Core Financial Accounting Advisory Services - Senior

Location: Atlanta, New York, Boston, Houston, Dallas, Chicago, Denver 

 

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence. 

 

We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go.  Join EY and help to build a better working world.

 

When our clients are facing accounting and financial data challenges, they look to us to set it right. Whether a system conversion has been miscalculated or they simply don’t have the knowledge in the right area of accounting, we provide the answers to the big questions nobody else can. Join our team and you will be able to provide insight and services that accelerate analytics, data integrity and quality increasing the reliability our clients reporting capabilities. 

 

The opportunity 

 

Our Financial Accounting Advisory Services (FAAS) team is growing exponentially, and as a Senior focused on financial analytics, you’ll play a key role in that growth. Working across all industries and interacting with our clients, you’ll develop your career by communicating and providing expertise around data integrity that can provide improved insight within the accounting, finance, governance, and regulatory space. It’s all about understanding the business processes and data flow to provide a truly exceptional experience for our clients. 

 

Your key responsibilities 

 

The nature of this role means that you will be recognized as a primary day-to-day contact for our clients. That means you’ll need to understand how our client’s data integrity and quality allow for more reliable reporting.  You’ll also develop your knowledge by learning about current issues, profession, and business developments relevant to the client’s industry, so we’ll look to you to build relationships and expertise with team members.  

 

Skills and attributes for success 

 

• Consulting with clients on data integrity, and improving data quality 
• Acting as a subject matter expert in advising clients to gain greater insight into their data and the value that data analytics can bring to an organization 
• Engaging clients and providing authoritative advice and professionalism throughout transactions 
• Constantly developing your understanding of current market trends and processes and sharing your knowledge to develop junior colleagues 
• Understanding our clients’ unique ambitions and needs and referring them to colleagues in other teams and areas to broaden our business relationships where possible 

 

To qualify for the role you must have 

 

• A bachelor's degree and 3 to 6 years of relevant experience 
• Pursing a certification (PMP, CISA) 
• Must have working experience with ETL (Extract Transfer and Loading of data) 
• Experience with any of the following: statistics, and statistical modeling, operations research, linear regression, optimization, exploratory data mining and data visualization 
• Proven experience within the analytics domain gathering business and technical requirements, solution design, build, testing, and solution deployment 
• Strong technical writing skills and advanced data analytics knowledge 
• A deep understanding of the marketplace, as well as commonly used terminology, processes and tools 
• A proven record of excellence when managing, mentoring and improving a team of high-performing colleagues 
• The confidence to assess risk and provide well thought out solutions 
• The ability and willingness to travel and work in excess of standard hours when necessary
• Access to reliable transportation to/from the EY office and client sites. A driver’s license is strongly recommended as ride share and public transportation options may not be available in all locations

 

Ideally you’ll also have 

 

• A master's degree in Accounting, Economics, Finance, Mathematics or related discipline 
• Experience with data architecture, information governance, data integration, master data management including data capture, reporting & analytics, enterprise content and knowledge management 

 

What we look for 

 

We’re interested in versatile people with the ability to take on new responsibilities a