Global Planning Orchestration Lead

EY; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 286,000 - 566,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Medical & dental coverage

Pension & 401(k)

Paid time off

Job summary

EY is seeking a Global Integrated Planning Leader to design, orchestrate, and govern EY’s end‑to‑end integrated planning model worldwide. You’ll unify strategic, revenue, account, and financial planning into one framework and drive alignment with market execution.

You will lead across Finance, C&I, Markets, Talent, and Operations, guiding governance, data‑driven insights, and the transition to a new planning platform. This is a senior leadership role across time zones.

Qualifications

• Proven global leadership experience in integrated planning, strategic planning, commercial operations, or cross‑enterprise roles.
• Ability to define long‑term strategy while driving disciplined near‑term execution.
• Strong capability to navigate complex, matrixed organizations.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the global integrated planning “north star,” aligning strategy, markets, sectors, service lines, financial planning, talent, and ecosystem priorities.
• Establish a globally consistent planning methodology, including clear roles, governance, timelines, and decision rights.
• Ensure alignment between long‑term strategic ambitions, annual planning cycles, and in‑year performance management.
• Coordinate planning across Finance, Clients & Industries, markets, sectors, service lines, Big Bets, and regional leadership teams.
• Integrate demand‑side and supply‑side planning to enable more accurate revenue, margin, and profit forecasts.
• Incorporate market insights, competitive intelligence, client demand signals, and pipeline progression into forward‑looking plans.
• Work closely with Finance, Talent, Operations, and Markets to ensure the planning model is connected, data‑driven, and scalable.
• Partner with leadership to translate strategy into execution through go‑to‑market plans, sales motions, account strategies, GCSP programs, and ecosystem plays.
• Support the development of integrated growth plans tied to measurable pipeline, revenue, and profitability outcomes.
• Establish and govern a unified global planning calendar integrating strategic, financial, talent, and go‑to‑market planning.
• Ensure leadership has clear visibility into progress, risks, opportunities, and cross‑functional dependencies.
• Create a consistent insights backbone to enable fact‑based planning and rapid decision‑making.
• Partner with Finance, Data, and Analytics teams to ensure accuracy, timeliness, and relevance of forecasts, dashboards, and integrated performance views.
• Embed scenario planning, sensitivity analysis, and multi‑year modelling into planning cycles.
• Provide insights and recommendations on performance and forecast expectations against plan.
• Lead the global transition to a new integrated planning platform, serving as the business owner for the solution.
• Define global requirements for planning systems, including data structures, workflows, integrations, permissions, and reporting.
• Ensure seamless integration with CRM, ERP, financial planning tools, talent systems, pipeline tools, and other enterprise platforms.
• Lead UAT, global rollout, adoption, and change enablement.
• Establish governance for platform usage, enhancements, and ongoing optimization.
• Champion automation, digital‑first processes, and AI‑enabled insights where appropriate.
• Design, build, and lead a high‑performing global integrated planning team across functions and time zones.
• Establish a global planning network to promote transparency, consistency, and collaboration.
• Provide coaching, mentorship, and development to build deep planning capability across the enterprise.
• Introduce best practices and external benchmarks to continuously improve planning maturity.
• Build trusted relationships with executive leaders across Finance, C&I, Markets, Talent, Operations, Service Lines, and Regions.
• Facilitate leadership alignment sessions, planning workshops, and strategy reviews globally.
• Act as a senior advisor on ambitious yet achievable targets and ownership models.

Skills

Leadership

Technology & Systems

Analytical Acumen

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree

MBA or advanced degree

CPA or professional certification

Tools

Anaplan

Workday Adaptive Planning

Oracle EPM

OneStream

SAP BPC/SAC

Job description

EY is seeking a Global Integrated Planning Leader to design, orchestrate, and govern EY’s end‑to‑end integrated planning model worldwide. You’ll unify strategic, revenue, account, and financial planning into one framework and drive alignment with market execution.

You will lead across Finance, C&I, Markets, Talent, and Operations, guiding governance, data‑driven insights, and the transition to a new planning platform. This is a senior leadership role across time zones.