Assurance - FAAS - Finance Optimisation - Assistant Manager

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Are you an Accountant or Finance professional that enjoys solving complex problems using innovative and new solutions?

The world around us is changing, through Generative AI transforming our daily work, and a changing macroeconomic climate. Our clients are going through significant change as a result of new compliance requirements, transformation and business needs.

Our Finance Optimisation team within our Financial Accounting Advisory Services (FAAS) practice supports CFO and finance functions in navigating through and solving complex Accounting, Finance & Reporting challenges through better use of policies, processes, data and technology - enabling Finance functions to deliver value to the business.

We are recruiting for an Assistant Manager within the team who is confident in navigating unstructured, changing dynamics and relishes the use of innovative new solutions and technologies in solving problems.

As an Assistant Manager, you will be offering valuable insight and advice to clients in supporting them in making strategic and operational decisions about their businesses.

Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Manage end-to-end delivery of projects (physical and virtual), assessing engagement risks and opportunities, driving the right outcomes for our clients
• Develop exceptional reports & presentations (PowerPoint, Word, etc.) for project deliverables, capturing problem statements and solutions/ recommendations for our clients
• Manage internal financial, quality and risk management on client projects
• Manage your own and FAAS team’s development of functional and technical skills by establishing a culture of highest performing teams and inclusive behaviours
• Manage and lead business development activities for new and existing clients, developing the delivery of high-quality proposals
• Build strong internal and external networks to bring collaboration for EY clients
• Create an environment that encourages and drives innovation based on experience with the client, market, service line, functional group and EY

• An accountancy qualification (e.g., ACA, CPA, ACCA, CIMA) or equivalent
• Financial Reporting and/or an Assurance/audit background
• Extensive experience working in assurance, consulting or transformational roles within Big 4, Consulting firms, and/or industry
• Experience in one or more of the below:
  • Accounting, Finance and Reporting related processes gained through Big 4, Consulting or industry environment e.g.,:
    • Record-to-Report (R2R), Financial & Non-financial Reporting
    • Financial Close, Consolidation and Reporting
  • Experience in Business and Finance Transformation & Change programmes; managing senior stakeholders across Finance and the business, identifying improvement/optimisation opportunities and enabling and influencing client decision-making
  • Process, Risks and Controls design, implementation and testing experience over Financial, Operational and Reporting processes using leading practice frameworks (e.g., COSO, SOx)
  • Data analytics, including utilisation of technology to be able to automate extraction, preparation and presentation of information to present to senior stakeholders, including use of data warehousing, ETL and visualisation solutions
  • Finance systems application design, build and implementation e.g., ERP (e.g., SAP, Oracle), EPM (e.g., SAC, CCH Tagetik) and/or other reporting automation solutions (e.g., Black Line)

• Accounting and Regulatory change (e.g., Corporate Reform, SOx)
• Experience of Finance Data and architecture including general ledger, subledgers, master data structures, data objects etc.
• Experience of wider finance related processes including elements within Order-to-Cash (O2C), Procure-to-Pay (P2P) and Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
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