally offer a competitive salary which is open to negotiation pending on skills and experience.

Acknowledgement of Country

EY acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands on which EY offices arelocatedaround Australia. We pay our respects to their cultures and to their Elders past present and emerging. Find out more about our vision for reconciliationat is core to who we are and how we work together driving value for our people and for our business. We encourage applications from people of all ages nationalities abilities cultures sexual orientations and gender identities and are committed to providingan equitableand barrier free recruitment experience for all. We encourage you to share any support and adjustments you need to be your best andparticipateequitably in our recruitment process. We understand sharing your needs with us can be daunting so if you have questions before or during your application we welcome you to get in touch ator(option 2). Anything you tell us will be kept completely confidential.

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