FSO, BCF Financial Transformation, Senior Manager (ERP Financial Close)

This position could be located in NY (primary), VA, NC, IL.

EY is a leader in serving the global financial services marketplace and the only professional services firm with a separate business unit dedicated to the financial services industry – the Financial Services Organization (FSO). Our focused model and bold ambition have put us at the center of the events that continue to reshape and redefine our industry, working side by side with a range of clients from our most venerable institutions to dynamic new entrants across Banking and Capital Markets, Wealth and Asset Management and Insurance. Our purpose is to help build a financial services industry in which financial institutions are trusted and flourish, and the global economy is healthy, growing and secure. If you have a passion for rallying together to solve complex challenges, then come join our dynamic FSO team!

The opportunity

Recognizing the changing and fast-paced professional landscape, you will work with our clients to better align their operating infrastructures within their business strategies. You will support client teams and engagement leadership to bring our broad range of capabilities and insights to enhance the role and effectiveness of the finance and operations function. You will work collaboratively with colleagues in Technology, Strategy and Risk to execute on our latest solutions to not only improve operational efficiencies, but to enhance the changing role of the CFO as an indispensable partner tasked with providing better business insights, profitability and performance measurement.

Your key responsibilities

• Support client engagement teams at a wide variety of clients to deliver professional services, and participate in business development activities on strategic and global priority financial services accounts.
• Serve in an execution role to deliver our latest solutions and capabilities including improved and automated financial close and consolidation related processes.
• Advise clients on a variety of financial close and consolidation related business process issues that help identify, assess, manage and measure the organization's capabilities. Use business process, organizational and technology capabilities and knowledge across several of the following focus areas:
  • • Financial close, consolidation and controllership activities
    • Intercompany elimination processes
    • FX revaluation and FX management
    • Transfer pricing allocations
    • Chart of accounts design
    • Subledger processes e.g., A/R, A/P, Fixed Assets, Project Accounting
    • GAAP vs IFRS and localization accounting processes
    • Secondary ledger designs
    • SEC and localized regulatory reporting of financial statements
    • Reporting processes
    • SOX and control models
    • Reconciliation processes related to the financial close and controllership activities
    • Financial close a