EY GDS - GBS Finance Consulting Role

The opportunity - GDS Finance Consulting

- Partners with the team to deliver amazing work during the engagement while balancing overall project health

- Actively reviews and explore opportunities to improve, optimize and enhance ways of working

- Provides status communications to project and business teams

- Practice development (support and participate in activities such as internal training & development, recruitment, etc.)

- Own and develop our offerings and assets

- Demonstrated ability to present ideas clearly and concisely; ability to prepare presentations for senior-level client stakeholders

- Undertaking sales origination, including working with client teams to identify opportunities

- Leverage and improve various frameworks, methodologies, solutions specific to our offerings

Responsibilities include but are not limited to

- Identify and implement improvements to existing financial processes in the engagement

- Provide oversight for and management of the development and implementation of sustainable, repeatable, reliable and cost-effective financial processes to meet emerging and future business requirements of the client

- Lead proposals related to our offerings and take them successfully to clients

- Leading projects that ensure high quality advisory and consulting services to major clients, preferably with a practical approach as learned during working in the business

- Creating / contributing to the creation of new services, tools and materials to be more successful on the market

- Achievement of ambitious targets for growth, utilization, and operational excellence and consistent implementation of EY policies and tools to enable these priorities while supporting the engagement of our people

- Involvement in people initiatives including recruiting, retaining and training professionals and act as a role model

- Active participation in the creation and maintenance of an environment that enables the team to manage delivery effectively and achieve the highest quality

- Maintain relationships with the client's management in order to manage the expectations of service

Requirements

- Minimal 5-12 years of relevant work experience preferably in consulting where you gained exposure to large scale projects combined with preferably Big 4 or leading consultancy experience in the related fields

- Knowledge of Finance domain and FS sector and preferably a large network in this field

- Project experience across the Finance Transformation, System Implementation, ZBB and Financial Planning & Budgeting

- End to end transition experience.

- F&A Solutioning experience

- Detailed process design expertise in one or more of the following functions (Finance, HR, IT, source-to-pay, demand-to-cash, marketing services or operational functions)

- Expertise in one or more specific GBS topics, e.g. operating model design, service management, performance management (SLA, KPI), HR restructuring, change and communications, value case management

- Strong business development and communication skills from leading and supporting Finance pursuits (both winning RFP answers and presentations in front of clients)

- IT system expertise is highly preferred (e.g. SAP, TPA, Service Now, Success Factors, etc.)

- Relevant primary university degree

- Fluent written and verbal communication and presentation skills in English

- Willingness to work in a global environment where travel is regularly required for several clients

Skills and attributes for success

- Consulting experience is a must to have.

- Good articulation skills is a must

- Confident & professional communication style

- Proficiency in English (oral and written)

- Ability to clearly articulate messages to a variety of audiences

- Flexible and adaptable; able to work in ambiguous situations

- Capability to influence others and move toward a common vision or goal

- Must be a team player and able to work collaboratively with and through others

- Strong analytical skills as well as excellent problem-solving skills for interpreting the IFRS standards

To qualify for the role, you must have

- CA or MBA (Finance)

- Other professional degrees (like CPA, CFA, CMA) can be considered based on relevant working experience as required

- 5-12 years of work experience in Business Transition / GBS / SSC setup activities

- Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills is a must

- Should be flexible to work on any shift

Ideally, you'll also have

- Business Finance Transformation, GBS / SSC Setup

- Project management skills

- Exposure to tools like ERP, HFM, Visio, ARIS, etc.