Career Reactivation Program in Resilience and Business Continuity Management - Senior Consultant

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Reactivate your Career in Resilience and Business Continuity Management!

The EY Career Reactivation Program (CRP) is tailor-made to support people on reactivating their careers after a break of 1-5 years. By joining the CRP you will be onboarded as a Senior Consultant within the Financial Services Risk team and into a community who will ensure to smoothly guide you back to the corporate world. A coach will accompany and support you during this six-month journey to reactivate your professional career.

What we offer

EY offers you a six-month’s Career Reactivation Program during which you will be teaming up with a diverse team with various backgrounds and skills. This will be a unique opportunity for you to refresh your skills and immerse again in to the Consulting world. At the end of the program, you will get the opportunity to discuss your experience and future career options at EY by potentially transitioning into a permanent role and profiting from additional incentives.

Rank: Senior Consultant

Duration: 6 months with potential permanent employment

Location: Zurich

Workload: 60 – 100%

What you can expect – enriching experiences that will last a lifetime

Within Financial Services Consulting - Risk & Actuarial, the GRC (Governance, Risk, Controls & Internal Audit) Team is part of a global network of risk management specialists working together with most of the largest financial services companies. We support our clients with solutions to identify, assess, steer and monitor non-financial and compliance risks.

A unique opportunity to explore a wide range of solutions to our clients’ issues and needs. This will enable you to quickly develop a wide breadth of skills and competencies, with many of these being focused around non-financial and compliance risk management, as well as internal control systems and internal audit. Specific topics include business continuity management, outsourcing / third party risk management and IT Risk, with a strong focus on process and control design, optimization and automation. Specific tasks with regards to Operational Resilience / BCM include:

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  Provide advice, design and implement Operational Resilience / BCM frameworks in line with Swiss and international regulatory requirements (e.g. PRA, FINMA, EBA)
• Support Internal and External Audits on Operational Resilience and BCM Frameworks at banks and insurance companies
• Work together with our Third Party Risk specialists to ensure adequate coverage of Operational Resilience aspects in TPRM frameworks
• Keep track of the latest regulatory developments in Operational Resilience and develop going-to-market material for client sessions

The nature of consulting promises a fast paced and engaging career. You will also have the opportunity to actively support in innovation and shape EY solutions on current and upcoming market needs.

Your skillset will grow rapidly through numerous training events and client facing engagements including touchpoints with clients’ senior management.

How you can contribute – skills to create a better working world

• Prior experience in Operational Resilience, BCM or Information Security / IT Risk, either in an execution or advisory role
• Interest in risk, compliance and / or internal audit in the financial services industry
• Fluency in English

Ideally, you’ll also have

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  Previous experience as a Business Continuity Manager/Officer
• Basic knowledge of Operational Resilience, Information Security, IT Risk Management and/or IT Service Continuity Management (in addition to your core experience)
• Fluency in spoken German, intermediate level in written German
• A degree in a business or technology related area, ideally with interdisciplinary focus (e.g. interfaces between business and IT)
• Strong PowerPoint and Excel skills
• Experience in the banking, insurance or consulting industry
• Strong interest in technology

What we offer

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  International multi-cultural team of highly motivated professionals
• Continuous personal development with a steep learning curve – a system of trainings, mentoring, counselling and on-the-job learning
• Modern working environment and equipment, fostering mobile working flexibility
• Transparent performance-based recognition and progression system

We highly encourage candidates from diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspectives to apply for this job and look forward to enriching our teams. If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

For further information please contact our recruitment team (recruitment.switzerland@ey.com / +41 58 286 33 66).

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