WCAS_Assistant Manager_Senior_TAS

Job description

EY is a global professional services organization providing advisory, assurance, tax and transaction services.

EY is among the world's most attractive employers. It offers opportunities and experiences that bring out the best in its people at work every day. Collaborating with diverse teams across the globe helps our people develop a global mind-set. EY develops outstanding leaders who deliver value to all our stakeholders to meet their strategic corporate objectives.

The Global Talent Hub (GTH) and Global Shared Services (GSS) teams operate out of the Global Delivery Services (GDS). GDS is EY's global client service delivery vehicle and is founded on an extended teaming model. With operations across the globe, GDS offers seamless services to 80 countries through its 'high performing teams'.

GDS India has won several Global HR awards for its people practices: ranked first in the 'Dream Companies to Work”. For the sixth consecutive year, we've been ranked as the 'Best Place to Work for' in the “Great Place to Work” survey.

GDS TAS has been one of the fastest growing services, delivering transaction support, transaction tax and capital transformation services to clients around the world.

GDS TAS professionals work as an extended team to global TAS practices. They deliver insights, analytics and advice to our clients on strategies to raise, invest, preserve and optimize their capital. GDS TAS offers you:
·  First-hand knowledge on how the economic climate is changing
·  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 about 600 professionals, in the only integrated global transaction business worldwide
·  Opportunities to work with EY TAS practices globally with leading businesses across a range of industries
We are committed to providing learning opportunities to our employees through robust training and global secondment opportunities.

GDS TAS Working Capital Services

Working capital Advisory Services (WCAS) was officially started in September 2012 in GTH and is currently a 8 member team. WCAS is part of the overall TAS team which is 800+ strong. WCAS team focuses on providing benchmarking, diagnostic reviews of AP, AR and Inventory to EY clients across the globe. Other activities include creation of working capital dashboard, writing client’s data related questions, insights on data quality and practical recommendations to optimize client’s working capital

WCAS works closely with E&Y TAS professionals globally to ensure delivering high quality, high value products and services to clients. This ensures reducing time taken for the final deliverable by utilizing talent pool in GTH - India. WCAS intends to widen scope of work further in the transaction process

Responsibilities:
·  Provide insightsobservations based upon the WC analytics, benchmarking and leading practices
·  Engage on larger OTS projects and develop ability to pitch for working capital diagnostics and optimization
·  Ability to analysis the working capital using existing tool; develop expertize on various metrics and KPI
·  Develop expertize on AP, AR and inventory optimization and have clear inroads to deliver on supply chain analytics
·  Collate the leading practices, develop expertize 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
·  Preparation of excel sheets, graphs, charts etc. from information provided in hard copies and information downloaded from data sites
·  Analyzing working capital transactional data using MS Excel, MS Access and SQL
·  Analysis of financial data sourced from financial statements and supporting schedules
·  Support to EY teams through company profiling and benchmarking for for different companies / industry sector
·  Displays the following qualities
·  Manages own time to budgets and communicates progress against plan to Project Lead
·  flexibility with changing tasks
·  high quality awareness
·  attitude of working very independently
·  strong and open personality by actively pointing out issues and drives improvement ideas
EY GDS is an equal opportunity employer.

Our diversified offerings will provide right opportunities to you to develop your career through a broad scope of engagements, mentoring, and learning and development. We develop outstanding leaders who keep our promises, deliver exceptional services to all of our stakeholders, and play a critical role in building a better working world for our people, clients and communities.

Job requirements
·  Chartered Accountant/MBA with 5+ years of experience
·  Prior experience with MNC or large Indian companies
·  Have expert knowledge of MS Excel, with knowledge of preparing templates, graphs, charts, pivots, etc., from information provided in hard copies and downloaded from data sites
·  Should have worked with large data sets in Excel and MS Access and able to formulate queries in MS Access
·  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 Project Lead and/or GSS users
·  Lead medium to big size projects with 1-2 Senior Analysts
·  Should be able to review the deliverable