EY Senior Consultant - Finance Tagetik Solution Architect 

Canada, Ontario, Toronto 

256513366

A career in our EPM practice within Consulting services provides opportunities to work alongside Finance leaders to optimize their finance functions.

As a Finance Performance Improvement role, you'll actively participate in engagements covering the following expertise areas:

• Finance Transformation Strategy & Roadmap
• Finance Statement Close & Consolidations
• FP&A, Controlling Excellence & Management Reporting
• Finance Operating Model Design
• Finance & Accounting Process Improvement
• Global Business Services including Shared Service Centers, Outsourcing

Your Key Responsibilities

You'll actively establish, maintain, and strengthen internal and external relationships. With guidance from partners, you'll identify potential business opportunities for EY. You will develop long-term client relationships and networks, as well as develop relationships with team members across all EY practices to service client needs. By drawing on your knowledge and experience, you'll provide innovative commercial insights for clients and contribute to thought leadership. You'll actively contribute to improving operational efficiency on projects and internal initiatives. In line with our commitment to quality, you'll consistently drive projects to completion and determine that work is of a high quality. Your role in leading teams or parts of teams on engagements will depend on the size of engagement and will be under responsibility of higher levels. They will look to you to anticipate and identify risks and escalate issues as appropriate. As an influential member of the team, you'll help to create a positive learning culture and will coach and counsel junior team members and help them to develop. A willingness to travel on short notice to meet client needs is required. Travel is estimated at 50%.

Client responsibilities

• Lead and supervise Tagetik implementation projects, examining clients’ internal finance and accounting processes and advising on solutions around creating efficient processes or improving existing processes
• Champion Tagetik solutions through full cycle – requirements and design, development, testing, training, implementation, and support
• Coordinate full pre-sales cycle work – client introduction, scoping, drafting estimate and proposal, creating statement of work contract
• Collaborate seamlessly with internal and client-side resources and effectively communicate across various audiences
• Approach problems creatively and apply innovative technology to solve business challenges
• System migration support to transition from on-premises consolidation systems like HFM to cloud-based systems (i.e., Tagetik)
• Deploy the solution to end-users and provide overall support and training – including data validation activities
• Work with leadership to develop and grow the practice further including revenue attainment, sales and marketing assets, partnership with Tagetik, internal COE and helpdesk, training, recruiting, onboarding, and staffing
• Demonstrate technical knowledge for software implementations including activities around data mapping, conversion validation, system and security configuration, system integration testing, and user acceptance testing
• Leverage a strong understanding of Tagetik standard dimensions to develop various key elements – including business rules for consolidation and planning in Tagetik application

People Management responsibilities

• Develop people through effectively supervising, coaching, and mentoring staff
• Contribute to people initiatives including recruiting, retaining, and training Finance & Performance Management professionals
• Assist with technical guidance to other developers, incl. training of EY and client staff
• Maintain an educational program to continually develop personal skills
• Understand and follow workplace policies and procedures

Skills and attributes for success

• An ability to understand clients’ business planning & performance management processes and related business requirements
• An ability to understand and incorporate clients’ IT environments and existing technologies into application design (e.g. business rules, data structures and ETL needs)
• Translate design into implementation plan, timeline, and development effort to generate detailed staffing plans & project schedules following sprint cycles & agile delivery
• Manage / support several concurrent client projects & opportunities. Ability to self-manage time across competing priorities for optimal results
• Guide and mentor other team members throughout the implementation process
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong client facing skills and a successful track record of engagement management
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• A high level of motivation and a self-starting attitude
• An ability to think outside of the box, and thrive on new challenges

To qualify for this role you must have

• A strong academic record including a bachelor's degree and a minimum of 8 years’ experience in industry or with a recognized consulting firm
• Professional designation and/or qualification is desired i.e. Degree in Business/Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent
• Experience with minimum 5-7 years of Tagetik implementation experience
• Additional consulting or industry experience with some mix of Oracle EPM, Oracle Hyperion, Anaplan, OneStream, or other complex EPM platforms
• Prior experience gathering business requirements and translating those to help design a solution
• Previous experience leading full-cycle EPM/CPM implementations
• Experience with VB.net
• Experience with data integration between different systems/sources
• Knowledge and experience in several the following areas: finance transformation; financial close and consolidation; process transformation and improvement; planning, budgeting and forecasting; performance measurement and performance management; business performance reporting; cost reduction; shared service centers and business process outsourcing
• Ability to translate current customer spreadsheet or other financial systems to effective and efficient Tagetik application
• Subject matter expertise in Financial Close and Consolidation, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), and Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) implementation
• Deep understanding of accounting processes, including account reconciliations, intercompany eliminations, currency translation, allocations, and top-side adjustments

What we offer

We offer a competitive compensation package where you’ll be rewarded based on performance and recognized for the value you bring. Our total rewards package includes a comprehensive medical, prescription drug and dental coverage, a contribution pension plan, a great vacation policy, firm paid days, statutory holidays and paid personal days (based on province of residence), and a range of exciting programs/benefits designed to support physical, financial and well-being. Plus, 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 e be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for how you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people, and society and build trust in the capital markets.