At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.

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EY focuses on high-ethical standards and integrity among its employees and expects all candidates to demonstrate these qualities.

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!

Data has yet to be utilized to its fullest potential. Financial institutions are looking to build smarter and more efficient ways to operate their business, through new opportunities uncovered by their data. Our clients look to us as trusted advisors to provide insights on how to ingest, interpret, and manage their data. We specialize in business intelligence, advanced analytics, and information management. EY is transforming the way our clients use and manage their data by architecting data strategies, providing end-to-end solutions that focus on improving their data supply chain, reengineering processes, enhancing risk control, and enabling information intelligence by harnessing latest advanced technologies.

The opportunity

We provide constant room for growth through client engagements and personal development. Our practitioners develop and lead innovative data techniques and methods, supporting both business and technology leaders. This role provides the unique opportunity to build a professional network, tackle complex data issues, and drive cutting edge approaches across industry leading clients and domains. The experiences you gain here will be more valuable than anywhere else.

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Your Key Responsibilities

You will be leading diverse teams of professionals across different geographies to deliver a wide range of data and analytics services focused on defining data and analytics strategies, performing assessments, recommending remediation strategies/solutions based on aggregated view of identified gaps, and designing/implementing future state data and analytics solutions, . You will be solving complex issues and responsible for driving growth across financial services.

Skills and attributes for success

• Fostering an innovative and inclusive team-oriented work environment

• Leading and coaching diverse teams of professionals with different backgrounds

• Providing subject matter expertise in defining technical and business approaches

• Building strong relationships with the clients and cultivating business opportunities

• Initiating and building thought leadership through white papers, point of views, and proof of concepts

• Working in an entrepreneurial environment to pave your own career path

• Ability to meet deadlines and manage project delivery

• Superior communication and interpersonal skills

• Develop strategies to solve problems logically using creative methods

• Propose and drive new technologies to enhance or replace existing business processes

• Evaluate and test various alternative approaches and recommend the best path forward

• Manage cross functional teams, to ensure project task and timeline accountability

• Experience with data management, architecture, analysis and visualization

• Ability to engage and influence large teams and functional leaders

To qualify for the role you must have

• Undergraduate or Master’s degree in a quantitative field (e.g. engineering, computer science, business, economics, finance, statistics, and/or analytics)

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in banking, capital markets, insurance or asset management in a Data Scientist or Business Intelligence role with at least 3 years of experience managing a team

• Superior communication (verbal and written) and presentation skills with the ability to effectively advocate technical solutions and results to technology and business audiences at all levels and disciplines within EY and client organizations

• Experience presenting analytical conclusions to senior officials in a company and other stakeholders

• Superior communication (verbal and written) with the ability to lead meetings, hold workshops with executives, effectively advocate technical solutions and results to technology and business audiences

• Proven application of advanced analytical and statistical methods in the financial services space

• Experience working independently, efficiently and effectively under extreme time constraints and delivering results by critical deadlines  

• Collaborate with our data scientists to map data fields to hypotheses and curate, wrangle, and prepare data for use in their advanced analytical models

• Demonstrated senior-level leadership (thought leadership or people leadership e.g. managed project teams or direct reports) in engaging with C-level executives and technical clients

• Practical experience in leading and managing teams through a product life cycle – requirements, design, development and testing

• Practical experience using latest technologies for data ingestion, storage, mining/warehousing, big data analytics, manipulation, and visualization

• Practical experience and familiarity with some of the following tools and technologies:

• SAS, R, Python, SPSS, MapR, Flume, Hue, Impala, predictive analytics, Tableau, Spotfire, and Java

• Meaningful experience in multiple database technologies such as:

• Distributed Processing (Spark, Hadoop, EMR)

• Traditional RDBMS (MS SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL)

• MPP (AWS Redshift, Teradata),

• NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB, Cassandra, Neo4J, Titan)

• Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Platform, Databricks)

• Experience with client-facing activities such as requirements gathering, facilitating meetings, presentation creation, and ability to prepare client ready deliverables

• Ability to quantify improvement in business areas resulting from optimization techniques through use of business analytics and/or statistical modeling

• Ability to integrate new knowledge and adapt to change with a natural curiosity and desire to learn

• Project management and process development expertise in client serving roles

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Strong organizational and time-management skills

• Ability to understand business challenges and translate them into analytics solutions

• Excellent leadership and teaming skills

• A willingness and ability to travel to meet client needs; travel is estimated at 80%-90%

• Valid US passport

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Prior consulting experience

• Experience monitoring performance, reporting, and economics of ongoing progress for the major initiatives of the business unit you support.

• Experience working independently, efficiently and effectively under extreme time constraints and delivering results by critical deadlines

• Experience quantifying results to the business, from the front line to senior executives

What we look for

We’re interested in self-motivated and passionate leaders with a strong vision and desire to stay on the cutting edge of data technology and science. We are looking for individuals who aspire to build collaborative team environments and possess effective management skills while demonstrating in-depth technical capabilities and industry knowledge. If you have a genuine drive for helping consumers achieve the full potential of their data while working towards your own development, this role is for you!

What we offer

We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to the business. The base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $124,300 to $227,900. The salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $149,200 to $259,000. Individual salaries within those ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography. In addition, our Total Rewards package includes medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, and a wide range of paid time off options. Join us in our team-led and leader-enabled hybrid model. Our expectation is for most people in external, client serving roles to work together in person 40-60% of the time over the course of an engagement, project or year. Under our flexible vacation policy, you’ll decide how much vacation time you need based on your own personal circumstances. You’ll also be granted time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.

• 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.

EY accepts applications for this position on an on-going basis. If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.

Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate.

Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.

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