Director, Finance Consulting (Value Performance Management)

EY; Luton; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Total Rewards package

Flexible working

Career development

Job summary

EY is seeking a Director to lead high-impact Value & Performance Management transformations for senior clients in the UK. You will shape enterprise performance architectures, drive planning capabilities, and oversee delivery across Finance, FP&A and business partnering functions.

You will also lead business development, innovation and market eminence, while mentoring teams and guiding career development. The role requires extensive consulting experience and strong client-facing skills.

Qualifications

• Extensive consulting background required.
• Senior Finance/FP&A/Commercial experience is a bonus.
• End-to-end experience delivering change programmes across Finance Transformation, FP&A, and Enterprise Performance Management.
• Proven ability to build senior client relationships.
• Strong commercial understanding and sector expertise.
• Experience in leading teams in a matrixed environment.

Responsibilities

• Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders and advise on performance and decision-making challenges.
• Lead and execute complex VPM transformations.
• Drive growth by leading business development, bids and market eminence.
• Coach and develop junior consultants to grow consulting leadership.

Skills

Senior leadership

Relationship management

Business development

Strategy development

Stakeholder management

Finance transformation

Data & analytics appreciation

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

SAP

Anaplan

OneStream

Job description

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 helping organisations elevate the quality, speed, and impact of their business decision making? Do you thrive at the intersection of Finance, Data, and the business—working with commercial, supply chain, marketing, and R&D leaders to unlock value and improve enterprise performance?

The Opportunity

Our Value & Performance Management (VPM) team helps CFOs, CxOs and business leaders transform how decisions are made across their organisations. We enable clients to improve business performance through modern FP&A, enhanced business partnering, data‑driven decision support, and innovative analytics and AI-enabled performance frameworks.

Our VPM team works with some of the world’s most recognised brands to help them translate strategy into measurable value outcomes. This includes shaping enterprise performance architectures, designing insight‑led operating models, implementing Integrated Business Planning, and optimising decision processes across the value chain.

We support the full transformation lifecycle, including:

• Assessing current maturity of Finance, FP&A and business partnering
• Developing a VPM strategy, vision and performance architecture, focused on value outcomes for the business
• Designing enterprise performance frameworks and operating models
• Implementing modern planning capabilities (driver‑based, predictive, IBP)
• Deploying enabling technologies (e.g. SAP SAC, Tagetik, Anaplan, OneStream, Pigment), analytics platforms and AI tools
• Enhancing decision support across commercial, supply chain, marketing and other functions
• Creating value measurement frameworks and scorecards
• Designing insight‑led organisation structures and talent models
• Managing end‑to‑end programme delivery and adoption

Your Key Responsibilities

As a Director, you will play two key roles in our business. Firstly you will build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders and advise them on their most critical performance and decision‑making challenges, as well as leading and executing complex transformations on their behalf.

Secondly, you will play a leading role in helping to drive the growth of our VPM and broader Finance Transformation business, by leading on business development, innovation and eminence in the market, talent development, and managing the risk of the firm.

You will:

• Have a deep understanding of how Finance, FP&A and business partnering functions operate—and how they can evolve to enable better decision making
• Lead large, complex, technology-enabled VPM, FP&A or decision‑support transformations
• Shape client strategies and target operating models for enterprise performance
• Be able to work with senior clients from across Finance and the broader business to understand their strategy and business priorities, and to translate them into value outcomes and a roadmap for execution
• Advise on, and oversee design and implementation of planning, analytics (e.g. scenario-modelling), insights and AI tools and capabilities
• Be able to advise on EPM tools and technologies from a functional / business value perspective
• Identify new business opportunities for our firm, and opportunities for revenue growth
• Lead on business development activities such as bids and tenders
• Coach and mentor junior consultants, developing the next set of consulting leaders in the firm
• Lead on innovation topics, by running teams to develop thought leadership, research and points of view; be eminent in the market by actively talking and sharing our thought leadership to clients and the external market

To qualify for this role you must have:

• Extensive background in consulting is essential
• Experience in a Senior Finance/FP&A/Commercial role is a bonus
• End-to-end experience delivering change programmes across Finance Transformation, FP&A, Enterprise Performance Management
• Proven ability to build senior client relationships
• Sector expertise and strong commercial understanding
• Strong experience of managing complex risk, quality and commercials
• Experience of business development and revenue generation e.g. bid work
• Extensive experience of leading teams in a matrixed environment
• People development experience, including coaching and career development

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.

The Exceptional EY Experience. It’s Yours To Build.

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