Career Reactivation Program in Finance Technology - Senior Consultant

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Reactivate your Career in Finance Technology!

The EY Career Reactivation Program (CRP) is tailor-made to support people on reactivating their careers after a break of 1-5 years. By joining the CRP you will be onboarded as a Senior Consultant within the Finance Technology team and into a community who will ensure to smoothly guide you back to the corporate world. A coach will accompany and support you during this six-month journey to reactivate your professional career.

What we offer

EY offers you a six-month’s Career Reactivation Program during which you will be teaming up with a diverse team with various backgrounds and skills. This will be a unique opportunity for you to refresh your skills and immerse again in to the Consulting world. At the end of the program, you will get the opportunity to discuss your experience and future career options at EY by potentially transitioning into a permanent role and profiting from additional incentives.

Rank: Senior Consultant

Duration: 6 months with potential permanent employment

Location: Zurich

Workload: 60 – 100%

What you can expect – enriching experiences that will last a lifetime

• You will become part of our Finance Technology team within our Technology Consulting practice supporting local as well as global financial services clients (Banking/Insurance/Wealth & Asset Management industry)
• Advising clients on finance transformation related services and solutions along the CFO agenda
• Be part of a team delivering large business led and tech enabled transformation programs with strong focus on managing / leading their delivery in a complex multi-national landscape
• Topics vary from project management, process improvement, business analysis, definition of future business/technical requirements, system implementation and, accounting/regulatory driven finance change (e.g. IFRS 17/9), performance management, and quality assurance of project deliveries
• Establishing the finance function of the future driven by digital and regulatory transformation, by using hybrid and/or agile methodologies
• Able to understand the requirements of every project phase and translating into project plan, deliverables (incl. oversight of all project delivery phases)
• Structuring and analyzing the as-is state, deriving insights, defining the to-be state and proposing actions to reach the solution
• Work on projects jointly with our strategic alliance partners by applying innovative technologies as SAP S/4HANA for Finance and MS Cloud services
• Participate in the development of our methodologies and tools
• Collaborative working environment across service lines, competencies and sectors in our Consulting practice

How you can contribute – skills to create a better working world

• Degree in economics or finance, industrial engineering, business informatics or business administration
• Strong analytical, solution-oriented and curious mindset
• Reliable personality with a precise way of working
• Ability to structure and analyze problems in a systematic and organized fashion
• Strong team player and not one-person-only contributor
• Can-do mindset, with a focus on high performance standards and ability to work in a focused, responsible, and independent manner
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to demonstrate initiative and a flexible working style within a multi-national team
• Fluent in English and German, other languages are seen as asset
• Initial practical experience in the Finance environment (accounting, closing, consolidation, reporting and budgeting/ forecast) and understanding of accounting/reporting systems
• Strong interest in Finance function driven processes and the underlying IT systems, evaluation of IT architectures and data models
• Knowledgeable about ERP systems, such as SAP, and reporting systems is a plus

What we offer

• International multi-cultural team of highly motivated professionals
• Continuous personal development with a steep learning curve – a system of trainings, mentoring, counselling and on-the-job learning
• Modern working environment and equipment, fostering mobile working flexibility
• Transparent performance-based recognition and progression system

We highly encourage candidates from diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspectives to apply for this job and look forward to enriching our teams. If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

For further information please contact our recruitment team (recruitment.switzerland@ey.com / +41 58 286 33 66).

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