Senior Manager, Finance Transformation, Finance Consulting (Value & Performance Management) in 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:

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

Capabilities You’ll Help Deliver:

• Data2Insight: 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: 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: Systemisation of statutory group consolidation. Support of group reporting and input into disclosure management.
• Analytics and Performance Management Reporting: Enterprise analytics operating model (process, tech, data, people). Embed analytics into performance management routines.
• AI (Artificial Intelligence) enabled Financial Transformation: Leverage a deep knowledge of AI capabilities and modern solutions. Provide insight into the value case and benefits of deploying AI technologies.

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. 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.