Government and Public Sector - Assistant Director, Finance Transformation

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Government and Public Sector – Assistant Director, Finance Transformation

 

The opportunity

 

In this role you will play a key role in delivery of Finance Transformation initiatives for EY’s Government & Public Sector (GPS) practice.  Leveraging your strong background in government finance and reorganizations and system launches, you will be relied upon to lead major workstreams of EY’s transformation initiatives.  This may involve integration of acquired firm financials, implementation of financial tools and methodologies, finance process improvement, and other similar initiatives in support of the GPS practice and its growth.  You will work in partnership with a variety of stakeholders across GPS Finance, the GPS business, the broader EY firm finance organization and external consultants.  This role requires a highly consultative approach combined with deep finance experience in the government contracting space.

 

Your key responsibilities

 

• Develop a keen understanding of EY’s firm structure, GPS structure and operating model, and Finance/Accounting roadmap and initiatives.  Influence roadmap adjustments, when needed
• Execute finance and finance technology transformation initiatives, including process redesign, defining business and functional requirements and building capability to manage and maintain systems/processes
• Work closely with vendors and implementation partners to ensure technology solutions meet business expectations, including needs assessments, configuration, testing and go-live support
• Prevent or minimize delays by elevating risks early, highlighting process or application interdependencies with key applications
• Collect and retain project artifacts to support audit requirements
• Partner with GPS Finance functional process owners and application owners to facilitate financial data transfers and automation
• Partner with change management support to accomplish key change objectives for the Finance team, including stakeholder assessment, training and communications efforts
• Maintains a continuous improvement approach to ensure processes and internal controls scale with changes in the GPS practice, technologies, finance and accounting policies, including streamlining of close, audit and reporting activities
• Work with key stakeholders in Finance, IT and Talent to identify future transformation initiatives
• Develop and maintains strong relationships across finance, accounting and other internal services teams
• Advise senior leadership on best-in-class practices and technologies, as well as current market trends impacting finance organizations, ideally in a government contracting environment and working in or adjacent to Deltek Costpoint
• Identify high-impact opportunities to strengthen the Finance team’s capabilities and knowledge base, as the GPS business evolves
• Other duties as assign