'Performance Improvement Senior Manager - Strategic Technology - Media %26 Entertainment' - Ernst & Young (New York, New York)

'Performance Improvement Senior Manager - Strategic Technology - Media %26 Entertainment' - Ernst & Young (New York, New York)

'Performance Improvement Senior Manager - Strategic Technology - Media %26 Entertainment' - (New York, New York)
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Job Title
'Performance Improvement Senior Manager - Strategic Technology - Media %26 Entertainment'
Job Details
City: New York
State: New York
Country: USA
Company Name: Ernst & Young
Job Category: Accounting/Finance
Job Description

Being part of a dynamic, growing organization offers an exciting career path full of opportunity. Ernst & Young Advisory Services is a $4 billion global practice, with 18,000 professionals. With an overall Advisory market of $150 billion, there's tremendous potential for growth - and we're prepared to tap into that potential. Our Advisory team takes a strategic approach to helping clients improve and sustain their business performance. In today's complex business environment, that means understanding the relationship between risk and performance improvement, and applying our knowledge to help clients achieve their business objectives.

 

When you're on our Advisory team, you specialize in a particular competency - Risk, Performance Improvement, or IT Risk & Assurance. You also have the opportunity to work across disciplines with professionals who have broad industry sector experience and deep subject-matter knowledge. In Advisory, our growth strategy focuses on being account-centric, issue-based and competency-driven. That's what differentiates Ernst & Young in the Advisory marketplace. 

 

Our Performance Improvement team is all about helping clients improve security and efficiency, while also reducing their costs. We help clients by delivering assessment, transformation and process efficiency solutions in specialty areas like finance, supply chain, IT Advisory, customer, people and organization change, strategic direction, and program management. 

 

The opportunity is now. If you are interested in being part of a dynamic team, serving clients and reaching your full potential - Ernst & Young Advisory Services is for you.

 
Ernst & Young's Information Technology Enablement Center (ITEC) is a Center of Excellence that assists our national advisory practices in planning, pursuing, delivering and managing large, complex, full lifecycle initiatives along with providing experience in leading practices, methods, and resources in the space of information technology. Information Technology Effectiveness (ITE) within ITEC focuses on bridging the gap between business and IT, running IT like a business, improving Ernst & Young's Global Center methodologies, and enabling our national advisory practices with assessing, designing and transforming our clients in the following areas: 


  • IT Strategy and Portfolio Rationalization

  • IT Enterprise Architecture

  • IT Technical and Operations Management

  • IT Application Management

  • IT Management and Governance


We currently have a career opportunity for a Senior Manager in Enterprise Architecture.

 

Responsibilities

Assist leadership in shaping the IT Enterprise Architecture practice and methodologies.

 

Lead and provide guidance on all aspects of proposals, staffing, and managing IT architecture programs/projects.

 

Lead or guide large complex solution delivery programs or projects in all areas of architecture (business, information, application, technology, security, governance, etc.).

 

Lead and provide subject matter knowledge in establishing enterprise architectures, principles, and standards with respect to industry leading frameworks (such as TOGAF, Zachman, Gartner, etc.).

 

Perform IT assessments and building improvement plans/portfolios and be able to convince, guide and advise Chief Executive Officers on moving forward.

 

Lead diverse project teams including client, advisory, and third-party and across global regions.

 

Define/architect IT services as they relates to business processes with an ability to relate IT services in business terms.

 

Demonstrate strong ability to advise, coach and teach with respect to leading practices and improvements initiatives.

 

Establish and control architecture governance and compliance, processes, and community of the practice.

 

Build business cases and justify enterprise architecture improvements.

 

Lead practice building activities, improving internal solution sets, methods and resources.

 

Keep on the leading edge of innovation and trends in enterprise architecture, tools and techniques.

 

Integrate with ERP solution teams to confirm enterprise architectures are being used effectively and accelerators are used/created for major packages (SAP, Oracle, Seibel, etc.).

To qualify, candidates must have:


  • a bachelor's degree and approximately 8 years of related work experience; or a master's degree and approximately 7 years of related work experience

  • a bachelor's degree in MIS, Computer Science, Engineering, Applied Science, or Operations Management preferred

  • a master's degree in Computer Science, Operations, or Engineering a plus

  • significant experience consulting within the Media and Entertainment Industry.

  • certifications in architecture frameworks or through an established architecture program with various levels of architecture certification preferred

  • prefer 6-8 years of Media and Entertainment industry/advisory experience

  • a professional services background preferred

  • analytical and conceptual thinking skills with innovative capacity

  • ability to handle complexity and ambiguity, and provide structure to complex problems

  • strong interaction/communication, presentation, meeting facilitation and teaming skills 

  • integrity, maturity and dependability

  • demonstrated industry thought leadership is a plus


The successful candidate must also be willing and able to travel 70-90% of a work schedule.