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As Testing Manager, your focus will be planning and executing various test cycles for large SAP implementations. You will work with the project team and third parties to confirm the business requirements that must be tested and the approach to meet testing requirements. You will be responsible for working directly with the functional work streams to build test scenarios and cases that cover all business requirements and satisfy the defined test strategy. Testing cycles can include functional unit testing, system integration testing, user acceptance testing, and regression testing.

In this role, you will build and manage the delivery of technology transformation projects and programs that align with our organizational strategy. You will provide assurance to leadership by managing timelines, costs, and quality, while leading both technical and non-technical project teams in the development and implementation of innovative technology solutions.

Your key responsibilities

As a Manager in this dynamic role, you will be at the forefront of technology transformation, ensuring that projects are delivered effectively and efficiently. You will face challenges that require innovative problem-solving skills and will have the opportunity to learn and grow in a fast-paced environment. Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading workstream delivery and tracking deliverable completion and project status.
• Actively participating in client working sessions and leading workstreams from planning through execution to closure.
• Managing engagement economics and implementing resource plans and budgets.
• Travel required regularly as needed by external client.

Skills and attributes for success

To thrive in this role, you will need a blend of technical and interpersonal skills. Your ability to build and manage relationships will be key to your success. The following skills and attributes will make a significant impact:

• Define the test strategy, planning, implementing and quality assurance for large complex projects
• Proven ability to drive test design, preparation, and execution across extensive business and system requirements within tight timelines.
• Proficiency in project and portfolio management tools.
• Strong understanding of iterative and hybrid delivery methodologies.
• Ability to manage project or program resource management effectively.
• Excellent communication skills with a focus on client trust and value.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• A bachelor’s degree (4-year degree).
• Typically, no less than 4 - 6 years of proven experience in a testing lead role, specifically with large SAP implementations.
• Experience in developing test strategies, scenarios, and cases.
• Strong understanding of various testing methodologies and best practices.
• Demonstrate expertise in technical skills application functional design.
• Familiarity with the System Development Lifecycle.
• Knowledge of the Technology Landscape.
• Experience in leading teams.
• A flexibility and willingness to travel to meet client needs; travel is estimated at 40-60%.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Familiarity with testing tools and automation frameworks.
• Experience in leading complex technical initiatives.
• A track record of continuous process improvement.
• Strong analytical skills with a focus on innovative solutions.

Our clients operate in a world where achieving and sustaining performance is more difficult than ever. As an EY professional, you will help them grow and turn their strategy into reality. You’ll work with high-performing teams that drive growth and deliver exceptional client service, contributing to building a better working world.

As an Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) professional, you’ll focus on enhancing our clients' work and asset management capabilities. You’ll collaborate with high-performing teams to drive growth and deliver exceptional client service, ensuring better working assets.

Your Role

As a Manager, you will manage and deliver client engagements, often interacting at an executive level. You will also engage in sales and practice development activities, increasing value and efficiency. You’ll mentor and coach team members, fostering an inclusive culture and high-performing teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide Maximo/Maximo Application Suite (MAS) consulting services to EAM clients.
• Mentor, coach, and counsel client team members, fostering an inclusive culture and high-performing teams.
• Maximize operational efficiencies on engagements.
• Perform functional tasks, including requirements development, configuration, maintenance, enhancements, and upgrades.
• Understand the applications’ functionality, intended processes, uses, and features that business partners can leverage.
• Work with users and development staff on issues related to the implementation of maintenance, purchasing, service management, and inventory management.
• Have experience with relational databases, reporting, and other technologies.
• Understand software development and applications development life cycles, along with formal project management techniques.
• Interact with users to obtain and share information needed for successful system implementation, upgrades, and maintenance.
• Enhance our brand through strong external relationships across a network of existing and future clients.
• Provide strategic and relevant insight, connectedness, and responsiveness to all clients to anticipate their needs.
• Strengthen our collective EAM knowledge, helping resolve our clients’ EAM challenges.
• Develop external eminence in the EAM space.
• Promote knowledge sharing and strengthen collective EAM expertise.

Skills and Attributes for Success:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, especially around breaking down complex structures into digestible and relevant points for a diverse set of clients and colleagues at all levels.
• Ability to challenge and inspire both coworkers and clients to think about difficult situations in new and transformative ways.
• Provide innovative commercial insights for clients, adapt methods and practices to fit operational team and cultural needs, and contribute to thought leadership.
• Actively contribute to improving operational efficiency on projects and internal initiatives.
• Consistently drive projects to completion with high quality, in line with our commitment to quality.
• Lead teams or parts of teams on engagements, anticipating and identifying risks and escalating issues as appropriate.
• Help create a positive learning culture, coach and counsel junior team members, and help them develop.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Technology, Engineering, Marketing, Economics, Finance, or a related field.
• Minimum of five years of related work experience or a graduate degree and four years of related work experience.
• Minimum of four years of experience delivering Maximo/MAS consulting services to EAM clients.
• Experience leading teams and managing engagement economics.
• Flexibility to work across consulting services if needed.
• Willingness to travel up to 60+%; valid driver’s license and US passport required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Utility experience is a major plus.
• Experience with Schedule, Dispatch, and Mobile.
• Experience configuring and understanding compatible units.
• Master’s degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Experience with SAP EAM, Infor EAM, and/or Oracle products.
• EAM Configuration tools experience is desired.

Our clients operate in a world where achieving and sustaining performance is more difficult than ever. As a performance improvement professional, you’ll help them grow and turn their strategies into reality. You’ll work with high-performing teams that drive growth and deliver exceptional client service, ensuring you play your part in building a better working world.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Provide advisory/consulting services to EAM clients, helping them improve business performance.
• Mentor, coach, and counsel client team members, fostering an inclusive culture and high-performing teams.
• Maximize operational efficiencies on engagements.
• Perform functional tasks, including requirements development, configuration, maintenance, enhancements, and upgrades.
• Understand the applications’ functionality, intended processes, uses, and features that business partners can leverage.
• Work with users and development staff on issues related to the implementation of maintenance, purchasing, service management, and inventory management.
• Have experience with relational databases, reporting, and other technologies.
• Understand software development and applications development life cycles, along with formal project management techniques.
• Interact with users to obtain and share information needed for successful system implementation, upgrades, and maintenance.
• Enhance our brand through strong external relationships across a network of existing and future clients.
• Provide strategic and relevant insight, connectedness, and responsiveness to all clients to anticipate their needs.
• Support opportunity pursuits and practice development initiatives.
• Promote an effective forum for sharing EAM expertise.
• Strengthen our collective EAM knowledge, helping resolve our clients’ EAM challenges.

Skills and Attributes for Success

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, especially around breaking down complex structures into digestible and relevant points for a diverse set of clients and colleagues at all levels.
• Ability to challenge and inspire both coworkers and clients to think about difficult situations in new and transformative ways.
• Provide innovative commercial insights for clients, adapt methods and practices to fit operational team and cultural needs, and contribute to thought leadership.
• Actively contribute to improving operational efficiency on projects and internal initiatives.
• Consistently drive projects to completion with high quality, in line with our commitment to quality.
• Lead teams or parts of teams on engagements, anticipating and identifying risks and escalating issues as appropriate.
• Help create a positive learning culture, coach and counsel junior team members, and help them develop.

To Qualify for the Role, You Must Have

• A bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Technology, Engineering, Marketing, Economics, Finance, or a related field.
• A minimum of two to three years of related work experience or a graduate degree and two years of related work experience.
• Prior experience delivering Maximo/MAS services to EAM clients
• Business process design experience and the ability to create functional requirements.
• Good communication skills and proficiency with applications or supporting applications.
• SQL experience, highly adaptable, self-directed.
• A minimum of one to two years of experience delivering advisory-type services to EAM clients.
• Experience participating in teams and supporting engagement economics and business development.
• Flexibility to work across advisory services if needed.
• Willingness to manage significant travel depending on the time of year. Must have a valid driver’s license.

Ideally, You’ll Also Have

• Utility experience is a plus.
• Experience with Schedule, Dispatch, and Mobile.
• Compatible Units experience.
• Master’s degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field.
• EAM product experience; Maximo/MAS, Oracle, Hexagon.
• EAM configuration tools experience is desired.

Your key responsibilities

• To contribute to the efficient and successful delivery of international tax services to the client
• Build and maintain tax relationships with clients and provide high levels of client service
• Build relationships both within the firm and externally with clients, identifying opportunities and managing expectations
• Contribute to winning new work by proactively managing existing clients and contribute to winning new clients.
• Manage the successful delivery of international tax projects, ensuring technical excellence and practical/business driven approach taken
• Responsible for day-to-day client liaison

Skills and attributes for success

What we look for

• Strong technical skills and keen to develop further
• Ability to build strong client relationships
• Excellent communicator in range of situations both written and oral
• Ability to identify areas of risk, carry out an effective review and know when to refer upwards
• Client focused and commercially aware
• Relationship management skills with ability to manage client expectations
• Ability to build effective relationships at all levels
• Ability to solve problems creatively and pragmatically
• Ability to coach and develop more junior members of the team

Ideally, you’ll also

• ACA/CA/ACCA/CTA; or Tax Inspectors with full Technical Training Course; or Law qualification; or CFA;or breadth of knowledge equivalent to a Tax specialist qualification
• Experienced Transfer Pricing tax practitioner
• Proven ability to read and interpret existing and new tax statute

In this role, you will interact with business stakeholders to evaluate business models, processes, and operations. You will gather, understand, and analyze business requirements, translating them into technical specifications. Additionally, you will analyze newly implemented technology solutions to ensure they meet business requirements and collaborate with technical teams to design and deliver system architecture solutions.

Your key responsibilities

As a Manager in Technology Analysis, you will play a pivotal role in managing and delivering complex technical initiatives. You will face challenges that require innovative problem-solving and analytical skills, providing you with opportunities to grow and learn in a dynamic environment.

• Lead workstream delivery and ensure effective management of processes and solutions.
• Track deliverable completion and project status, ensuring alignment with performance objectives.

• Actively participate in client working sessions, leading workstreams from planning through execution and closure.

Skills and attributes for success

To thrive in this role, you will need a blend of technical and interpersonal skills. Your ability to build relationships and communicate effectively will be crucial in delivering exceptional client service.Ability to lead global teams, lead design & testing sessions, and work with other dependent teams.

• Ability to architect and deliver supply chain solutions across technology landscape.
• Demonstrate in-depth technical capabilities and possess strong business acumen. Demonstrate ability to assimilate to new knowledge.
• Lead and deliver quality SAP projects or workstreams.
• Consistently deliver quality client services. Monitor progress, manage risk and ensure key stakeholders are kept informed about progress and expected outcomes.
• Establish relationships with client personnel at appropriate levels.
• Demonstrate strong decision-making skills in developing solutions for complex problems.
• Modify policies and establish procedures within the scope of work.
• Exercise sound judgment in selecting methods and criteria for obtaining results.
• Possess a functional understanding of system development lifecycle and technology business architecture frameworks.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• A bachelor's degree with at least 5 years of related work experience.

• At least 5 years of combined experience working with SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP), SAP Advanced Planning & Optimization (APO) and Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PPDS).

• Strong written and verbal communication, presentation, client service and technical writing skills.
• Experience managing an SAP project or workstream and project-based team members.
• Knowledge of leading practices, benchmarking, peer company environments and prior advisory experience relevant to industry specific finance and technology functions.
• Ability and comfort level researching client inquiries and emerging issues, including regulations, industry practices, and new technologies.
• A flexibility and willingness to travel to meet client needs; travel is estimated at 40-60%.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Prior consulting industry experience.
• SAP Certification(s).
• Experience with at least three full cycle implementations of your core module.

As a Deployment Manager, you will primarily focus on executing large SAP implementation procedures. You will collaborate with business stakeholders, the project team, and third parties to execute project plans across three pillars of Deployment: Business/Site Readiness, Cutover, and Hypercare. Your responsibilities will include working closely with the Deployment Lead to define and execute business readiness, cutover, and hypercare strategies. This entails managing site readiness plans, developing and executing cutover plans, and overseeing post-go-live support and reporting.

In this role, you will interact with business stakeholders to evaluate business models, processes, and operations. You will gather, understand, and analyze business requirements, translating them into technical specifications. Additionally, you will analyze newly implemented technology solutions to ensure they meet business requirements and collaborate with technical teams to design and deliver system architecture solutions.

Your key responsibilities

As a Manager in Technology Analysis, you will play a pivotal role in managing and delivering complex technical initiatives. You will face challenges that require innovative problem-solving and analytical skills, providing you with opportunities to grow and learn in a dynamic environment.

• Lead workstream delivery and ensure effective management of processes and solutions.

• Track deliverable completion and project status, ensuring alignment with performance objectives.
• Actively participate in client working sessions, leading workstreams from planning through execution and closure.

Skills and attributes for success

To thrive in this role, you will need a blend of technical and interpersonal skills. Your ability to build relationships and communicate effectively will be crucial in delivering exceptional client service.

• Strong analytical skills to develop solutions to complex problems.
• Proven ability to manage engagement economics and resource planning.
• Experience in leading teams and managing change effectively.
• Ability to identify opportunities for additional services and lead specific RFP responses.
• Proven ability to drive complex project plans to completion by proactively identifying risks and enacting relevant mitigations.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• A bachelor’s degree (4-year degree).
• Typically, no less than 4 - 6 years relevant experience.

• Proven experience in executing large SAP implementation procedures.
• Experience in managing site readiness plans and ensuring successful execution.
• Proficiency in developing and executing cutover plans.
• A flexibility and willingness to travel to meet client needs; travel is estimated at 40-60%.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Experience in managing client relationships and expectations.
• A strong background in technology analysis and implementation.

As an Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) professional, you’ll focus on bringing solutions and strategies to advance our clients' work and asset management capabilities. You’ll work with high-performing teams that drive growth and deliver exceptional client service, ensuring you play your part in building a better working world through better working assets.

As a Senior Manager, you will be responsible for driving the sales pipeline and designing Maximo/Maximo Application Suite (MAS) EAM solutions for customers. Your objectives will include increasing revenue, profitability, and market competitiveness; ensuring solutions meet customer requirements; and designing and delivering complex solutions as per customer needs.

Your Key Responsibilities

The EAM Senior Manager will provide Maximo/MAS consulting services to EAM clients, helping them improve business performance.

• Develop external eminence across the sub-capabilities in the EAM space.
• Promote an effective forum for sharing EAM expertise.
• Strengthen our collective EAM knowledge, helping resolve our clients' EAM challenges.
• Work with the business development team to jointly assess customer opportunities.
• Capture Maximo/MAS requirements and design end-to-end solutions addressing customers’ business drivers.
• Support the development of new Maximo/MAS opportunities in conjunction with the business development teams.
• Provide consultancy to customers in the development of their requirements, where appropriate.
• Actively participate in the RFI/RFP process and develop proposals in line with customer needs, liaising and qualifying with other colleagues as necessary.
• Present technical solutions to customers, both formally and informally, as required.
• Author high-quality, informative content with solution descriptions and diagrams as part of the RFI/RFP process.
• Be the voice of the market; gather and consolidate market observations and trends.
• Validate order documentation before submitting it to the delivery team.
• Provide additional information and advice to the Service Delivery and Operations team during implementation to drive successful delivery engagements that are profitable and of the highest quality.
• Provide various levels of reports for top opportunities, weekly progress reports, and ad-hoc reports requested by management.
• Maintain and upskill knowledge of various products, services, and industry practices.

Skills and Attributes for Success

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, especially around breaking down complex structures into digestible and relevant points for a diverse set of clients and colleagues at all levels.
• Ability to challenge and inspire both co-workers and clients to think about difficult situations in new and transformative ways.
• Promote diverse and inclusive teaming and leadership.
• Provide innovative commercial insights for clients, adapt methods and practices to fit operational team and cultural needs, and contribute to thought leadership.
• Actively contribute to improving operational efficiency on projects and internal initiatives.
• Consistently drive projects to completion with high quality, in line with our commitment to quality.
• Lead teams or parts of teams on engagements, anticipating and identifying risks and escalating issues as appropriate.
• Help create a positive learning culture, coach and counsel junior team members, and help them develop.

To Qualify for the Role, You Must Have

• A bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Technology, Engineering, Marketing, Economics, Finance, or a related field.
• A minimum of 8 to 10 years of related work experience or a graduate degree and 7 years of related work experience.
• A minimum of 8 years of experience delivering Maximo/MAS services to EAM clients.
• Experience leading teams, managing engagement economics, and business development.
• Flexibility to work across advisory services if needed.
• Proven work experience in one or more of the following areas: Utility (Transmission, Distribution, Generation, Nuclear), Oil and Gas, Media and Entertainment, Regulatory, Customer, Supply Chain, Finance Transformation, implementation.
• Ability to travel 60+%; valid driver’s license and US passport required.

Ideally, You’ll Also Have

• Experience with Schedule, Dispatch, and Mobile.
• Compatible Units experience.
• Project Systems, structure, WBS creation, and accounting linkage experience.
• Master’s degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Additional EAM product experience.
• EAM Configuration tools experience is desired.