Financial Management Associate - Limerick & Dublin

Job description

Role Title:                   Financial Management Associate

Location:                     Limerick & Dublin

 

JOB OVERVIEW

As a Financial Management Associate you will be key to ensuring high standards of financial management expertise across all clients within your portfolio whilst serving as a Trusted Business Advisor. You will liaise, meet regularly and work closelywith various stakeholders of the business at all levels to help deliver our aim of developing a strong culture of financial awareness, commerciality and accountability. It is a forward thinking, challenging role that alongside the FMA Controller, searches for improvement in working capital management and revenue recognition.

 

Due to the growth of our team we have positions available in both our Dublin and Limerick offices.

 

RESPONSIBILITIES

Maximise Revenue Predictability

•       Review and monitor Inventory and variance analysis across your portfolio to identify risk and provide key stakeholders with up to date details on potential exposure to revenue and debtors.

•       Ensure you maintain up-to-date and meaningful commentary across your portfolio for stakeholder visibility.

•       Support client teams with project pricing; review, investigate and thoroughly challenge engagement code set ups.

•       Understand and influence stakeholders' awareness of how changes to revenue recognition impact the business.

•       Maintain good awareness of the sales pipeline and ensure correct procedures and processes have been agreed on client and engagement set up; i.e. billing schedules and payment on account.

Minimise Revenue Days

•       Exhibit a good understanding of how targets are calculated.

•       Ensure the Business understand their targets, what is required to achieve them and the impact of not achieving.

•       Drive the working capital performance of your group by devising both short and long term initiatives to achieve long term success.

•       Have an impact on how we engage with our clients to increase engagement margin and improve our working capital.

•       Advise our teams how to engage with their clients to optimise both engagement margin and working capital.

•       Provide relevant and timely working capital management information to your key stakeholders, including gap and trend analysis to effectively influence continuous performance improvement within your portfolio.

Process & Escalation Consistency / Improvement

·  Identify and escalate process improvement opportunities.
·  Demonstrate a positive and solution driven mindset.
·  Involvement in additional ad hoc projects.

 

Understand the bigger picture

·  Promote the use of the other Support teams. Build successful relationships with these Support teams to effectively utilise the team.
·  Develop commercial awareness and demonstrate understanding of the key issues driving the overall performance of realisation and revenue days. 
·  Exhibit thorough understanding of key financial metrics and how these impact our cash flow and management accounts.

 

REQUIREMENTS

•       Building strong and effective relationships is key to success in this role so you should have a history of exceptional client service

•       Minimum two years’ experience in a client driven professional environment in a financial/business capacity.

•       Strong analytical and numeracy skills, with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.

•       Able to apply knowledge or take a fresh perspective to solve complex problems and issues that arise

•       Time and project management skills – able to plan and manage time effectively and flexibly to deal with key priorities

•       Relationship building – building strong networks, inspiring trust and have a firm understanding of business drivers of client performance.

•       Strong IT skills – Word, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint and SharePoint

•       Excellent oral and written communication skills

•       Highly organised with a sound attention to detail and an ability to deliver to deadlines

 

What working at EY offers

 

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. 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

EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We strive to achieve the right balance for our people, enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities. While our client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites, our flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a lifestyle balance.

 

About EY

 

As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, we’re using the finance products, expertise and systems we’ve developed to build a better working world. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime. And with a commitment to hiring and developing the most passionate people, we’ll make our ambition to be the best employer by 2020 a reality.