Senior Manager, Business Transformation at Ernst and Young

The opportunity

Being part of a dynamic, growing organization offers an exciting career path full of opportunity. Our Consulting team takes a strategic approach to helping clients define, transform and sustain their leading performance. Within Consulting, our Business Transformation team works with senior executives on their most pressing challenges to deliver tangible results. We are looking for accomplished, creative individuals who bring rigor, passion and practicality to our growing team across four areas of focus:

• Transformation Strategy: Helping client organizations conceive of and drive meaningful transformation across the enterprise, leading with industry expertise and the full breadth of EY capabilities
• Business Design: Evolving client engagement across all aspects of next generation marketing, sales and service
• Experience Design: Assisting our clients in reimagining, designing and deploying valuable human experiences
• Transformation Execution: Leading large, complex, programs that require specialized discipline and expertise
   

The role is looking for qualified individuals to provide project/program delivery consulting support within the Transformation Execution practice, with an understanding of accepted project management practices and a view of the full project delivery lifecycle, including but not limited to: planning, scheduling, procurement, cost and commercial management, contract administration and management, project controls, project performance monitoring and reporting.

The position will involve working on a wide variety of projects with colleagues in the Transformation Execution team and across the firm. Candidates for the role should have the following years experience in the construction and infrastructure sector across each rank:

Senior Manager: at least 12 years of experience

Your Key Responsibilities

• Support the operations and governance of client’s large/complex projects and programs by designing and implementing multi-year Project Management Offices (PMO) or Transformation Management Offices (TMO).
• Perform feasibility studies and risk adjusted transformation benefit analyses.
• Support clients by leading organizational planning and transformational initiatives (benefits management, program stakeholder management and program governance), which may include IT programs and business transformation endeavors and/or infrastructure projects.
• Perform critical analysis of large complex programs/projects including program performance measures, controls and analytics-based analysis.
• Develop program recovery plans and remediation options (benefit analysis) to executive management.
• Conduct qualitative and quantitative risk analysis including sensitivity, decision tree analysis to depict key interactions and utilizing simulation models to analyze the behavior/performance and the outcomes to project plan.
• Manage risk management initiatives including risk planning, execution and response development.
• Communication and coordination with client representatives as part of engagement quality and delivery requirements and responsibilities. Develop and maintain productive relationships with clients and continuously work to understand their industries, key performance drivers, business priorities and trends.
• Demonstrate experience with risk management practices and approaches to projects/programs, including risk planning, execution and response development through project delivery.
• Stay informed of new economic/geopolitical developments and their impact on your clients and the industry.
• Support the practice by pursuing new business opportunities, preparing proposals and actively assessing/presenting ways we can serve and bring value to new and existing clients.
• Comply with EY learning and educational program to continually develop skills in alignment with your personal career goals.
• Take an active role in mentoring, counseling, and developing the team and team members.
• Be dedicated to teamwork and leadership by fostering an efficient, innovative and collaborative work environment.

To qualify for the role you must have

• A degree in MIS, Engineering, Applied Science, Finance, Economics preferred.
• An MBA (project management, finance, operations); or a master's in Computer Science, Engineering or Applied Science is considered a plus.
• Certifications: PMI (PgMP/PMP/CAPM)/Prince2/Six Sigma (Green/Black/Master Black Belt)
• Experience with and/or certified in PM tools (e.g. Primavera/MS EPM/CA Clarity/HP PPM/Planview).
• Analytical and conceptual thinker with innovative capacity.
• Ability to handle complexity and ambiguity, to provide structure to complex problems.
• Collaboration, teaming, excellent presentation and communication (written, oral) skills
• Integrity, maturity and dependability.
• Effective organization and time management skills with the ability to work under pressure and adhere to project deadlines.