Technology Enablement - Manager - Finance and Performance Management - 00GP0

Ernst & Young's Financial Services Office (FSO) is a unique, industry-focused business unit that provides a broad range of integrated services that leverage deep industry experience with strong functional capability and product knowledge. FSO's Risk Advisory Services (RAS) practice provides integrated advisory services to financial institutions and other capital markets participants, including commercial banks, investment banks, broker-dealers, asset managers (traditional and alternative), insurance and energy trading companies, and other organizations. The service offerings provided by the RAS practice include: market, credit and operational risk management, regulatory advisory, quantitative advisory, structured finance transaction, actuarial advisory, technology enablement, risk and security, program advisory, and process & controls. The RAS team includes individuals who have deep industry, product and client knowledge. We currently have a career opportunity for an individual in FSO's Technology Enablement group. The individual will work directly with clients to transform their business problems into technology solutions. The goal is to support our clients' efforts to make their business units more effective and efficient and, where required, provide services in connection with the remediation and mitigation of process risk. Our experience is also important to the analysis of specific business requirements for alignment with technology architecture, technology infrastructure design, and vendor selection decisions that support the finance organizations of our clients. This position falls within our Technology Enablement Finance and Performance Management team, which helps our clients enhance the operating effectiveness of the finance and operations functions by assisting them as they shift their emphasis from transaction-level control, processing and reporting to more value driven, decision support and analytics. Responsibilities Manage project teams through all phases of the technology enablement life cycle. Lend specific subject matter knowledge to the design and integration phase of each project, helping to give specificity to the appropriate architecture, data model, and system design and interfacing requirements. Advise clients on a variety of business process services 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:Finance Strategy (Vision, Mission, Guiding Principles) Enterprise Data Management/Reference Data Management Financial Accounting and Reporting Operations/Technology Reinsurance Accounting and Reporting Operations/Technology Budgeting, Planning and Forecasting Operations/Technology Performance Management and Measurement (KPIs, business driver-based metrics) General Ledger/ERP Systems Features/Functionality Data Warehousing Features/Functionality Statutory Reporting Systems Features/Functionality Enterprise Technology Expense Reduction Team with client technology professionals, and/or third-party strategic alliances to provide implementation of technology solutions. Participate in engagement management, engagement execution and reporting, and client relationship building and management.To qualify, candidates must have:A Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, accounting, finance or a related field (MBA or MS degree preferred) A minimum of five (5) years of relevant experience at a financial services company or comparable experience working as an advisor to a financial services company. We will consider candidates with four (4) years of relevant experience if they possess an advanced degree. Demonstrated ability to manage and supervise a team of technology advisors through all phases of the technology life cycle, including requirements definition, architecture design, conversion and testing Strong written and verbal communication, presentation, client service and technical writing skills, coupled with a strong interest in further developing and integrating operations with technology skills Ability and comfort level researching client inquiries and emerging issues, including regulations, industry practices, and new technologies Experience in any of the following areas:Definition of business and technical requirements Design of business and technology architectureSystem selection and implementation supportData mapping and conversionProof of conceptQuality assurance and testingBusiness and IT process reengineeringProgram/project management and implementation planning (PMO)Previous Project experiences in:Finance transformation & accelerated close Sub-ledger/ledger redesign Management reporting enhancement Business intelligence/decision support Traded products/front/back office package implementation Data warehousing/enterprise data design & management Enterprise application integration Financial planning, budgeting and forecasting Business/Merger Integration Reconciliation redesign or improvement Previous Application/Package experience in any of the following: Business Objects Cartesis Clarity Cognos Hyperion Oracle Financials Peoplesoft Financials SunGard financial packages Intellimatch Smart Steam Willingness and ability to travel approximately 50%-70%The successful candidate should possess strong knowledge of and experience in supervising and executing all phases of the technology life cycle, based on proven project management and testing methodologies. It is essential that the successful candidate possess a deep knowledge of technical architecture design and have a good understanding of technology tools and components to reasonably argue for and against all components (middleware, database, reporting tools, etc.) in financial systems architecture. NY-New York