Solution Architect Senior Manager - EPM at Ernst & Young Global Limited (EY)

Your key responsibilities 

The successful applicant will grow, develop and lead business development activities and identify opportunities, leading proposals and bid teams and managing development and delivery of high-quality proposals. Partner with key roles to create well-defined solutions that are aligned to client`s Business and IT Strategies and leverage common solutions and services to meet key project goals. Leading the growth of the practice via sharing of knowledge and experience as well as demonstrating great depth of specialism by contributing to EY Point of views, development of solutions, engagement tools, and accelerators

Skills and attributes:

• Significant hands-on – min 3 EPM end to end implementations.
• Experience of working within the Finance or Accounts department with good understanding of the Planning & Budgeting and Financial consolidation & Cost processes add MI & Visualisation
• Hands on exposure and experience to EPM programme delivery using the prevailing EPM cloud solutions (Oracle, Onestream, Adaptive Insights etc)
• Experience in leading and advising clients for roll- out of EPM systems implementation including analysis, design, implementation, testing and support models
• Extensive exposure to an EPM lifecycle (Planning, budgeting, forecast, Enterprise wide KPI & reporting framework, Profitability/cost analysis)
• Demonstrate strong insight of industry trends and leading vendors for EPM systems (Oracle, Onestream, Adaptive Insights etc)

To qualify for the role, you must have 

• A first level university degree, 2:1 (or equivalent) or above is common but not compulsory
• An accounting qualification (CA(SA), ACA, ACMA, ACCA) applied in a financial institution would be beneficial, but not essential
• Technical and programme management certification, where relevant.
• A minimum of 5 years working experience is required

 Ideally, you’ll also have:

• Ability to develop people through effectively supervising, coaching, and mentoring all levels of staff (identifying training needs where necessary)
• Provide learning and growth opportunities to staff and encourage the potential within all staff to take on challenging opportunities
• Significant exposure to Chart of Accounts & Data Model Design
• Demonstrate proven expertise in review of functional and technical designs against business requirements and provide challenges where relevant
• Strong understanding and appreciation of how to leverage Cloud and other emerging technologies

Qualifications:

We are looking for a trusted business advisor who appreciates a collaborative culture by nurturing team members through mentoring and coaching, knowledge sharing and adapting relevant ideas from previous projects or experiences. Drawing on your knowledge and experience, you will provide innovative commercial insights for clients, adapt methods and practices to fit operational team and cultural needs, and contribute to thought leadership. You will also actively contribute to improving operational efficiency on projects and internal initiatives. In line with our commitment to quality, you will consistently drive projects to completion and determine that work is of a high quality.