Assurance - FAAS - Finance Optimisation - Manager - Reading or Manchester
Employer Location Manchester, GB; Reading, GB Salary Competitive Closing date 19 Dec 2025 View more categoriesView less categories Sector Salary band Hours Where will they be working You need to or to save a job.
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UKI Assurance - FAAS - Finance Optimisation - Manager - Reading or Manchester
The opportunity
Are you an Accountant or Finance professional that enjoys solving complex problems using innovative and new solutions?
The world around us is changing, through Generative AI transforming our daily work, and a changing macroeconomic climate. Our clients are going through significant change as a result of new compliance requirements, transformation and business needs.
Our Finance Optimisation team within our Financial Accounting Advisory Services (FAAS) practice supports CFO and finance functions in navigating through and solving complex Accounting, Finance & Reporting challenges through better use of policies, processes, data and technology- enabling Finance functions to deliver value to the business.
Your key responsibilities:
We are recruiting for a Manager within the team who is confident in navigating unstructured, changing dynamics and relishes the use of innovative new solutions and technologies in solving problems.
As a Manager you will be offering valuable insight and advice to clients in supporting them in making strategic and operational decisions about their businesses.
Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:
1. Manage end-to-end delivery of projects (physical and virtual), assessing engagement risks and opportunities, driving the right outcomes for our clients
2. Develop exceptional reports & presentations (PowerPoint, Word, etc.) for project deliverables, capturing problem statements and solutions/ recommendations for our clients
3. Manage internal financial, quality and risk management on client projects
4. Manage your own and FAAS team's development of functional and technical skills by establishing a culture of highest performing teams and inclusive behaviours
5. Manage and lead business development activities for new and existing clients, developing the delivery of high-quality proposals
6. Build strong internal and external networks to bring collaboration for EY clients
7. Create an environment that encourages and drives innovation based on experience with the client, market, service line, functional group and EY
To qualify for the role, you must have:
8. An accountancy qualification (, ACA, CPA, ACCA, CIMA) or equivalent
9. Financial Reporting and/or an Assurance/audit background
10. Extensive experience working in assurance, consulting or transformational roles within Big 4, Consulting firms, and/or industry
11. Experience in one or more of the below:
12. Accounting, Finance and Reporting related processes gained through Big 4, Consulting or industry environment ,:
13. Record-to-Report (R2R), Financial & Non-financial Reporting
14. Financial Close, Consolidation and Reporting
15. Experience in Business and Finance Transformation & Change programmes; managing senior stakeholders across Finance and the business, identifying improvement/optimisation opportunities and enabling and influencing client decision-making
16. Process, Risks and Controls design, implementation and testing experience over Financial, Operational and Reporting processes using leading practice frameworks (, COSO, SOx)
17. Data analytics, including utilisation of technology to be able to automate extraction, preparation and presentation of information to present to senior stakeholders, including use of data warehousing, ETL and visualisation solutions
18. Finance systems application design, build and implementation, ERP (, SAP, Oracle), EPM (, SAC, CCH Tagetik) and/or other reporting automation solutions (, BlackLine)
Other relevant experience may include whilst not limited to:
19. Accounting and Regulatory change (, Corporate Reform, SOx)
20. Experience of Finance Data and architecture including general ledger, subledgers, master data structures, data objects etc.
21. Experience of wider finance related processes including elements within Order-to-Cash (O2C), Procure-to-Pay (P2P) and Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
22. Experience of non-financial reporting, including ESG reporting and relevant regulatory frameworks
23. Internal finance function experience in Financial Reporting roles
What we look for
We're interested in leaders with a genuine creative vision and the confidence to make it happen. You can expect plenty of autonomy in this role, so you'll also need the ability to take initiative and seek out opportunities to improve our current relationships and processes. If you're serious about your career with us and ready to take on some of our clients' most complex issues, this role is for you.
What we offer
EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we will consider flexible working arrangements. We strive to achieve the right balance for our people, enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career. Our client-facing professionals are required to travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites.
We offer a competitive remuneration package. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:
24. Continuous learning: You'll develop the mindset and skills to navigate your career
25. Success as defined by you: We'll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact.
26. Transformative leadership:We'll give youtheinsights, coaching and confidence to be a leader.
27. Diverse and inclusive culture: You'll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.
If you can demonstrate that you fully meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.
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Please note: Prior to finalizing your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and information you provide is kept entirely confidential and will not be used to evaluate your collect this data to help us analyse our recruitment process holistically and implement actions that promote diversity and inclusiveness. While optional, we encourage you to provide this information to hold us accountable towards our goal of building a better working ask because it matters!
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