Assurance - FAAS - Manager - Banking & Capital Markets - London

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The Financial Accounting Advisory Services (FAAS) – Manager role in our Banking & Capital Markets team offers the chance to advise clients on complex finance, accounting, and reporting transformation, including regulatory change, system modernization, and capital markets activity.

Your key responsibilities

As a Manager within our FAAS Banking & Capital Markets team, you will work closely with finance clients, lead engagement teams, and provide valuable insight and advice to support strategic and operational decisions.

You will contribute to the success and growth of the practice alongside senior colleagues in the financial services industry.

• Delivering BCM accounting and regulatory change projects by managing project teams, assessing engagement risks, driving conclusions, and reviewing or challenging team outputs.
• Designing, developing and implementing strategic and operational initiatives for clients.
• Driving innovation and automation through new and improved ways of working, delivery models and technological advancements.
• Developing strong internal and external networks for long-term relationships and supporting EY account growth.
• Establishing and managing effective working relationships with peer-level client stakeholders as part of project delivery roles.
• Training, coaching and supervising junior staff, while supporting team development and monitoring utilisation and staff deployment.
• Identifying opportunities for and securing new business, including contributing to proposals, research and bid teams.
• Contributing to the growth of the practice through knowledge sharing, thought leadership, development of solutions, tools and enablers.
• Supporting quality assurance and risk management across assignments, including coordination with service line teams, specialists and partner groups.

Skills and attributes for success

You will bring strong project and stakeholder management capability, sound technical and commercial judgement, and the ability to manage client relationships and engagement delivery in complex environments.

You will be comfortable with uncertainty and ambiguity in project environments, demonstrate expertise across engagement and practice teams, and take personal responsibility for quality of delivery.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in banking and capital markets, financial services finance, or advisory work focused on finance transformation, accounting, controls or regulatory reporting.
• An accountancy qualification such as ACA, ACMA, ACCA, CPA or equivalent.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with confidence engaging stakeholders at all levels.
• Strong problem‑solving capability and the ability to apply logic to complex finance business issues.
• Strong Excel and Power Point skills.
• Experience leading or supporting finance change programmes, finance operating model work, or accounting and regulatory change projects.
• Ideal candidate profile
• Experience in areas such as IFRS 9, finance operating model design, financial control, budgeting, forecasting, process and governance, balance sheet management, finance cost reduction, systems architecture or regulatory / statutory / management reporting.
• Experience with ERP and/or EPM implementation, including accounting rules and chart of accounts design.
• Exposure to BCM topics including S166 reviews, regulatory reporting controls remediation, IBOR transition, comfort letters, treasury / hedge accounting, CSRD disclosures, or process and controls documentation.
• Exposure to regulatory change topics relevant to BCM, including areas such as Basel 3, COREP, FINREP.
• Experience with business readiness and training activities for finance function or system change.
• Strong proficiency and exposure to working with and optimising large complex data sets, analytics and performance forecasting in a Finance and/or risk management domain.
• Exposure to data visualisation, automation or transformation tools such as Workiva, Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx, Blue Prism or Black Line.
• Experience with accounting assessments and documentation of accounting judgements around financial instruments and topics such as consolidation, derecognition, business combinations, offsetting, etc.
• Experience of valuing Level 1 and Level 2 financial instruments, including derivatives, or auditing financial instrument valuations.
• What working at EY offers

EY offers a competitive remuneration package that rewards your individual and team performance.

The Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, with benefits covering holidays, health and well‑being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions.

You can also expect opportunities to develop new skills, progress your career, receive coaching and feedback from experienced colleagues, and benefit from flexibility in how you approach your role.

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