Assistant Director - Finance Relationship Owner

About the job

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence. We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. Join EY and help to build a better working world. Assistant Director - Finance Relationship Owner The Finance Relationship Owner (FRO) serves as a key member of the Global Controlling Decision Support Finance team supporting the Global Entities in managing financials end to end and achieving financial objectives. Serving as a key member of the Global Controlling team the FRO teams with stakeholders in the business and various Finance support structures to provide analytical support, functional expertise, reporting solutions, transaction processing and sharing of best practices. Your Key Responsibilities • Communicates regularly with Function/Service Line Teams on financial operating performance and is responsible for identifying issues and supporting resolution of same. • Monitors and tracks financial results against goals and historical performance leveraging reports from the Reporting Center of Excellence (COE). • Explains critical upcoming Finance activities (Annual Financial Plan, Forecasting, Month/Year end closing). • Works with Functions/Service Lines to develop budgets, taking overall ownership of this budget process. • Liaises with Sub Function/Service Line Leaders to define targets for Sub Function/Service Lines. Challenges, reviews and consolidates annual budgets and forecasts/projections for Functions/Service Lines. • With the support of their designated GDS based Analyst, manages all aspects of Global Entity engagement codes. This includes engagement code set up and maintenance, AP invoices, PO’s, billings, management of accruals, identifying time booked by people that are not in the budget, challenging and proposing corrective actions. • Provides technical financial advice, knowledge and counsel to Function/Service Line customers. • Manages the relationship with the Function/Service Line CFOs and their deputies on behalf of the Controlling function. • Drives key methods and processes at the direction of Global Controlling (e.g. financial planning). • Synthesizes, provides insight and communicates a clear and concise view of financial performance to Function/Service Line Leadership. • Advises on expected financial performance vs. plan/forecast based upon analytics such as trend analysis and modelling of forward-looking scenarios. • Assesses the drivers of financial results with a constant focus on improvement and rapid course correction where necessary.