Strategy Manager jobs in United States, California, Los Angeles

Business is constantly evolving, and more than ever, staying at the forefront is all about identifying and adapting to change. As a Tax Manager, you'll see this first hand by being immersed in the evolving tax environment through preparing and auditing income tax provisions, assisting with income tax filings, consulting on planning opportunities, and coaching and developing staff on your engagement teams.

Your key responsibilities

You'll spend your time supporting client engagements by coordinating day-to-day interactions with clients, reviewing staff work product, driving delivery of services to meet deadlines, developing internal team members, and managing engagement economics. You'll continuously build on technical competence by keeping up to date on trends, developments and technical authorities and apply them to complex situations. Identifying and resolving tax technical issues and sharing insights to improve our efficiency will be a key component. In addition, you'll partner with other team members to help identify new opportunities to leverage to your clients across multiple service lines.

Skills and attributes for success

• Providing our clients with domestic federal tax advice and guidance tailored to their unique needs
• Keeping up to date with ongoing trends and changes to legislation that will affect planning activities
• Supervising high-performing teams and sharing your experience and knowledge of leading-practices
• Developing the technical and soft skills of younger colleagues, and participating in the performance management process
• Building relationships at all levels both internally and externally, promoting a culture of collaboration
• Preparing practical recommendations to some of our clients' most complex tax issues

To qualify for the role you must have

• A Bachelor's degree in Accounting or a graduate degree in Tax or Law and approximately five years of related work experience
• CPA certification or licensed attorney status
• A background in tax compliance and accounting for income tax and a broad understanding of US income taxation
• Experience managing budgets and projects
• Knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Access and data mining tools
• The ability to prioritize when working on multiple projects, and the confidence to engage and integrate directly into our clients' teams
• Willingness to travel as needed, and working in a balanced hybrid environment

Ideally, you'll also have

• A proven record in a professional services environment
• Experience in coaching and mentoring junior colleagues
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
• The ability to adapt your work style to work with both internal and client team members

Your key responsibilities

• You will have already achieved outstanding professional success and are a seasoned senior consulting professional with experience:
• Delivering solutions across EY's service offerings, which could include operating model design, organization design, change management, culture transformation, strategic workforce planning, cost optimization
• Developing and delivering change management and training strategies and programs in a wide variety of contexts including transformational change programs
• Working with senior leadership to create alignment in order to support program success
• Developing holistic change management strategies that succinctly articulate how change will be managed in the context of a transformation program
• Identifying and deploying leading edge communication and stakeholder engagement tools and techniques
• Delivering programs that support agile / iterative transformation
• Leading and developing more junior resources
• Flexibility and ability to travel

Skills and attributes for success

• Demonstrate a thorough understanding of complex change concepts.
• Lead client engagement teams and work with a wide variety of clients to deliver quality professional services.
• Develop and successfully manage to project budget.
• Deliver quality services.
• Value and model excellent client service by establishing goals and implementation plans to achieve high quality deliverables and within expected timeframes.
• Monitor progress, manage risk and confirm key stakeholders are kept informed about progress and expected outcomes.
• Develop and maintain productive relationships with client management.
• Focus on deliverables and client business priorities.
• Manage expectations of service.
• Understand the client's industry and recognize key performance drivers and business trends.
• Develop people and provide constructive on-the-job feedback/training. Foster an innovative and team-oriented work environment.
• Demonstrate high levels of technical and professional knowledge and quickly assimilate new knowledge.
• Have a passion and understanding for financial services and recognize key performance drivers and business trends.
• Generate new business opportunities.
• Identify and deliver new business opportunities, including supporting RFP responses and client proposals
• Understand EY and its service lines and actively assess/present ways to serve clients.
• Develop long-term client relationships and networks.
• Develop relationships with other EY team members across all practices to serve client needs.
• Project management experience
• Experience managing staff on multiple projects and providing direction to team members
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Excellent oral, written, and presentation skills
• High level of motivation and a self-starting attitude
• Ability to think outside of the box, thrive on new challenges
• Strong work ethic
• Effective organizationand time management skills with the ability to work under pressure and adhere to project deadlines

To qualify for the role you must have

• A degree and/or Master's degree with an emphasis in Business, Human Resources, Psychology
• Approximately 8-10 years of related professional services /  external consulting work experience
• Experience in the following areas: Change Management, Stakeholder Management, Communications, Organizational Design, Training, and Culture change
• Experience in at least one of Banking, Capital Markets, Insurance and/or Wealth Management

Serve as a Strategy and Transaction professional to prepare and execute mergers and acquisition plans to maximize synergies and financial benefits from transactions focusing on the technology functional area. Understand the factors that drive successful mergers and acquisitions, and apply knowledge of the organizations involved in a deal to drive operational value. Provide operationally focused support and advice across the transaction life cycle (including carve-out, due diligence and integration), whether supporting an acquirer or seller. Focus on enhancing value, accelerating implementation and managing operational transaction risk. Provide support and advise on transactions in the Information Technology functional area.

Full time employment, Monday– Friday,40hours per week, 8:30 am – 5:30 pm.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

Must have a Bachelor’s degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, Engineering, Computer Science, Analytics or related field and 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate work experience. Alternatively, will accept a Master’s degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, Engineering, Computer Science, Analytics of related field and 3 years of work experience.Must have 3 years of experience in making detailed assessments of technology, finance, operations or supply chain infrastructure, of which 2 years should be for the integration or separation of client operations.

Must have 2 years of experience in a consulting environment.

Must have 2 years of experience in business integrations, divestitures, or carve-outs including experience with quantitative and qualitative analysis.

Must have 1 year of experience with IT pre-deal and post-deal due diligence.

Must have 2 years of experience in at least two of the following:
- IT risk assessment
- IT strategy
- IT process, risks & controls
- IT applications, operating systems, and databases - Oracle, SAP, UNIX, Windows, Mainframe etc.,
- IT change management
- IT organization transformation
- IT operations and infrastructure
- Systems Development Lifecyle (SDLC) concepts
- Data analytics and visualization
- Robotic process automation capability design
- IT cost modeling.

Employer will accept any suitable combination of education, training or experience.

What we offer

We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package where you’ll be rewarded based on yourperformance and recognized for the value you bring to the business. The base salary for this job is $137,717.00 per year. In addition, our Total Rewards package includes medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, and a wide range of paid time off options. Join us in our team-led and leader-enabled hybrid model. Our expectation is for most people in external, client serving roles to work together in person 40-60% of the time over the course of an engagement, project or year. Under our flexible vacation policy, you’ll decide how much vacation time you need based on your own personal circumstances. You’ll also be granted time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.
EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.

This particular position at Ernst & Young in the United States requires the qualified candidate to be a "United States worker" as defined by the U.S. Department of Labor regulations at 20 CFR 656.3. You can review this definition at at the bottom of page 750. Please feel free to apply to other positions that do not require you to be a "U.S. worker".

Your responsibilities will include:

• Review complaint communications and assess for regulatory compliance, reportability, and potential impact to patient safety and business operations.
• Apply clinical knowledge, as related to product application, to evaluate identified complaints. Investigate complaints by gathering sufficient data from clinical staff, field representatives, internal employees, and laboratory analysis.
• Establish regulatory reportability decisions using event investigation and regulatory decision models.
• Participate in development and modification of these decision models with changes in product advances/therapies to uphold consistent compliance with government-mandated regulations.
• Write Medical Device Reports (MDRs), MedWatch, Vigilance, and other regulatory reports, ensuring timely transmission to the appropriate regulatory authorities.
• Apply codes to events to facilitate product performance records. Review coding and investigations with engineering, laboratory, and other internal staff.
• Compose written communications detailing the clinical observation, investigation and/or product analysis, and corrective actions, as applicable, to physician and other end use customers.
• Approval of work completed by the team.

Required qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in medical device complaint processing and reporting
• Self-motivated, goal-driven and results-oriented team player
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to apply critical thinking
• Excellent time management

Preferred qualifications:

• College Degree focus in Biology, Health Sciences, Biotechnology or Engineering preferred
• Experience with SAS, PowerBI, or TrackWise applications
• Experience reviewing scientific literature

The anticipated annualized base amount or range for this full time position will be$ to $, plus variable compensation governed by the Sales Incentive Compensation Plan (which includes certain annual non-discretionary incentives based on predetermined objectives) as well as the value of core and optional benefits offered at BSC, which can be reviewed at www.bscbenefitsconnect.com. Actual compensation will be commensurate with demonstrable level of experience and training, pertinent education including licensure and certifications, and other relevant business or organizational needs.

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Please be advised that certain US based positions, including without limitation field sales and service positions that call on hospitals and/or health care centers, require acceptable proof of COVID-19 vaccination status. Candidates will be notified during the interview and selection process if the role(s) for which they have applied require proof of vaccination as a condition of employment. Boston Scientific continues to evaluate its policies and protocols regarding the COVID-19 vaccine and will comply with all applicable state and federal law and healthcare credentialing requirements. As employees of the Company, you will be expected to meet the ongoing requirements for your roles, including any new requirements, should the Company’s policies or protocols change with regard to COVID-19 vaccination.

Among other requirements, Boston Scientific maintains specific prohibited substance testing requirements for safety-sensitive positions. This role is deemed safety-sensitive and, as such, candidates will be subject to a drug test as a pre-employment requirement. The goal of the drug testing is to increase workplace safety in compliance with the applicable law.