Senior Manager - Business Consulting - Finance Ernst & Young AE

The opportunity

We are looking for a Senior Manager to join our team at the start of an exciting growth curve in the MENA region. We re looking for people with enthusiasm to truly add value to clients, as well as ambition and potential to grow with us.

Your key responsibilities

As a member of the Business Consulting team, you ll help the world s leading organizations and government entities improve their performance in a rapidly changing environment with adequate enablement of finance transformation and technologies. You ll be part of multidisciplinary teams, bringing diverse perspectives to every challenge. You will also take the lead in developing and growing our business and client network, building relationships with our clients key stakeholders and contributing to the overall revenue generation efforts of the consulting wide organization.

Skills and Attributes for success

You should have Consulting experience in Finance Transformation, within the public sector domain/industry:

• Ability to lead projects and team members to drive clients finance transformation agenda.
• Understand market trends, clients needs and the ability to translate them into transformative solutions.
• Drive the finance transformation agenda while enhancing on how finance works cross functionally as part of an extended ecosystem to enable new business models and value creation
• Improve data and analytics capabilities to transform forecasting, risk management, and understanding of value drivers
• Take strategic decisions on what will be sourced, recruited, retained, and/or developed/upskilled to transform finance talent into a sustainable workforce
• Drive finance function operating model and skill set utilizing a best in class model of internal and partner resources/ assets
• Optimize finance function costs through new technologies, and automation
• Optimize usage of Global Business Services (GBS) infrastructure, outsourcing, and SSC s
• Process optimization across Procure-To-Pay (PTP), Order-To-Cash (OTC), and Record-To-Report (RTR)
• Leverage Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) to budget for and plan using appropriate technology
• Deep knowledge of Digital Finance latest trends and solutions
• Proven experience in leading teams to deliver high quality deliverables for key engagements / clients within various sectors; Government /Energy / Utilities sectors.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• 8-12 years of relevant working experience
• Experience as a consultant working with government sector clients
• MENA based experience (preferred)
• Strong People Management and Leadership Skills
• Effective communication and presentation skills
• Ability to generate business deals and make business proposals
• Develop and maintain relationship at C-suite level

Ideally, you ll also have

• A Master s Degree and/or CIMA, ACA, ACCA, CPA, CA professional qualifications
• Willingness to travel extensively across the region

What we look for

Highly motivated individuals with excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to prioritize shifting workloads in a rapidly changing industry. An effective communicator, you ll be a confident leader equipped with strong people management skills and a genuine passion to make things happen in a dynamic organization.