Practice Finance Assistant Director (National Tax) Job in Washington, District Of Columbia Us
Washington, DC
- Direct the strategic delivery of sub-department financial initiatives
- Prepare, review and consolidate annual budgets and outlooks for a sub-service line, industry or location.
- Prioritize tasks to accomplish Ernst Young's goals and objectives
- Help drive key Area and firm initiatives that involve process or procedural change
- Produce ad hoc reports to help monitor key performance measures for the practice
- Work closely with the Assistant Area Director of Finance and the Area Director of Finance. Offer regular guidance and communicate any issues, making recommendations on how to overcome them
- Educate client-serving individuals on financial matters, to help them better manage and report expenditure
- Maintain high employee morale, by encouraging teamwork and building strong internal and external client relationships
- Create and implement leading practices for improving processes
- Assist with the month-end profit and loss close
- Help prepare and analyze confidential information
- Oversee daily accounting and reporting functions that take place within the organization
- Provide basic training and soft skills for Finance staff
- Act as the primary contact for client service personnel in resolving problems or issues for assigned practices
- Ability to determine the root cause for variances in actual results versus budget and previous year, and to communicate these reasons clearly
- Adept at using business knowledge to make recommendations, and suggest ways to improve or change financial results
- Confident in identifying and raising concerns to leaders, regarding variances or situations with a material threshold
- Good aptitude for solving complex financial and analytical issues
- Ability to develop accurate financial budgets
- Competent at preparing and presenting accurate restatements or pro-forma analysis, as business needs change
- Knowledgeable on how professional services firms generate and recognize revenue, measure utilization and productivity of resources, and accurately calculate the value of unbilled client receivables
- Excellent software skills, including Microsoft Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint, Internet Explorer and Lotus Notes
- Strong leadership, presentation, and problem-solving skills
- Comfortable with change that results from frequent business re-organizations
- Skilled at handling multiple projects concurrently, and prioritizing appropriately
- Ability to gain the respect of both the finance community and client-serving teams
- Comfortable working with individuals at all levels of the firm
- Ability to teach new skills to others
- Competent at interpreting and applying Ernst Young policies, giving accurate and consistent guidance to others
- Strong listening skills
- A strong focus on quality and efficiency
- English language skills - excellent written and verbal communication
- A minimum of 6 years experience in a professional services environment in a finance/business capacity
- A minimum of 3 years experience preferred in the following: supervisory, forecasting and budgeting, financial management, financial analyst and/or financial assistant roles
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting or Business Administration, or equivalent work experience
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October 24, 2010
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