Senior Consultant, Digital Assets, FinTech

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Digital assets in the UK are entering a more practical phase moving beyond pilots towards real products operating models and market infrastructure. That shift is creating important strategic choices for financial institutions across banking markets payments wealth and asset management. Its creating phenomenal market momentum and transformation potential.

Within EYs Financial Services FinTech team were looking to expand our team to help clients navigate this transition and turn momentum into tangible outcomes. You will contribute to the delivery of high profile and complex engagements across a wide range of financial services clients.

The opportunity
At EY we see a significant opportunity to help shape the future of financial services by bringing together the best of FinTech innovation deep sector knowledge strategic relationships and transformational delivery capabilities.

Digital assets are increasingly moving from experimentation toward practical application across financial services. This is creating new opportunities and new strategic choices for firms across banking capital markets payments wealth and asset management and insurance. Clients are exploring how digital assets and related technologies can support new products new operating models enhanced infrastructure and more efficient movement servicing and custody of assets and money.

Against this backdrop EY is continuing to invest in its FinTech and Digital Assets propositions. We are looking for a Senior Consultant to help develop our market position in this space with a particular focus on digital assets from a product innovation and commercialisation perspective.

You will sit within the Financial Services FinTech team working closely with leadership across Banking & Capital Markets Wealth & Asset Management Insurance and Payments as well as colleagues from strategy risk technology operations tax and regulatory teams. You will play a leading role in helping clients understand where digital assets are becoming relevant how they translate into business value and what it takes to execute effectively.

Your key responsibilities
Your contribution will play a significant part in helping clients navigate the rapidly evolving digital assets landscape and deliver practical outcomes at scale. You will operate across the full lifecycle from market assessment and strategic advisory through to target-state design mobilisation and implementation while helping to build EYs profile and relevance in this area.

• Conduct market assessments peer benchmarking and trends identification to define the status quo.
• Perform current state analysis and gap assessments to reach target state including identifying and implementing remediation actions.
• Develop current state and future state target operating and commercial model designs.
• Define the product roadmap including the definition of the vision business benefits and use cases.
• Support the development of business and technical requirements for product development.
• Support the implementation of new products and/or platforms.
• Lead workstreams within complex multidisciplinary engagementsspanning strategy risk regulation technology transformation and operations ensuring high-quality delivery and strong client outcomes.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (technology regulatory compliance) to deliver holistic client solutions.

Skills and attributes for success
We are looking for individuals with a combination of the following:

• Experience in digital assets ideally with exposure to areas such as tokenisation stablecoins digital custody blockchain-enabled payments market infrastructure digital asset servicing or broader blockchain-enabled financial products
• A strong understanding of how digital assets intersect with the priorities of financial institutions including growth product innovation distribution operating model change infrastructure modernisation risk management and regulatory evolution
• Experience leading complex transformation innovation or strategy work within financial services FinTech digital assets market infrastructure or consulting

To qualify for the role you should ideally have

• Experience delivering complex strategic innovation or transformation work for major financial services clients
• Experience gained in one or more of the following environments:
  • a leading consulting firm
  • a financial institution
  • a FinTech or digital assets firm
  • a market infrastructure exchange custody or platform business
• Exposure todigital asset platforms exchanges custodians or fintechs
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• A constructive and action-oriented approach
• A self-starting attitude with the ability to think and act quickly
• Experience of operating in a project-based environment

What we look for
We are seeking professionals with good knowledge of DLT and digital assets processes and products to join our growing team to build our business and support our clients build more resilient efficient and profitable businesses.

We are looking for a proactive problem solver with:

• Strong analytical capabilities
• An ability to operate inambiguous and rapidly evolving environments
• Commercial awareness and the ability to link insights to business value
• A passion forinnovation in financial services and digital assets

What we offer
We offer an attractive remuneration package where youll be rewarded for your performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs covering holidays health and well-being insurance savings and a wide range of discounts offers and promotions. Plus we offer:

• Continuous learning:Youll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you:Well provide the tools and flexibility so you can make a meaningful impact your way.
• Transformative leadership:Well give you the insights coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture:Youll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above please contact us as soon as possible.

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Employment Type : Contract
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1