Senior Project Consultant - Business Consulting PI - TMT - CNS - BC - Finance - Pune

Requisition Id : 1590798

As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, we hire and develop the most passionate people in their field to help build a better working world. This starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities and creative freedom. At EY, we don't just focus on who you are now, but who you can become. We believe that it’s your career and ‘It’s yours to build’ which means potential here is limitless and we'll provide you with motivating and fulfilling experiences throughout your career to help you on the path to becoming your best professional self.

The opportunity : Senior Project Consultant-FP&A - FTE- Pune

TMT :

Industry convergence offers TMT (Technology, Media & Entertainment, and Telecommunications) organizations the chance to evolve and transform, but it also presents challenges around competitiveness and delivering agile corporate strategies for growth. 

We help TMT companies create compelling employee and customer experiences, retaining skills and talent while achieving enterprise-wide operational excellence. We help them guard their data, brand and reputation. We also enable the pursuit of M&A strategies that methodically create value, reduce risk and transform TMT companies into powerhouses that will lead the technology revolution of the future – building a better working world for all.

CNS - BC - Finance :

EY Consulting is building a better working world by transforming businesses through the power of people, technology and innovation. Our client-centric approach focuses on driving long-term value for our clients by solving their most strategic problems. EY Consulting is made up of three sub-service lines: Business Consulting (including Performance Improvement and Risk Consulting), Technology Consulting and People Advisory Services. 

Business Consulting works with clients to reimagine or transform their business purpose and model; create growth; manage cost and efficiency; respond to market pressures and regulation; and resolve operational challenges. The scope of this team encompasses innovation, strategy and purpose, through deep functional experience in business transformation, finance, supply chain and operations, providing support for the complex and large-scale program and portfolio management.

It has multiple fields of play such as:

Finance Consulting - helps assess and transform our clients' finance function to improve performance and effectiveness. We help organizations implement service and cost improvement initiatives, and embed a performance management process and culture that unites the business around its core objectives.

Business Transformation - a m?ultidisciplinary competency, gathering capabilities in transformation architecture, experience design, business design and transformation execution to problem-solve, design and deliver large scale, multi-year, multi-stakeholder transformation programs.

Supply Chain and Operations - we provide a unique combination of industry-specific, strategic, operational and financial insights, digital technology advances and strategic alliance partners to deliver better outcomes and also help clients effect fundamental change in their operations’ performance to support sales growth, become more cost competitive, minimize risk and ensure operational resilience.

The role is responsible for operating the business performance management agenda including support for core FP&A processes (GFO, GFR, Plan), rigorous cost control, deep dive into performance analysis and understanding of business context for the respective business area. The role needs to maintain a proactive business partnering relationship between finance and business teams, providing them with financial and commercial support and insights, and supporting compliance submission, commercial analysis and economic modelling. Key Roles & Responsibilities: List up to 6 key roles and responsibilities of this job. 1. Business Partnering and Performance Insights  Establish & maintain a proactive business partnering relationship with the relevant stakeholders to ensure underlying performance is well understood, proactively challenge and propose performance improvements, monitor and investigate anomalies & trends  Manage and coordinate the GFO cycle and engage with stakeholders on the input assumptions and outputs  Analyses and interprets actuals  Support the Performance Management agenda for the entities in scope, ensuring robust & timely forecasts and deliver MI analysis and commentary for the leadership team  Ensure that all inputs into the Planning Process are consistent and provide a reasonable view of future delivery  Provide relevant support to coordinate preparation of material for other strategic presentations for executive reviews 2. Strategy & Planning  Support the annual planning process, ensuring plans are appropriately challenged and assured  Produce detailed forecasts, drawing insights and highlighting areas where performance targets are not being met  Submit plan/forecast data into relevant cost management systems and ensure data quality in the submissions  Support ad-hoc and strategic business decisions understanding the implications balancing risk and reward  Participate in projects and provide financial insight 3. Performance Reporting  Responsible for running the business performance reporting activities  Responsible for providing timely, accurate and reliable financial and management information  Explain the underlying delivery of actuals vs. forecasts on a monthly/quarterly basis and update in-year outlook  Support business performance conversations with the leadership team  Continue to support stakeholders ensuring that reporting meets business needs to support decision making  Maintain and apply economic models to support business decisions. Use economic models to perform accurate analysis that provide insight, provide results to the vital partners and influence decisions  Systematically identify and address continuous improvement opportunities  Operate business specific non-routine processes. 4. Risk, Control, Compliance, Accounting & Reporting  Monitor the overall accuracy of reporting, ensuring financials are compliant with Group policies  Maintain a strong internal control environment, complying with EY Policies and Procedures  Interface with ARC and embedded finance to ensure compliance, data completeness and integrity.  Actively identifies requirements for additional process and systems controls and escalates or responds appropriately.  Challenges non-compliance or areas of weakness identified and investigates route cause.  Support to Due Diligence and Business assurance of actual for LRA. Support SEA, financial reporting & stats

What we look for

People with the ability to work in a collaborative manner to provide services across multiple client departments while following the commercial and legal requirements. You will need a practical approach to solving issues and complex problems with the ability to deliver insightful and practical solutions. We look for people who are agile, curious, mindful and able to sustain postivie energy, while being adaptable and creative in their approach. 

What we offer

With more than 200,000 clients, 300,000 people globally and 33,000 people in India, EY has become the strongest brand and the most attractive employer in our field, with market-leading growth over compete. Our people work side-by-side with market-leading entrepreneurs, game- changers, disruptors and visionaries. As an organisation, we are investing more time, technology and money, than ever before in skills and learning for our people. At EY, you will have a personalized Career Journey and also the chance to tap into the resources of our career frameworks to better know about your roles, skills and opportunities.

EY is equally committed to being an inclusive employer and we strive to achieve the right balance for our people - enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing our people to build their career as well as focus on their wellbeing.

If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

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