Finance Staff - Mercury Business Analyst

Join our Business Enablement Service (BES) team to support the essential business enablement functions that keep our organization running strong. As a Business Enablement Service professional, you will work across teams to provide the knowledge, resources, and tools that help SGV/EY deliver exceptional quality service to our clients and win in the marketplace for SGV/EY's growth and profitability. Major teams within Business Enablement Service include Finance, Information Technology Services, People Team, Learning and Development, Brand, Marketing and Communications, Risk Management, and Business Support Group.

Our Finance Group is dedicated to enabling SGV/EY client account teams and management to run the business effectively. You will help to improve engagement profitability, manage enterprise-wide risk support market development activities, and support SGV/EY planning, reporting, forecasting, and analysis, or help SGV/EY people manage day-to-day activities (such as managing engagements, process and auditing time and expense or invoice processing). You will also work with other parts of our organization, sharing your financial experience and insights to achieve specific goals. All the support you need to stay on top of regulations will be provided accordingly and the advice and help you need to meet your professional goals.

With so many offerings, you can develop your career through various engagements, mentoring, and formal learning. That's how we develop outstanding leaders who team to deliver on our promises to all our stakeholders, and in so doing, play a critical role in building a better working world for our people, for our clients, and for our communities.

Sound interesting Well, this is just the beginning. Because whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional SGV/EY experience lasts a lifetime.

Job Description:

Provides end-to-end opportunity and engagement lifecycle advice to partners and client-facing engagement teams. There are two main components to this role:

• providing on-demand financial advisory support to engagement teams through a variety of ways (phone or email).
• proactive outreach to engagement teams that
• have been identified as needing intervention through analytical review and exception reporting.

Expectations:

• Have a good understanding of engagement economics, and use strong analytical skills to determine the partners/engagement teams in need of outreach
• Review queries from client servers, prioritize follow-up activities, and schedule engagement team meetings
• Spend time taking calls from client servers, which could include activities such as:
• reviewing pricing plans
• advising on the optimum resourcing mix on engagements, including the use of GDS (offshore resources), and
• providing instruction and guidance on estimate-to-complete (ETC) processes and corresponding financial impacts.
• Provide guidance on local policy and practices
• Facilitate training for client-serving teams on Mercury and effective financial management practices
• Individuals in this role are expected to recognize when extra effort/time is needed to produce optimal outcomes and manage the situation, accordingly, working with peers and supervisors to balance workloads as necessary

Skills and Attributes:

• Fluent and effective communication style in English
• Two years experience in a professional services environment in a financial/business capacity. Management accounting experience is beneficial but not essential
• A Bachelor of Business, Diploma in Accounting, or equivalent qualification is desirable (but not essential)
• Intermediate proficiency in MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Internet Explorer
• A strong ability to learn quickly and share knowledge, combined with the ability to apply judgment and seek guidance when appropriate
• Strong listening, communication, and partnering skills with people of all levels of the firm