Our finance practice

Our finance practice sits within our wider consulting team and is growing significantly due to client organisations need to address infrastructure weaknesses and adapt to the changing market environment. Consequently, we are seeing our clients undertaking a wide range of projects.

As a finance assistant manager, you will work with our managers and senior managers to deliver exceptional service for our MENA clients. As you deliver exceptional client service, you’ll have the opportunity to address some of the biggest issues facing MENA organisations today – supported by structured learning and development.

With a network stretching across the world, the projects you work on will cross borders and sectors, providing unrivalled experience. So, whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime.

Your key responsibilities

As a senior consultant / assistant manager you will work with leading organizations in MENA to assist them manage their finance functions to drive efficiency and provide better financial insight. This is about changing the role of finance from transactional processing to supporting the business make better decisions.

Skills and attributes for success

• Support the development and implementation of financial analysis and reporting methodologies.
• Perform in-depth financial analysis to support decision-making for client senior management.
• Experience in public financial management covering budget preparation and execution, revenue assurance and cost optimization areas.
• Work with cross-functional teams to gather insights for financial analysis and recommendations.
• Support the client in the annual budgeting process and provide ongoing budget analysis.
• Knowledge in process optimization across Procure-To-Pay (PTP), Order-To-Cash (OTC), and Record-To-Report (RTR).
• Ability to assess and incorporate AI and advanced analytics solutions into finance transformation initiatives, particularly to enhance cost management, process optimization, and decision-making capabilities.
• Good understanding in digital finance and ERP implementation methodologies through proven experience of SAP or Oracle implementation projects, including BRDs, designing processes as per the ERP standard process, understanding key modules and standard functionalities.
• Solid experience in preparing and designing dashboards using tools like Power BI or Tableau to visualize key metrics and support clients in generating and designing financial reports and dashboards.
• Prepare, deliver and present high-quality PowerPoint presentations to communicate financial insights and recommendations to client senior management.
• Willingness to travel across MENA on a regular basis for client services.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Approximately 3 to 4 years of recent relevant finance transformation and financial planning work experience in a leading business consulting organization or accounting organization.
• Hands-on experience on major finance transformation and financial planning.
• Knowledge of financial planning process, transactions and tools.
• Skills in delivering high-quality PowerPoint presentations.
• High level of drive, commitment to achieving solutions and ability to work under pressure.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• A bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting.
• Accounting/Finance qualifications/certifications (ACA, ACMA, ACCA, CPA, CFA etc.).
• Willingness to travel extensively across the region.

What we look for

You’ll be a trusted business consultant to our clients with a strong finance background. You will have strong understanding of finance transformation across finance function.

What we offer

We offer a competitive compensation package where you’ll be rewarded based on performance and recognized for the value you bring to our business. Plus, we offer:

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

The exceptional EY experience. It’s yours to build.

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