Government and Public Sector - Finance - Senior Manager

EY focuses on high-ethical standards and integrity among its employees and expects all candidates to demonstrate these qualities.  At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.  

From strategy to execution, the Government & Public Sector practice of Ernst & Young LLP provides a full range of consulting and audit services to help our Federal, State, Local and Education clients implement new ideas to help achieve their mission outcomes. We deliver real change and measurable results through our diverse, high-performing teams, quality work at the highest professional standards, operational know-how from across our global organization, and creative and bold ideas that drive innovation. We enable our government clients to achieve their mission of protecting the nation and serving the people; increasing public safety; improving healthcare for our military, veterans and citizens; delivering essential public services; and helping those in need. EY is ready to help our government build a better working world.  

 

The opportunity 

 

This is a unique, entrepreneurial opportunity to actively build a larger practice. As part of our US GPS team, you will join a talented group of professionals to help governments and public sector organizations improve planning, budgetary and financial performance, and to meet public transparency and accountability requirements. 

 

Your key responsibilities 

As one of our finance leaders, you'll help crucial state and local government departments and agencies continuously achieve and sustain performance improvement in a rapidly changing environment. Your role as a Senior Manager will focus on leading and delivering of client engagements, interacting at an executive level, as well as sales and practice development activities. In this role you could sell, deliver and manage finance transformation projects in these areas:

• Finance strategy development
• Finance operating model design
• Finance processes improvement
• Shared services and global business services design and implementation
• Outsourcing advisory
• Financial planning and analysis (FP&A)
• Finance systems (e.g., SAP), robotics, and intelligent automation
• Financial close, consolidation and reporting
• Cost management and profitability analysis
• Order-to-cash, procure-to-pay and record-to-report processes
• Additional responsibilities of the position include:
• Participating in and leading Finance engagements, including ERP implementations
• Managing financial, risk and quality aspects of client engagements
• Communicating issues, status and thought leadership to partners and clients
• Building relationships with external clients and internal peers to generate new business opportunities
• Understanding EY service offerings and providing subject-matter insight to bids, proposals, and service delivery execution
• Building, managing and motivating high-performing teams, including supporting people-related initiatives (e.g., recruitment, retention, training, competency development)
• Developing people through effective supervision, coaching, mentoring and performance assessment of all levels of staff
• Understanding and communicating workplace policies, procedures and practices to all levels of staff. 

Skills and attributes for Success 

 

Key capabilities that you should be prepared to bring to client-facing and internal teams include:

• Entrepreneurial mindset – be excited about, and energized by, being part of building a larger practice
• Demonstration of working knowledge and aptitude in some of our key capabilities. (e.g. quality and risk management, technical operations, project management)
• Encouragement and facilitation of collaboration among team members; promoting an inclusive environment
• Effective organization and time management skills, with the ability to multitask and adhere to project deadlines
• Ability to lead certain client projects from planning through to execution
• Contributions to business development and client pursuit activities by preparing proposals, marketing presentations for potential clients and thought leadership brochures
• Strong communication skills, translating into the ability to communicate issues, status, and thought leadership effectively to partners and clients
• Ability to build impactful relationships with key influencers to effectively manage work and generate new business opportunities