About The Position
At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence. We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. Join EY and help to build a better working world. The Transition/Onboarding Lead will play a critical role in ensuring the successful onboarding, transition, and stabilization of clients onto EY’s IFMS operating model. This role spans onboarding readiness, end-to-end transition execution, and transition PMO leadership, providing strong governance, coordination, and transparency across complex, multi-workstream engagements.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Project Management, or related field.
- 10+ years of experience in managed services transitions, onboarding and PMO.
- Strong understanding of transition governance frameworks, service delivery models, project management methodologies, and operational best practices.
- Demonstrated program and PMO leadership capability across complex initiatives.
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and organizational skills.
- Experience driving change management and operational readiness.
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written in English, with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment, drive operational efficiency, while working across borders and functional competencies.
Nice To Haves
- Knowledge of SAP Finance modules (FI/CO) and experience working with Signavio process maps
Responsibilities
- Lead and own end-to-end transition and onboarding delivery, including planning, execution, governance, budgets, dependencies and stabilization.
- Act as the primary client point of contact during transition, managing communications, risks, issues and escalation to ensure a controlled onboarding experience.
- Own onboarding readiness across policies, controls, operating practices, data migration, knowledge transfer, and technology enablement, working in close coordination with business and technology SMRs.
- Drive structured change management, communications, and adoption to enable smooth delivery and operational readiness.
- Drive consistency and efficiency through standardized templates, dashboards, and PMO enablement tools.
- Prepare steady‑state readiness criteria and completion checklists.
- Collaborate with delivery teams to enable smooth handoff to steady-state operations.
- Deliver clear, executive-ready dashboards and insights highlighting status, risks, decisions required, and upcoming actions.
- Manage transition quality gates, cutover readiness, and go‑live governance to ensure smooth onboarding of client services into steady‑state operations.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to our business.
- Medical coverage.
- Support and coaching 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
- Comprehensive compensation and benefits package
- Dental coverage
- Pension plans
- 401(k) plans
- Wide range of paid time off options
- Flexible vacation policy
- Time off for designated EY Paid Holidays
- Winter/Summer breaks
- Personal/Family Care
- Other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
