Financial Accounting Advisory Services - Finance Optimization - Manager

FAAS Manager – Finance Optimization at EY focuses on controllership process improvements, controls design, automation, and analytics to enhance clients' finance functions.

Responsibilities

• Lead client interviews and workshops to assess controllership processes and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Design and implement strategies for controllership improvement, including process redesign, controls redesign, and automation.
• Engage with the client and internal stakeholders to assess the controllership function and plan for scaling or transformation aligned with goals, including AI, automation, and ERP implementations.
• Develop and apply risk and controls frameworks and remediate control deficiencies.
• Understand and articulate the accounting and controls implications of changes to controllership processes.
• Interpret analytics results from the client’s finance data to provide insights that drive efficiency and process improvements.
• Apply knowledge of how operational activities impact the record-to-report process.
• Improve controllership processes across scenarios such as transformations, finance integrations, and public offerings.
• Provide clients with accounting assistance or transaction support as needed.
• Lead project management activities and coordinate project teams.
• Support business development initiatives and contribute to client proposals.
• Foster trust and collaboration across EY service lines and with external clients.
• Mentor, coach, and develop junior staff members.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field; CPA or equivalent certification required.
• 5 to 7 years of experience in public accounting, financial advisory, industry, or related fields.

Technologies

• PowerPoint
• Excel

Benefits

• Competitive compensation with base salary ranges: US-wide 112,700 to 206,500; NYC Metro, Washington State, and California (excluding Sacramento) 135,200 to 234,800. Individual salaries are determined based on multiple factors.
• Hybrid work model with a team-led, leader-enabled structure; typical in-person collaboration occurs 40-60% of the time during engagements or projects.
• Flexible vacation policy allowing you to determine time off based on personal circumstances, plus designated EY holidays, winter/summer breaks, and personal/family care leave for well-being.