Manager FAAS Banking & Capital Markets

About the Role

EY is seeking a Manager to join its Financial Accounting Advisory Services (FAAS) practice within Banking and Capital Markets in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role involves supporting the delivery of complex transformation, technology-enabled change, AI-enabled automation, and operating model design and implementation programs for leading banks and financial institutions. The position requires a combination of banking domain knowledge, consulting experience, technology awareness, familiarity with leading AI use cases, and hands-on delivery capability.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and support Banking and Capital Markets advisory engagements across finance transformation, operating model design, core banking modernization, digital channels, data, controls, and technology-enabled change.
• Collaborate with client stakeholders across business, finance, operations, technology, risk, and compliance functions to assess current challenges, define target requirements, and develop implementation roadmaps.
• Translate banking strategy and business requirements into actionable workplans, process designs, capability maps, target operating models, governance structures, and implementation deliverables.
• Support large-scale transformation and implementation programs, including governance, PMO setup, milestone tracking, RAID management, business readiness, change adoption, and executive reporting.
• Contribute to business development activities such as proposal development, credentials, scope definition, effort estimation, client presentations, and preparation of boardroom-ready materials.
• Coach and manage junior team members, ensuring high-quality analysis, structured problem solving, strong documentation, and timely delivery of client outputs.

Skills and Attributes for Success

• Strong structured problem-solving skills to analyze complex banking issues and formulate recommendations.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, enabling confident engagement with client teams across various functions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for developing executive-level presentations, reports, and documentation.
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams, prioritize tasks, meet deadlines, and maintain high-quality delivery standards.
• Commercial mindset to identify client needs, support proposal development, and contribute to practice growth.
• Experience coaching junior consultants and reviewing deliverables for analytical rigor and professional quality.

Qualifications and Requirements

• 5–7 years of relevant professional experience, preferably gained within a top-tier consulting firm, Big Four advisory practice, financial services technology advisory firm, or a leading banking transformation environment.
• Strong experience serving Banking and Capital Markets clients, with exposure to retail banking, corporate banking, transaction banking, treasury, payments, lending, deposits, cards, trade finance, capital markets, or related banking products.
• Demonstrated experience in transformation programs within the banking sector, including operating model redesign, process improvement, technology implementation, digital transformation, core banking modernization, or large-scale program delivery.
• Experience working with or around core banking platforms, digital banking channels, payments platforms, workflow tools, data platforms, reporting systems, ERP/finance systems, CRM, treasury systems, or other technologies supporting banking operations.
• Familiarity with leading AI use cases in the banking market, such as intelligent document processing, GenAI-enabled reporting, AI-assisted credit analysis, anomaly detection, predictive controls, intelligent reconciliations, workflow automation, and AI-enabled back-office productivity improvements.
• Practical understanding of how banks operate across front office, middle office, back office, finance, operations, risk, technology, and control functions.
• Experience supporting implementation projects, including requirements gathering, solution assessment, vendor coordination, testing support, business readiness, cutover planning, hypercare, or benefits tracking.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Professional qualifications such as CA, CPA, ACCA, CFA, PMP, Prince2, Agile, Scrum, or relevant technology/transformation certifications are advantageous.
• Prior experience in a top-tier consulting firm or advisory environment serving Banking and Capital Markets clients is strongly preferred.

Ideal Candidate Attributes

• Strong understanding of core banking products and processes, including customer onboarding, account servicing, lending, deposits, payments, cards, transaction banking, treasury, and financial reporting touchpoints.
• Familiarity with core banking and peripheral banking technology landscapes, including digital channels, mobile and internet banking, middleware, payments infrastructure, enterprise data platforms, reporting tools, and operational workflow solutions.
• Ability to assess banking operating models across people, process, technology, data, governance, controls, and service delivery dimensions.
• Strong appreciation of the role of data, controls, automation, and technology architecture in supporting reliable, scalable, and compliant banking operations.
• Ability to identify, assess, and prioritize AI and automation opportunities across banking back-office functions, including operations, finance, reconciliations, reporting, controls, onboarding support, service request management, and exception handling.
• Working knowledge of transformation delivery methodologies, including waterfall, agile, hybrid delivery, PMO governance, business case development, benefits tracking, and change management.

Application Process

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