Manager, Finance Consulting (Value & Performance Management) in Edinburgh

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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:

• Build strong relationships within client organisations, working with them to understand their most critical business problems and priorities.
• Consult with your EY peers to evaluate, design, and deliver solution options that leverage cutting-edge technologies.
• Motivate and manage high-performing diverse teams, aligned to EY’s values, delivering exceptional client service and preparing our clients for a digital future.

Skills And Attributes For Success:

• Great communicators, team players, and relationship builders, with a real desire to learn.
• Professional in your approach, with a natural ability to establish personal credibility with clients.
• Highly organised, capable of coordinating your own workload and that of other team members, meeting deadlines, proactively managing risks and delivering quality outcomes.
• A role model to those around you, living the values of the firm daily, coaching and supporting the development of others.
• Add measurable value to your clients by delivering work that addresses their biggest challenges and priorities.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Articulate, design, and implement a vision for Finance and a compelling “case for change” that draws on innovative global technology trends, leading practice and service innovation.
• Discuss finance simplification and innovation enabled by digital technologies.
• Conduct accelerated finance diagnostics, maturity assessments, and benchmarking.
• Define client-relevant use of modern technology platforms showing their key functionalities, data models and technical requirements.
• Provide roadmaps of implementation and timelines (cost vs. benefits).
• Structure and run Finance transformation programmes using Agile design and delivery methods.
• Collect and socialise business and technical requirements for a technology-enabled Finance transformation.
• Architect and design technology-enabled Finance solutions.
• Drive end-to-end implementation services for emerging technologies.
• Deliver and manage the technical implementation of solutions.
• Adopt “digital” ways of working to increase flexibility and accelerate delivery.
• Plan, design, and execute design-led thinking and process re-engineering workshops.
• Process design grounded in customer outcomes and user experience, adopting LEAN methodologies and automation technologies.
• Structure and implement 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.

Capabilities You’ll Help Deliver:

• Data2Insight: Supporting better performance management and insight, from transactional ERP systems through to group-level performance oversight.
• Establish a consistent finance data model to enable clear, connected reporting.
• Design ERP solutions with insight and value in mind, ensuring data drives better business decisions.
• 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.
• Connect planning across operations, finance, commercial, and HR to enable fully integrated decision-making.
• Improve visibility of key drivers to better understand how operational inputs translate into financial outcomes.
• Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A): Transforming FP&A to shift from manual reporting to value-driving insights and business performance partnering.
• Streamline planning and reporting processes through technology and process redesign.
• Design an FP&A operating model that enables greater agility and impact.
• Statutory Group Reporting / Consolidation: Enabling efficient, compliant, and automated group-level statutory reporting and consolidation.
• Systemisation of statutory group consolidation supports group reporting and input into disclosure management.
• Analytics and Performance Management Reporting: Enabling Finance and the wider business to make faster, smarter decisions through forward-looking, actionable insights.
• Establish the right processes, technologies, data, and skills to deliver value.
• Embed analytics into performance management routines, driving accountability and decision-making at the right cadence.
• AI (Artificial Intelligence) enabled Financial Transformation: Leveraging AI and emerging technologies to drive automation, predictive insights, and transformation across the finance function.
• Share a deep knowledge of AI capabilities and modern solutions.
• Provide insight into the value case and benefits of deploying AI technologies.

To qualify for the role, you must have:

• Experience in designing solutions for complex multi-national organisations.
• Multiple lifecycle implementation experience of EPM or Finance Analytics.
• Proficiency in your chosen market or sector.
• Strong client relationship skills and proven stakeholder engagement.
• A keen interest in applying modern technologies to solve Finance and cross-functional challenges.

Ideally, you’ll also have:

• A valid and certified professional accounting qualification.
• A background in management consulting or experience leading large-scale VPM or EPM programmes in industry.
• Ability to develop creative, technical solutions.
• High attention to detail and strong output quality (e.g. storyboarding, reporting).
• Strong facilitation, presentation, and analytical problem-solving skills.
• Experience line managing and coaching high-performing teams.

What we look for:

• Core consulting skills: client management, commercial thinking, problem solving, and facilitation.
• Technical skills: hands-on delivery experience and subject-matter knowledge in Finance transformation and performance improvement.
• Versatility: ability to adapt quickly and contribute in a fast-changing, tech-enabled environment.
• Market / sector knowledge: demonstrable domain expertise relevant to your field.

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. EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions. Fueled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.