Senior Manager, Finance Transformation, Finance Consulting (Value & Performance Management) in City of London

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Are you passionate about Value & Performance Management and Finance transformation enabled by technology?

The opportunity 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 advisors. You will work in multi-disciplinary teams for some of the biggest and most recognised corporate 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 & 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.

Your key responsibilities include:

• Building senior relationships within client organisations, working with them to understand their most critical business problems and priorities.
• Collaborating with EY peers to evaluate, design, and deliver solution options that leverage cutting-edge technologies to support strategic transformation and decision-making.
• Leading and managing high-performing diverse teams, aligned to EY’s values, delivering exceptional client service and preparing our clients for a digitally enabled future.

Skills and attributes for success:

• Great communicators, team players, and relationship builders, with a real desire to lead transformation.
• Professional in your approach, with a natural ability to establish personal credibility with senior stakeholders.
• Highly organised, capable of managing your own workload and that of others, meeting deadlines, proactively managing risks and delivering consistent quality.
• As a role model and leader, living the values of the Firm daily, coaching and supporting the development of others.

You will add measurable value to clients by delivering work that addresses their most critical challenges, including the need to:

• Deliver leading practice VPM solutions, from vision to execution.
• Articulate, design, and implement a transformative vision for Finance enabled by innovative global technology trends.
• Define new operating models, including the future role of Finance business partnering and VPM delivery in a digital-first enterprise.
• Lead performance management transformations (budgeting, planning, forecasting), including new governance structures and enabling technologies.
• Develop steering models and KPIs that drive growth, margin, and enterprise value.
• Simplify and transform reporting processes across management and statutory landscapes.
• Build commercial scenario modelling (e.g. gross-to-net, pricing analytics) for improved revenue and market positioning.
• Design information and data architectures for both management and statutory reporting.
• Deliver end-to-end data visualisation, insight generation, and performance dashboards.
• Drive transformation in Finance through analytics, automation, and AI.

Capabilities You’ll Help Deliver:

• Data2Insight: Supporting better performance management and insight, from transactional ERP systems through to group-level performance oversight.
• Integrated Business Planning: Simplified and optimised financial planning, integrated across functions and enabled by future-ready tools, for more accurate forecasting and better-informed trade-offs.
• Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A): Transforming FP&A to shift from manual reporting to value-driving insights and business performance partnering.
• Statutory Group Reporting / Consolidation: Enabling efficient, compliant, and automated group-level statutory reporting and consolidation.
• Analytics and Performance Management Reporting: Enabling Finance and the wider business to make faster, smarter decisions through forward-looking, actionable insights.
• AI (Artificial Intelligence) enabled Financial Transformation: Leveraging AI and emerging technologies to drive automation, predictive insights, and transformation across the finance function.

You will also:

• Lead design-led thinking and digital process re-engineering workshops.
• Use LEAN methodologies and automation technologies to drive outcomes.
• Structure and execute Agile delivery methods.
• Understand and support in the implementation of relevant technologies such as SAP Analytics Cloud, Oracle, Hyperion, SAP BPC/SAC, S/4HANA, Anaplan, Tagetik, Board, Microsoft Power BI.

To qualify for the role, you must have:

• Experience in business development and solution design for complex, multi-national businesses.
• Deep expertise in your chosen market or sector.
• Track record delivering large-scale finance or performance improvement programmes.
• Strong senior client relationships and proven ability to originate and lead major engagements.

Ideally, you’ll also have:

• A valid and certified professional accounting qualification.
• Experience in management consulting or delivery of multiple VPM programmes in industry.
• Strong technical problem-solving capability.
• Attention to detail and ability to produce high-quality, visual outputs and insights.
• Excellent facilitation and presentation skills.
• Experience in coaching and developing high-performing teams.

What we look for:

• Core consulting skills: stakeholder management, analysis, commerciality, facilitation.
• Technical skills: deep functional delivery capability, with hands-on expertise in your domain.
• Versatility: agility to learn and innovate in a fast-changing environment.
• Sector knowledge: proven understanding of the market dynamics and opportunities within your industry.

EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets. Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.