About the job

Vacancy: Manager –Transformation and Infrastructure (Tanzania)

What if we didn’t focus on who you are now, but who you could become?

Here at EY, you’ll have the chance to build a truly exceptional experience. We’ll empower you with the latest technology, surround you with high-performing teams, and provide the global scale and diverse and inclusive culture you need to discover your full potential. Through our coaching and training programs, you’ll develop the skillsets you need to stay relevant today and, in the future, – all while building a network of colleagues, mentors, and leaders who will be on the journey with you at EY and beyond.

The Exceptional EY Experience. It's Yours To Build.

The opportunity: your next adventure awaits

Being part of a dynamic, growing organization offers an exciting career path full of opportunity. EY’s Consulting Services with 18,000+ professionals globally. Our Consulting team takes a strategic approach to helping clients define, transform and sustain leading performance. Within Consulting, our Business Transformation team works with senior executives on their most pressing challenges to deliver tangible results. We are looking for accomplished, creative individuals who bring rigor, passion and practicality to our growing team across four areas of focus:

• Transformation Strategy: Helping client organizations conceive of and drive meaningful transformation across the enterprise, leading with industry expertise and the full breadth of EY capabilities
• Business Design: Evolving client engagement across all aspects of next generation marketing, sales and service
• Experience Design: Assisting our clients in reimagining, designing and deploying valuable human experiences
• Transformation Execution: Leading large, complex, programs that require specialized discipline and expertise

We are looking for Manager to join our Business Transformation Consulting – Infrastructures in our Tanzania Office.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Roles vary from engagement to engagement, but are likely to include business analysis, Solution architecture, target operating model design, vendor package selection, implementation management & project management.
• Lead and manage full lifecycle implementation projects using leading practices, methods, frameworks, standards and maturity models
• Lead large scale planning, execution and controlling activities for projects' strategic benefits and objectives, or subsections of large/complex programs
• Change management has a good understanding of project management and a proven track-record in leading large-scale change initiatives.
• Managing and leading project teams or work streams as part of larger projects,
• Being responsible for high quality delivery on a client assignment, usually as part of an on-site project team
• Demonstrating knowledge and experience in one or more market areas and technical skills
• Building long term trusted advisor relationships with our clients
• Identifying and pursuing opportunities for new business
• Aiding proposals and bid teams
• Assisting in developing EY solutions and supporting tools and methods
• Supporting EY practice and people development activities (e.g. recruitment, away days)
• Liaising with service line teams, account teams and functional specialists
• Shaping and defining large transformations programme’s
• Defining and ensuring the implementation of the Solution Architecture, ensuring all Architecture deliverables are delivered on time to a high quality
• Ensuring that all Requirement Deliverables are delivered on time to high quality
• Ensure that the Solution Architecture is proven, and all significant technical risks are mitigated
• Support and Mentoring the technical team to excel in the completion of their assigned activities and to further develop their own capabilities
• Ensuring that any 3rd parties deliver value to the programme
• Perform feasibility studies and risk adjusted transformation benefit analyses.
• Lead organizational planning, re-engineering and transformation initiatives (benefits management, program stakeholder management and program governance), including IT programs and business transformation endeavours and/or infrastructure projects.
• Perform critical analysis of large complex programs/projects including program performance measures, controls and analytics-based analysis.
• Develop program recovery plans and remediation options (benefit analysis) to executive management.
• Conduct qualitative and quantitative risk analysis including sensitivity, decision tree analysis to depict key interactions and utilizing simulation models to analyze the behavior/performance and the outcomes to project plan.
• Manage risk management initiatives including risk planning, execution and response development.

Technical Skills, Experiences, And Education

To be successful in these roles, you will be required to demonstrate the following:

• Successful track record in Project Management, Business process re-engineering, ERP System Implementation, System selection, System Review, functional specification design, technical specification design, etc., gained through working for a Provider directly, a top tier consultancy, a specialist financial services consultancy, a top tier System Integrator or and/or an Outsource provider
• Strong understanding of one or more sectors such as Financial Services, Government and Public Sector, Mining, Retail, Oil and Gas, Health, etc.
• Good appreciation of current market trends and how these are likely to impact key industry players
• Strong understanding of the value chains of one or more of the above-named sectors (from distribution, customer management, manufacturing, reinsurance through to administration - servicing, etc.)
• Strong background in Solution architecture (Business, Functional & Technical), including development of end-to-end solution blueprints for large scale FS or GPS programmes, IT Strategy formulation, implementation, and reviews
• Track record of successful delivery on large scale technology delivery projects for Financial Services or GPS companies, including Data Migration, clean up, Process Automation, BPM and Data Digital Platforms e.g. Pega, Mobile, Portals etc.
• Communication skills: has excellent verbal communication skills and is a good listener. Has excellent writing skills and able to produce high quality reports.
• Relationship management: can establish credibility and presence with board level executives and can engage with them as a peer to debate operational and strategic issues.
• People management: understands and uses the dynamics in a group to achieve the objectives of an assignment. Is approachable to team members and provides coaching and support to address individual development needs.
• Leadership: a performance driven, entrepreneurial and ambitious person with goals to grow a portfolio, embrace quality and excel to directorship in the medium term.
• Communication skills: has excellent verbal communication skills and is a good listener. Has excellent writing skills and able to produce high quality reports.
• Consulting skills: can demonstrate the skills, experience and drive required to operate as a senior manager within a professional services firm.
• A Masters degree or higher qualification is preferable with any of CISA/ SAP/ Oracle/ CISM/ CGEIT/ ERP Certification (a must)

What We Offer

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you'll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of job autonomy, and promotions. Plus, we offer:

• Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around
• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that's right for you.
• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next. We recently launched our ground-breaking new fully accredited EY Tech MBA by Hult International Business School focused on technology, leadership and business skills; the entire program is delivered online, reflecting wider shift to virtual learning; and most importantly the EY Tech MBA is available to all EY people irrespective of prior qualifications or location.