Manager- Risk Consulting - Abu Dhabi

From small businesses to some of the world’s best-known brands, our tailored services help build trust and confidence through transparency, clarity, and consistency for our clients across the MENA region. Our MENA clients look to us for advice and services they can trust every time. You will use your professional skills and experience to make it happen, by supporting our MENA based EY Member Firms to serve clients in the MENA region across a broad range of industries and responsibilities.   Within the MENA region, we are actively engaged with all sectors of the economy and actively supporting the vision of national leaderships especially in the GCC countries. We are dedicated to help our clients in all sectors anticipate the uncertainty they face in doing their business and work closely with them to help effectively manage the Risk. Technology is a major component underpinning the need to serve increasing demands of our MENA clients in their sophisticated technology environments.   As organizations look to leverage the advantage technology offers, we’ll work with you to develop the consultancy and analytical skills that you’ll need in today’s environment. Working on projects that cross borders and sectors, the experiences you gain here will be more valuable than anywhere else.   The opportunity   EY is recruiting for Managers to join our Technology Risk team at various offices across MENA. You will be responsible to serve our clients as part of our teams across MENA offices. This position brings significant travel opportunities since EY operates a regional model with all consultants operating as one team across the region.   Your key responsibilities   As a Manager within EY’s Digital Risk practice, you will be expected to lead and support client engagements across technology risk, digital trust, cyber, data, cloud, emerging technology, resilience, governance and compliance. You will work with clients to identify risks, design practical solutions, strengthen control environments and enable technology-enabled transformation with confidence.

Client delivery and engagement management

Lead and manage Digital Risk engagements across the full delivery lifecycle, including planning, stakeholder engagement, fieldwork, analysis, solution development, reporting and executive presentations. Own defined workstreams and deliverables, ensuring quality, timeliness and alignment with client expectations. Maintain effective communication with senior team members, partners and client stakeholders, providing timely updates on engagement progress, risks, issues and decisions.

Strategic advisory and solution design

Help clients assess and manage risks across digital transformation, cloud adoption, emerging technologies, AI, data platforms, cybersecurity, resilience and core system modernization. Analys client problems and structure clear workplans, risk considerations and practical solution options. Support in the design of risk-enabled operating models, governance frameworks, controls, processes and reporting mechanisms that are proportionate to client needs and maturity. Translate complex technical findings into business-relevant insights, actionable recommendations and executive-level narratives.

Risk, governance and control expertise

Assess technology risks across applications, infrastructure, data, cloud, cyber, third parties, resilience, ERP environments and transformation programs. Evaluate the design and effectiveness of IT general controls, application controls, automated controls, access controls, change management, incident management and data integrity controls. Support clients in strengthening digital compliance, technology governance, risk management, control monitoring and three-lines-of-defense operating models. Apply relevant frameworks, standards and leading practices, such as ISO, NIST, COBIT, ITIL, SOC, cybersecurity, privacy, cloud and technology risk management