Performance Improvement Manager - Finance at Ernst & Young

Responsibilities

• As Performance Improvement Manager - Finance, you'll actively establish, maintain and strengthen internal and external relationships.
• With guidance from partners, directors and senior managers, you'll identify potential business opportunities for Ernst & Young.
• By drawing on your skills and experience, you'll create innovative commercial insights for clients, adapt methods and practices to fit operational team and cultural needs, and contribute to thought leadership.
• You'll actively contribute to improving operational efficiency on projects and internal initiatives.
• In line with our commitment to quality, you'll consistently drive projects to completion and confirm that work is of a high quality.
• Your role in leading teams - or parts of teams - on engagements will depend on the size of engagement.
• When working on engagements, you'll report to higher levels of management, who will expect you to anticipate and identify risks, and escalate any issues as appropriate.

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

•     Finance transformation
•     Balanced scorecard
•     Planning, budgeting and forecasting
•     Performance measurement and performance management
•     Business performance reporting
•     Cost to serve
•     Cost reduction
•     Shared service centre and business process outsourcing
•     Financial statement close

You'll have knowledge and experience in one or more of Ernst & Young's priority industry sectors:

•     Government & Public Sector
•     Utilities
•     Consumer Products
•     Industrial Products
•     Technology
•     Communications & Entertainment
•     Healthcare

Additional requirements

•     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