IOI-Senior Manager- Program Risk & Recovery Management (PRR) Risk Consulting - Belfast

Location: Belfast

Other locations: Primary Location Only

Date: Mar 4, 2025

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The Programme Risk and Recovery team are experts in the field of project and programme risk assessment and recovery in EY's Consulting practice. With a clear purpose of 'building a better working world,' we are committed to delivering exceptional results for our clients across a range of sectors, including the public sector, energy and utilities, financial services, and telco.

The opportunity

If you are looking to join a dynamic and diverse team providing project, programme, and portfolio risk and recovery to large-scale transformation programmes, come and talk to EY's PRM team about the opportunities we can offer you.

Your key responsibilities

Client Responsibilities:

1. Partnering with our Assurance team to provide project, programme or portfolio assessments on large-scale transformation programmes and projects.
2. Building valued relationships with external clients and internal peers and developing a clear understanding of clients' needs, eco-system, priorities, culture, and the best path to risk management and project or programme delivery.
3. Ensuring the consistent delivery of excellent, high-quality work products for EY teams, providing a platform to build and maintain our global brand, reputation, and purpose.
4. Acting as a subject matter resource in one or more areas, leveraging your knowledge and experience to shape services for clients.
5. Leading presentations and proposals for medium to high complex projects and providing subject matter insight to bids and proposals in relevant areas.
6. Creating innovative commercial insights for clients, adapting methods and practices to fit operational team and cultural needs, and contributing to thought leadership.
7. Driving improvements by taking responsibility for engagement/account level Quality & Risk Management (QRM) initiatives, ensuring that project teams understand and comply with our Q&RM requirements.

Internal Responsibilities:

1. Assisting in client account management activities such as recruitment for the project team, managing financial aspects of client engagements, and quality and risk management.
2. Building valued relationships with clients and colleagues to assist in generating new business opportunities for EY.
3. Leading and supporting presentations and proposals for elements of medium to high complex projects to prospective and existing clients.
4. Communicating effectively with EY senior management and working to build, manage and motivate high-performing teams.
5. Understanding EY's service offerings and actively identifying opportunities to better serve our clients.
6. Building strong internal relationships within Consulting and across other services lines.
7. Supporting team development activities, including coaching and mentoring activities.
8. Conducting performance reviews and contributing to performance feedback.
9. Contributing to people initiatives including recruiting, retaining, and training activities.
10. Understanding, following, and communicating workplace policies and procedures.

Skills and attributes for success:

15 to 20+ years' experience in project risk or programme delivery, recovery for the delivery of technology projects in consulting, industry, or the public sector.

Some Programme Assurance (project health check) experience.

Track record for leading high performing teams.

To qualify for the role, you must have:

Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills with a track record in managing complex stakeholder programmes.

Good understanding of project governance and change management principles.

Ideally, you'll also have:

Additional professional qualifications in project or programme management, such as PRINCE2, PMP, MSP, or ACP are desirable.

Additional areas of interest include Project Assurance, Portfolio Management, PMO, benchmarking, and Best Practice.

What we look for:

Enthusiastic, engaged experts who are excited about helping clients make a difference in their business through improved project, programme or portfolio management that ultimately results in an improved route to benefits realization.