Saturday, July 31, 2010

Performance Improvement Manager - Finance Transformation - Financial Services Office at Ernst & Young


Job Description

Being part of a dynamic, growing organization offers an exciting career path full of opportunity. Ernst & Young's Financial Services Office (FSO) is a unique, industry-focused business unit that provides a broad range of integrated services which leverage deep industry experience with strong functional capability and product knowledge. With a client base that includes financial institutions and other capital markets participants, there's tremendous potential for growth - and we're prepared to tap into that potential. Our FSO team takes a strategic approach to helping clients mitigate risk while improving and sustaining their business performance. In today's complex business environment, that means understanding the relationship between risk, the regulatory environment, and performance improvement, and applying our knowledge to help clients achieve their business objectives.

When you're on our FSO team, you specialize in a particular competency - Risk, Performance Improvement, or IT Risk & Assurance - all as part of a world class, cross-functional team. You also have the opportunity to work across disciplines with professionals who have broad financial services industry sector experience and deep subject-matter knowledge. In FSO, our growth strategy focuses on being account-centric, issue-based and competency-driven. That's what differentiates Ernst & Young in the marketplace.

The time is now. If you are interested in being part of a dynamic team, serving clients and reaching your full potential - Ernst & Young's Financial Services Office is for you.

Our Performance Improvement practice within the FSO helps clients better align their organizations' operating infrastructures with their strategies. We have a broad range of capabilities to assist clients with operational improvement, profitability management, finance function activities, and business integration. Our professionals focus on the assessment and redesign of business, risk, and control processes and the refinement of operating models. The goal is to support our clients' efforts to make their business units more effective and efficient and, where required, provide services in connection with the remediation and mitigation of process risk. Our experience is also important to the analysis of specific business requirements for alignment with technology architecture, technology infrastructure design, and vendor selection decisions.

Responsibilities
Develop and maintain productive relationships with client management. Collaborate to plan engagement objectives and a strategy that addresses risk and performance improvement. Manage expectations of service delivery. Stay informed of business/economic developments and their impact to the client.

Demonstrate high levels of technical and professional knowledge and quickly assimilates new knowledge. Keep up-to-date with current developments and trends in advisory services capabilities and industry knowledge.

Deliver quality services. Value and model excellent client service by establishing goals and implementation plans to achieve a high quality deliverables and within expected timeframes and on budget. Monitor progress, manage risk and confirm key stakeholders are kept informed about progress and expected outcomes.

Develop people. Provide constructive on-the-job feedback/training. Foster an innovative and team-oriented work environment.

Commit to developing knowledge, continue to learn and share knowledge with clients and team members. Respect/protect client information.

Generate new business opportunities. Understand Ernst & Young and its service lines and actively assess/present ways to serve clients. Develop long-term client relationships and networks. Develop relationships with other Ernst & Young team members across all practices to serve client needs.

To qualify, candidates must have:
• a bachelor's degree and approximately 5 years of related work experience; or a graduate degree and approximately 4 years of related work experience
• a degree with an emphasis in Finance, Accounting, Economics, and/or Business; MBA and/or CPA is preferred
• approximately 4 years of experience in the financial services industry, providing advisory services in the finance function and other operational areas that impact the finance function (e.g. ; General Ledger Reconciliations, Chart of Accounts Rationalization & Design, Close to Report; Cost Reduction Initiatives, Funds Transfer Pricing, Budgeting and Planning, )
• experience in managing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementations
• demonstrated record in driving revenue within existing clients at the "C" level of Fortune 500 companies
• experience in program management for large scale business transformation projects and programs
• work collaboratively in a team environment (knows when to lead and when to follow)
• experience managing staff on multiple projects and providing direction to team members
• willingness to travel 50%

History of achievement and clear above and beyond behavior by demonstrating the following:

• a high level of motivation and a self starting attitude
• excellent oral and written communication skills
• strong analytical and problem solving skills
• creative problem solving skills
• a strong work ethic
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