Senior Manager/Director-Islamic Financial Services (IFS)

Senior Manager/Director-Islamic Financial Services (IFS)

Title: Senior Manager/Director-Islamic Financial Services (IFS)
Location: OMN-Muscat-Muscat
As Performance Improvement Senior Manager - Finance, you'll build valued relationships with external clients and internal peers and develop a portfolio of business by focusing on high impact opportunities. You'll lead presentations and proposals for moderately complex projects - or elements of highly complex projects - and provide subject matter insight to bids and proposals.

Drawing on your skills and experience, you'll create innovative commercial insights for clients. You'll also adapt methods and practices to fit operational team and cultural needs, and contribute to thought leadership. In addition, you'll package overall project findings into clear, concise, high-quality work products. Acting as a subject matter resource on one or more services, you'll leverage knowledge and experience to shape Ernst & Young's services to meet client problems.

By driving improvements in business processes, you'll serve as a role model for quality & risk management and confirm that project teams understand and comply with Ernst & Young's Q&RM guidelines. As a respected senior professional, you'll communicate effectively with Ernst & Young engagement partners and managers and work to build, manage and motivate high-performing teams. You'll also help key staff to build sustainable competencies.

Client responsibilities

? Participate in and, as required, lead Finance engagements
? Manage financial aspects of client engagements and communicate significant issues, fees, and estimates-to-complete to partners and clients
? Help partners and directors generate new business opportunities and build client networks and relationships
? Understand all Ernst & Young service offerings and actively identify opportunities to better serve clients
? 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 all levels of staff
? Conduct performance reviews and contribute to performance feedback for all levels of staff
? Contribute to people-related initiatives including recruiting, retaining and training Finance professionals
? Maintain an educational program to continually develop personal skills of all levels of staff
? Understand and follow workplace policies and procedures and communicate these to all levels of staff

Technical skills requirements

You'll have knowledge and experience of a number of the following areas:

? Finance transformation
? Balanced scorecard
? Planning, budgeting and forecasting
? Performance measurement and performance management
? Business performance reporting
? Cost to serve
? Cost reduction
? Shared service centre and business process outsourcing
? Financial statement close

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

Additional requirements



? 10-15 years experience in commercial banking and or advisory profession
? Experience should include 5 years experience in Islamic banking or consulting services
? Strong functional knowledge of strategy design, banking operations, Islamic product structures and Sharia governance framework
? Demonstrated track record with a blue chip consulting organization and/or blue chip organization
? Professional accountancy qualification or equivalent
? Experience in GCC Banking Industry is desirable
? Strong academic record including a degree
? Demonstrated experience in business development
? Proficiency in Arabic language skills are highly desirable
Who we are

To achieve their potential, businesses need to continuously achieve and sustain performance improvement in a rapidly changing environment. As one of our performance improvement advisors, you'll help many of the world's leading businesses and governments tackle their most pressing issues. Working in multidisciplinary teams, often directly with leaders of major organizations, you'll bring diverse perspectives to every challenge. We'll help you achieve your potential by supporting your professional development and giving you experience of working with a diverse range of clients. You'll have the opportunity to build your skills in one of our focused competency groups, including: Finance, Customer, Supply Chain, IT Advisory, People & Organization, Program Management or Strategic Direction. You'll also have the opportunity to team with professionals from other parts of the organization in multidisciplinary engagements, especially those in Risk. At Ernst & Young, we know it's your point of view, energy and enthusiasm that make the difference.