New Vacancy at Ernst & Young

Roles
As Performance Improvement Senior Manager - Finance, you'll build valued relationships with external clients and internal peers and develop a portfolio of business by focusing on high impact opportunities. You'll lead presentations and proposals for moderately complex projects - or elements of highly complex projects - and provide subject matter insight to bids and proposals.

Drawing on your skills and experience, you'll create innovative commercial insights for clients.  You'll also adapt methods and practices to fit operational team and cultural needs, and contribute to thought leadership. In addition, you'll package overall project findings into clear, concise, high-quality work products. Acting as a subject matter resource on one or more services, you'll leverage knowledge and experience to shape Ernst & Young's services to meet client problems.

By driving improvements in business processes, you'll serve as a role model for quality & risk management and confirm that project teams understand and comply with Ernst & Young's Q&RM guidelines. As a respected senior professional, you'll communicate effectively with Ernst & Young engagement partners and managers and work to build, manage and motivate high-performing teams. You'll also help key staff to build sustainable competencies.

Client responsibilities

•     Participate in and, as required, lead Finance engagements
•     Manage financial aspects of client engagements and communicate significant issues, fees, and estimates-to-complete to partners and clients
•     Help partners and directors generate new business opportunities and build client networks and relationships
•     Understand all Ernst & Young service offerings and actively identify opportunities to better serve clients
•     Build strong internal relationships within Ernst & Young Advisory Services and with other services across the organization

People responsibilities

•     Develop people through effectively supervising, coaching, and mentoring all levels of staff
•     Conduct performance reviews and contribute to performance feedback for all levels of staff
•     Contribute to people-related initiatives including recruiting, retaining and training Finance professionals
•     Maintain an educational program to continually develop personal skills of all levels of staff
•     Understand and follow workplace policies and procedures and communicate these to all levels of staff

Technical skills requirements
You'll have knowledge and experience of a number of the following areas:

•     Project management
•     Deep understanding of P&L in the Financial sector
•     Excellent understanding of the banking sector - the past, present and future
•     Proven expertise in product management and/or channel management
•     Leadership skills
•     Strong ethics and attitude
•     Teaming
•     Positive mindset / self motivation
•     You'll have knowledge and experience in the Financial Services Industry in Nigeria
•     Demonstrated track record with a blue chip consulting organization and/or blue chip organization
•     Professional accountancy qualification or equivalent
•     Strong academic record including a degree
•     Demonstrated experience in business development