AI Project Manager Financial Services

The opportunity

Our AI team based in Belgium supports clients across various business sectors with a focus on Financial Services - including banking capital markets insurance wealth and asset management - helping them embrace AI at scale and achieve tangible results while transforming their approach to the future.

We are currently looking for a talented and motivated AI Project Manager to join our team.

Your key responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of AI initiatives for Financial Services clients from discovery and business case through build and testing to production rollout and hypercare ensuring scope schedule budget and quality are met.
• Establish and run robust delivery governance (RAID KPIs/OKRs stage gates value tracking) with clear decision forums and reporting to senior stakeholders (CIO/COO Heads of Data/Compliance).
• Orchestrate multidisciplinary squads (AI engineers solution architects data engineers product owners designers risk & compliance) and third parties ensuring alignment and effective collaboration.
• Drive adoption of secure SDLC and MLOps/LLMOps practices across teams (branching strategy environments CI/CD testing strategy documentation runbooks).
• Ensure Responsible AI and regulatory compliance (AI Act readiness GDPR DORA model risk management) in partnership with Risk Legal Security and Model Validation and maintain auditready documentation.
• Plan and execute change management and enablement (training communications business readiness) maximizing user adoption and value realization.
• Own the program backlog and roadmap; facilitate discovery prioritization and sequencing of use cases; manage dependencies and critical paths across streams.
• Support business development: contribute to proposals estimations statements of work and case studies; represent EY in client meetings as a trusted delivery lead.

Skills and attributes for success

• 4 years of experience leading complex technology programs including managing AI/ML initiatives in Financial Services.
• Proven command of Agile/Scaled Agile and hybrid delivery models; expert in backlog management story mapping and sprint/PI planning using Jira or Azure DevOps.
• Good understanding of AI solution building blocks (LLMs RAG agents vector databases model evaluation & monitoring) and cloud data platforms (Azure Databricks Snowflake).
• Fluency in delivery risk management and value realization (benefits tracking OKRs ROI).
• Familiarity with Responsible AI frameworks and model governance (NIST AI RMF ISO/IEC 42001) and with EU regulatory context (AI Act GDPR DORA).
• Fluent in Dutch or French and a business proficiency in English.

Can we dream for more

• Professional certifications such as PMP/Prince2 SAFe (LPM/RTE) Scrum or Azure Fundamentals/AI Engineer.
• Handson experience establishing AI delivery playbooks and operating models in a regulated FS environment.
• Track record delivering multivendor programs > 2M budget and coordinating nearshore/onsite teams.

What we offer you

• You will be part of a leading global professional services firm.
• You will be part of the EY family where everyone is willing to offer support and senior management is very accessible.
• You will join a dynamic and growing team with a great mix of young and experienced professionals focusing on financial services.
• You will get extensive trainings on technical matters as well as soft skills and project management and you will have access to new technologies and innovative equipment.
• We are proud of our flexible working arrangements and we will support you to build a successful career and deliver excellent client service without sacrificing your personal priorities.
• While our client-facing profession might require part-time working at client site and business traveling at times we are committed to helping you achieve a lifestyle balance.

Are you ready to shape your future with confidence Apply today.

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