Manager EPM team AI&Data

EY Technology Consulting – Manager Enterprise Performance Management (EPM)

 

The AI&Data Consulting team is looking for a manager level consultant with a strong experience in EPM project who is able to leverage technology-based solutions to deliver business outcomes, for our clients.

We are looking for an experienced individual who is highly motivated, professional and passionate about what they do, and who will further add to the continued success of our team. 

 

Location 

Based in Milan or Rome but as part of a global organization, the role will involve working with a variety of world-wide client’s cross business sector.

 

Your Responsibilities 

As a manager within our AI&Data team, you will work alongside the senior consultants in driving innovative large-scale EPM implementations, as well as advising clients to support them in strategic and operational decisions about their process activities. You will also support the business development of our area.

 

Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:  

 

• Management of innovative end-to-end EPM implementation projects including business requirements collection, solution design, implementation support, test supervision, business preparation, preparation of training material up to go-live and post-go-live support
• Managing the translation of clients technical and accounting requirements to application configuration in the Enterprise Planning & Budgeting, Financial Consolidation and Close
• Managing business readiness and post-implementation support as per client’s changing requirements post go-live
• Managing onshore and offshore delivery teams including reviewing / challenging outputs produced by team members and providing guidance to junior team members
• Identifying opportunities for new business
• Developing strong internal and external networks for long term relationships, managing EY accounts and bringing firmwide offerings to clients
• Training, coaching, and supervising junior staff
• Aiding business development activities as well as managing the development and delivery of high-quality proposals as part of a bid team

 

Professional Experience

Typical experience may include, whilst not limited to: 

• Significant hands-on consulting experience at a Big 4, major systems integrator or top tier consulting firm or a transformation change role in industry. Exposure to EPM end-to-end implementations.
• Experience of working within the Finance or Accounts department with good understanding of the Planning & Budgeting and Financial consolidation & Cost processes
• Hands on exposure and experience to EPM program delivery using the prevailing EPM cloud solutions (Oracle, Anaplan, Tagetik, Onestream, Adaptive Insights etc)
• Experience in managing clients for roll-out of EPM systems implementation including analysis, design, implementation, testing and support models

 

EPM specific skills 

• Strong ability to lead the definition and resolution of key EPM specific design decisions 
• Providing key insights and challenges for KPI reviews and data visualization
• Significant exposure to Chart of Accounts & Data Model Design 
• Demonstrate proven expertise in review of functional and technical designs against business requirements and provide challenges where relevant 

 

Consulting Skills 

• High level of drive, commitment to achieving solutions and ability to work under pressure 
• Confident and comfortable with uncertainty and ambiguity in a project environment
• Demonstrate leadership expertise across engagement and practice teams
• Always display excellent communication and presentation skills to people across all levels of an organization
• Able to apply logic and problem solving to complex Finance business problems
• Knowledge of the key issues and challenges currently facing CFOs in the financial services sector
• Take personal responsibility for the quality of delivery
• Instill a positive team mentality, even when under pressure, by treating their colleagues well and creating an inclusive culture 
• Extremely comfortable and confident around senior stakeholders, internally and externally   
• Extremely comfortable with Excel and PowerPoint. Much of our work involves detailed analysis and report writing, so it is critical you can work with these tools
• Fluent in English

 

Qualifications

• A first level university degree,
• Technical and program management certification, where relevant.

 What working at EY offers 

• International work e