Finance Transformation Senior

Position Summary

Financial Accounting Advisory Services (FAAS) professionals provides advisory services including Accounting and regulatory support for accounting change and special matters; accounting processes and controls support.

Within EY FAAS practice, the Finance Transformation Experts team build and develop client relationship with our regional stakeholders. We are part of an integrated global network of professionals who develop, design and optimise client service business processes for efficiency and high performance. We leverage and improve various frameworks, methodologies, solutions specific to our offerings and articulate presentations that communicate proposals, strategies, plans and outcomes.

Primary Responsibilities

The Senior will support teams of FAAS professionals during engagements covering a broad spectrum of areas. The individual will be responsible for the following tasks:

• Support the FAAS team in executing one or more Finance Transformation solutions including the following:
• End to end process study, identify gaps in current process and identify recommendations.
• Process design skills able to critically review existing processes; make recommendations for rationalisation and improvement.
• Define and develop a finance target operating model. Design business and process models, and help define finance technology strategy, architecture, and roadmap.
• Execute technology led enterprise transformation projects for our clients
• Knowledge of SAP and other leading ERPs, reporting tools like Blackline, Trintech, Hyperion etc
• Knowledge of consolidation, reporting, inter-company and ERP data structures
• Supporting Process and Control; or should be an expert in driving Financial Statement Close Process, Procure to Pay and Order to Cash, Inventory, Fixed Assets, PPE & Intangible assets processes (along with experience in Risk management)
• Understand fundamentals of data preparation/data modelling necessary for the visualization purpose.
• Capture reporting requirements from various stakeholders, architect the solution/report, understand/analyze the source data and deliver the reports in timely manner
• Strong expertise in designing intuitive and interactive reports/dashboards using Power BI for data driven decisions.
• Participating in development of proposals related to our offerings
• Supporting projects that ensure high quality consulting services to major clients, preferably with a practical approach as learned during working in the business
• Contributing to the creation of new services, tools and materials to be more successful on the market

Qualifications, skills and experience

To qualify, candidates must have:

• Chartered Accountant (CA), CPA (US) or ACCA (UK) with 0-5 years of relevant experience
• MBA degree is a plus
• Experience on Finance transformation, process optimisation projects including R2R, O2C, P2P and treasury deliver a customised solution by engaging tools and technologies
• Project experience across the Finance Transformation, System Implementation with knowledge of EPR’s.
• Exposure in one or more specific finance operating model design, service management, performance management (SLA, KPI),
• Have system exposure in functional side, implementation side or optimisation side are highly preferred (e.g. SAP, Oracle etc)
• Have experience in preparing Target Operating Models, current state analysis (As is), future state analysis (To be), process optimization, data optimization, data analytics, data management.
• Certified in project management or agile management
• Fluent written and verbal communication and presentation skills in English, other languages are highly preferred
• Willingness to work in a global environment where travel is regularly required for several clients