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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. EY’s EMEIA Tax Center (ETC) team is unique: we are the only Big 4 professional services firm with a dedicated center of excellence focused on delivering exceptional client service for accounting and tax across borders. Our talented ETC professionals are based in multiple countries across Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa (EMEIA), and work with clients across the area, regardless of our location or theirs. We provide specialist tax, accounting and technology expertise to address clients’ most pressing challenges in an exciting, dynamic environment, through a broad range of innovative service offerings. Our Statutory Reporting team support clients with transforming and operating their accounting and reporting processes across multiple countries. Our professionals combine a blend of deep accounting process discipline and technical accounting expertise to deliver consistently high-quality financial statements across the world. The opportunity We have an exciting opportunity for you to join the ETC’s Statutory Reporting team to lead engagements with global clients, leading pursuits for new business and play a lead role in driving EY’s global transformation program. This is a transformational leadership role, and we are committed to helping the successful candidate accelerate their career development. Client engagements include full managed services for statutory reporting, where our teams support the bridging from group accounting to local accounting standards and preparation of locally-compliant financial statements; they also include a range of advisory services to support clients with the redesign of their statutory reporting operating model, deployment of accounting technology, and support with technical accounting issues. Tax Smart Delivery is EY’s global transformation program with the goal of centralising, standardising and automating our compliance services – to drive efficiency into our service delivery model and value for our clients. Your key responsibilities Client service: You will be serving as the lead for statutory reporting engagements for global clients – responsible for deploying our globally-consistent and centrally-driven financial statement preparation process. This will involve fostering strong relationships with client executives up to CFO/Controller level, as well as our EY teams across the world. It will also involve you identifying and delivering transformation opportunities both for EY teams and our clients. Pursuits: You will be playing a lead role on pursuits – working with cross-functional Tax and Finance teams across EY to identify, pursue and win new engagements – again with a focus on building relationships with key client stakeholders. Transformation: You will play a lead role in the design and deployment of EY’s global transformation program for statutory reporting – Tax Smart Delivery. This will involve design and deployment of technology solutions to automate our delivery process (including Caseware for financial statement preparation); deployment of standard processes to drive global consistency; and development of our Center of Excellence people model to support delivery across multiple locations. To be successful in this role, you should have: 10-15 years of finance experience – with a track record of driving transformation and change in industry or a professional services organisation Comfort working with ambiguity or imperfect information Experience of developing strong relationships with senior client stakeholders, including Chief Accounting Officer/Controller Ability to manage multiple teams and stakeholders efficiently; experience of working with overseas teams in particular different cultures Finance transformation/process improvement experience – ability to identify and explore solutions that result in the appropriate balance of efficiency and quality Strong grounding in US GAAP or IFRS Understanding of key ERP and associated technologies relating to financial reporting Desirable additional skills & experience Experience of working with and supporting implementation of common software solutions that support global reporting, for example Thomson Reuters OneSource, Caseware, Workiva GAAP conversion experience Cross-border transactions experience Ability to synthesize different accounting requirements of various GAAP and analyze the impact to group policies Foreign language capability Understanding of complementary processes related to global reporting, eg tax structures, IT strategy, finance organization Strong presentation skills Experience of working with other accounting frameworks What we offer As part of this role, you'll work in a highly integrated, global team with the opportunity and tools to grow, develop and drive your career forward. Here, you can combine global opportunity with flexible working. The EY benefits package goes above and beyond too, focusing on your physical, emotional, financial and social well-being. Your recruiter can talk to you about the benefits available in your country. Here’s a snapshot of what we offer: Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next. Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way. Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs. Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs. Please apply to this role only through the ‘Apply’ link (not through the local office). Your application will then be routed to the appropriate recruiting team. The exceptional EY experience. It’s yours to build. 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.