Senior Manager - Finance Transformation (Operating Model)

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

Job summary

EY in London is seeking a Senior Manager in Finance Transformation to lead end-to-end engagements, design target operating models for finance functions, and drive business readiness and change management across large client programmes.

You will own delivery, manage senior stakeholders, and help grow the Finance Business Consulting practice, leveraging ERP and EPM initiatives within Financial Services.

Qualifications

• Experience leading Finance Transformation programmes in Financial Services.
• Track record as business architect or design lead for target operating models.
• Prior consulting experience at a Big 4 or top-tier firm preferable.

Responsibilities

• Own the delivery of engagements and workstreams; manage senior client stakeholders.
• Design target operating models for finance functions, including processes, governance and interfaces.
• Lead business readiness, change management and training to enable go-live.
• Manage budgets, resourcing and margins for engagements.
• Build the practice and contribute to EY viewpoints and tools.

Skills

Finance Transformation

Senior Manager

ERP

EPM

Big4 experience

Financial Services domain

Tools

ERP software

EPM software

Job description

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Senior Manager – Finance Transformation (Operating Model)

Profile Summary

The Finance Business Consulting team is looking for a Senior Manager with a strong delivery track record in Finance Transformation, who can bring business and technology-based solutions together to deliver outcomes for our clients. You will act as the lead business architect on our engagements: the person who designs how a finance function should work, and then makes that design real. That covers target operating model design, organisation design, process and controls, and leading the business side of major system implementations, including ERP and EPM programmes. You will not be expected to own the technical build, but you will be expected to hold the business design together across it. Prior consulting experience is essential, alongside a track record of delivering large-scale Finance Transformation programmes in Financial Services, ideally with a Big 4 or top-tier firm. We work across Banking, Capital Markets and Insurance, and we welcome candidates with depth in any of these sectors. The role calls for an adaptable individual who is comfortable across a wide range of client issues. The nature of our work varies considerably, so you should be at ease taking on different delivery roles and the challenges that come with them.

Your Responsibilities

As a Senior Manager in our Finance Business Consulting team, you will own the delivery of engagements and workstreams, hold the relationship with senior client stakeholders, and be accountable for the commercial performance of the work you lead. You will also help build the practice.

Specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Leading large and complex end-to-end Finance Transformations, either as engagement lead on mid-sized work or as workstream lead on major programmes
• Designing target operating models for finance functions, covering service and process taxonomies, delivery models, locations and sourcing, governance, and the interfaces into Risk, Front Office, Actuarial and IT
• Leading organisation design: functional structures, role and capability models, spans and layers, sizing and the transition from current to target
• Leading the business side of ERP and EPM programmes - requirements, business process design, design authority, testing strategy, data readiness input, cutover and business readiness - partnering with, but not owning, the technical delivery track
• Running the current-state assessment: requirements gathering, existing organisation structure, processes and controls, pain points and the case for change
• Designing the working day timetable and delivering an accelerated close
• Leading design workshops, drawing out the client's business requirements and translating them into a leading-practice process and business design
• Leading business readiness and change management to take the client through go-live and into business as usual
• Using AI to accelerate our own delivery - for example in current-state analysis, process documentation, deliverable drafting and quality review - and setting the standard for how the team does this well
• Using AI as a thinking partner - stress-testing design options, challenging your own conclusions and pressure-testing deliverables before they reach the client
• Designing operating models that assume AI and automation are part of the target state, and being able to explain to a client where judgement stays with people and where it does not
• Leading and managing delivery teams, reviewing and challenging the outputs they produce, and giving clear guidance to more junior colleagues
• Taking responsibility for the financial management of engagements, including scoping, budgeting, resourcing and margin
• Leading business development: identifying and shaping opportunities with new and existing clients, running proposals and bid teams, and managing the delivery of high-quality proposals
• Building strong internal and external networks that support long-term relationships, managing EY accounts and bringing the breadth of the firm to our clients
• Growing the practice by sharing knowledge and experience, and by contributing to EY points of view, solutions, engagement tools and enablers
• Training, coaching and supervising junior colleagues, and supporting the development of the wider team
• Keeping current with industry developments and the technologies, reporting standards and trends shaping Financial Services
• Providing quality assurance and monitoring risk, managing assignment teams and third parties, and liaising with service line teams, functional specialists and partners

Professional Experience

Typical experience may include, but is not limited to:

• Prior consulting experience is essential, preferably with a Big 4 or top-tier consulting firm
• Experience delivering large-scale Finance Transformation programmes in Financial Services - Banking, Capital Markets or Insurance
• Experience of four or more Finance Transformations in Financial Services
• A track record as business architect or design lead, delivering the business-focused elements of a client's target operating model: organisation design, process and controls, working day timetable, change management, training and business readiness
• Experience leading the business workstream of an ERP or