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Working Capital, Turnaround and Restructuring Strategy, Senior Executive or Assistant Director

The Opportunity

Many management teams struggle to sustain good control over cash flows and the working capital that drives them, leaving the business vulnerable to market and operational change.

EY’s cash and working capital team supports businesses in improving the effectiveness of their processes and commercial arrangements in order to free cash that is tied up on the balance sheet. Focusing on sustainable change underpinned by Cash Forecasting and Reporting, they deliver value through measurable improvement. The team have experience supporting the complete spectrum of listed and privately owned companies across multiple sectors or geographies, whether a successful business seeking to enhance shareholder value, or an organisation experiencing a cash crisis.

The team is one of the market leading advisers in this space and part of the world’s largest specialist cash and working capital advisory practice.

Your Key Responsibilities

As a Senior Executive or an Assistant Director, you will take a role in all aspects of project delivery and business development and contribute to team management.

You will take responsibility for managing teams on engagements, reporting to the engagement Partner / Director and project managing the delivery team. You will input knowledge and subject matter expertise, coordinating the production of deliverables to the agreed timescales and communicating progress and any issues requiring escalation to the Partner / Director.

You will actively establish, maintain and strengthen internal and external relationships, leveraging these relationships to identify and pursue potential new engagement opportunities.

As an influential member of the team, you will help to create an inclusive culture and will coach and counsel junior team members and help them to develop.

Skills and Attributes for Success

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  Displays a deep understanding of the drivers of working capital performance and the potential opportunities that can be implemented to deliver sustainable performance improvement.
• Understands adjacent skills such as cash-flow forecasting, sales and operations planning, treasury, factoring and supply chain finance.
• Able to synthesise complex issues from initial hypothesis, and identify the data required to confirm hypothesis.
• Experienced at interpreting information/ data, to solve problems and formulate views and conclusions.
• Able to present solutions, issues and findings in both a concise written and oral format.
• Experienced at providing detailed practical advice on overcoming business issues/ challenges, including the implementation of working capital opportunities.
• Good project management skills, ensuring the quality and consistency of performance in every task, whilst working to tight deadlines.
• Develop and maintain productive working relationships and manage the communication with day-to-day client contacts.
• Manage the financial aspects of engagements by preparing a budget, organizing resources, monitoring engagement economics and communicating the status to the project leaders.
• Understand the capabilities of the firm, looking for opportunities to bring in other specialists and service lines to broaden engagements and achieve the best possible solution.
• Identify potential sell-on opportunities and support the project leaders in pursuing these to broaden and extend live engagements.
• Conduct performance reviews and contribute to performance feedback for staff.
• Maintain an educational program to continually develop personal skills.

To qualify for the role you must have

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  Demonstrable consulting experience on finance and operational performance, or in a role within industry leading on day-to-day cash and working capital management, cash-flow forecasting, treasury or working capital improvement programmes.
• The ability to build strong relationships across the firm and can actively participate in business development.
• Appreciation of the risks inherent in advising businesses and their stakeholders.
• The ability to support business development activities, leveraging internal and external contacts to identify and pursue potential new client engagements.

Ideally, you’ll also have

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  Professional accountancy qualification.
• Supply chain management, customer collections or Treasury (such as cash management, hedging financial risks, cash pooling).
• Experience in Turnaround planning and execution, including rapid cost reduction, footprint optimisation, stakeholder management and business planning.
• Whilst not necessary, preferred candidates will have European language skills, experience of visualisation tools e.g. PowerBi, Qlik, Tableau and Spotfire
• People development experience and can effectively supervise, coach and mentor staff.
• Own network of contacts with work providers, or will understand how to build one.

What we look for

We are looking for candidates who are highly motivated, driven, and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful transaction team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly throughout a period of growth within the cash and working capital team.

What working at EY offers

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:

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  Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around
• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you

About EY

As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, we’re using the finance products, expertise and systems we’ve developed to build a better working world. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime. And with a commitment to hiring and developing the most passionate people, we’ll make our ambition to be the best employer by 2020 a reality.

If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

Join us in building a better working world.

Apply now.