Senior Associate - Finance Business Advisor -Oceania

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. 

Finance Business Advisor, Finance, Manila

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

The opportunity

The Finance Business Advisor plays a key role advising and supporting our client-serving engagement teams to make the best use of Mercury - EY’s SAP system - and its processes in order to effectively manage their projects with EY’s external clients. 
The Finance Business Advisor is a finance professional with the end-to-end system, process, and policy knowledge who provides the right advice when it is needed, and partners with other functions to address the issues facing the business.
This is a permanent full-time role based in our office at McKinley West, Taguig City, Philippines.

Your key responsibilities

    The Finance business advisor provides end-to-end opportunity and engagement lifecycle advice to partners and client-facing engagement teams. There are two main components to this role:
1.    providing on-demand financial advisory support to engagement teams through a variety of ways (phone or email); and
2.    proactive outreach to engagement teams that have been identified as needing intervention through analytical review and exceptions reporting.

    Finance Business Advisors are expected to:
•    Have a good understanding of engagement economics, and to use strong analytical skills to determine the partners/engagement teams in need of outreach
•    Review queries from client servers, prioritize follow up activities and schedule engagement team meetings
•    Spend time taking calls from client servers, which could include activities such as:
-    reviewing pricing plans
-    advising on the optimum resourcing mix on engagements, including use of GDS (offshore resources), and
-    providing instruction and guidance on estimate-to-complete (ETC) processes and corresponding financial impacts. 
•    Provide guidance on local policy and practices
•    Facilitate training for client serving teams on Mercury and effective financial management practices.

    While overtime is not a requirement, individuals in this role are expected to recognize when extra effort/time is needed to produce optimal outcomes and manage the situation accordingly, working with peers and supervisors to balance workloads as necessary.

Skills and attributes for success

•    Fluent and effective communication style in English (C2 level)
•    Two years’ experience in a professional services environment in a financial/business capacity. Management accounting experience is beneficial but not essential.
•    A Bachelor of Business, Diploma in Accounting or equivalent qualification is desirable (but not essential).
•    Intermediate proficiency in MS Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Outlook and Internet Explorer
•    A strong ability to learn quickly and share knowledge, combined with the ability to apply judgement and seek guidance when appropriate.
•    Strong listening, communication and partnering skills with people of all levels of the firm. 

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