Business Consulting - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - EY

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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

6 days ago

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Siti Tan

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Description

We are the only professional services organization that has a separate business dedicated exclusively to the financial services marketplace.

Join Financial Services (FSO) and you will work with multi-disciplinary teams from around the world to deliver projects locally, leveraging a global perspective.

Aligned to key industry groups including asset management, banking and capital markets, insurance and private equity, we provide integrated consulting, assurance, tax, and transaction services.

The opportunity

EY's Business Consulting professionals bring a wealth of experience in working with major financial institutions to align their operating model and infrastructure to their business' strategic objectives.

We assemble the right multi-disciplinary teams, use consistent and proven global methodologies and tools, and draw on the full breadth of EY's global network, to deliver value and trusted advice to the clients.

The key service offerings cover finance function transformation, customer and distribution effectiveness, operations, shared services / outsourcing support, performance management, program advisory, enterprise intelligence, risk management and regulatory change.

Your key responsibilities
As markets rapidly change and develop, finance functions must demonstrate real added value to their business.

The type of projects we cover are:

Finance function improvement e.g. maturity assessments in terms of people, process and tech.
Finance process improvement, including redesigning of processes and advising clients on software options
Finance operating model design, identify improvement opportunities for Finance to align their functions to business strategy
Service delivery model design, involving operational or repeatable business processes to help clients meet their goals with regards to cost, efficiency and quality
Regulatory projects e.g. IFRS17

In your role as a Manager, you will be responsible for:

Securing and enhancing relationships with client management
Manage daytoday client relationships whilst delivering value to the client by providing insightful knowledge into business improvement
Having a solid understanding of our service offerings and actively identify ways we can improve our service offering to clients
Identifying new business opportunities and building upon existing client networks
Managing engagement economics, communicating significant issues, fees and estimates to Partners and Clients
Contributing to people initiatives, coaching and mentoring teams to encourage development of individuals and the practice

Skills and attributes for success

Strong analytical and problemsolving skills
Strong drive to excel professionally, and to guide and motivate others
Advanced written and verbal communication skills
Dedicated, innovative, resourceful, analytical and able to work under pressure
Foster an efficient, innovative and teamoriented work environment

To qualify for the role you must have

Bachelor or Master Degree with a minimum of 5 years working experience, preferably in a finance functions within a Financial Services organization, or business consulting role in a leading consultancy firm.
Basic to intermediate accounting knowledge, and knowledge of Finance processes (e.g. Budgeting, Performance Reporting, Financial and Regulatory Reporting, etc)
Basic to intermediate understanding of Finance Systems and Applications (e.g. GL systems, Reporting Tools, etc)
RPA knowledge both from business and technical perspectives is an added bonus
Experience in being a part of largescale improvement programs
Having a relationship network in the financial sector is an added bonus

Ideally, you'll also have

Extensive professional knowledge and sector knowledge
Take responsibility and initiative in change and improvement strategies
Commercially driven
Knowledge in support functions or frontliner functions in Wholesale Banking/ Capital Markets/ Retail Banking/ Insurance gained either through a leading business consulting organisation or financial institution/ insurance company
Understand current business and industry trends relevant to the client's business
Transformation experience in one or more of the following disciplines or business processes:
Operations and process improvement
Risk Management
Product Control
Treasury
Financial management and finance function improvement (operational accounting, statutory reporting, management reporting, budgeting and forecasting)
Regulatory reporting
Professional qualification such as ICAEW, ACCA, ACA, MICPA
Leading ERP finance module experience
Strong stakeholder management skills in understanding strategic direction and being able to convert into cohesive change management strategy and plans
Desire to build / develop a career in advising our clients with organisational wide improvements and industry insight
Strong interest and commitment to understandi