EY Assistant Director Senior Manager CFO Advisory 

United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, Belfast 

109137368

Your key responsibilities

As an Assistant Director (Senior Manager) within our TSE team, you’ll assist in aspects of business origination, including pitches and presentations to help sell work and work in a transaction environment operating under tight M&A timeframes and demands. You’ll be familiar working in a large-scale consulting environment or industry role. As an Assistant Director your key role will be responsibility for core aspects of client delivery, ensuring the team are led and the engagement partner is supported.

You will be part of a team who:

• Advise on the impact of merger and acquisition transactions on the finance function and across CFO priorities.
• Understand and be able to advise on integration challenges, separation challenges, change in ownership (public to private and vice versa).
• Have analytical and have advisory skills across the deal lifecycle – with specific focus on operational due diligence and value creation, including areas such as P&L optimisation, maturity assessments and designing models for scale and cost out.

To qualify for the role, you must:

• Have broad experience (8+ years) of working in either: industry, with roles in some of the core areas of Finance (e.g. FP&A, Financial Control, Commercial / Operational Finance Business Partnering, CFO), and/or have transactions / finance function experience as a consultant with Big 4 or Management Consultancy firm.
• Be a qualified accountant – ACA, CIMA, or internationally recognised equivalent finance qualification.
• Have strong academics and interpersonal skills.
• Have experience of being a change agent in previous roles.

The following will be an advantage:

• Capability to work in a fast paced, deadline driven environment.
• Skilled in decision making.
• Experience of leading & supporting a team.
• Ability to demonstrable analytical skills.
• Commercially curious and committed to learning.

What we look for

• Team players who are excited by the opportunity to learn and grow new skills while leveraging their existing experience for clients.

• People who enjoy working in a fast paced, hardworking, rewarding, and fun environment.
• Individuals who are excited by the world of professional services and the personal opportunity offered by EY.

What we offer

• 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.

Please note;

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