Assistant Director, Growth & Innovation Finance

About the role

EY is hiring an Assistant Director for its Growth & Innovation Finance team in Kochi. The team supports EY's strategic priorities across Regions, Service Lines and Sectors, including Managed Services, Alliances, AI, Sustainability and Transformation, delivering performance insight, planning support and decision intelligence. The role combines finance business partnering with hands-on AI-enabled transformation, using AI to improve the speed, quality and scale of analysis.

Key responsibilities

• Support performance reporting, financial analysis and executive commentary across Growth & Innovation priorities, and define and collate financial and non-financial measures including forward-looking indicators.
• Analyse monthly results, opportunities, engagements, investments and demand drivers, and turn findings into actionable business insights.
• Build scenarios, projections and business cases, and support planning, budgeting and forecasting while challenging assumptions.
• Develop and maintain dashboards, reporting models and analytical tools, and improve data quality, lineage, reconciliation, controls and documentation.
• Partner across Finance, Markets, Regions, Service Lines and Technology to align solutions and share leading practices.
• Act as a trusted advisor to the Growth & Innovation CFO and senior stakeholders, drive workstreams independently across time zones and coach colleagues in analytical thinking, digital fluency and AI-assisted ways of working.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree and/or professional certification in Finance, Accounting, Business, Analytics, Information Systems or a related discipline.
• 7-10 years of relevant experience in 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 improvement.
• Excellent spoken and written English, strong presentation skills and the ability to influence senior executives across regions and cultures.

Required skills

• Strong FP&A, corporate financial management, performance management, scenario modelling and business case skills.
• Advanced analytical and commercial judgement, combining financial and non-financial data.
• Experience creating reusable prompts, agent instructions, skills, templates and playbooks for analysis, commentary, scenario modelling and leadership reporting.
• Preferred: strong Excel and data extraction skills (Analysis Services cubes, SQL), PowerPoint, Power BI/Power Query; experience with Copilot is an advantage.