Senior Manager, Business Consulting, Finance Transformation, VPM - FP&A

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Are you passionate about digital innovation, advanced analytics, value and performance management and developing creative solutions within Finance Consulting?

The opportunity

Finance Consulting works with clients to address mission critical issues for the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) creating value and delivering world-class future finance capabilities, leveraging the EY brand as impartial, trusted advisors.

You will work in multi-disciplinary teams for some of the biggest and most recognised brands in the world, applying the latest technologies and analytical methods to help drive their business performance and digital finance transformation agendas that make a real difference to our working world.

A growth area for us is Value and Performance Management - working with CFOs and Heads of FP&A to enable strategic reporting; analytics; and planning, budgeting, and forecasting that focuses on prediction and prescription, not just hindsight, to support a company's financial health.

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.

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

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

Ideally, you'll also have

• A valid and certified professional accounting qualification
• A background in management consulting or have delivered multiple large-scale Value and Performance Management programmes in industry
• Knowledge of account management, business development and the consulting sales cycle
• Ability to create solutions to technical problems
• Strong attention to detail, with the ability to storyboard and create high quality outputs
• Excellent problem solving, facilitation, and presentation skills
• Track record of line managing professional services staff, including coaching and developing staff

What we look for

• Core consulting skills: client management, analysis, presentation and facilitation, commerciality, project management
• Technical skills: strong technical insight, practical knowledge and capability in your specialist field
• Versatility: proven ability to adapt and learn in an innovative environment
• Market / sector knowledge: demonstrable market/sector expertise in your field such as Consumer Business, Life Sciences, TMT, Energy and Resources or Public Finance

What we offer

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you'll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:

• Continuous learning: You'll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We'll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We'll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You'll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

The exceptional EY experience. It's yours to build.

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