Rapid Response Reporting - Assistant Director - EY GDS

The Opportunity
To join a high-performing multi-national team within the Global R&DA that provides financial reporting, analytics, and insights support in response to strategic and ad hoc business requests. This role offers the opportunity to work closely with senior stakeholders across a diverse portfolio of customers to design, develop and test reports and dashboards that support strategic initiatives and inform leadership decision-making.

What we look for
We are seeking for Assistant Directors with 10+ years of experience in professional services, or other leading global organizations, to join the Global R&DA Leadership Reporting Pillar.
The successful candidate will play a key role within a small dedicated team working with stakeholders to understand business requirements and advise on the most appropriate reporting solutions.
The role involves producing reporting specifications, designing and developing reports and dashboards, managing user acceptance testing, creating user documentation and delivering demonstrations and training sessions.

The ideal candidate will:
•    Combine strong technical expertise with excellent stakeholder management skills and the ability to translate complex business requirements into impactful reporting solutions.
•    Demonstrate a strong aptitude for understanding commercial financial reporting and analysis.
•    Be capable of working independently while collaborating effectively within a geographically diverse team environment.
•    Be a practical and analytical problem-solver with the ability to clearly articulate approach, findings and recommendations.
•    Thrive in a fast-paced environment managing multiple priorities and competing deadlines simultaneously.
•    Take ownership of deliverables ensuring a high standard of quality, accuracy and timeliness.

Key responsibilities
•    Demonstrate the confidence to ask the right questions to ensure outputs align with business requirements and stakeholder expectations. 
•    Ensuring the timely and accurate delivery of tasks assigned to you, keeping stakeholders and colleagues informed of progress and any potential issues. 
•    Develop a broad understanding of EY’s commercial Finance reporting portfolio that can be drawn on for direction and knowledge.
•    Ensure all reports and dashboards are developed in accordance with established build standards, governance requirements and approved style templates.
•    Act as a liaison between source data providers and the Global R&DA Leadership Reporting Pillar.

Stakeholder management
•    Act as a trusted business advisor to finance and business stakeholders. 
•    Develop a thorough understanding of business requirements building stakeholder confidence through insightful questioning and high-quality delivery. 
•    Manage stakeholder expectations and provide regular updates on priorities, timelines, risks, and deliverables. 
•    Challenge requests constructively and in a consultative manner ensuring proposed solutions align with strategic objectives, reporting standards and best practices. 
•    Present findings, insights, and recommendations in a clear, concise, and impactful manner tailored to the audience. 

Continuous improvement
•    Support process improvement initiatives to enhance reporting efficiency, data quality, automation and stakeholder experience.
•    Document reporting processes and business logic for reporting assigned to you.
•    Identify opportunities to simplify, standardise and automate processes.

Technical skill set
•    Demonstrate extensive experience designing, developing and maintaining complex reports and dashboards using Power BI. 
•    Design and develop advanced SQL queries to extract, interrogate, transform and analyse large datasets to help inform on the build of new reports and dashboards. 
•    Advanced Excel skills including complex formulas, data modelling, Power Query, automation and large-scale data analysis. 
•    Interpret, troubleshoot and enhance complex reports and dashboards developed by others. 
•    Demonstrate experience working with large and complex financial datasets. 
•    Understanding of concepts such as Wins, Pipeline, Backlog, Revenue, Margin.

Skills and attributes for success
•    Excellent listening and communication skills.
•    Strong curiosity and awareness of emerging business and technology trends.
•    Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
•    Excellent attention to detail.
•    A proactive customer-focused approach with a willingness to embrace new ideas and a commitment to continuous improvement.