TAX ACR-Transition-Senior Manager - Bengaluru, India - EY

Description

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Transition Senior ManagerEY team:
Ernst & Young performs professional services globally, including auditing, assurance, consulting & tax.

This role is supporting Finance Operations (within Tax Service line), who provide the client with immediate access to an entire finance function delivering end to end services from transaction processing, accounting, monthly reporting through the statutory and tax cycle.

Role:
This role is expected to project manage (design, implement and run) transitions to new locations, systems and process.

The key deliverables for this role are:

Plan, drive execution and report on transitionEstablish end to end project plan (including due diligence, scoping, hiring, knowledge transfer & documentation, UAT, data migration, hyper care etc.) & construct business caseDrive execution of plan within schedule, budget and scopeCommunicate progress to stakeholders (incl.

operations teams, client & EY leadership)Analyse, develop, document and implement changes based on requests for changeStakeholder, change and risk managementResponsible for governance of tollgates defined per methodology for own projects/program (portfolio management)Assist with building and deploying a standard methodology for transitionsContribute to implementation of project management tool ( Smartsheet)Contribute to building & deploying a standard transition methodology or improving itMonitor effectiveness of KT models, go live & day plansPilot and test design new methodology

OtherUnderstand cost of transitionManage & coach more junior resources in the teamAd hoc initiativesProfile:The ideal candidate should have 15+ years of experience including (a) controllership in a shared services environment, (b) transition & project management to COE's as well as onto new systemsFinance domain knowledge

Controllership and Finance experience, including qualification in finance, has a good understanding of finance operations processes (R2R, B2P, O2C, ...) Work with Shared Services (captive or outsourced but preferably captive)Project management knowledge

Experience of transitioning complex F&A projects with personal accountability for delivering to time and cost Understand and ideally has participated in or led an ERP or other IT tool implementation & understands the different steps in the lifecycle of such a project.

Leadership skills

Strong communication skills with the courage & integrity to speak candidly & succinctly Ability to collaborate across different time zones, cultures & teams Excellent analytical skills: ability to quickly assess problems/risks and connect dots Deliver high quality materials to relevant stakeholders Proactive: challenge the status quo and go beyond own lines of duty Ability to manage uncertainty and pivots, "start-up" type of environment without clearly established processes & procedures or fully established support network ( of SME's, processes to follow etc.)

High say – do ratio:
ability to assess what is feasible and manage expectations, delivers on promises (own it up)

High level of integrity and personal valuesAdditional info for recruitment team:
Nice to haves:Knowledge of service transition methodology, tools and templatesPassionate individual with high standards & good sense of humourAbility to build project plans/dashboards and/or program portals in Smartsheet

Supervision Responsibilities:
Senior Transition manager is expected to act with minimum supervision and to deliver to schedule, budget and scope; support provided as required and requested, and is self-driven and motivated

Other Requirements:
Flexible work schedule will be required

Education & Certification Requirements:
MBA/CA/ICWA/CFA/Accounting degree or a related discipline; or equivalent work experienceProject management certification is preferred (PMP, PRINCE2)EY | Building a better working world