Advisory careers: help our clients manage risk and improve performance
The current climate combines challenge and uncertainty with escalating competition. To achieve their potential, organisations need to continuously improve performance and manage risks to sustain success.
In response, we’re expanding our global network by recruiting high performers who can strengthen our advisory offerings.
For you, these circumstances offer a huge variety of challenges and the opportunity to make a serious impact on our clients’ businesses – and your own career.
Our integrated approach means your work will span all types of clients across a wide range of industries. However, if your background lies within financial services, find out here how we work with clients from this industry.
Within Advisory we operate in several business areas. Click on the tabs to find out more, or discover more about working at EY from our Advisory people.
And if you're looking to expand your horizons and apply your consulting expertise to new markets, we have exciting opportunities in the Middle East - find out more.
Performance improvement
Join our multi-disciplinary teams and help many of the world's leading organisations to stay at the top of their game.
Risk
Work closely with multinational businesses and the public sector to understand their risks and develop plans to deal with these.
Other advisory services
Our other advisory areas, such as IT risk and strategic direction, offer you a diverse range of challenges working with top organisations.
Current opportunities
Find out about the opportunities currently available at EY, and how you can apply for them.
Enhancing some of the world's leading businesses
As one of our performance improvement advisors, you'll help many of the world's leading organisations improve their performance in a rapidly changing environment.
You'll be part of multidisciplinary teams, bringing diverse perspectives to every challenge. You'll have the opportunity to build your skills in one of our focused competency groups, which include:
- Finance
- Customer
- Supply Chain
- IT Advisory
- People and Organisation
- Strategic Direction
- Programme Management
You'll work closely with other areas of our organisation too — Risk in particular. We'll help you achieve your goals by supporting your professional development and giving you experience with a diverse range of clients and projects.
Working with our clients to identify and respond to risk
Risk management protects business performance and helps sustain results. It's about achieving a clear understanding of risks and developing plans to manage them.
As one of our risk professionals, you'll work with multinational businesses and public sector organisations. You'll help them develop an integrated, holistic approach to risk and benefit from their investments in internal controls.
You'll deliver some of the most significant and class-leading internal audit and risk engagements globally. You'll also team with our performance improvement professionals in multidisciplinary engagements, helping major global clients transform and sustain business performance.
By plugging into our market-leading global network, you'll gain the experience you need to become an exceptional risk advisor.
Helping clients understand the risks — and rewards — of technology
IT Risk & Assurance
Information technology is one of the key enablers for modern organisations.
As an IT Risk and Assurance professional here, you'll help clients leverage technology to achieve a competitive advantage, advising on how to make IT more efficient and manage the risks associated with running IT operations. This fast-growing area of our business is broken into two areas, IT Advisory and Cross-Advisory.
IT Advisory
Working in our IT Advisory team you'll develop insights into organisational culture and help align your clients' technology with their people and processes.
Cross-Advisory teams
Cross-Advisory teams comprise advisory professionals with specific technical skill-sets working across our Performance Improvement, Risk and IT Risk & Assurance groups.
People and Organisational Change
Our People and Organisational Change teams work with clients to help them manage their change management challenges. They also help them to develop their capabilities to more effectively manage constant change.
This might involve supporting your clients as they develop a clear and concise vision of the future for parts or all of their organisations, or coaching the board to convey the right messages during times of change.
Program Advisory
Our program management professionals draw on their knowledge and experience to help clients assess and manage large-scale programs. You'll help clients deliver projects on time, within budget and to high levels of quality.
Strategic Direction
Your role here would focus on helping clients define and plan effective execution of their strategic direction and vision, advising client executives on how to translate corporate strategy and business insight into change.
Opportunities in Advisory
You have a strong track record within industry, a consultancy or a professional services firm, and you want to advance your career. If you believe in exceptional client service and have a global mindset, Ernst & Young can help you excel in your career.
Our Risk and Advisory consultants are tackling some of the most complex issues that our global clients face: the transformation of markets, technological innovations, and rapid social and economic change. With your creativity, excellent problem-solving skills and intellectual curiosity, you’ll help clients to manage risk, improve performance and make change happen.
EY offers huge opportunities to solve tomorrow’s business problems today. To learn more, use the links below or go to Job search for full details of opportunities available.
Find out about our Advisory career opportunities working with Financial Services organisations.
Meet our Advisory people
At EY our inclusive work environment means everyone's opinion is valued. Whether a recent joiner or long-serving member of the firm, all our employees have a unique story to tell.
Click the image below to watch some of our Advisory people talk about their experiences.
Help us transform business across the Middle East
At Ernst & Young, we have a reputation for attracting the very best people and creating high-performing teams that deliver exceptional client service. We allow you to work seamlessly across border and industries, carving out the career you deserve.
Government and infrastructural programmes are, right now, making a huge impact on the long-term development of the Middle East. As our business grows across the MENA region, we’re looking to expand our teams of expert advisory professionals and consultants, dealing with the key areas of government and public sector, power and utilities, transport and infrastructure and healthcare.
After a period of training in the UK, we’ll ask you to work on assignment for between two and three years in the region, so there are excellent opportunities to get involved in more expansive transformation programmes and infrastructure projects that will impact on the whole region.
We're looking for people with consultancy expertise in a variety of areas, and currently have the following opportunities:
If you’re ready to help drive change and innovation in some of the world’s leading businesses, then you could be who we’re looking for. Submit your application today.
