Manager, Financial Accounting Advisory Services - Toronto, Canada - EY

Verified Company

Toronto, Canada

6 days ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

At EY, you'll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you.

And we're counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.

From small businesses to some of the world's best-known brands, our clients count on reliable financial statements, information and processes to inform their ongoing strategies.

More than ever, business is about interpreting and reacting to complex data — and they look to us for advice and services they can trust every time.

You'll use your professional skills and experience to make it happen, handling complex finance optimization challenges across a broad range of industries and geographies.

In today's world, constant change is the new normal.

Forces of disruption are increasing - digital and technological advancement, increasing regulation, evolving societal norms, talent shortages and market volatility are forcing CFOs and their Finance teams to become more Agile - more efficient, more responsive, and more insightful.

Finance leaders must radically rethink their strategies in the face of shifting priorities as they partner with the business to deliver long-term organizational value.

Our Financial Accounting Advisory Services (FAAS) Financial Services Office (FSO) practice helps our clients in this sector navigate through their most pressing challenges and seek to provide value added solutions that allow for sustainable differentiated performance, reporting and capabilities.

The opportunity

As a professional member of our growing FAAS team, you will the exciting prospect of bringing our FAAS team's services to the Financial Services sector, including Banking, Capital Markets, Wealth Management and Pension funds.

We understand the evolving role of the CFO and the Finance function, and you will work with our clients to achieve better insights and control outcomes, optimize their performance and use of scarce resources, and guide them through complex accounting, regulatory, disclosure or other transformation initiatives under the CFO's agenda.

In doing so, you will be a member of, and be able to draw upon a vast network of high caliber professionals, combined with our significant knowledge, tools, technological solutions and cumulative practical experience.

Your key responsibilities
As a FAAS - FSO Manager, you will actively establish, maintain and strengthen internal and external relationships.

You will help to develop and expand long-term client relationships and networks, as well as develop relationships with team members across all EY practices to service client needs.

By drawing on your relationship building skills, project management, and financial knowledge and experience, you and your team will provide innovative commercial insights for clients by adapting proven industry delivery methods and practices to meet clients' organizational needs.

You will actively contribute to seeking pragmatic solutions to our clients' most pressing challenges, whether around financial or regulatory reporting, disclosures, regulatory capital and reporting challenges, or to improve financial performance by evaluating data integrity and quality, operational and reporting efficiency, and effective decision making.

You will be expected to support Finance leaders in addressing their challenges across all areas of the finance function.

A majority of your time will be spent supporting local business development activities and client engagement teams, working with a wide variety of clients, across multiple sectors, to deliver professional services.

Skills and attributes for success

Client responsibilities

Lead external client consulting engagements involving the advancement of the CFO agenda for the Financial Services Office.
Lead business development initiatives including service offering development and rollout, proposal development, responding to RFX's and participating in oral presentations
Staying abreast of current business, industry and regulatory trends relevant to the client's business and overall local industry.
Manage the financial and commercial aspects of engagements by organizing staffing, tracking fees and communicating issues to project leaders; and
Build strong internal relationships within our national and global FAAS practice and across EY's service lines including Advisory, Tax and Transactions.

People Management responsibilities

Prioritize the development of people through effective coaching, constructive onthejob feedback and mentoring
Foster an innovative and inclusive teamoriented work environment
Effectively motivate teams with diverse skills and backgrounds
Conduct performance reviews and contribute to performance feedback for staff
Lead/contribute to people initiatives includ