Assurance - FAAS - Finance Optimisation - Manager

Ernst Young; Manchester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global consulting firm is seeking a Manager to provide insight and advice to clients in strategic and operational decisions. You will manage project deliveries and develop high-quality reports and presentations. The ideal candidate has a relevant accountancy qualification and extensive experience in assurance or consulting, alongside strong data analytics skills. This role offers a competitive remuneration package and supports continuous learning and diverse culture.

Benefits

Competitive remuneration package

Continuous learning

Transformative leadership

Diverse and inclusive culture

Qualifications

• An accountancy qualification (e.g., ACA, CPA, ACCA, CIMA) or equivalent.
• Financial Reporting and/or an Assurance/audit background.
• Extensive experience working in assurance, consulting or transformational roles within Big 4, Consulting firms, and/or industry.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end delivery of projects, assessing engagement risks and opportunities.
• Develop exceptional reports & presentations for project deliverables.
• Manage internal financial, quality and risk management on client projects.

Skills

Accountancy qualification (e.g., ACA, CPA, ACCA, CIMA)

Financial Reporting and Assurance background

Extensive experience in assurance, consulting or transformational roles

Data analytics experience

Experience with ERP systems (SAP, Oracle)

Education

Accountancy qualification

Tools

SAP

Oracle

PowerPoint

Job description

As a Manager, you will be offering valuable insight and advice to clients in supporting them in making strategic and operational decisions about their businesses.

Location: Reading or Manchester.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end delivery of projects (physical and virtual), assessing engagement risks and opportunities, driving the right outcomes for our clients.
• Develop exceptional reports & presentations (PowerPoint, Word, etc.) for project deliverables, capturing problem statements and solutions/recommendations for our clients.
• Manage internal financial, quality and risk management on client projects.
• Manage your own and the FAAS team’s development of functional and technical skills by establishing a culture of high‑performing teams and inclusive behaviours.
• Manage and lead business development activities for new and existing clients, developing the delivery of high‑quality proposals.
• Build strong internal and external networks to bring collaboration for EY clients.
• Create an environment that encourages and drives innovation based on experience with the client, market, service line, functional group and EY.
• Travel to client sites regularly; at times you may be based at client sites.

Qualifications

• An accountancy qualification (e.g., ACA, CPA, ACCA, CIMA) or equivalent.
• Financial Reporting and/or an Assurance/audit background.
• Extensive experience working in assurance, consulting or transformational roles within Big 4, Consulting firms, and/or industry.
• Experience in Accounting, Finance and Reporting related processes gained through Big 4, Consulting or industry environment, e.g., Record‑to‑Report (R2R), Financial & Non‑financial Reporting, Financial Close, Consolidation and Reporting.
• Experience in Business and Finance Transformation & Change programmes; managing senior stakeholders across Finance and the business, identifying improvement/optimisation opportunities and enabling and influencing client decision‑making.
• Process, Risks and Controls design, implementation and testing experience over Financial, Operational and Reporting processes using leading practice frameworks (e.g., COSO, SOx).
• Data analytics experience, including utilisation of technology to automate extraction, preparation and presentation of information for senior stakeholders, including use of data warehousing, ETL and visualisation solutions.
• Finance systems application design, build and implementation, e.g., ERP (SAP, Oracle), EPM (SAC, CCH Tagetik) and/or other reporting automation solutions (BlackLine).
• Accounting and Regulatory change experience (e.g., Corporate Reform, SOx).
• Experience of Finance Data and architecture including general ledger, sub‑ledgers, master data structures, data objects, etc.
• Experience of wider finance related processes including elements within Order‑to‑Cash (O2C), Procure‑to‑Pay (P2P) and Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A).
• Experience of non‑financial reporting, including ESG reporting and relevant regulatory frameworks.
• Internal finance function experience in Financial Reporting roles.

Benefits

• We offer a competitive remuneration package.
• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate your career.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you insights, coaching and confidence to be a leader.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

About EY

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