Customer and Strategy- Assistant Manager

EY - Johannesburg, Gauteng

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Contract

Contract type
Permanent
Application deadline
15/05/2020

Description

Position
Customer and Strategy- Assistant Manager
Vacancies
1
Description
Job purpose

As Performance
Improvement Manager - Strategic Direction, you'll actively establish, maintain
and strengthen internal and external relationships. With guidance from
partners, directors and senior managers, you'll identify potential business
opportunities for Ernst & Young. By drawing on your knowledge and
experience, you'll provide innovative commercial insights for clients, adapt
methods and practices to fit operational team and cultural needs and contribute
to thought leadership.

You'll actively
contribute to improving operational efficiency on projects and internal
initiatives. In line with Ernst & Young's commitment to quality, you'll
consistently drive projects to completion and confirm that work is of a high
quality. Your role in leading teams - or parts of teams - on engagements will
depend on the size of engagement. When working on engagements, you'll report to
higher levels of management, who will expect you to anticipate and identify
risks, and escalate any issues as appropriate.

As an
influential member of the team, you'll help to create a positive learning
culture, coach and counsel junior team members and help them to develop.
Client
responsibilities
  • Participate
    in Strategic Direction engagements
  • Help
    manage the financial aspects of engagements by organizing staffing,
    tracking fees and communicating issues to project leaders
  • Participate
    in business development initiatives
  • Build
    strong internal relationships within Ernst & Young Advisory Services
    and with other services across the organization
People
responsibilities
  • Develop
    people through effectively supervising, coaching, and mentoring staff
  • Conduct
    performance reviews and contribute to performance feedback for staff
  • Contribute
    to people-related initiatives including recruiting, retaining and training
    professionals
  • Maintain
    an educational program to continually develop personal skills of staff
  • Understand
    and follow workplace policies and procedures
Technical
skills requirements


You'll
have knowledge and experience of a number of the following areas, and be
developing deep experience and technical competence in at least one:
  • Ability
    to analyze complex problems and deliver insightful and practical solutions
  • Ability
    to influence and persuade clients and stakeholders, in order to gain
    support for major changes and key decisions
  • Experience
    of the full project life cycle from concept through to implementation
You'll
have knowledge and experience in one or more of Ernst & Young's priority
industry sectors:
  • Government
    & Public Sector
  • Utilities
  • Consumer
    Products
  • Industrial
    Products
  • Technology
  • Communications
    & Entertainment
  • Healthcare


Qualifications

  • Any Masters Degree or MBA
    from a recognised tertiary institution


Additional
requirements
  • Demonstrated
    track record of structuring and managing projects or programs of work,
    exceeding client expectations whilst managing project risks or issues
  • Design
    orientated person
  • Innovative
    & Analytical
Why
should I work for Ernst & Young in Strategic Direction?


Effectively
translating corporate strategy into operational strategy is key to successful
business transformation and performance improvement. As one of our strategic
direction advisors, you'll use your experience in business analysis and
strategy to help clients define and plan effective execution of their strategic
direction and vision. You'll advise client executives on how to translate
corporate strategy and business insight into change, either for their entire
organization or selected functions within it. You'll have the opportunity to
work with some of the world's leading organizations and business leaders across
a range of industry sectors. And we'll provide you with the resources, tools
and support you need to achieve your potential.






Requirements

Min education
University attendance
Required experience
none Years
Nationality
Not defined
Languages
Not defined
Specializations
Skills
Not defined
Prerequisites

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Company

Employer name

EY

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