Service Delivery Lead/Functional Analyst - Financial Services - Manager- Dublin

Delivery Lead – Financial Services – Manager- Dublin 
 
EY is the only major professional services firm with an integrated Financial Services practice across Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa (EMEIA). We connect our Asset Management, Banking and Capital Markets and Insurance clients to 6,500 talented people from 12 countries and 35,000 Financial Services colleagues around the world.

 

In EY FS Ireland, we are expanding our Consulting practice and building our Technology Consulting team as a key component of our NextWave Strategy. NextWave is EY’s global strategy and ambition to deliver long-term value to clients, people and society. It is inspired by the way innovations spread through society. We are actively recruiting high achieving individuals with Core banking Delivery expertise on technology-enabled transformation projects/programmes within Financial Services. 

The opportunity

 

Join EY FS Ireland you will be working with the best people on the most complex financial services issues, helping to shape the future of financial services.
By joining the Technology Consulting Team, you will work in high-performing teams that deliver exceptional client service, enabling organizations to grow, innovate, protect, and optimise their business performance – playing your part in building a better working world.

 

Your key responsibilities

 

• As a delivery lead you will be responsible for tasks across the major core banking transformation phases – Plan, Analyse, Design, Build, Test, Migrate, Deploy from a business and functional perspective.  You will be that critical link between the business and technology resources and stakeholders.
• Assist clients align project outcomes with their strategy by acting as an intermediary between business and technology stakeholders.
• Proactively identify any opportunities to assist the client de-risk projects by leveraging your experience in core banking transformations.
• Collaborate with Business Analysts and Architects in solutions and process design encompassing the client End to End solutions and Business process design
• Assist clients in leading discussions with various Core Banking Vendors on transformation projects.
• Assist clients with pre transformation and mobilisation tasks such as Product Standardisation, Requirements, documents for analysis workshops etc.
• Work with product managers and product designers to shape the evolution of the product set, with a specific focus on integration and extension capabilities.
• Elaborate, assess and provide recommendations on solution options that align with the client’s strategy and business objectives. 
• Contribute to the planning of solution delivery through estimations, dependencies, and risk management.
• Evaluation of estimations and roadmaps from vendor proposals.
• Regularly update job knowledge by researching new technologies and software products, participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks, participating in professional organizations etc.

 

People responsibilities

 

• Develop people through effectively supervising, coaching, and mentoring more junior members of staff
• Be responsible for your own self-development, and maintain an educational program to continually develop personal skills
• Understand and follow workplace policies and procedures

 
To qualify for the role, you must

 

• Have strong core banking transformation pedigree and experience (8 years or more)
• Have performed end to end core banking transformations from Analysis through to post go-live.
• Having worked in the consulting industry is advantageous.
• Have worked on single or multiple core banking packages (e.g., Finacle, FIS, Oracle, Temenos) is an advantage.
• Experience working in banks across multiple product domains.  (e.g., Retail, Corporate, SME, Treasury)
• Experience communicating at all levels from executive to team level. Strong verbal and written skills.
• Experience in review and writing of banking product specifications (business and functional).
• Experience in managing and leading teams essential.
• Have ability to build and manage relationships across business and technology stakeholders
• Stakeholder Management and working collaboratively with Development and Testing teams to deliver high quality solutions that meet client and user business needs
• Have a strong academic record including a third level degree, preferably in IT or relevant field
• Have experience operating in a fast paced, multi-vendor environment.
• Have knowledge and proven experience of working with IT Software Development Lifecycle methodologies (SDLC) including