EY FAAS - Senior 

India, Kerala, Kochi 

235654041

Financial Accounting Advisory Services (FAAS) professionals provides advisory services including Accounting and regulatory support for accounting change and special matters; accounting processes and controls support.

Primary Responsibilities

• Support the FAAS team in executing one or more Finance Transformation solutions including the following:
  • End to end process study, identify gaps in current process and identify recommendations.
  • Process design skills – able to critically review existing processes; make recommendations for rationalisation and improvement.
  • Define and develop a finance target operating model. Design business and process models, and help define finance technology strategy, architecture, and roadmap.
  • Execute technology led enterprise transformation projects for our clients
• Knowledge of SAP and other leading ERPs, reporting tools like Blackline, Trintech, Hyperion etc
• Knowledge of consolidation, reporting, inter-company and ERP data structures
• Supporting Process and Control; or should be an expert in driving Financial Statement Close Process, Procure to Pay and Order to Cash, Inventory, Fixed Assets, PPE & Intangible assets processes (along with experience in Risk management)
• Understand fundamentals of data preparation/data modelling necessary for the visualization purpose.
• Capture reporting requirements from various stakeholders, architect the solution/report, understand/analyze the source data and deliver the reports in timely manner
• Strong expertise in designing intuitive and interactive reports/dashboards using Power BI for data driven decisions.
• Participating in development of proposals related to our offerings
• Supporting projects that ensure high quality consulting services to major clients, preferably with a practical approach as learned during working in the business
• Contributing to the creation of new services, tools and materials to be more successful on the market
• Active participation in the creation and maintenance of an environment that enables the team to deliver effectively and achieve the highest quality
• Support in developing our offerings and assets
• Support in maintaining relationships with the client's management in order to deliver the expectations of service
• Supporting development of new service offerings and go-to-market strategies

Qualifications, skills and experience

To qualify, candidates must have:

• Chartered Accountant (CA), CPA (US) or ACCA (UK) with 0-5 years of relevant experience
• MBA degree is a plus
• Experience on Finance transformation, process optimisation projects including R2R, O2C, P2P and treasury deliver a customised solution by engaging tools and technologies
• Project experience across the Finance Transformation, System Implementation with knowledge of EPR’s.
• Exposure in one or more specific finance operating model design, service management, performance management (SLA, KPI),
• Have system exposure in functional side, implementation side or optimisation side are highly preferred (e.g. SAP, Oracle etc)
• Have experience in preparing Target Operating Models, current state analysis (As is), future state analysis (To be), process optimization, data optimization, data analytics, data management.
• Certified in project management or agile management
• Fluent written and verbal communication and presentation skills in English, other languages are highly preferred
• Willingness to work in a global environment where travel is regularly required for several clients
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Good listening skills, inquisitive nature, intellectual curiosity and self-starter qualities
• Demonstrated ability to present complex information in a concise and clear manner
• Ability to interface with all levels of management (EY and clients)
• Experience working on multiple projects under tight deadlines
• Willingness and ability to travel approximately 50% to 80% of the time

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