EY GDS - Associate Director - Business Insights - Banking Domain

Job Summary:

- The Senior Banking & Capital Markets (BCM) Analyst is responsible for delivering impactful analysis and insights, specializing in the BCM sector, in accordance with the key sector priorities.

- The individual is responsible for delivering impactful analysis to drive EY's position as an innovative and disruptive thought leader in BCM.

- In addition, the role requires to deliver high quality, impactful research and analysis and compelling storytelling, shaping analysis that helps business customers build client relationships, win pursuits, deliver engagements, and strengthen the brand and reputation of EY. This role requires the ability to combine strong data analytical skills and a strategic mindset with real-world perspective driven by an understanding of both clients' experiences and broader marketplace.

- The Senior BCM Analyst works closely with the Global BCM Lead Analyst to shape the BCM sector insights agenda. They will also work closely with the Lead Analyst, Global FS Knowledge Leader, GDS FS Knowledge Leader, other Senior BCM Analysts and Knowledge Managers to support the BCM leadership and other senior stakeholders, providing thought-provoking content to help EY differentiate itself in the marketplace and proactively helping to identify new business opportunities and risks.

Key aspects of this role include:

- Provides deep analytical insight and understanding of the BCM domain, with responsibility for the execution of strategic and complex initiatives, storytelling / building compelling narratives from insights, facing off to senior internal stakeholders, and external clients

- Engages with senior domain stakeholders to provide commercial and provocative perspectives on the issues, challenges and opportunities facing the domain and prepares insightful analysis on the impact of those trends for EY and its clients.

- Experience in covering topics such as Sustainable Finance, Future of Banking and driving new data assets will be an added plus, including ability to think through and create proprietary data assets and ability to run multi-year research programs.

- Strong business development skills including willingness to take on internal business development activities to further new tools and knowledge deliverables and grow the coverage of the team.

- Develops a credible internal brand to become recognized within EY as a subject matter expert to the business.

- Participate in client meetings, roundtables and other external events/conferences to strengthen EY's presence and reputation in the market.

- Collaborates with Knowledge colleagues to proactively alert stakeholders regarding changes among key clients and competitors and assesses the impact of those changes on internal strategies and plans.

- Drives greater connectivity within the BCM domain and across other parts of EY by using strong relationships to share information and convene groups around a common issue.

- Identifies cross-sector Point of View (POV) sharing opportunities and collaborates with other domain teams on issues that cut across EY's business activities.

- Acts as a role model within EY Knowledge and the domain, championing the use of EY Knowledge methodologies and positively influencing change by leading by example; championing knowledge-sharing behaviours; connecting people; encouraging enterprise-wide sharing; and appropriately leveraging and reusing existing collateral.

- Support coaching and mentoring for team members within the BCM domain

- Advanced skills in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Teams, Power BI.

Key Requirements:

- MBA/Master's degree or postgraduate qualification preferable

- Minimum 12+ years of experience in strategy, business analysis, industry research, management consulting or business performance, advising organizations in the relevant domain.

- Comfortable working with senior stakeholders and interfacing with stakeholders and internal customers at different levels of seniority, as well as multi-disciplinary teams

- Previous experience of working on BCM sector databases including S&P Global Market Intelligence, Capital IQ, CB Insights, Refinitiv and Celent.

- Proficient in English with well-structured oral and written communications skills; able to explain difficult concepts in a clear, concise and graphic-rich style, using appropriate analytics and visualization tools.

About EY Knowledge (GDS):

We are a team of 500+ professionals which enables EY practitioners to understand clients' businesses, win work, deepen client relationships & deliver exceptional client service & form a major part of the wider EY Knowledge organization. We deliver research, analysis, knowledge-based services & tools, working in close collaboration with leadership across sectors, service lines, areas in the firm.