Assurance Business Strategy Manager

Ernst & Young Advisory Services Sdn Bhd; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global professional services firm is looking for a professional to drive operational excellence and support various initiatives for its Assurance business in Kuala Lumpur. The role requires strong analytical, communication, and project management skills, along with a Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of experience in relevant industries. Competitive package and flexible work arrangements are available.

Benefits

Competitive remuneration package

Flexible work arrangements

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience in the Professional Services industry.
• Experience in operations, business management, or control function preferred.
• Strong people management skills and ability to manage diverse stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Review and monitor key financial and performance measures.
• Provide regular performance reporting with action-oriented commentaries.
• Drive compliance around quality areas to meet internal requirements.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Analytical thinking

Project management

Team player

Agility

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

PowerBI

Job description

At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you.

Join our Core Business Services (CBS) team and you will help support important business enablement functions that keep our organization running strong. As a CBS professional, you will work across teams to provide the knowledge, resources, methodologies and tools that help EY deliver exceptional quality service to our clients, win in the marketplace and support EY’s growth and profitability.

The opportunity requires a professional who will take responsibility for driving and supporting our Operational Excellence agenda and work to implement various Operations and Finance-related initiatives for Malaysia’s Assurance business.

The Role

You will have the opportunity to build relationships, drive initiatives and shape solutions across our local Assurance practice, understand the market and issues, and collaborate with other teams not only within Assurance but beyond.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Review and monitor key financial & performance measures, KPIs (TNR, Margin, Utilisation, Revenue days)
• Provide robust regular performance and dashboard reporting with insightful, timely, forward looking and action oriented commentaries
• Drive the yearly planning process and half-year forecast exercise
• Drive and monitor compliance around key quality areas to meet internal business requirements
• Local project lead for Global and Area centralisation initiatives
• Develop and execute other strategic and operational initiatives to drive end to end business performance improvements
• Analyze, articulate and monitor operational performance issues
• Provide communications support for Malaysia Assurance Leader

Skills and Attributes for Success

• Good interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills
• Strong analytical thinking and project management skills
• A team player
• Agile

To Qualify for the Role

• Bachelor's Degree with at least 5 years of working experience, preferably in Professional Services industry
• Experience in an operations related, business management or control function preferred
• Strong people management skills and able to work/ manage different stakeholders
• Attention to detail and ability to analyze problems, design and implement solutions independently
• A Self-starter
• A committed team player with good interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong organizational skills
• Ability to work in cross-functional teams
• Good command of written and spoken English

Ideally, You’ll Also Have

• Advanced Excel & PowerPoint skills
• Data analytics skills such as PowerBI

We offer a competitive remuneration package commensurate with your work experience, where you will be rewarded for your individual and team performance. We are committed to being an inclusive employer and are happy to consider flexible work arrangements as needed.