EY GDS - Associate Manager - WCAS - Strategy & Transaction TSE - Supply Chain Analytics

EY GDS - Associate Manager - WCAS

EY- Strategy and Transaction TSE - WCAS (Associate Manager)

- Within SaT, TSE -WCAS team focuses on providing benchmarking, diagnostic reviews of AP, AR and Inventory to EY clients across the globe, analysing large volumes of data with SQL, Access, Alteryx. etc. Other activities include creation of working capital dashboard, writing clients data related questions, insights on data quality and practical recommendations to optimize clients working capital

- WCAS works closely with EY SaT professionals globally to ensure delivering high quality, high value products and services to clients. This ensures reducing time taken for the final deliverable by utilizing talent pool in GDS - India. WCAS intends to widen scope of work further in the transaction process

The opportunity :

- Were looking for Associate Managers with expertise in AP, AR and inventory optimization and have clear inroads to deliver on supply chain analytics.

- This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a leading firm and develop your career through a broad scope of engagements, mentoring, and learning & development.

Your key responsibilities :

- Lead engagement teams executing WCAS which support key decision makers in developing and executing their transaction strategy to secure deal value Demonstrate excellent skills in project execution, including synergy assessment, project management, problem-solving, and facilitation

- Build relationships with EY offices across the globe, and demonstrate knowledge of regional practices Responsible for high degree of GDS user satisfaction with engagement process and work products

- Provide insights\observations based upon the WC analytics, benchmarking and leading practices

- Engage on larger TSE projects and develop ability to pitch for working capital diagnostics and optimization

- Ability to analysis the working capital using existing tool; develop expertize on various metrics and KPI

- Develop expertize on AP, AR and inventory optimization and have clear inroads to deliver on supply chain analytics

- Big data analysis with extensive use of SQL/Access/ VBA

- Collate the leading practices, develop expertize and mentor the junior members to deliver on high quality output on engagements

- Manage and expand the existing set of users and build strong engagement metrics

- Analysis of financial data sourced from financial statements and supporting schedules

- Support to EY teams through company profiling and benchmarking for different companies / industry sector

- Displays the following qualities

- Manages own time to budgets and communicates progress against plan to Project Lead

- Flexibility with changing tasks

- High quality awareness

- Attitude of working very independently

- Strong and open personality by actively pointing out issues and drives improvement ideas

Skills and attributes for success :

- Have expert knowledge of MS Excel, with knowledge of preparing templates, graphs, charts, pivots, etc., from information provided in hard copies and downloaded from data sites

- Should have worked with large data sets in Excel, MS Access and able to formulate queries in MS Access

- Should have working experience on SQL server or similar database applications Should have expert knowledge of Power-point Should have experience in analyzing financial data sourced from financial statements and supporting schedules and should be able to write observations in reports based on the analysis

- Have an eye for detail and be able to add industry specific key performance indicators (KPIs) Reconcile reports and MS Excel workbooks created, before presenting to the client

- Knowledge of financial databases for benchmarking metrics of target with peers Work within the set timelines and communicate deviations/updates to Project Lead and/or GDS users

- Lead medium to big size projects, Should be able to review the deliverable Excellent problem solving, project management, facilitation and interpersonal skills

- Strong written and verbal communication skills

- Willingness to undertake international travel as per business requirement

To qualify for the role, you must have :

- Post Graduate degree in business, accounting, finance, engineering, computer science or related field from a premier institute with 6-8 years of applicable industry and/or consulting experience

- Understanding of M&A life cycle, carve-out / integration of a business post-announcement of transaction, cross-border M&A

Ideally, you will also have :

- Project management skills

- Strong communication and presentation skills

- A Team of people with commercial acumen, technical experience and enthusiasm to learn new things in this fast-moving environment

- An opportunity to be a part of market-leading, multi-disciplinary team of 1400 + professionals, in the only integrated global transaction business worldwide.

- Opportunities to work with EY SaT practices globally with leading businesses across a range of industries