Manager - Finance Transformation (Business Consulting)

Manager - Finance Transformation (Business Consulting)

Location: Sydney

As a Manager in the Finance Consulting team, you will play a pivotal role in helping clients navigate complex, time critical finance challenges and own delivery end to end, from mobilisation through to final recommendations and outcomes. You will be accountable for delivery outcomes across engagements, managing risk, quality, and key decisions while ensuring clear outcomes are delivered rather than analysis alone.

You will lead multi workstream finance engagements, partnering closely with CFOs and senior finance leaders to provide clear judgement, commercial insight, and pragmatic solutions. Your work will span strategic, operational, and digital finance transformation, including the design and implementation of future ready finance operating models, enterprise performance improvement, and technology enabled transformation, including the integration of Agentic AI into Finance functions.

This role is based in Warrang (Sydney) and offers the opportunity to sit at the centre of delivery, decision making, and people leadership in one of the world's leading professional services firms.

What sets this role apart!

• Own end-to-end delivery across finance transformation engagements, from mobilisation through to outcomes, not just analysis.
• Lead senior stakeholder conversations with CFOs and finance leaders, confidently framing decisions and trade-offs.
• Translate complexity into clear insights, linking analysis directly to business value, performance, and risk outcomes.
• Exercise strong commercial judgement, actively managing scope, priorities, and engagement economics.
• Lead and develop high performing teams, creating a culture of accountability, coaching, and proactive issue management.

Your key responsibilities

• Lead complex finance transformation projects involving digital strategy, process optimisation, future state operating model design, and the implementation of enabling technologies such as ERP (SAP, Microsoft Dynamics), EPM, AI, RPA, and Power BI. Engage directly with CFOs, GMs, and senior finance leaders, leading senior level conversations, framing decisions, and clearly articulating implications, trade offs, and the "so what".
• Inspire and guide high performing teams by mentoring junior consultants, collaborating across service lines, and delivering integrated solutions that drive sustainable change. Lead and develop high performing teams by setting clear expectations, providing coaching and feedback, and fostering an environment where issues are surfaced early and addressed proactively.
• Provide strategic insights, and support business development through proposal leadership, solution design, and thought leadership, with a strong focus on commercial judgement and delivery credibility. Own delivery across multiple finance workstreams or subject matter areas, ensuring alignment across operating model, planning, reporting, systems, and cost transformation initiatives.
• Lead and facilitate senior stakeholder workshops and discussions, confidently managing conflicting viewpoints and challenging stakeholders to drive clear, actionable decisions. Translate complex financial and operational data into clear insights, defining structured options, business cases, and recommendations that link directly to value, performance, and risk outcomes.
• Actively manage scope, priorities, and engagement economics, balancing client expectations with commercial discipline and making informed trade offs to protect delivery quality and margin.

Skills and attributes for success

• 5 - 10 years of experience in finance transformation, consulting, or in house finance roles, ideally within professional services, Big 4, or industry finance teams. Demonstrated experience in leading end to end finance transformation or operating model engagements, delivering clear, measurable outcomes.
• Strong knowledge of core finance functions (e.g. FP&A, record to report, order to cash), with hands on experience in finance strategy, process improvement, and system implementations. Strong ability to break down ambiguity into structured problems and articulate the "so what" through clear recommendations and actionable insights.
• Proven ability to lead and influence with strong communication, stakeholder management, and problem solving skills; experience with tools like SAP, Microsoft, Blackline, or Tagetik is a plus. Solid understanding of commercial drivers, project scope management, and engagement economics within a consulting environment. Australian Citizenship is preferred.

Preferred qualifications

• Relevant qualifications such as CA, CPA, CFA, or MBA.
• A finance related degree.

What we offer you

• Career development: At EY, your career is yours to shape! We'll develop you with future focused skills and equip you with world class experiences.
• Flexible work arrangements: Our flexible work policies empower you to balance your professional and personal life, fostering a culture of trust and autonomy.
• A comprehensive benefits package: From a yearly wellness incentive, to access to additional 8 weeks of flex leave per year, and family friendly policies, including up to 26 weeks of gender neutral paid parental leave, we cater to your diverse needs to help you thrive both personally and professionally.
• Salary: We offer a competitive salary which is open to negotiation pending on skills and experience.

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