Manager - Working Capital

Ernst & Young Advisory Services Sdn Bhd; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial advisory firm in the UK is seeking a Manager for their Working Capital team to enhance operational performance and manage client relationships. This role involves supporting working capital improvement engagements, conducting financial analyses, and business development. Candidates should have at least five years in a relevant field, strong technical skills including Excel, and a professional finance qualification. The role offers competitive remuneration and opportunities for career development.

Benefits

Flexible working support

Career development opportunities

Competitive remuneration package

Qualifications

• Minimum five years experience in a client-facing role at a major accountancy or strategy firm.
• Strong technical and analytical capabilities, Excel proficiency required.
• Ability to build strong relationships and participate in business development.

Responsibilities

• Support operational working capital improvement engagements.
• Assist with business development and broader team management.
• Establish and maintain internal and external relationships.

Skills

Financial analysis

Project management

Relationship management

Technical capabilities (Excel)

Education

Professional accountancy qualification (e.g., ACA, ACCA)

Tools

Data visualization tools (PowerBi, Qlik, Tableau)

Job description

Manager - Working Capital - London

The Opportunity – Working Capital Management

Many management teams struggle to sustain good control over cash flows and the working capital that drives them, leaving the business vulnerable to market and operational change.

EY’s Cash and Working Capital team supports businesses in improving the effectiveness of their processes and commercial arrangements in order to develop sustainable solutions to free cash that is tied up on the balance sheet. Focusing on sustainable change underpinned by advanced analytics, process change and reporting, they deliver value through measurable improvement. The team has significant experience supporting the complete spectrum of listed and privately owned companies across multiple sectors or geographies, whether a successful business seeking to enhance shareholder value, or an organisation experiencing a cash crisis.

The team is one of the market leading advisers in this space and part of the world’s largest specialist cash and working capital advisory practice.

Your Key Responsibilities

As a Manager within the Working Capital Team, you will support the delivery of operational working capital improvement engagements, assist with business development activities and contribute to wider team management and practice.

You will input knowledge and subject matter expertise, coordinating and driving the production of deliverables to the agreed timescales, supporting with the management and communication to clients on progress and escalation of issues to senior team members.

You will actively work with senior team members to establish, maintain and strengthen internal and external relationships, leveraging these relationships to identify and pursue potential new engagement opportunities.

As an influential member of the team, you will help to create an inclusive culture and will coach and counsel junior team members and help them to develop.

Skills and Attributes for Success

• Able to review the operational and financial drivers of the Order-to-Cash, Procure-to-Pay and Forecast-to-Fufill cycles and the potential opportunities that can be implemented to deliver sustainable performance improvement
• Experience of evaluating the key business processes, systems and commercial dynamics driving working capital performance
• Conducting financial analysis of opportunities for working capital reduction and translating this into practical advice and recommendations to support operational improvements
• Experienced at interpreting information/ data, to solve problems and formulate views and conclusions
• Able to synthesise complex issues from initial hypothesis, and identify the data required to confirm hypothesis
• Able topresent solutions, issues and findings in both a concise written and oral format
• Good project management skills, ensuring the quality and consistency of performance in every task, whilst working to tight deadlines
• Manage the financial aspects of engagements by preparing a budget, organizing resources, monitoring engagement economics and communicating the status to the project leaders
• Develops and maintains productive working relationships and manages the communication with day-to-day client contacts.
• Identifies potential sell‑on opportunities and support the project leaders in pursuing these to broaden and extend live engagements.
• Supporting the development of new business through building and delivering commercial proposals, pitches and thought leadership, plus coaching and developing others.

To qualify for the role you must have:

• Minimum five years of recent experience in a client‑facing discipline at a major accountancy firm, major strategy firm, or a boutique firm with a focus on working capital, order to cash, procure to pay, or supply chain or inventory cash flow or operational performance
• A relevant qualification such as professional accountancy or other finance qualifications (e.g. ACA, ACCA etc)
• Strong technical and analytical capabilities – Excel required
• The ability to build strong relationships across the firm and can actively participate in business development
• Appreciation of the risks inherent in advising businesses and their stakeholders
• A passion to drive improvement in team capability through methodology development and coaching

Ideally, you may also have:

• Experience of data visualisation tools (e.g. PowerBi, Qlik, Tableau and Spotfire), and knowledge of coding languages (e.g. VBA, Python, SQL, DAX, M)
• Strong communication skills and ability to build effective relationships at all levels
• People development experience and can effectively supervise, coach and mentor staff
• An ability to understand how to build your own network of contacts with work providers

What we look for

We are looking for candidates who are highly motivated, driven, and have a passion to be part of a fast‑paced, successful transaction team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly throughout a period of growth within the cash and working capital team.

What working at EY offers

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:

• Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around
• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career.
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you.

About EY

As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, we’re using the finance products, expertise and systems we’ve developed to build a better working world. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime. And with a commitment to hiring and developing the most passionate people, we’ll make our ambition to be the best employer by 2020 a reality.

If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

Join us in building a better working world.

Apply now.

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