EY - Associate Manager - Working Capital Management Analytics

The opportunity :

We're looking for Associate Managers with expertise in AP, AR and inventory optimization and have clear inroads to deliver on Working Capital Management Analytics. This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a growing firm and develop your career through a broad scope of engagements, mentoring, and learning & development.

Your key responsibilities :

- Spearhead engagement teams executing WCAS which support key conclusions in developing and executing their transaction strategy to secure deal value.

- Demonstrate excellent skills in project execution, including synergy assessment, project management, problem-solving, and facilitation.

- Build relationships with EY offices across the globe, and demonstrate knowledge of regional practices.

- Responsible for high degree of GDS user satisfaction with engagement process and work products.

- Provide insights/observations based upon the WC analytics, benchmarking.

- Engage on larger TSE projects and develop ability to pitch for working capital diagnostics and optimization.

- Ability to research the working capital using existing tool; develop expertise on various metrics and KPI.

- Develop expertise on AP, AR and inventory optimization and comprehensive working capital analytics.

- Big data analysis with extensive use of SQL/Power BI / Alteryx / VBA.

- Collate the growing practices, develop expertise and mentor the junior members to deliver on high quality output on engagements.

- Manage and expand the existing set of users and build strong engagement metrics.

- Analysis of financial data sourced from financial statements and supporting schedules.

- Support to EY teams through company profiling and benchmarking for different companies / industry sector.

Displays the following qualities :

- Manages own time to budgets and communicates progress against Project Plans

- Flexibility with changing tasks

- High quality awareness

- Strong and open personality by pointing out issues and drives improvement ideas

Skills and attributes for success :

- Have expert knowledge of MS Excel / Alteryx / Power BI with knowledge of preparing templates, graphs, charts, pivots, etc

- Should have worked with large data sets in Excel, Alteryx & Power BI

- Should have working experience on SQL server or similar database applications

- Should have expert knowledge of Power-point

- Should have experience in analyzing financial data sourced from financial statements and supporting schedules and should be able to write observations in reports based on the analysis

- Have an eye for detail and be able to add industry specific key performance indicators (KPI's)

- Reconcile reports and MS Excel workbooks created, before presenting to the client

- Knowledge of financial databases for benchmarking metrics of target with peers

- Work within the set timelines and communicate deviations/updates to GDS users

- Run medium to big size projects

- Should be able to review the deliverable

- Excellent problem solving, project management, facilitation and interpersonal skills

- Strong written and verbal communication skills

- Willingness to undertake international travel as per business requirement

To qualify for the role, you must have :

- Post Graduate degree in business, accounting, finance, engineering, computer science or related field from a premier institute with 6-8 years of applicable industry / analytics and/or consulting experience

- Understanding of M&A life cycle, carve-out / integration of a business post-announcement of transaction, cross-border M&A

Ideally, you'll also have :

- Project management skills

- Strong communication and presentation skills

What we look for :

- A Team of people with commercial acumen, technical experience and enthusiasm to learn new things in this fast-moving environment

- An opportunity to be a part of market-leading, multi-disciplinary team of 1400 + professionals, in the only integrated global transaction business worldwide.

- Opportunities to work with EY SaT practices globally with running businesses across a range of industries