EY - Associate Director - Working Capital - P2P/O2C/Treasury - CA/ICWA

Job purpose:

The incumbent is responsible for leading the Working Capital team, and will report to the Global Finance Hub Leader. This team will be responsible for Accounts Payable, Billings, AR Reporting, Collections, Cash Applications, Treasury, Cash Forecasting, etc. The candidate should monitor day to day operations related to EYG Finance, possess complete knowledge of managing core finance function, act as an account manager & a consultant to the Global Finance controllers.

Your client responsibilities:

- Responsible for meeting agreed Service Level Agreements (SLA) on Turn Around Time (TAT) & Accuracy

- Review and delivery of high level reports to EYG Leadership on a regular/ ad-hoc basis

- Should be able to individually work on and present key reports/ analysis to senior Finance Leadership

- Effectively manage escalations

- Develop back up plan and focus on cross training the team

- Own & review of EYG books of accounts

- Act as a finance consultant to Global Finance controllers/ clients to maintain the accounts

- Manage all assigned functions in tandem

- Ensure delivery of monthly reporting packs to key stake holders

- Manage expectation, variance analysis and explanation to clients

- Manage, develop and implement the aspects of quality compliance and accuracy attributes

- Review the existing quality processes and procedures and provide suggestions for improvement in business processes for efficient functioning

- Work on internal projects and drive the team to deliver goods on those projects

- Manage the department and ensure that the team consistently delivers quality results

- Confer with clients to discuss and resolve matters such as complaints and implementation problems

- Interact with customers and clients to understand requirements, set expectations, address concerns, and discuss them with senior leadership

- Plan, organize and direct transition activities

- Manage and ensure effective transition of process by scheduling project inputs, assigning resources and responsibilities

Your people responsibilities:

As a People Manager you will:

- Plan timely training for respective departments to maintain and improve skills of team members

- Work with Managers to understand the team's concerns and resolve them

- Delegate tasks appropriately and develop the team members to move to next level

- Work under pressure, managing absenteeism, attrition and people issues

- Handle internal escalation as well as escalation from other teams in Global Delivery Services regarding people issues or client issues.

- Providing effective solutions and guiding team members on various Functional issues

- Ensure the career development plan for each team member is adhered

Knowledge and Skill requirements

Business acumen and process insights

- Ability to learn and demonstrates expert knowledge of EY financial priorities, processes, budgeting and accounting cycle

- Ability to learn and hold deep understanding of Vision 2020 strategy, financial objectives and plans

- Ability to learn and demonstrate strong awareness of all the major sources of cost and revenue in the Global entities

- Operates successfully on controlling and accounting engagements crossing multiple sub-functions within Global Finance team

Strategic thinking and continuous improvement

- Demonstrate executive presence while discussing, refining and finalizing issue definitions with decision-makers, where necessary achieving consensus between differing viewpoints.

- Define business problems and apply structured approach to gather data and conduct financial analysis that drives strategic decision making

- Lead the storyboarding to explain complex issues and present solution options and implications simply and clearly

- Help transform data effectively and efficiently into meaningful insights that underpin the strategic objectives of the Working Capital team

Client focused:

- Drives interactions that build trust

- Ability to operate and influence at a Global level, across cultures and locations

- Operate effectively in a matrix management structure

- Collaborates and teams with finance colleagues and other functions to enhance service to clients, and to leverage leading practices.

- Able to embed ECS (Exceptional Client Service)

Technical skills requirements:

- Qualified CA/ ICWA with 15+ years of experience in finance 3 to 5 years of team leading experience

- Relevant experience in managing working capital

- Experience in leading a core finance team is desirable

- Advanced Excel Knowledge

- Strong accounting Knowledge

Additional skills requirements:

- Possess strong communication skill

- Strong Presentation skills

- Problem Solving skills

- Have logical and analytical skill

- Be decisive on real time basis

- People management skill

- Have good business knowledge