Assistant Director-Growth and Innovation Finance

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Assistant Director, Growth & Innovation Finance

About the team

Growth & Innovation Finance supports EY’s strategic priorities across Regions, Service Lines and Sectors, including Managed Services, Alliances, AI, Sustainability and Transformation. The team delivers performance insight, planning support and decision intelligence to clarify contribution, risks and growth opportunities.

The opportunity

This role combines finance business partnering with hands-on AI-enabled transformation. The Assistant Director will deliver forward-looking analysis and executive insight, utilising AI enablement to improve speed, quality, and scale.

Key responsibilities

Finance, performance and insight

• Support performance reporting, financial analysis and executive commentary across Growth & Innovation priorities.
• Define and collate meaningful financial and non-financial measures, including forward-looking indicators, to assess performance and contribution.
• Analyse monthly results, opportunities, engagements, investments and demand drivers; translate findings into actionable business insights.
• Build scenarios, projections and business cases.
• Support planning, budgeting and forecasting; challenge assumptions and produce concise leadership briefings and decision-oriented narratives.

Data, reporting and continuous improvement

• Develop and maintain dashboards, reporting models and analytical tools that explain performance and underlying drivers.
• Improve data quality, lineage, reconciliation, controls and documentation, with clear ownership and sustainable issue resolution.
• Partner across Finance, Markets, Regions, Service Lines and Technology to align solutions and share leading practices.

Leadership contribution

• Act as a trusted advisor to the Growth & Innovation CFO and senior stakeholders, balancing pace, insight quality, risk and practical delivery.
• Drive workstreams independently across time zones, manage competing priorities and influence effectively in a global matrix.
• Coach colleagues in analytical thinking, digital fluency, AI-assisted ways of working and executive storytelling.

Skills and attributes for success

• Strong grounding in FP&A, corporate financial management, performance management, scenario modelling and business cases.
• Advanced analytical and commercial judgement; able to combine financial and non-financial data, challenge assumptions and distinguish signal from noise.
• Ability to translate ambiguous business needs into structured requirements, prioritised use cases, testable solutions and measurable outcomes.
• Keen interest in hands-on generative AI capability.
• Experience creating reusable prompts, agent instructions, skills, templates and playbooks for analysis, commentary, scenario modelling and leadership reporting.
•  Excellent spoken and written English, with strong presentation skills and the confidence to engage and influence senior executives across regions and cultures.
•  Intellectually curious and collaborative, able to deliver independently under pressure.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s degree and/or professional certification in Finance, Accounting, Business, Analytics, Information Systems or a related discipline.
• 7–10 years of relevant experience across FP&A, strategic finance, business analysis, reporting, analytics or finance transformation, preferably in a global professional-services environment.
• Demonstrated experience implementing digital, automation or AI-enabled solutions with measurable process or decision-support improvement

Preferred technical experience

Strong Excel and data extraction skills (e.g., Analysis Servers cubes, SQL); experience with PowerPoint, Power BI/Power Query. Experience working with Copilot is an advantage.

Success in the role

• Leadership receives timely, forward-looking insight with clear implications and actions.
• Priority reporting and planning processes become more consistent, controlled and efficient.
• AI use cases become reusable workflows with defined owners, validation and measurable value.
• Finance colleagues strengthen analytical, advisory and AI-enabled delivery capabilities.
• Data, governance and quality standards embedded in traditional and AI-assisted workflows

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