Job Summary
As a Manager, you will lead project teams in providing finance-related consulting services to our clients. You will be responsible for managing project timeliness and team members to ensure successful project delivery. You will work closely with clients to understand their business needs, identify areas for improvement, and develop solutions to help them achieve their goals.
You will play a key role in driving the growth and success of our firm by providing high-quality services to our clients and contributing to our internal initiatives. As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to work on a wide range of projects across various industries and sectors, and to collaborate with other team members to develop innovative solutions and best practices.
The type of projects that we cover are:
- Finance processes analysis, assessment, design, and implementation
- Controlling excellence, including cost accounting/control and financial closing, and consolidation
- Performance Management, including reporting and analysis, key performance indicators / dashboards
- Identification of opportunities for Finance technology enablement in automation of Finance processes
- Finance/Business transformations to drive best practice & cost efficiency
- PMO services to assist our clients in implementing significant finance projects
- Finance operations and support
Key Responsibilities
Winning in the market:
- Develop and maintain influential long-term or own mid-level relationships with the client.
- Widespread relationships internally and externally of the Firm.
- Articulate convincingly the findings to the client and address concerns and other issues.
- Identify strategic and innovative opportunities by leveraging knowledge of the client's business.
- Considered as expert in his area of specialization, leading practices and insights.
- Provide strategic guidance to clients on financial issues, including budgeting, forecasting resource FTE, financial analysis, and risk management.
- Develop new service offerings to meet client's needs.
- Participate in speaking opportunities or contribute thought leadership articles and/or papers.
- Meet, exceed or consistently exceed Consulting utilization targets, as well as effective utilization targets.
- Achieve, exceed or consistently exceed revenue targets.
- On-time billing and timely collection of receivables.
- Proactively stays abreast of Consulting's new service capabilities and leverages them in pursuits; and
- Contributes to pursuits, generates sales opportunities, instrumental in securing work and converts into revenues.
People engagement:
- Provides active leadership to team members to drive their idea(s) towards potential implementation; uses innovation resources available to help team members achieve goal.
- Recognized as a leader with respect to flexibility and inclusiveness.
- Builds teams with the intent of diversity.
- Provides constructive feedback & recognition.
- Proactively mentors and develops the progress of the counselees and engagement team members; and
- Proactively identifies ways to boost team performance; is sought after by others as mentor/counselor; highly skilled in people development and delegation.
Qualities and values:
- Significant leadership role in executing service quality- and risk management-related initiatives.
- Go-to person for technical processes and has deep knowledge of EY resources and could apply said knowledge in significant tasks.
- Conducts timely service quality health check and develops action plans in response to observed conditions.
- Exceeds/sets the standards of internal and external inspections that are directly associated with his or her responsibilities.
- Drive internal initiatives to improve firm processes, knowledge sharing, and thought leadership (Learning and Development, Onboarding new hires, etc.)
- Is sought after to work on the most complex projects in his or her area of specialization.
- Applies analytical skills across the board on all clients and in all scenarios.
- Consistently reinforce and integrate EY values.
- Demonstrates excellent leadership and management skills; and
- Develops the strengths and helps team to overcome weaknesses in individual members to increase team effectivity.
Operational excellence:
- Is independently able to lead an engagement team with little guidance from leadership.
- Consistently achieves project objectives on time, within budget and with the highest-quality results; and
- Prepare time and expense reports in a timely manner.
- Meets performance objectives and metrics set locally (client service, quality and risk management, sales and business growth, solution development and teaming etc.)
Qualifications
I. Preferably a graduate of Bachelor of Science in Accountancy (BSA). May consider other graduates from these degrees:
- Bachelor of Science in Management Accounting (BSMA)
- Bachelor of Science in Accounting Technology (BSAT)
- Bachelor of Science in Business Administration major in Financial Management (BSMA-FM)
- Bachelor of Science in Management Engineering (BSME)
- Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering (BSIE)
- Bachelor of Science in Business Management (BSBM)
Added consideration for candidates with:
- Master of Science in Accountancy or MSA
- Master of Management Accounting or MMA
- Master's in business administration or MBA
II. Relevant Experience:
- At least 6 years of relevant work experience
- Has experience and well-versed in ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, etc.)
- Preferably has experience working in a multi-national company
III. Preferably Certified Public Accountant (in the Philippines). Other certifications are considerable:
- Certified Management Accountant or CMA (International certification)
- Certified Internal Auditor or CIA (International certification)
- Certified Accounting Technician or CAT (International certification)
- Registered Cost Accountant or RCA
- Members of the Institute of Certified Bookkeepers (MICB)
- Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
- Lean Six Sigma – Yellow (first level), Green (second level), Black (highest level)
What Working at SGV Offers
- At SGV, we're dedicated to helping our clients and the work we do with them is as varied as they are.
- You get to work with inspiring and meaningful projects. Our focus is education and coaching alongside practical experience to ensure your personal development. We value our employees, and you will be able to control your own development with an individual progression plan. You will quickly grow into a responsible role with challenging and stimulating assignments. Moreover, you will be part of an interdisciplinary environment that emphasizes high quality and knowledge exchange. Plus, we offer:
- Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around
- Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career.
- The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that's right for you.
