Senior Manager, Business Consulting, Finance Consulting, VPM

at  EY

At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.
Are you passionate about digital innovation, advanced analytics, value and performance management and developing creative solutions within Finance Consulting?

SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES FOR SUCCESS

We are looking for professionals who are great communicators, team players, relationship builders with a real desire to learn.
Professional in your approach, you will have a natural ability to establish personal credibility with clients. You will also be highly organised, capable of coordinating your own workload and that of other team members, meeting deadlines, proactively managing risks and delivering quality outcomes.
A role model to those around you, you will live the values of the Firm through coaching and supporting the development of others.
You are innovative and resourceful with an ability to use your market knowledge to create solutions to technical problems.

You will add measurable value to your clients by delivering work that addresses their biggest problems and priorities, including the need to:

• Deliver leading practice Value and Performance Management solutions such as:
• Articulate, design, and implement a vision for Finance and FP&A that draws on innovative global technology trends, leading practice and service innovation
• Reimagine the role of the finance business partners, defining new operating models and addressing how digital will impact the delivery of value and performance management, and more broadly, how Finance will support a digital business and become a data-driven function
• Plot out roadmaps for our clients and their teams to adapt to digital ways of working and the associated cultural and mindset shift
• Define the value drivers / steering models, KPIs and information models that underpin an integrated performance management framework that drives growth, margin improvement and/or shareholder value
• Create new reporting strategies including simplification / transformation and performance management steering to meet the new demand
• Establish integrated performance management including transformation of the budgeting, planning, and forecasting processes (establishing new processes, governance, and enabling technologies)
• Identify opportunities for Finance to drive long-term, cross-functional value through applied analytics
• Define information and data architectures that meet financial and management reporting requirements
• Deliver data visualisation design and deployment to unlock value from data
• Adopt “digital” ways of working to increase flexibility and accelerate delivery:
• Plan, design, and execute design-led thinking process re-engineering workshops
• Process design grounded in customer outcomes and user experience adopting LEAN methodologies and automation technologies
• Structure and implement Agile delivery methods
• Understand and apply relevant technologies such as:
• SAP Business Planning and Consolidation
• Oracle Hyperion
• Microsoft Azure
• Anaplan
• Wolters Kluwer Tagetik
• Microsoft Power BI

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

You will build relationships at senior levels within client organisations, working with them to understand their most critical business problems and priorities, consulting with your EY peers to evaluate, design, and deliver solution options that leverage cutting edge technologies.
You will motivate and manage high performing diverse teams, aligned to EY’s values. delivering exceptional client service preparing our clients for a digital future.

TO QUALIFY FOR THE ROLE YOU MUST HAVE

• Financial planning & analysis or Value and Performance Management specialism
• Experience of business development and solution design for complex multi-national businesses
• Expert proficiency in your market or sector (Consumer Business, Life Sciences, TMT, Energy and Resources or Public Finance)
• Experience of delivering change programmes within a Finance function
• Strong client relationships and a proven track record of originating and selling new projects
• Proven ability to engage, manage and build senior relationships
• Experience in one or more of the following areas:
• Finance Solution architecture in the EPM space
• Financial planning operating model experience
• Large scale Finance transformation and programme delivery experience
• End to end system implementation experience
• Designing new governance structures including master data management