Manager, Finance Transformation, Finance Consulting; Value & Performance Management

Manager, Finance Transformation – Finance Consulting (Value & Performance Management) – UK

At EY, we’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. Join EY and help to build a better working world.

Finance consulting works with clients to address mission‑critical issues related to company‑wide performance, creating value and delivering world‑class future finance capabilities, leveraging the EY brand as impartial, trusted advisers. You will work in multidisciplinary teams for some of the biggest and most recognised corporate brands, 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 & Performance Management (VPM) and how technology enables control, automation, efficiency and value growth—empowering strategic budgeting, planning, and forecasting, integrated business planning, consolidation, performance management and KPIs, data management, business partnering, AI enablement, cost reduction and value growth initiatives.

• Build strong relationships 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.
• Motivate and manage high‑performing diverse teams, aligned to EY’s values, delivering exceptional client service and preparing our clients for a digital future.
• Articulate, design, and implement a vision for Finance and a compelling “case for change” that draws on innovative global technology trends, leading practice and service innovation.
• Discuss finance simplification and innovation enabled by digital technologies.
• Conduct accelerated finance diagnostics, maturity assessments, and benchmarking.
• Define client‑relevant use of modern technology platforms showing their key functionalities, data models and technical requirements.
• Provide roadmaps of implementation and timelines (cost vs. benefits).
• Structure and run Finance transformation programmes using Agile design and delivery methods.
• Collect and socialise business and technical requirements for a technology‑enabled Finance transformation.
• Architect and design technology‑enabled Finance solutions.
• Drive end‑to‑end implementation services for emerging technologies and manage the technical implementation of solutions.

We are looking for professionals who are great communicators, team players, and 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 daily, coaching and supporting the development of others. You will add measurable value to your clients by delivering work that addresses their biggest challenges and priorities, including the need to:

Supporting better performance management and insight, from transactional ERP systems through to group‑level performance oversight.

• Establish a consistent finance data model to enable clear, connected reporting.
• Design ERP solutions with insight and value in mind, ensuring data drives better business decisions.

Simplified and optimised financial planning, integrated across functions and enabled by future‑ready tools, for more accurate forecasting and better‑informed trade‑offs.

• Connect planning across operations, finance, commercial, and HR to enable fully integrated decision‑making.
• Improve visibility of key drivers to better understand how operational inputs translate into financial outcomes.

Transforming FP&A to shift from manual reporting to value‑driving insights…