Assurance FAAS Finance Optimisation Manager

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UKI Assurance – FAAS Finance Optimisation – Manager – Reading or Manchester

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 macro‑economic climate. Our clients are going through significant change as a result of new compliance requirements and business needs.

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

• 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 teams 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 following:
• 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 automate extraction, preparation and presentation of information to senior stakeholders, including use of data warehousing, ETL and visualisation solutions
• Finance systems application design, build and implementation (e.g. ERP such as SAP or Oracle; EPM such as SAC, CCH Tagetik; and/or other reporting automation solutions such as Black Line)
• Other relevant experience may include (not limited to):
• Accounting and regulatory change (e.g. Corporate Reform, SOx)
• Finance data and architecture including general ledger, sub‑ledgers, master data structures, data objects, etc.
• Wider finance related processes including Order‑to‑Cash (O2C), Procure‑to‑Pay (P2P) and Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
• Non‑financial reporting including ESG reporting and relevant regulatory frameworks
• Internal finance function experience in financial reporting roles

We’re interested in leaders with a genuine creative vision and the confidence to make it happen. You can expect plenty of autonomy in this role so you’ll also need the ability to take initiative and seek out opportunities to improve our current relationships and processes. If you’re serious about your career with us and ready to take on some of our clients’ most…