Performance Improvement - Assistant Manager – Finance at Ernst & Young Global Limited (EY)

Job Purpose

As Performance Improvement Assistant Manager - Finance, you'll actively establish, maintain and strengthen internal and external relationships. With guidance from partners, directors and senior managers, you'll identify potential business opportunities for EY. By drawing on your skills and experience, you'll create innovative commercial insights for clients, adapt methods and practices to fit operational team and cultural needs, and contribute to thought leadership.

You'll actively contribute to improving operational efficiency on projects and internal initiatives. In line with our commitment to quality, you'll consistently drive projects to completion and confirm that work is of a high quality. Your role in leading teams - or parts of teams - on engagements will depend on the size of engagement. When working on engagements, you'll report to higher levels of management, who will expect you to anticipate and identify risks, and escalate any issues as appropriate.

As an influential member of the team, you'll help to create a positive learning culture, coach and counsel junior team members and help them to develop.
Client responsibilities

• Participate in Finance transformation engagements
• Help manage the financial aspects of engagements by organizing staffing, tracking fees and communicating issues to project leaders
• Participate in business development initiatives
• Build strong internal relationships within EY Advisory Services and with other services across the organization

People responsibilities

• Develop people through effectively supervising, coaching, and mentoring staff
• Conduct performance reviews and contribute to performance feedback for staff
• Contribute to people-related initiatives including recruiting, retaining and training professionals
• Maintain an educational program to continually develop personal skills of staff
• Understand and follow workplace policies and procedures
   

Technical Skills Requirements

• Consulting experienced gained at Consulting firm, Blue chip industrial company having implemented finance solutions or transformation programs
• Practical experience or understanding of latest developments in shared services environment
• Relevant B Degree in finance/ accounting// CIMA, or similar
• Understanding of functionality and latest developments in ERP and process automation solutions
• Proven ability to sell to the finance community in organisations or on-sell on consulting assignments delivered
   

You'll have knowledge and experience of a number of the following areas

• Finance transformation
• Balanced scorecard
• Planning, budgeting and forecasting
• Performance measurement and performance management
• Business performance reporting
• Cost to serve
• Cost reduction
• Shared service Centre and business process outsourcing
• Financial statement close
   

You'll have knowledge and experience in one or more of EY’s priority industry sectors

• Government & Public Sector
• Utilities
• Consumer Products
• Industrial Products
• Technology
• Communications & Entertainment
• Healthcare
• Financial Services
   

Additional Requirements

• Demonstrated track record with a blue-chip consulting organization and/or blue chip organization
• Professional accountancy qualification or equivalent
• Strong academic record including a degree
• Demonstrated experience in business development