Senior Manager, Finance Transformation - Finance Consulting (Value & Performance Management) UKI

EY; City Of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A global consulting firm in London is looking for a Senior Manager in Finance Transformation to work closely with clients to improve finance performance. Responsibilities include building senior relationships, leading diverse teams, and delivering high-quality solutions leveraging innovative technologies. Ideal candidates will have strong analytical skills, a professional accounting qualification, and significant experience in finance transformation. This role promotes a collaborative and innovative work environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in business development and solution design for multi-national businesses.
• Deep expertise in finance transformation and performance improvement.
• Track record delivering large-scale finance engagements.

Responsibilities

• Build senior relationships within client organisations.
• Collaborate with peers to evaluate and deliver solutions.
• Lead high-performing diverse teams to deliver exceptional client service.

Skills

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Relationship building

Problem-solving

Technical skills in finance

Education

Professional accounting qualification

Tools

SAP Analytics Cloud

Microsoft Power BI

Job description

Overview

Senior Manager, Finance Transformation - Finance Consulting (Value & Performance Management)

Are you passionate about Value & Performance Management and Finance transformation enabled by technology?

The opportunity

Finance Consulting works with clients to address mission-critical issues related to company-wide performance, creating value and delivering world-class future finance capabilities, leveraging the EY brand as impartial, trusted advisors.

You will work in multi-disciplinary teams for some of the biggest and most recognised corporate brands in the world, applying the latest technologies and analytical methods to help drive their business performance and digital finance transformation agendas that make a real difference to our working world.

A growth area for us is Value & Performance Management (VPM) and how technology enables control, automation, efficiency and value growth—empowering strategic budgeting, planning, and forecasting, integrated business planning, consolidation, performance management and KPIs, data management, business partnering, AI enablement, cost reduction and value growth initiatives.

Your key responsibilities

You will build senior relationships within client organisations, working with them to understand their most critical business problems and priorities. You'll collaborate with EY peers to evaluate, design, and deliver solution options that leverage cutting-edge technologies to support strategic transformation and decision-making.

You will also lead and manage high-performing diverse teams, aligned to EY's values, delivering exceptional client service and preparing our clients for a digitally enabled future.

Skills and attributes for success

We are looking for professionals who are great communicators, team players, and relationship builders, with a real desire to lead transformation. Professional in your approach, you will have a natural ability to establish personal credibility with senior stakeholders. You will also be highly organised, capable of managing your own workload and that of others, meeting deadlines, proactively managing risks and delivering consistent quality. As a role model and leader, you will live the values of the Firm daily, coaching and supporting the development of others. You will add measurable value to clients by delivering work that addresses their most critical challenges, including the need to:

• Deliver leading practice VPM solutions, from vision to execution
• Articulate, design, and implement a transformative vision for Finance enabled by innovative global technology trends
• Define new operating models, including the future role of Finance business partnering and VPM delivery in a digital-first enterprise
• Lead performance management transformations (budgeting, planning, forecasting), including new governance structures and enabling technologies
• Develop steering models and KPIs that drive growth, margin, and enterprise value
• Simplify and transform reporting processes across management and statutory landscapes
• Build commercial scenario modelling (e.g. gross-to-net, pricing analytics) for improved revenue and market positioning
• Design information and data architectures for both management and statutory reporting
• Deliver end-to-end data visualisation, insight generation, and performance dashboards
• Drive transformation in Finance through analytics, automation, and AI

Capabilities You\'ll Help Deliver

Data2Insight

• Establish a consistent finance data model to enable clear, connected reporting
• Design ERP solutions with insight and value in mind, ensuring data drives better business decisions

Integrated Business Planning

• Connect planning across operations, finance, commercial, and HR to enable fully integrated decision-making
• Improve visibility of key drivers to better understand how operational inputs translate into financial outcomes

Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)

• Transforming FP&A to shift from manual reporting to value-driving insights and business performance partnering
• Streamline planning and reporting processes through technology and process redesign
• Design an FP&A operating model that enables greater agility and impact

Statutory Group Reporting / Consolidation

• Systemisation of statutory group consolidation
• Support of group reporting and input into disclosure management

Analytics and Performance Management Reporting

• Enterprise analytics operating model (process, tech, data, people)
• Embed analytics into performance management routines

AI (Artificial Intelligence) enabled Financial Transformation

• Share a deep knowledge of AI capabilities and modern solutions
• Provide insight into the value case and benefits of deploying AI technologies

You will also:

• Lead design-led thinking and digital process re-engineering workshops
• Use LEAN methodologies and automation technologies to drive outcomes
• Structure and execute Agile delivery methods

Understand and support in the implementation of relevant technologies such as:

• SAP Analytics Cloud
• Oracle, Hyperion, SAP BPC/SAC, S/4HANA
• Anaplan, Tagetik, Board
• Microsoft Power BI

To qualify for the role, you must have:

• Experience in business development and solution design for complex, multi-national businesses
• Deep expertise in your chosen market or sector
• Track record delivering large-scale finance or performance improvement programmes
• Strong senior client relationships and proven ability to originate and lead major engagements

Ideally, you'll also have:

• A valid and certified professional accounting qualification
• Experience in management consulting or delivery of multiple VPM programmes in industry

• Strong technical problem-solving capability
• Attention to detail and ability to produce high-quality, visual outputs and insights
• Excellent facilitation and presentation skills
• Experience in coaching and developing high-performing teams

What we look for:

• Core consulting skills: stakeholder management, analysis, commerciality, facilitation
• Technical skills: deep functional delivery capability, with hands-on expertise in your domain
• Versatility: agility to learn and innovate in a fast-changing environment
• Sector knowledge: proven understanding of the market dynamics and opportunities within your industry

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