Position Summary:
- We are looking for an Internal Business Advisor with financial experience, who will play a key role to advise and support our client serving teams to make best use of finance support and advise to effectively manage their portfolios of EY external client projects. The main component of this role is providing high quality advice to our internal customers. If you’re flexible and enjoy a continually evolving business environment there’s no better role to further develop your skills.
Essential Functions of the Job:
- Work with Finance teams to reach out to client serving teams and assist on their financials
- Provide virtual support to our client serving teams (phone or email)
- Team with them to help in resolving their immediate questions
- Partner with them to help in managing their books of business effectively
- Review the financials and help them to improve the financials
- Educate and guide them through recommendations and training
- Ensure that the needed responses are provided in a quick manner or escalated when essential
- Document all calls, emails and chats into the system
- Share best practices and provide support to other team members across borders and service lines
- Stay up to date with the firm’s latest policies, processes and tools
- Stay connected with the business and functional experts
- Self-educate and seeks additional knowledge
Knowledge and Skills Requirements:
Fluent in English – written and verbal
Able to work in a self-sufficient manner, operating across multiple projects and priorities
Strong knowledge of financial metrics and dependencies including ability to calculate variances quickly and accurately
Ability to prioritize workload and deliver outputs within strict deadlines.
Focuses on solutions that drive continuous improvement of account performance
Demonstrates the ability to challenge assumptions and decisions in an appropriate manner
Effective teaming abilities including effective virtual teaming
Effective multitasking and prioritization skills
Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office, as well as the ability to learn new applications quickly
Effective organizational, delegation and time management skills
Strong presentation skills
Ability to demonstrate self-motivation and ownership of assigned work
Experience in any ERP application will be added advantage (SAP/Oracle etc.)
Education:
Bachelor’s degree in Finance is required to perform this position, Master’s degree / professional certification is recommended.
Experience:
A minimum of 2 years of experience in a professional services finance or related function is required to perform this position
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