Position summary

EY is seeking a Manager to join its Sustainable Finance Technology team within EY Financial Services, helping to develop and grow its sustainable finance business. You will work primarily with financial services clients across Banking & Capital Markets, Wealth & Asset Management, and Insurance, helping them leverage data and technology assets in their sustainability initiatives. Bringing a deep understanding of ESG tools, applications, and data vendors, you will help craft new sustainability solutions, lead teams on engagements, and budget and manage project resources, reporting to senior client directors, with client work both local and global.

Why this role matters

This role helps financial institutions become agents of change in the transition to a greener, more sustainable world. By leading ESG technology engagements, developing data and technology solutions, and managing teams and delivery risk, you help EY's clients turn their sustainability objectives into working solutions while growing EY's sustainable finance business.

Key responsibilities

• Engagement delivery: Deliver ESG technology engagements standalone or as part of a larger transformation agenda, and lead teams on engagements while anticipating and managing delivery risk.
• Solution development: Contribute to developing technology services, approaches, and solutions that enable clients to meet sustainability objectives, and develop tactical and strategic solutions to sustainability tech and data issues.
• Sales support: Support sales activities, including drafting proposals and contracts, meeting potential clients, inputting into branding and marketing, and managing pipeline.
• Cross-team partnership: Partner with other sustainability-focused teams across Consulting and EY service lines (such as Tax, Assurance, and Strategy) to provide aligned technology and data input.
• Vendor relationships: Build relationships with ESG technology vendors to equip the team with the necessary resources and expertise.
• Thought leadership and efficiency: Provide innovative insights, contribute to thought leadership, and drive operational efficiency through budgeting, billing, and resourcing.
• Team development: Invest in junior team members' development and success.

Team and stakeholders

You will work within the Sustainable Finance Technology team in EY's Technology Risk practice, lead engagement project teams, partner with Consulting and other EY service lines, engage client representatives and senior client directors, and build relationships with ESG technology vendors while mentoring junior colleagues.

Key details

• Work arrangement: Flexible working arrangements considered; client-facing professionals may travel regularly and at times be based at client sites.
• Rewards: Competitive Total Rewards package with FlexEY benefits covering holidays, health and wellbeing, insurance, savings, and a range of discounts, plus continuous learning and development.

Requirements:

• Experience across a range of ESG and/or sustainable finance projects, ideally within banking, insurance, pensions, wealth and asset management, and/or private equity.
• A track record of running small projects or parts of large projects in financial services and/or a consulting environment.
• Professional experience in data management and/or technology delivery.
• Demonstrable consulting skills, with the ability to understand client needs and develop innovative solutions.
• A strong academic record, including a degree and ideally relevant professional qualifications.
• A minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience; experience in financial services growth initiatives, risk management, or regulatory change delivery preferred.
• ESG data and technology capability: applying ESG data and technology across financial services use cases; experience in at least one ESG pillar and some ESG regulations; understanding of financed emissions; experience in ESG data and technology change programmes; and knowledge of ESG data vendors and market data trends.
• And/or: carbon and/or nature markets expertise (voluntary and compliance markets, Article 6, MRV); ability to translate business and sustainability requirements into data, technology, and AI-enabled solutions; and business analysis skills.
• Broader technology delivery: solution architecture, data management and strategy, and/or large-scale transformation delivery; agile and traditional SDLC methods and tools such as JIRA or DevOps; and understanding of process automation (ServiceNow, Pega) or cloud (Azure, AWS).
• Strong consulting and leadership skills: leading project teams, managing delivery risk, structuring and delegating work, and strong facilitation, communication, stakeholder management, and mentoring.