Senior Finance Professional

The newly formed Global SL CoE seeks a seasoned finance leader to support the Assurance and Tax CoE Finance Controllers. This pivotal role plays a critical part in the financial management of the Global CoEs, reporting directly to the Global CoE SL Controllers.

The selected individual will be part of an extensive enablement team spread across EMEIA and Asia-Pacific, providing operational support (Finance, Operations, Talent/HR, Recruitment) to facilitate the CoEs success.

This strategic position interacts closely with the CoE Leadership team across both Assurance and Tax CoEs, Global SL & SSL Leadership, regional finance teams, and GDS teams. The incumbent will have financial responsibility from Revenue to Total Income for a segment of the CoE portfolio.

As a trusted business advisor, you will assist SL Leadership in maintaining financial control, addressing business challenges, and supporting strategic initiatives. You will analyze and interpret data beyond standard reporting cycles, exploring connections that impact our business.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide FP&A support to the CoE, including planning, financial controllership, modeling, and analysis to support business planning, interpreting performance, and facilitating operational decision-making.
• Work alongside the CoE Financial Controller and Business to share and interpret information that improves business performance.
• Analyze and present complex financial and non-financial data in a way that is easily understandable to inform strategic decisions and provide insights into business performance.
• Collaborate with the Financial Controllers on month/year-end processes - analyzing and understanding operating statements, preparing accruals, and pre-payments.
• You will be responsible for weekly and monthly financial close activities - analyzing results, ensuring costs are accurate, and reporting to respective businesses and leadership.
• Financial management of Strategic SL projects operated through the CoE, preparing plans, managing actuals to plan, and providing detailed variance analysis.
• Develop effective working relationships with the extended Finance team and leadership, becoming a key point of contact.
• Respond to requests from Finance and SL Leadership to answer specific ad hoc financial questions and provide insightful information to advance leadership discussions and decision-making.
• Implement global financial planning approaches that facilitate achievement of strategic and operational goals.
• Budgeting and Forecasting - supporting SL Leadership and CoE Financial Controllers to prepare annual plans and half-yearly forecasts.
• Oversee working capital management for your portfolio.
• Harness financial technology tools and digitalization to innovate and modernize the finance function, delivering best-in-class support for the business.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Global, Area, or multi-country EY finance experience.
• Extensive knowledge of and practical experience of EY's FP&A activities - financial management and financial planning.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy.
• A proven experience in a strategy, analytics, or business modeling role.
• Detailed-oriented as well as high-quality and consistency standards.
• Credibility and confidence to challenge and propose better ways of doing things, build bridges, and harmonize divergent interests and priorities.
• Advanced EY reporting tool skills (e.g., FR/Markets/Revenue Analyzer/Ah-hoc cubes, ThoughtSpot, etc.).
• Advanced Excel skills, with the ability to manipulate and draw trends from vast amounts of data as well as for sensitivity analysis and scenario modeling.
• Proficient in using AI tools for data mining, trend analysis, and predictive modeling.
• Strong problem-solving skills and business acumen, including the ability to develop best-in-class solutions and recommendations.
• Highly team-oriented approach, with flexibility regarding tasks undertaken and the ability to prioritize multiple conflicting demands to meet exacting deadlines.
• Very strong project management, communication, and modernization skills.
• Ability to communicate financial information across a wide range of stakeholders (both within finance and across the Tax practice).
• Confident and able to build strong relationships at management/partner levels.
• Commercial approach and ability to demonstrate clear business understanding.
• Advanced PowerPoint skills, with the ability to summarize clearly and succinctly for leadership what insights and observations are being recommended for leadership materials.
• Written and oral fluency in English required.