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EY GDS Technology Consulting Finance

As part of our EY - Finance Consulting Team, you will help clients develop their Performance Improvement initiatives and identify potential opportunities for performance improvements drive them. This includes techno-functional role conducting finance processes assessments, deep diving and analysing pain areas and coming up with solutions. The client base spans across industries and countries.

The opportunity

• We're looking for Manager with expertise in record to report area. Also, experience in FP&A, consolidation, ERP Implementation, Financial Accounting and Reporting domain is an added advantage to join the global EY - Finance Consulting team. This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a leading firm whilst being instrumental in the growth of a new service offering.
• Partners with the team to deliver amazing work during the engagement while balancing overall project health
• Actively reviews and explore opportunities to improve, optimize and enhance ways of working
• Provides status communications to project and business teams
• Practice development (support and participate in activities such as internal training & development, recruitment, etc.)
• Own and develop our offerings and assets
• Demonstrated ability to present ideas clearly and concisely; ability to prepare presentations for senior-level client stakeholders
• Undertaking sales origination, including working with client teams to identify opportunities
• Leverage and improve various frameworks, methodologies, solutions specific to our offerings

Your key responsibilities include but not limited to

• Provide oversight for and management of the development and implementation of sustainable, repeatable, reliable and cost-effective financial processes to meet emerging and future business requirements of the client
• Lead proposals related to our offerings and take them successfully to clients
• Leading projects that ensure high quality advisory and consulting services to major clients, preferably with a practical approach as learned during working in the business
• Creating / contributing to the creation of new services, tools and materials to be more successful on the market
• Achievement of ambitious targets for growth, utilization, and operational excellence and consistent implementation of EY policies and tools to enable these priorities while supporting the engagement of our people
• Involvement in people initiatives including recruiting, retaining and training professionals and act as a role model
• Active participation in the creation and maintenance of an environment that enables the team to manage delivery effectively and achieve the highest quality
• Maintain relationships with the client's management in order to manage the expectations of service
• Experience with finance functions Record to report processes involving account reconciliations, Journals, Transaction matching, Variance analysis, intercompany etc.
• Conduct workshops with clients to perform current state As-Is process assessment and design & optimize Future state processes as per leading practices & industry benchmarks
• Identify process improvement opportunities using automation, technology upgradation & process standardization.
• Experience in creating L1-L5 As-Is and To-Be process mapping using tools such as ARIS, IBM Blueworks and Visio
• Knowledge on Financial Consolidation and Close, Cost Allocation and Finance Planning and Budgeting Processes
• Good Knowledge on ledger and sub-ledger systems; technical know-how of SAP ERP/HANA, Oracle GL (good to have)
• Strong accounting skills and understands financial reports and statements
• Good experience in Chart of accounts design
• Should have knowledge of activities in financial close of an organisation for month/Quarter/Annual close
• Managing/ supervising teams of people on project work
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure
• Open to travel (Domestic & International)

Skills and attributes for success

• Consulting experience is a good to have
• BlackLine Certification is a good to have
• Confident & professional communication style
• Proficiency in English (oral and written)
• Ability to clearly articulate messages to a variety of audiences
• Flexible and adaptable; able to work in ambiguous situations
• Able to work effectively at all levels in an organization
• Capability to influence others and move toward a common vision or goal
• Must be a team player and able to work collaboratively with and through others
• Strong analytical skills as well as excellent problem-solving skills for interpreting the IFRS standards

To qualify for the role, you must have

• CA, CFA, CPA, MBA OR Master's in business administration in Finance
• Have experience in either the FS sectors (like Banking, Insurance, Capital Markets, Wealth and Asset Management) or Non-FS sectors
• 10+ years of work experience in experience in process assessment assignments/consulting work
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills

Ideally, you'll also have

• Exposure to tools like ERP, HFM, BlackLine, Oracle ARCS, Trintech, Workday financials,etc.
• Finance Transformation, knowledge on financial consolidation and close

What we look for

• A Team of people with commercial acumen, technical experience and enthusiasm to learn new things in this fast-moving environment
• Opportunities to work with EY Advisory practices globally with leading businesses across a range of industries