Job description

Requisition ID:  74161

At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all. 

The opportunity

We have an exciting new opportunity for a sound minded Business Analyst to join within the Portfolio Finance Advisor team for EY Oceania Markets Finance team to be based in any of our offices across Australia and New Zealand on a flexible, full-time permanent basis. 

The Portfolio Finance Advisor (PFA) will be part of an extended global PFA cohort and network, focused on improving margin performance and at the forefront of finance and business policies, tools and best practices to effectively support Client Servers (CS). This high-profile role will work with leadership to drive our overall growth strategy for EY’s large and complex engagements. Acting as a trusted advisor, you will help navigate the business through the complexities of managing large and complex engagements and translating financial data into commercial terms, providing insight into the account/engagement’s financial performance as well as forward thinking modelling and advice to support future financial decisions. This is a great opportunity for an experienced Commercial/Senior Commercial Analyst who is looking to take the next step up in their career.

Your key responsibilities

Commercial

Pricing analysis which includes compiling a range of scenarios for the firm for the best possible outcome with regards to rates and profitability.

Discussing and presenting the analysis with the respective stakeholders and providing valuable advice.

Review of pricing plans – including rate cards and discount strategies/buyer behaviours. Help the team to evaluate/analyse the margin impact for new rate card and discount proposals.

Provide commercial analysis support for deals and advise on commercial outcomes.

Attends Deal Review meetings to discuss the sales and pipeline and provide analysis when required to highlight key trends in the market for the firm’s footprint.

Always proactively seeking to assess risk and solutions to minimise risk for the firm.

Analysis

Financial analysis related to engagement metrics and drivers (including margin improvement and resource/inventory management) to understand what is impacting performance.

Build and maintain leverage modelling of staffing mix and how it impacts various KPI’s for a Client and Sector

Provide decision support back to Service Lines and Markets respective stakeholders on various projects that provides valuable insights and clear direction for decisions to be made.

Performing regular forecast reviews – including probability of meeting milestones, and recoverability of working capital.

Playing with big data and genuinely demonstrates the inquisitiveness of its nature. 

Business Partnering

Partnering with key stakeholders to act as the business advisor on various financial matters.

Team closely with the Service Line Finance and Operations Leaders to agree their priorities and focus which are aligned with the business needs and agreed oversight approach.

Area of Influence

The Analyst will be 50% aligned to a Service Line (SL) and 50% aligned to Markets and provide advice and recommendations to key stakeholders, such as partners, client serving teams, operations and finance leaders. 

The successful candidate will demonstrate and utilise financial, commercial and consulting skills. The PFA provides advice tailored to the client serving teams that optimises margin and financial management at a pursuit, engagement and portfolio level where these are complex in nature and material.

Link in with the relevant assigned key account team and Business Development (BD) and Markets teams regarding account strategies, pipeline, and assistance with developing rate cards.

Technology 

Utilise and become SME for all the technology at hand to provide digital based solutions to drive data visualisation and story telling.

Become advocate on such technologies and provide where necessary training back to the wider team.

Attend key meetings to discuss best practice on visualisation and analytics to drive decision making with varying level of audience.

Skills and attributes for success

A minimum of 3 years of experience in a commercial Finance role

Experience with using data visualisation tools such as PowerBI and/or advanced Excel skills

Ability to support key decision making by synthesising large data sets and translating that into commercial terms

Acting as a trusted business advisor including providing a clear and insightful point of view, demonstrating forward and flexible thinking and challenging business assumptions

Pro-actively developing networks and demonstrate understanding of the organization and landscape in which our clients operate

Strong financial acumen and the ability to understand commercial drivers of engagement performance

Demonstrated experience advising on financial performance and forecast expectations throughout the year, with insights and recommendations to achieve optimal financial performance

Ability to provide engagement teams with a clear understanding of the impact / benefit of applying Master Service Agreements (MSA), rate cards and other client procurement requirements on the largest and most complex pursuits to achieve the best margin outcome

Ideally, you’ll also have

Experience in pricing, including review of pricing plans, rate cards and discount strategies/buyer behaviours

Bachelor’s degree and or professional certification in Finance or a related field

EY | Building a better working world 

EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.  

Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate.  

Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.  

The preferred applicant will be subject to employment screening by EY or by their external third party provider.

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