Your key responsibilities
- Effectively lead, support and motivate engagement teams in executing scope of services and work with key management stakeholders to identify and implement sustainable improvements in a business’ cash conversion practices
- Assess a business' current policies and processes, lead analytical efforts involving transactional data, financial data, and/or supply chain data, identify root causes that have resulted in the current working capital position and propose/develop recommendations to management to enable value creation
- Demonstrate high levels of business acumen, subject matter expertise, and the ability to quickly assimilate new knowledge. Keep up-to-date with current developments and trends in advisory services capabilities, technology and sector specific knowledge
- Synthesize complex business issues, form initial hypotheses and identify the data / information required to confirm hypotheses
- Form “trusted advisor” relationships with VP, SVP and C-Suite level resources at clients, deliver high degree of client satisfaction on engagements
- Present solutions, issues and findings in both a concise written and oral format
- Effectively develop, train, and mentor team members with diverse skills and backgrounds
- Manage the financial aspects of engagements by organizing staffing, developing budgets, tracking fees and communicating issues to project leaders
- Successfully lead and support business development activities to secure additional services or add on projects through building relationships with internal EY and external client networks. Manage and maintain a pipeline of opportunities through identify to close.
- Provide support, guidance and vision in improving and enhancing the team’s practice delivery methodology
Skills and attributes for success
- Business and Commercially Driven - working in a fast-paced, exciting environment with strong business acumen to drive value to our clients and differentiate our services.
- Project Management – organized and can lead project teams, activities and deliverables with a variety of EY resources in a dynamic environment.
- Building Relationships - cultivate strong working relationships with clients, EY account teams and able to support key decision makers.
- Business Development –Contribute to our practice development with the ability to spot opportunities and work with account teams to bring ideas to market.
- Digital – a strong understanding of the digital transformation enablers for business processes and how to apply concepts for a client transformation
- Learning - learn and develop technical and personal skills to support achievement of career goals, through a blend of structured learning, coaching and experiences.
To qualify for the role, you must have a selection of:
- A bachelor’s degree or a master’s degree.
- Manager: at least 5 years of related work experience; management consulting experience is preferred.
- Senior Manager: at least 8 years of related work experience; management consulting experience is preferred.
- Must be willing and able to travel at least 25% on short notice (subject to client needs).
- A track record of delivering performance improvement projects related to supply chain/inventory optimization, sourcing/procurement or commercial/accounts receivable that deliver tangible results (cost reduction, process efficiency, cycle time improvement, etc.)
- Strong understanding of cash flow metrics and working capital operational levers.
- Demonstrated deep expertise in at one of the three major business processes (OTC, PTP, FTF).
- Experience leading and managing in complex business environments.
- The ability to prioritize effectively on projects and the skills to adapt quickly to new challenges and concepts.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with proven ability to develop business or propose and implement large-scale initiatives.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Strong technical and analytical capabilities – Excel required, familiarity with Microsoft applications (PowerBI, Azure, Databricks, SQL) and data analysis tools (e.g. Tableau, Alteryx) are a plus
Ideally, you’ll also have
- Experience gained within another large professional services organization
- Experience leading supply chain, procurement, operational cost reduction, and/or finance process optimization projects