Performance Improvement Senior Manager - IT Advisory ...

JOB DESCRIPTION

Being part of a dynamic, growing organization offers an exciting career path full of opportunity. Ernst & Young Advisory Services is a $4 billion global practice, with 18,000 professionals. With an overall Advisory market of $150 billion, theres tremendous potential for growth - and were prepared to tap into that potential. Our Advisory team takes a strategic approach to helping clients improve and sustain their business performance. In todays complex business environment, that means understanding the relationship between risk and performance improvement, and applying our knowledge to help clients achieve their business objectives.   When youre on our Advisory team, you specialize in a particular competency - Risk, Performance Improvement, or IT Risk & Assurance. You also have the opportunity to work across disciplines with professionals who have broad industry sector experience and deep subject-matter knowledge. In Advisory, our growth strategy focuses on being account-centric, issue-based and competency-driven. Thats what differentiates Ernst & Young in the Advisory marketplace.    Our Performance Improvement team is all about helping clients improve security and efficiency, while also reducing their costs. We help clients by delivering assessment, transformation and process efficiency solutions in specialty areas like finance, supply chain, IT advisory, customer, people and organization change, strategic direction, and program management.    The opportunity is now. If you are interested in being part of a dynamic team, serving clients and reaching your full potential - Ernst & Young Advisory Services is for you.   Ernst & Youngs IT Advisory competency assists our national advisory practices in planning, pursuing, delivering and managing large, complex full lifecycle initiatives along with providing experience in leading practices, methods, and resources in the space of Information Technology. Business Technology Enablement within IT Advisory supports our area offices by providing resources that can design, architect, deliver and lead such initiatives. Business Technology Enablement advises clients to understand, architect, select and implement the core applications required to run their business. Our focus will be on helping our clients to achieve following key benefits:

• An optimal applications portfolio and governance structure that aligns with IT strategy and business architecture.
• Improvement in application performance driving higher customer (internal and external) satisfaction.
• Cost reduction and better investment decisions for applications infrastructure and services.
• Reduction in complexity and improvement in agility for applications to support changing business needs and risk mitigation.

Business Technology Enablement primarily focuses on the design and optimization of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) packages like SAP, Oracle, Hyperion, Cognos, Siebel and others. Our team typically works with Fortune 1000 clients across a variety of industries including Insurance, Banking and Capital Markets, Manufacturing, Pharma, Energy/Utilities, Transportation, Telecommunications and Entertainment/Media.   We currently have a career opportunity for a Senior Manager in Business Technology Enablement. The successful Senior Manager will work with and through the EY area offices to assist clients with a variety of needs. The goal is to support our area offices as they build their individual practices and work to facilitate their clients efforts to make their business units more effective and efficient. To meet that objective, our service offering includes, among others, the analysis of specific business requirements that will translate into sound technology architecture, infrastructure designs and vendor selection.   Responsibilities Support Performance Improvement by providing business development assistance, and as needed, managing project teams through agreed upon phases of the ERP project governance, requirements definition, vendor selection, risk analysis, customization, testing and training.   Assist in developing applicable methodologies, tools, approaches, points of view, thought leadership and accelerators to differentiate EY in the ERP advisory market. These are shared with all EY market facing organizations to provide consistency and common platforms with which to go to market.   Provide broad functional knowledge of all key Oracle E-Business Suite modules; specific expertise in Hyperian Financial Management application.   Team with client technology professionals, and/or third-party strategic alliances.   Demonstrate quality project execution and delivery by successfully monitoring project/program team economics, performance against the job arrangement and budget, and proactively adjust scope, timing, and resources as appropriate and if necessary.   Develop people by encouraging individuals to think for themselves and take responsibility for their contributions to the team. Delegate work successfully. Conduct timely performance reviews and provide performance feedback/training. Lead by example.   Generate new business opportunities by thoroughly understanding EY and its service lines and actively assessing and presenting ways to apply knowledge and services.   Develop long-term relationships and networks both internally and externally.   Manage and supervise a team of technology professionals through all phases of the technology lifecycle, including requirements definition, architecture design, conversion and testing.   Interact and communicate effectively with finance and technology senior and middle management executives.   Knowledge and Capability Requirements: General ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, purchasing and fixed asset ERP systems features and functionality Industry specific solutions provided by ERP vendors ERP data services including database technology and data warehousing features and functionality Business intelligence product features/functionality and reporting solutions Finance organization strategy (vision, mission, guiding principles, operations and compliance) Financial accounting and reporting systems operations and technology Budgeting, planning and forecasting operations and technology Performance management and measurement (Key Performance Indicators (KPI), business driver based metrics) Program management including global initiatives Information technology architecture Database design Supply chain management Customer relationship management Product lifecycle management Manufacturing  To qualify, candidates must have:

• a bachelors degree and approximately 8 years of related work experience; or a masters degree and approximately 7 years of related work experience
• a degree in computer science, engineering, accounting, finance or a related field (MBA or MS degree preferred)
• prior consulting experience which includes selling ideas and recommendations to executive management
• prefer approximately 6-8 years of experience working with HFM - strategy, design, configuration and implementation
• a minimum of 5 years spent in a managerial and IT/business integration role
• strong written and verbal communication, presentation, client service and technical writing skills, coupled with a strong interest in further developing and integrating enterprise finance with technology skills

The successful candidate must also be willing and able to travel 70-90% of a work schedule.