Financial Management Associate jobs at Ey in Canada, Calgary

Your key responsibilities

As a Manager focused on Cost Accounting and Inventory Management within our Finance Optimization competency, you will be an active contributor to teams focused on the growth and development of our Finance Optimization service pillar including business development, client relationship management, opportunity management, and client-facing engagement delivery. You will help finance leaders meet challenges that their teams are currently facing. You will offer them innovative advice for optimizing financial and operational / cost accounting and reporting processes leveraging process optimization and technology enablement. You will serve as a Cost Accounting and Inventory Management specialist on our finance optimization projects, advising clients on leading practices, systems configuration, and optimization strategies, ensuring alignment with client business objectives and operational requirements. This will typically involve working with clients to assess the current state of existing systems and processes, identify pain points, and define requirements to achieve the client’s target operating model. You will manage the full lifecycle of our Costing/Inventory engagements, from initial scoping and requirements gathering through to implementation, training, and preparation of deliverables tailored to client needs. You will develop and maintain strong relationships with clients, effectively communicating and proposing innovating business process improvements. As part of your practice development responsibilities, you will provide thought leadership and contribute to the growth of the FO practice through business development and knowledge sharing, mentoring and developing team members, and fostering a culture of continuous learning and teamwork.

Skills and attributes for success

• Ability to evaluate and optimize client’s cost accounting and inventory management frameworks tailored to their structure and reporting requirements. Ability to design and implement programs to improve productivity, increase efficiencies, and reduce costs, execution of cost reviews, and identification of opportunities for savings across operations, procurement, and logistics.
• Identification and assessment of business and operational needs, development of solutions tailored to client needs, assessment of Finance function processes and technology environments, performance of operations diagnostics, optimization of financial processes and controls, provision of tailored training, and other process improvements for the key financial processes of:
  • Cost Accounting, including the development of standard costs, tracking and reporting of costs, and understanding the components of variance analysis between actual and budgeted/standard costs.
  • Inventory Management, including inventory tracking, costing, controls, and reporting to ensure accurate and efficient inventory control.
  • Record to Report (R2R) under General Accounting covering general ledger, journal entries processing, and cost allocation.
  • Budgeting and Forecasting, with an emphasis on the development of operational / plant budgets and forecasts, including variance analysis.
• Based on engagement requirements knowledge of associated financial processes and controls may also be required including:
  • Order to Cash (O2C) covering from order management through to Accounts Receivable and Collections.
  • Procure to Pay (P2P) from procurement through Accounts Payable and Payment management
  • Acquire to Retire (A2R) process from purchase to asset life cycle management.
  • Optimization of the monthly financial statement close process (FSCP), including consolidation of multiple subsidiaries and foreign currency revaluation under Global Business Management.
• Report building and automation to streamline internal and external reporting and reduce the need for manual templates where possible.
• Develop and maintain productive relationships with client management and maintain cooperative relationships and foster mutual support with other EY service line teams

What we look for

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business, Finance, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Strong understanding of accounting principles; CPA or equivalent designation is required.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in a cost accounting / controllership in a manufacturing, processing, or related environment.
• Deep knowledge of cost accounting / cost allocation principles and approaches, such as Activity-based Costing. Strong understanding of GAAP and cost accounting principles
• Familiarity with costing / budgeting / planning solutions would be an asset
• Proficiency in project management, with an ability to manage multiple engagements simultaneously. PMP Designation an asset but not required
• Experience in process optimization or business analysis, including business process documentation
• Experience with inventory management processes, including inventory tracking, costing, and reporting.
• Excellent communication skills including verbal, written, and presentation Strong spoken and written English skills; French language skills is an asset
• Leading and driving high-quality work products within expected timeframes and on budget
• Highly adaptable and open to change
• A high level of motivation and a self-starting attitude
• Excellent project management and leadership skills
• Ability to manage multiple engagements and meet deadlines
• A willingness to travel on short notice to meet client needs. Ability to travel 10-30%.

Ideally, you’ll also

• The ability to work independently in a fast-paced, dynamic team-oriented environment
• The ability to develop relationships and rapidly build credibility and trust
• Demonstrated record of driving revenue within existing accounts and in developing new prospects within client organizations

What we offer

The salary range for this job in British Columbia is $70,000 to $136,000. Individual salaries within this range are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and work location city.

Running a business is all about making intelligent decisions, powered by accurate information. As a Mergers & Acquisitions (“M&A”) Analyst/Associate, you’ll help make that happen. You will be an important part of our talented and highly experienced team and work at the forefront of high-profile transactions.

Your key responsibilities:

As an Analyst/Associate, you will have the opportunity to be involved in the execution of the M&A process, from deal sourcing to closure. The role of an Analyst/Associate within EY’s M&A group is challenging and fast paced, that requires dedication and a strong work ethic. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Perform market research and analysis, including analysis of key business drivers and market, competition and industry risk and opportunity analysis
• Synthesize research information such as comparable company and precedent transactions to be used in modeling, competitive analysis, industry analysis, potential buyers, negotiation support and various other applications.
• Prepare detailed financial models, including scenario analysis
• Prepare valuation analysis using a range of valuation techniques, including discounted cash flow analysis, comparable market multiples and precedent transaction analysis
• Prepare quality first drafts of pitches, marketing materials, management presentations and client presentations.
• Oversee an electronic data room and manage a due diligence process for buy and sell side engagements, working closely with client and target personnel
• Provide strategic advice to clients across a range of industries and transactions
• Support the VPs and SVPs in identifying and exploring potential new business

Skills and attributes for success

We are looking for candidates who are highly motivated, analytical, logical thinkers with a passion for transactions and have a very strong attention to detail. Being a strong team player is critical with the ability to adapt to changing requirements or deadlines in support of our clients’ goals.

To be successful in this role, you should have the following attributes:

• Working knowledge of the Canadian and International Finance and Accounting concepts and understanding of key business drivers, principally as they relate to M&A transactions.
• Dedicated and motivated individual with high career aspirations and a strong work ethic.
• Ability to work independently to complete tasks.
• An ability to work well under pressure with multiple competing deadlines, while maintaining attention to detail.
• Ability to develop relationships and liaison with EY colleagues and team members to achieve premium outcomes for our clients.
• A “roll up the sleeves” attitude.
• A passion for working with entrepreneurs and private business owners and management teams.
• Strong Word, Excel, PowerPoint and financial modeling skills.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Undergraduate degree in Business, Finance, Accounting or another similar program.
• Analyst: 2 - 4 years of work experience in a related field.
• Associate: Minimum 4+ years of relevant work experience (eg. Investment banking, M&A, financing, corporate development, financial analysis, etc.).

Ideally, you’ll also have

A professional designation, such as the:

• CPA designation;
• CBV designation or progress towards the completion of the CBV program of studies; or
• CFA designation or progress towards the completion of the CFA program of studies

The Resource Management Associate is a member of the Canada Assurance Resource Management Team, contributing to the goals of effective deployment of our practitioners and comprehensive project staffing for delivery of our engagements in the Calgary and Edmonton offices

Your key responsibilities

• Assist with staffing intermediate resources, junior resources, maintaining Retain with client bookings and staff projections
• Maintain databases regarding client data, staff preferences, skills and restrictions as required
• Produce general forecasting, availability and capacity management reporting as required
• Prepare weekly communication as required
• Monitor unassigned resources, act as point of contact for unassigned staff, identify assignments for same
• Audit Retain regularly for accuracy
• Assist with annual planning process - incl. data input to planning tool as directed by EM team leaders
• Communicate regularly with EM and practice managers on status of staffing requirements and issues
• Liaising with other groups as needed – Learning, Campus, HR
• Involved in ad hoc projects as required
• Identify over/under utilized individuals and bring to attention of EMs as required.
• Identify conflicts and resolve or escalate

Skills and attributes for success

• Ability to manage multiple and sometimes competing priorities
• Ability to problem solve
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Ideally, you’ll also

• Post Secondary Education
• Experience scheduling staff

What we look for

• Experience working in a Corporate Office Environment
• Ability to demonstrate strong organization skills
• Ability to demonstrate working high volume coordination activities

A career in our FSO Enterprise Risk Consulting practice, will provide you with the opportunity to help clients seize essential advantages by working alongside business leaders to solve their toughest problems and capture their greatest opportunities.

Requirements

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree from reputable overseas and local universities, majoring in Accounting, Finance, or related fields
• Minimum GPA 3.00 out of 4.00 or equivalent
• 1-2 years of related working experience, preferably in:
  • Management Consulting,
  • IT Consulting,
  • Big-4 firms,
  • Banking, or
  • Insurance
• Has exposure to work/project in financial services industry
• Fluency in English both written and verbal is mandatory
• Comfortable with working in fast-paced environment
• Confident in communication skill, both in terms of interpersonal and public speaking
• Strong leadership and teamwork across countries collaboration
• Strong project management with multiple projects and diverse team members
• Knowledge of project management with agile, traditional and hybrid methodologies
• Comfortable with working in fast-paced environment
• Solid analytical skills
• Have risk certification(s) will be an advantage

Responsibilities

• Key responsibilities will include mobilizing and overseeing the end-to-end delivery of risk management and regulatory change related advisory engagements.
• Driving the development of new propositions and contributing towards the development of the broader staff complement in terms of risk management skills.
• Identifying the impact of risk related regulatory change and supporting clients to adapt to the challenges the new regulatory landscape presents.
• Develop and implement risk management strategies and plans
• Conduct risk assessments, including reviewing internal controls and identifying potential areas of exposure
• Work closely with mid-to senior-level stakeholders to provide status updates and progress reports on project deliverables.
• Set up project plan including budget and resource allocation, manage and track project economics in accordance with the approved pricing parameters.
• Take responsibility for management of project teams and will mentor team members to help them in their career progression.
• Lead the development of proposals, presentations, and publications in response to market demands.
• Acting as a deep risk management 'subject matter role'.
• Relationship building and networking with clients and internally across EY
• Lead teams to deliver impact to clients through the project by using a business-oriented mindset and use data-driven solutions to drive transformation agenda and achieve results.
• Develop high-performing teams through challenging and meaningful opportunities and recognize them for the impact that they make.

As a Finance Business Advisor (known internally as Mercury Business Analyst – Senior Associate), you’ll advise and support our client serving teams to effectively manage their external client projects (engagements) from a financial performance perspective. There are two main components of your role: providing impactful, proactive outreach to client serving teams to ensure a financial performance focus on each engagement, and on-demand financial advisory support throughout the engagement life cycle. You’ll be assigned to executives based on service line and will provide support virtually in a time zone conducive environment.

You’ll be assigned a book of business of intermediate complexity to help senior executives with engagement analysis, proposing pricing strategies and analyzing budgets against actual figures. You'll also advise on the billing strategies for assigned clients. As well as being the main contact for client related financial analysis and advice, you'll also help EY executives comply with EY finance and quality policies.

Your key responsibilities

• Applies end-to-end Mercury system (SAP finance system) process and policy knowledge when providing the right advice to client serving teams to make the best use of Mercury in order to effectively manage and achieve targeted financial engagement metrics including margin and will execute on volume driven efficiencies.
• Oversees a book of business to support executives with engagement analysis, proposing pricing strategies and analyzing budgets against actuals. Will also advise on billing strategies for assigned clients.
• Serves as the main contact for client related financial analysis and advice, helping EY executives comply with EY finance and quality policies.
• Consults with assigned executives to provide insights and make recommendations, helping executives achieve their financial goals for each client.
• Leverages and analyzes reporting to identify root causes and consult with client serving teams on how to adjust and improve their engagement metrics; advise and resolve issues through book of business reviews to achieve maximum operational excellence
• Contributes to continuous improvement by sharing knowledge and leveraging leading practices
• Manages user lack of knowledge/frustration and directs the interaction to the best outcome, flexing personal style where needed

Skills and attributes for success

• Strong ability to identify financial anomalies and trends, and then advise leadership on financial strategies that will ultimately impact business decisions
• Strong ability to build rapport and professional relationships
• Highly effective at virtual teaming and influencing skills when partnering with people at all levels of the firm
• Excellent listening skills to provide focused advice, combined with the ability to apply judgment and seek guidance when escalation to a functional expert is appropriate
• Logical approach to problem solving
• Ability to manage time effectively to serve all your assigned Partners and recognize when extra effort/time is needed to produce optimal outcomes
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Excel and Word programs as well as the ability to learn new applications quickly
• The ability to adapt quickly to change and act as an effective change agent

What we look for

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant area of study (finance, accounting, business) to perform this position
• 2+ years of experience in customer relationship support required to perform this position
• Excellent English written and verbal communication skills

What we offer

We offer a competitive compensation package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to our business. In addition, our Total Rewards package allows you decide which benefits are right for you and which ones help you create a solid foundation for your future. Our Total Rewards package includes a comprehensive medical, prescription drug and dental coverage, a defined contribution pension plan, a great vacation policy plus firm paid days that allow you to enjoy longer long weekends throughout the year, statutory holidays and paid personal days (based on province of residence), and a range of exciting programs and benefits designed to support your physical, financial and social well-being. Plus, we offer:

• Support and coaching from some of the most engaging colleagues in the industry
• Learning opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you

Your key responsibilities

The successful candidate will be involved with all aspects of tax advisory and tax controversy. Responsibilities include:

• Assisting clients in responding to federal and provincial audits; advising clients on the tax dispute resolution process; preparing notices of objection and written representations to the federal and provincial tax appeals divisions; and assisting with the litigation of tax appeals before various courts.
• This role also includes assisting with the preparation of legal opinions with respect to the tax consequences of transactions and performing post-transaction audits for tax efficacy and litigation risk.

Skills and attributes for success

• The ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, collegial, dynamic team-oriented environment
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Sound professional judgement and a high level of professionalism

To qualify for the role you must have

• 1 to 5 years of tax litigation and controversy experience gained at a leading law firm
• Superior academic credentials and strong tax technical skills and a genuine interest in tax and tax policy
• The candidate must also be a member in good standing of a Canadian Bar

What we offer

When you thrive, we thrive. The EY benefits package goes above and beyond, focusing on your physical, emotional, financial and social well-being:

• $5,000 per year for mental health support benefits
• Wellbeing benefit of $1,200/year

Discover how, when and where you can work at

quality systems across the Assurance practice.

Your key responsibilities

• Facilitate the implementation of risk management systems in Canada and ongoing operation once implemented.
• Perform initial validation of data migrated from the legacy database into the new system and implement processes for populating new system with data that does
• not exist in the legacy database.
• Develop a strong understanding of the new system functionality and features.
• Act as the key contact for troubleshooting on system usage issues and implementation matters with support from Americas and Global subject matter resources.
• Execute data reconciliation processes and controls within the firm’s system of quality management.
• Monitor and implement changes to data in the system while ensuring the integrity of the data, including implementation of validation processes for requested
• changes and data feeds.
• Provide support for other Professional Practice and Risk Management initiatives.
• Develop expertise in regulatory rotation rules and long association policy requirements.
• Provide various administrative support for new and ongoing quality initiatives.

Skills and attributes for success

• Strong organizational skills and a very high attention to detail.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Proactive and anticipatory in approach and style.
• Ability to work with all levels of management - and use discretion and adapt style and approach accordingly.
• Analytical and conceptual thinking abilities.
• Effectively interact with others to obtain required actions.
• Strong team player.
• Ability to work independently and autonomously with little direction and guidance.

Ideally, you’ll also

• Have 1 year of relevant experience, such as experience in data analysis or system administration.

What we look for

Highly motivated individuals with excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to prioritize shifting workloads in a rapidly changing industry. An effective communicator, you’ll be a confident leader equipped with strong people management skills and a genuine passion to make things happen in a dynamic organization. If you’re ready to take on a wide range of responsibilities and are committed to seeking out new ways to make a difference, this role is for you.

What we offer

The salary range for this job in British Columbia is $62,000 to $94,000. Individual salaries within this range are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and work location city.