FSO, BCF Financial Transformation Senior 1

This position could be located in: NY (primary), NC, TX, IL, VA.

EY is a leader in serving the global financial services marketplace and the only professional services firm with a separate business unit dedicated to the financial services industry – the Financial Services Organization (FSO). Our focused model and bold ambition have put us at the center of the events that continue to reshape and redefine our industry, working side by side with a range of clients from our most venerable institutions to dynamic new entrants across Banking and Capital Markets, Wealth and Asset Management, Insurance, and Real Estate, Hospitality and Construction. Our purpose is to help build a financial services industry in which financial institutions are trusted and flourish, and the global economy is healthy, growing and secure. If you have a passion for rallying together to solve complex challenges, then come join our dynamic FSO team!

The opportunity

Recognizing the changing and fast-paced professional landscape, you will work with our clients to enhance their sourcing, procurement, vendor management and spend management capabilities through digital technologies. You will support client teams and engagement leadership to bring our broad range of capabilities and insights to enhance the role and effectiveness of the finance and operations function. You will work collaboratively with colleagues in Business, Technology, Strategy and Risk to execute on our latest solutions to not only improve operational efficiencies, but to enhance the changing roles of the CFO and CPO indispensable partners tasked with providing better business insights, profitability and performance measurement.
 

Your Key Responsibilities

• Support client engagement teams at a wide variety of clients to deliver digital procurement and finance transformations
• Represent our Procurement and Finance Services portfolio with a focus on Digital Transformation, Process Reengineering and GenAI
• Support business development activities and establish strong client relationships at several Global and strategic accounts.
• Serve in an execution role to deliver our latest solutions and capabilities including operational improvement, profitability management, finance function activities and business integration.
• Advise clients on a variety of business process issues that help identify, assess, manage and measure the organization's capabilities. Use business process, organizational and technology capabilities and knowledge across several of the following focus areas

Skills and attributes for success

• Demonstrate in-depth procurement knowledge in one or more of the following areas: sourcing, contract management, purchasing, vendor management, spend management and accounts payable
• Good knowledge across various business verticals such as Finance, HR, etc.
• Ability to understand and translate business requirements with strong process flows, process mapping, and end-to-end orchestration. Process reengineering experience is a strong plus.
• Ability to clearly understand and define the client’s problem statement, pain points, and areas of process inefficiencies
• Ability to understand business needs and bridge them with technology solutions
• Strong technical knowledge of integrations and APIs and understanding of GenAI scenarios
• Demonstrate ability to quickly learn new processes and uncover new offering that may assist current customer base.  
• Provide mentoring and motivate diverse client engagement teams by delivering constructive on-the-job coaching to team members, while fostering an innovative and inclusive team-oriented work environment.
• Drive high-quality work within expected timeframes and on budget. Monitor progress, manage risk and ensure clients are kept informed about progress and expected outcomes.
• Build relationships with client personnel and deliver quality client services. Strive to assist our clients uncover additional areas of opportunity and manage the business development process. 
• Understand EY and its service lines and actively assess what the firm can deliver to serve clients.

To qualify for the role you must have

• A bachelor's degree and at least 3 years working for a top tier consulting firm, or being part of a transformation at a large enterprise
• At least 3 years of experience being part of procurement transformations, finance transformations or technology implementation ideally in market leading solutions e.g. Ariba, Fieldglass, Concur, Coupa, Zip, etc.
• Strong written and verbal communication, presentation, client service and technical writing skills
• Knowledge of leading practices, benchmarking, peer company environments and prior consulting experience relevant to process transformations and implementations in sourcing, procurement, contract management or vendor management
• Experience managing multiple business stakeholders as part of the internal fulfillment of the procurement function

 Ideally, you’ll also have

• A bachelor’s degree, or a master’s degree focusing on engineering, supply chain, finance, and/ or business, or similar recent business consulting experience
• Experience with at least one full cycle implementation of Ariba, Fieldglass, Concur, Coupa, ZIP, Zycus or other procurement or finance SaaS based solutions
• Experience with GenAI, advanced analytics, or integration in finance or procurement fields

What we look for

We are looking for the next generation of outstanding leaders to continue our legacy.  Our top performers in the past have demonstrated deep knowledge of the financial services marketplace, strong analytical and problem solving skills, and an ability to adapt and collaborate in changing circumstances.  If you are someone who has an appetite to stay abreast of current business and industry trends, develop in-depth technical capabilities and professional knowledge and demonstrate the ability to assimilate new knowledge, then this role is for you.

• 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 be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.