Senior Consultant - Finance Business Consulting jobs at Ey in Australia, Brisbane City

Responsibilities include:

• Direct and coordinate all work activities relating to the preparation and delivery of tax compliance client service
• Lead tax delivery processes and build alliances through teaming, and/or act as a deep subject matter expert.
• Oversee large team and provide visibility to leadership on status, issues, or situations which need to be addressed
• Manage and monitor team's work, progress reporting, workload, quality and utilization/overtime distribution across the team
• Troubleshoot and identify complex process problems, process data submissions, analyze and resolve complex issues
• Take responsibility for quality of tax work product, and manage opportunity and engagement risk for the same
• Leverage the usage of standard technologies and processes while driving efficiency and quality of deliverables.
• Leverage LEAD for career, development, and performance conversations.

Skills and Attributes for Success

• Working independently with direct supervisory responsibilities
• Specialized depth and/or breath of expertise
• Ability to provide leadership (advising and providing) direction to others in financial areas of specialization and lead coordination of daily work activities and review the most complex work of other teammates
• Employee may also regularly lead multiple projects
• Employee works independently, with leadership guidance in only the most complex situations
• Employee has the authority to make significant choices and decisions, without specific guidance or direction from leadership

To qualify for the role, you must have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Tax, Law, or Economics
• CPA, EA, or licensed attorney
• Minimum of 10 years of work experience in professional services or professional tax organization
• Ability to prioritize, handle and track multiple assignments
• Ability to work in unstructured environment, demonstrated ability to resolve complex tax issues across multiple functions
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to identify improvement opportunities and actively engage in implementing improvements
• Demonstrated leadership skills and proven skills in developing employees
• Strong oral and written communication as well as presentation skills
• Experience with financial and tax applications such as GoSystems, CorpTax, Onesource, as required by area of specialism
• Proficient using Microsoft products such as Excel, Word, and Power Point
• Proficiency in tax accounting systems

What we look for

We’re interested in tax professionals with a genuine interest in providing outstanding services to some of the world’s most influential people. Working with people from all backgrounds, from executives and entrepreneurs to investors and families, you’ll use your experience and status as a trusted advisor to maintain and further our reputation for excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Coaching and Mentoring: Coach teams in Agile principles and practices, helping them to adopt and adapt Agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, or Lean. Engage with team members to explore areas of improvement in Agile practices and promote a culture of continuous improvement.
• Scrum Master Responsibilities: Partner with Product Owners to prioritize work through the backlog and manage Scrum artifacts. Facilitate Agile ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, and Backlog Refinement.
• Performance Metrics: Define process metrics within the Scrum team to ensure seamless communication with stakeholders. Measure team progress using metrics like burn-down charts and track dependencies with other Scrum Teams for seamless delivery.
• Organizational Change: Work with senior leadership to embed Agile principles in day-to-day scenarios and collaborate with other leaders to drive organizational change.
• Identify Continuous Improvement Opportunities: Proactively identify opportunities for continuous improvement and share best practices. Navigate the organization to remove impediments impacting team progress.

General Responsibilities

• Agile Project Management: Manage multiple critical projects, requiring matrix management of activities across all functional areas. Drive project planning activities, including stakeholder identification, risk management, and regular status reporting.
• Stakeholder Management: Communicate, influence, and negotiate with Product Owners and stakeholders to ensure alignment on project goals and deliverables. Create and maintain project schedules, identifying resource estimates, timelines, milestones, and critical paths.

To Qualify for the Role You Must Have

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Software Engineering, Information Technology, MBA, MCA, or any other related Master's degree.
• Experience: 5-10 years of relevant Agile experience (Scrum Master, Agile Coach/Mentor) with at least 3-7 years of hands-on project management experience delivering technology solutions.
• Communication Skills: Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Mandatory Agile Certifications: Preferably SAFe Agile or Scrum.org (PSM I + PSM II) or Scrum Alliance (Certified Scrum Master).
• Project Management Certification: PMP is preferred but not mandatory.

Skills Desired:

• Substantial experience working as part of Agile teams.
• Ability to embed and foster Agile ways of working at the team level.
• Proactively upskill the team in Agile practices.
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement and share best practices.
• Communicate, influence, and negotiate with Product Owners and stakeholders.
• Navigate the organization to remove impediments impacting team progress.
• Analyse and refine existing processes.
• Coach and mentor team members to drive continuous improvement.
• Deep understanding of agile software delivery and operational aspects.
• Knowledge of Agile frameworks (DevOps, etc.).
• Experience with JIRA/Azure DevOps or similar software.
• Understanding of technology-enabled business transformation and delivering enterprise-level IT projects.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills

Our preferred applicant will be required to undertake employment screening by EY or our external third-party provider.

© 2025 Ernst & Young Australia. A member firm of Ernst & Young Global Limited. All Rights Reserved. Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation.

This role is based in.

Your key responsibilities

• At EY, our purpose is to build a better working world—and it starts with our people. We’re seeking individuals who are passionate about creating a more sustainable and inclusive future by transforming businesses through human-centred design, fast-paced technology delivery, and large-scale innovation.
• As a transformation professional, you’ll help drive meaningful change on complex programs across sectors such as Government Reform, Infrastructure, and Power & Utilities—delivering successful outcomes for both clients and communities.
• We’re looking for dynamic, team-oriented individuals who thrive in fast-paced environments, bring a passion for strategy and implementation, and are excited by the opportunity to lead change and make a real impact.

Skills and attributes for success

• Bring 3–5 years of experience, along with a strong passion for solving complex business problems and designing innovative, results-driven solutions—aligned with our purpose of building a better working world. You’re a creative thinker ready to take the next step in your career.

• Thrive in fast-paced, ever-changing environments and enjoy working collaboratively to design and implement transformative solutions. You value innovation, teamwork, and delivering meaningful impact.
• Have hands-on experience across business transformation projects, including strategy development, operating models, service and policy design, customer experience, and program delivery. Workshop facilitation and strong presentation skills are highly regarded.

Ideally, you’ll also have the skills and attributes below but don’t worry if you don’t tick all the boxes. We’re interested in your aptitude, attitude and willingness to learn.

• Strong communication skills - verbal and written across stakeholders within and outside the company
• Ability to build and maintain strong lasting relationships with all stakeholders involved

What we offer you

At EY, we’ll fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learn .

• Career development: At EY, your career is yours to shape! We’ll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences
• Flexible work arrangements: Our flexible work policies empower you to balance your professional and personal life, fostering a culture of trust and autonomy.
• A comprehensive benefits package: From a yearly wellness incentive, to access to additional 8 weeks of flex leave per year, and family-friendly policies, including 26 weeks of gender-neutral paid parental leave, we cater to your diverse needs to help you thrive both personally and professionally
• Salary: We offer a competitive salary which is open to negotiation pending on skills and experience.

Acknowledgement of Country

Our preferred applicant will be required to undertake employment screening by EY or our external third-party provider.

© 2025 Ernst & Young Australia. A member firm of Ernst & Young Global Limited. All Rights Reserved. Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation.

Your key responsibilities

• Deliver impactful finance transformation projects by supporting assessments, process mapping, operating model design, and business case development across core finance functions such as Record-to-Report, FP&A, and Procure-to-Pay.
• Enable digital finance solutions through hands-on involvement in system implementations and initiatives involving RPA, AI, and finance data strategy, working closely with clients, vendors, and cross-functional EY teams.
• Engage with stakeholders and contribute to EY’s growth by presenting insights and recommendations, supporting business development efforts, and participating in knowledge-sharing and continuous learning initiatives.

Skills and attributes for success

• 3–5 years’ experience in finance, consulting, or transformation roles within professional services or industry, with a strong understanding of finance processes such as P2P, R2R, FP&A, and costing.
• Hands-on experience with finance system implementations (e.g., SAP, Microsoft, Blackline, Tagetik) and proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint; knowledge of Power BI or other analytics tools is a plus.
• Strong analytical, communication, and time management skills , with the ability to work independently or in teams. One of the sectors we work with is the Australian Federal Government and as such Australian Citizenship is preferred.

Ideally, you’ll also have the skills and attributes below but don’t worry if you don’t tick all the boxes. We’re interested in your aptitude, attitude and willingness to learn.

• A finance related degree

• Qualifications such as CA, CPA or progress toward preferred

What we offer you

At EY, we’ll fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learn .

• Career development: At EY, your career is yours to shape! We’ll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences

• Flexible work arrangements: Our flexible work policies empower you to balance your professional and personal life, fostering a culture of trust and autonomy.

• A comprehensive benefits package : From a yearly wellness incentive, to access to additional 8 weeks of flex leave per year, and family-friendly policies, including 26 weeks of gender-neutral paid parental leave, we cater to your diverse needs to help you thrive both personally and professionally

• Salary: We offer a competitive salary which is open to negotiation pending on skills and experience.

Acknowledgement of Country

Our preferred applicant will be required to undertake employment screening by EY or our external third-party provider.

© 2025 Ernst & Young Australia. A member firm of Ernst & Young Global Limited. All Rights Reserved. Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation.

Our preferred applicant will be required to undertake employment screening by EY or our external third-party provider.

© 2025 Ernst & Young Australia. A member firm of Ernst & Young Global Limited. All Rights Reserved. Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation.

Skills and attributes for success

• A career within Health and digital hospital / health services environments and demonstrated understanding of patient pathways and clinical workflows.
• Proven experience delivering quality services, and projects to frontline health services/clinical settings.
• Proven experience within Clinical Systems Programs and/or Technology Delivery.
• Direct experience managing streams with Agile or Traditional PM Methodologies.
• Proven experience leading teams, growing new capabilities and supporting individual development
• IT business case, digital strategy and roadmap development and/or digital delivery including within build environments such as but not limited to Hospital builds.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate work requirements across all phases of the technology life cycle, including requirements definition, architecture, design, development, implementation, conversion and testing.

Ideally, you’ll also have the skills and attributes below but don’t worry if you don’t tick all the boxes. We’re interested in your aptitude, attitude and willingness to learn.

• Desirable knowledge or experience in digital delivery for build environments across network integration/voice/data.
• Consulting experience.
• Project Management, Agile or other equivalent certifications.
• CHIA or informatics (not essential but well regarded).

What we offer you

At EY, we’ll fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learn .

• Career development: At EY, your career is yours to shape! We’ll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences
• Flexible work arrangements: Our flexible work policies empower you to balance your professional and personal life, fostering a culture of trust and autonomy.

• A comprehensive benefits package : From a yearly wellness incentive, to access to additional 8 weeks of flex leave per year, and family-friendly policies, including 26 weeks of gender-neutral paid parental leave, we cater to your diverse needs to help you thrive both personally and professionally

• Salary: We offer a competitive salary which is open to negotiation pending on skills and experience.

Acknowledgement of Country

Our preferred applicant will be required to undertake employment screening by EY or our external third-party provider.

© 2025 Ernst & Young Australia. A member firm of Ernst & Young Global Limited. All Rights Reserved. Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation.