Senior Manager, Transition Leader, Finance Managed Services, All EY Office Locations
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Financial managers and directors
Occupation Code Skill LevelHigher Skilled
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£75,100
(£38.51 per hour)
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Description
The opportunity
EY Finance Managed Services is a fast-growing business helping clients modernise and run their finance functions through a managed services model - where EY operates key finance processes on behalf of the client and provides agreed outputs and deliverables.
As a Senior Manager, you will play a pivotal role in transitioning new clients onto our Finance Managed Services platform and operating model, ensuring a smooth move from client-led activity to EY-run service delivery with minimal disruption to business-as-usual. You’ll work with high-performing teams across multiple delivery locations in EMEIA, focusing primarily on the private mid-market, and you’ll have the opportunity to work with a range of platforms and alliance partners shaping the finance function of the future.
Your Key Responsibilities
Client pursuits & solution architecture
EY Finance Managed Services is a fast-growing business helping clients modernise and run their finance functions through a managed services model - where EY operates key finance processes on behalf of the client and provides agreed outputs and deliverables.
As a Senior Manager, you will play a pivotal role in transitioning new clients onto our Finance Managed Services platform and operating model, ensuring a smooth move from client-led activity to EY-run service delivery with minimal disruption to business-as-usual. You’ll work with high-performing teams across multiple delivery locations in EMEIA, focusing primarily on the private mid-market, and you’ll have the opportunity to work with a range of platforms and alliance partners shaping the finance function of the future.
Your Key Responsibilities
Client pursuits & solution architecture
- Support go-to-market activities for Finance Managed Services, contributing to proposition development, market messaging and client materials.
- Lead and / or support client pursuits, including discovery, shaping, estimation and bid management activities as required.
- P2P (Procure-to-Pay)
- O2C (Order-to-Cash)
- R2R (Record-to-Report)
- FP&A (Financial Planning & Analysis)
- Own and lead end-to-end transition delivery from contract signature through go-live, with accountability for time, cost, quality and risk.
- Design the transition plan to protect critical business cycles (e.g., month-end close, payments runs, revenue cycles, credit and collections, audit readiness).
- Drive proactive change management to enable adoption and clarity of new ways of working.
- Maintain senior stakeholder engagement and deliver a consistently strong, confidence-inspiring client experience throughout mobilisation and transition.
- Lead hypercare post go-live to stabilise operations, manage issues quickly and drive service performance to agreed KPIs.
- Ensure readiness for steady-state managed service delivery, including completion of SOPs, runbooks, knowledge transfer, and operational acceptance criteria.
- Execute a structured handover to EY’s run operations and the managed services platform team, ensuring a clear continuous improvement backlog and governance cadence.
- Lead, coach and develop high-performing teams across multiple EMEA locations; role-model inclusive, collaborative leadership.
- Contribute to business growth through development of reusable assets, playbooks, accelerators and transition methodologies.
- Support the evolution of EY’s managed services capability through lessons learned, continuous improvement and innovation.
- 10+ years’ experience in a combination of Finance, Finance Transformation, Shared Services / Outsourcing / Managed Services, Business / Systems Integration, or large-scale finance operational change.
- Experience transitioning clients into managed services and / or standing up new service operations with SLAs / KPIs and governance.
- Strong appreciation of controls, compliance and audit considerations within finance operations.
- Exposure to working with a variety of finance technologies and platforms (e.g., ERP ecosystems, workflow, automation, analytics) and partnering with technology teams and alliances to deliver outcomes.
Qualifications (preferred)
- Degree (Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics or similar) or equivalent experience.
- Professional qualification desirable (ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent) and / or programme/change credentials (e.g., PRINCE2, MSP, PMP, Agile).
- A role at the heart of a high-growth Finance Managed Services business focused on the private mid-market.
- Opportunity to work across EMEIA with diverse teams and delivery locations.
- The chance to help build the finance function of the future, leveraging EY investments and collaborating with a broad ecosystem of platforms and alliance partners.
- Significant career runway and rapid progression through expanding portfolio, leadership opportunities and visible impact.