Financial Management Associate (FMA): The Bahamas

Job description

Join our Core Business Services (CBS) team and you will help support the important business enablement functions that keep our organization running strong. As a CBS professional, you will work across teams to provide the knowledge, resources and tools that help EY deliver exceptional quality service to our clients, win in the marketplace and support EY’s growth and profitability. Major teams within CBS include Finance, Information Technology, Human Resources, Enterprise Support Services, Brand Marketing and Communications, Business Development, Knowledge and Risk Management.

Join our Finance team and you will help enable EY client account teams and management to run the business effectively.  You’ll help to improve engagement profitability, manage enterprise wide risk and support market development activities.  You will support EY planning, reporting and forecasting and analysis, or help EY people manage day-to-day activities, such as managing engagements, process and auditing time and expense or invoice processing.  You’ll also work with other parts of our organization, sharing your financial experience and insights to achieve specific goals. You’ll get all the support you need to stay on top of regulations — and the advice and help you‘ll need to meet your own professional goals.

With so many offerings, you have the opportunity to develop your career through a broad scope of engagements, mentoring and formal learning. That’s how we develop outstanding leaders who team to deliver on our promises to all of our stakeholders, and in so doing, play a critical role in building a better working world for our people, for our clients and for our communities. Sound interesting? Well this is just the beginning. Because whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime.

We are seeking qualified candidates for an exciting career opportunity as a Financial Management Associate (FMA) in our Bahamas team. The FMA must be able to team with senior executives with regard to financial analysis (including but not limited to suggesting various pricing strategies and providing budget to actual analysis) as well as advising on billing strategy for assigned clients.

This position requires strong accounting knowledge and the ability to utilize the firm’s many technological resources and a comfort with developing and suggesting financial strategies to assist the firm’s executives in achieving their financial goals for each client. The FMA requires multi-tasking skills to successfully balance competing priorities along with a positive attitude and a willingness to be flexible.  The FMA must be able to maintain a book of business comprised of standard accounts and maintain multiple executive level relationships. In order to be successful in this function, the FMA must be able to provide meaningful analysis, draw conclusions from the results and make appropriate recommendations. The FMA communicates best practices to clients and co-workers alike by contributing innovative and creative solutions that improve efficiency, quantitative and qualitative results, and will be required to delegate more administrative tasks to an off-site Financial Assistant. In addition, as the firm will be deploying a new financial system in the near term, the FMA will play an integral part in the deployment and change management of the new system, and will help champion the roll-out of the new system to client serving staff.

Required Skills/Experience/Attributes:
·  An associate’s or bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting or business administration
·  A minimum of two (2) years of recent relevant financial management experience; prior experience in a professional services firm would be an asset
·  Excellent project, time management, and problem-solving skills
·  An advanced proficiency with Microsoft products (Word, Excel, etc.)
·  Superior interpersonal and communication skills
·  The ability to work independently with minimal supervision and the capacity to work a flexible schedule, as some overtime will be required during peak periods
·  A dedication to teamwork and integrity within a professional environment
Compensation package includes health insurance, pension, bonus structure, and vacation entitlement.

EY, an equal opportunity employer, values the diversity of our workforce and the knowledge of our people.