Senior Manager, Finance Consulting (Finance Strategy and Transformation) in London

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence. We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. Join EY and help to build a better working world. Are you passionate about supporting organisations to set-up and improve their Finance and Global Business Services (GBS) through enterprise performance management, digital innovation, and developing creative solutions?

The opportunity Finance Consulting works with clients to address mission critical issues for the Chief Financial Officer (CFO), 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 Finance Strategy and Transformation – supporting companies in either taking their first steps to establish their shared services / global business services capability, or developing the maturity of existing Finance and GBS organisations. We support our clients across the full lifecycle of the transformation journey, including:

• performing current-state diagnostics
• developing a vision, strategy, and operating model
• delivering an activity analysis, and creating a business case
• crafting an integrated implementation roadmap
• guiding location and sourcing model selection
• designing and implementing future state processes and technologies (particularly across record-to-report, order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, as well as financial planning and analytics)
• shaping future organisation design
• overseeing transition to future models
• designing and implementing experience-led service management
• all encompassed by end-to-end programme management

Your key responsibilities include building relationships at senior levels within client organisations, working with them to understand their most critical business problems and priorities, consulting with your EY peers to evaluate, design, and deliver solution options that leverage cutting edge technologies. You will motivate and manage high performing diverse teams, aligned to EY’s values, delivering exceptional client service and preparing our clients for a digital future. You will identify further revenue growth opportunities for EY.

Skills and attributes for success:

• Strong knowledge of how Finance and GBS organisations operate.
• Experience in implementing and transforming Finance and/or GBS organisations, or have been in a senior operational role within a Finance and/or GBS with exposure to project management.
• Great communicator, team player, and relationship builder, 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.
• Ability to add measurable value to your clients by delivering work that addresses their biggest problems and priorities.

To do this, you will need to:

• Help clients understand current and emerging Finance and/or GBS trends
• Lead programme or multiple workstreams, having day to day responsibility for delivery
• Lead the current-state diagnostic and target operating model work, including facilitating workshops with senior client stakeholders
• Develop Finance and/or GBS implementation roadmaps, helping clients think about transition strategy
• Lead design and implementation of new processes and organisation structures; being able to identify opportunities for technology

It is helpful if you understand and apply relevant technologies such as:

• Service Management Tools
• GenAI and Agentic AI
• Accounting Automation
• Consolidation and Reporting

…and importantly, understand the underlying role enterprise Data plays in all of the above.

To qualify for the role you must have:

• A valid and certified professional accounting qualification
• A background in management consulting or have delivered components of large scale transformation programmes in industry
• Experience of business development and solution design for complex multi-national businesses
• Expert proficiency in your chosen market or sector
• Experience of delivering change programmes within a Finance function and GBS organisation
• Strong client relationships and a proven track record of originating and selling new projects
• Proven ability to engage, manage and build senior relationships

Ideally, you’ll also have:

• Ability to create solutions to technical problems
• Strong attention to detail, with the ability to storyboard and create high quality outputs
• Excellent problem solving, facilitation, and presentation skills
• Track record of line managing professional services staff, including coaching and developing staff

What we look for:

• Core consulting skills: client management, analysis, presentation and facilitation, commerciality
• Technical skills: strong technical insight, practical knowledge and capability in your specialist field
• Versatility: proven ability to adapt and learn in an innovative environment
• Market / sector knowledge: demonstrable market/sector expertise in your field

What we offer:

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. 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 whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• 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 meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible. The exceptional EY experience. It’s yours to build. Apply now.