EY Senior Manager - Finance Optimization Basel Zurich 

Switzerland, Basel-City, Basel 

249555813

Your key responsibilities:

• Lead complex digital finance transformation projects,, automations, and data analytics projects
• Improve Finance business processes and functions, leveraging technical accounting and digital expertise
• Oversee multiple engagements and stakeholders, ensuring client expectations are exceeded, budgets are managed effectively, and risks are mitigated.
• Drive the team's business development efforts by identifying opportunities, building networks, creating proposals, and representing EY at professional events
• Deliver clear and impactful presentations to internal and external audiences, effectively showcasing expertise and capabilities
• Lead and mentor a matrix team of onshore and offshore consultants, providing coaching and development opportunities to foster growth and success.
• Develop and maintain up-to-date knowledge on emerging finance technologies and digital finance tools

To qualify for the role, you must have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, IT, or equivalent
• 5-10 years of experience leading digital finance transformation projects, including ERP (e.g., SAP S/4HANA) and/or EPM (e.g., Tagetik) solutions implementations, robotic process automation, advanced data analytics, etc.
• Strong understanding of various transactional accounting and finance processes, such as FP&A, R2R, O2C, P2P, etc.
• Demonstrated success in team leadership, including coaching, mentoring, and developing a team of (senior) consultants
• Proven ability to manage multiple engagements and stakeholders, exceeding client expectations, handling budgets, and mitigating risks effectively
• Significant experience in driving business development initiatives, building internal and external networks, identifying opportunities, responding to request-for-proposals and presenting at professional events
• Fluency in both English and German

Ideally, you’ll also have:

• Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, IT or equivalent and/or MBA
• Relevant professional finance qualitification (e.g., ACCA, CIMA, CPA, CFA, etc.)
• Relevant project management and/or process improvement certifications (e.g., PMP, Agile, Lean Six Sigma, etc.)
• Relevant technical business analyst and/or implementation manager certifications (e.g., SAP, Oracle, Anaplan, Tagetik, UiPath, etc.)
• Any other European language skills

What we offer

• team of highly motivated professionals
• Continuous personal development with a steep learning curve – a system of trainings, mentoring, counselling and on-the-job learning
• Modern working environment and equipment, fostering mobile working flexibility
• Transparent performance-based recognition and progression system
• Acquire a fully accredited corporate MBA (EY Tech MBA) from Hult International Business School, whilst working with EY, completely free*

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* exception of EY contractors, interns and alumni.