EY Global SL CoE - Finance Assistant Director GDS 

Philippines, Taguig 

783299574

It will be managed as a separate autonomous Region, with their own P&L, management and enablement structure and reporting directly to Global SL Deputy Vice Chair and Governance Boards.

• Provide FP&A support to the CoE including planning, financial controllership, modelling and analysis to support business planning, interpret performance and facilitate operational decision-making
• Working alongside the CoE Financial Controller and the Business by sharing and interpreting this information that will help to improve business performance
• Analyze and present complex financial and non-financial data in a way that is easily understandable to inform strategic decisions and provide insights into business performance. Pro-actively suggest ways to solve problems and to display presentations. Develop and support the delivery of presentations that engage audiences, responding to questions and concerns arising
• Working with the Financial Controllers on month/year end process - analyzing and understanding operating statements, preparing accruals and pre-payments
• You will be responsible for the weekly and monthly financial close activities – analyzing results, ensuring costs are accurate and reporting to the respective businesses and leadership
• Financial management of Strategic SL projects operated through the CoE, preparing plans, managing actuals to plan and providing detailed variance analysis• Respond to requests from Finance and SL Leadership to answer specific ad hoc financial questions and provide insightful information to advance leadership discussions and decision making. This will require the ability to model projections, identify trends and issues that need to be analysed and understood
• Implement global financial planning approaches that will facilitate the achievement of strategic and operational goals. Utilize the planning process and related communications to achieve alignment of priorities; analyze and challenge Plans, highlighting key issues, opportunities and provide remedial recommendations
• Budgeting and Forecasting – supporting the SL Leadership and CoE Financial Controllers to prepare annual plans and half-yearly forecasts
• Overseeing the working capital management for your portfolio
• Harness financial technology tools and digitalization to innovate and modernize the finance function, delivering best in class support for the business and thus facilitating enhanced real-time reporting and analysis (e.g. automation, AI)
• Building relationships and working with, the individual Super Region finance teams as well as the Global SL CFOs

• Global, Area or multi-country EY finance experience
• Extensive knowledge of and practical experience of EY’s FP&A activities – financial management and financial planning
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyse, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy.
• A proven experience in a strategy, analytics, or business modelling role.
• Detailed oriented as well as high-quality and consistency standards
• Credibility and confidence to challenge and propose better ways of doing things, build bridges and harmonize divergent interests and priorities.
• Advanced EY reporting tool skills is useful (e.g., FR/Markets/Revenue Analyzer/Ah hoc cubes, ThoughtSpot, etc.)
• Advanced Excel skills, with ability to manipulate and draw trends from vast amounts of data as well as for sensitivity analysis and scenario modeling
• Proficient in using AI tools for data mining, trend analysis, and predictive modelling.
• Strong problem-solving skills and business acumen including ability to develop best in class solutions and recommendations.
• Highly team-oriented approach, with flexibility regarding tasks undertaken and the ability to prioritize a number of conflicting demands to meet exacting deadlines
• Very strong project management, communication and modernization skills
• Ability to communicate financial information across a wide range of stakeholders (both withing finance and across the Tax practice)
• Confident and able to build strong relationships at management/partner levels
• Commercial approach and ability to demonstrate clear business understanding
• Advanced PowerPoint skills, with ability to summarize clearly and succinctly for leadership what insights and observations are being recommended for leadership materials that is easy to read and understand by a combination of taglines, comments, and data visualization.
• Written and oral fluency in English required

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