Assurance - FAAS - Finance Optimisation - Senior Manager - London, Reading or Manchester

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The opportunity

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.

Your responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of projects (physical and virtual), assessing engagement risks and opportunities, driving the right outcomes for our clients.
• Lead and manage client relationships and interactions, enabling and influencing strategic and operational decisions.
• Lead on firm-wide campaigns and go-to-market initiatives including business development and pursuit activities for new and existing clients, developing the delivery of high-quality proposals.
• Develop and present exceptional reports & presentations (PowerPoint, Word, etc.) for project deliverables, capturing problem statements and solutions/recommendations for our clients.
• Lead on internal financial, quality and risk management on client projects.
• Lead your own and FAAS team’s development of functional and technical skills by establishing a culture of highest performing teams and inclusive behaviours.
• Create an environment that encourages and drives innovation based on experience with the client, market, service line, functional group and EY.

To qualify for the role, you must have:

• 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, 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., BlackLine).

Other relevant experience may include whilst not limited to:

• 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).
• Experience of non-financial reporting, including ESG reporting and relevant regulatory frameworks.
• Internal finance function experience in Financial Reporting roles.

What we look for

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 complex issues, this role is for you.

What we offer

EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we will consider flexible working arrangements. We strive to achieve the right balance for our people, enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career. Our client-facing professionals are required to travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites.

We offer a competitive remuneration package. 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 your career.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be a leader.
• 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 fully meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

The exceptional EY experience. Shape your future with confidence!

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