Performance Improvement Senior - Financial Services Office

Title: Performance Improvement Senior - Financial Services Office Location: NY-New York Being part of a dynamic, growing organization offers an exciting career path full of opportunity. Ernst & Young Advisory Services is a $4 billion global practice, with 18,000 professionals. With an overall Advisory market of $150 billion, there's tremendous potential for growth - and we're prepared to tap into that potential. Our Advisory team takes a strategic approach to helping clients improve and sustain their business performance. In today's complex business environment, that means understanding the relationship between risk and performance improvement, and applying our knowledge to help clients achieve their business objectives. When you're on our Advisory team, you specialize in a particular competency - Risk, Performance Improvement, or IT Risk & Assurance. You also have the opportunity to work across disciplines with professionals who have broad industry sector experience and deep subject-matter knowledge. In Advisory, our growth strategy focuses on being account-centric, issue-based and competency-driven. That's what differentiates Ernst & Young in the Advisory marketplace.  Our Performance Improvement team is all about helping clients improve security and efficiency, while also reducing their costs. We help clients by delivering assessment, transformation and process efficiency solutions in specialty areas like finance, supply chain, IT Advisory, customer, people and organization change, strategic direction, and program management.  The opportunity is now. If you are interested in being part of a dynamic team, serving clients and reaching your full potential - Ernst & Young Advisory Services is for you. We currently have a career opportunity for a Senior.  Responsibilities Work with a team of individuals to provide client service directly to the Chief Financial Officer and Finance executives within world class financial institutions. Advise clients on a variety of business process services that help identify, assess, manage and measure the risk exposure in organizations. These may include: Finance Function Strategy (Execution and Alignment), Outsourcing/Offshoring, Shared Services and Finance Risk and Control Process Improvement. Research emerging industry trends, regulatory guidance, and best practices. Critically analyze the policies, procedures, people, processes, and systems used by financial institutions to identify, assess, measure, monitor and control significant issues or risks. Recommend modifications to client infrastructures to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of business processes and risk management programs. Design and implement quality, practical business approaches. Assist with technology selection, architecture, and infrastructure design. To qualify, candidates must have: * a bachelor's degree and approximately 2 years of related work experience; or a graduate degree and approximately 1-2 years of related work experience * a degree in finance, accounting, or a related business discipline; Masters or MBA degree preferred * at least 1 years of experience in a consulting environment with a focus on finance improvement and/or operations improvement for financial services clients * experience with the design, development and implementation of internal controls for financial services business processes a plus * basic understanding of accounting, regulatory and compliance concepts prevalent in banking and other financial institutions * excellent written and verbal communication skills for report writing and client presentations * strong analytical skills; specifically, the ability to assess and decompose financial services industry processes utilizing a risk and control focus * effective leadership, project management and teamwork skills * willingness to travel approximately 50%, on average

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Category:	Accounting/Banking/Finance/Insurance
	> Financial Services      > Other Finance
Location:	New York, NY
County:	New York County
ZIP Code:	10001
Pay Rate:	Open
Job Terms:	full time
Company:	Ernst & Young
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