GDS Ecosystem Relationship Formations Lead Assistant Director EY GDS

Job Summary

EYs Ecosystem Relationship Enablement (ERE) team is responsible for governing and enabling the formation of all new Alliances and Ecosystem Relationships globally working closely with Service Lines Independence Risk Management Quality GCO Legal and other enabling functions to ensure all required approvals controls and governance requirements are met.

The GDS Ecosystem Formation Manager is accountable for owning and leading the global ecosystem formation operating model providing strategic program leadership governance oversight and stakeholder advisory support for the ERE formation function. The role goes beyond operational coordination to ensure the formation process is scalable compliant riskmanaged and consistently executed across geographies while delivering a seamless experience to business stakeholders.

The incumbent will:

Own operationalize and continuously evolve the global delivery and support model for ecosystem formation partnering with senior Service Line leadership and control functions (Independence Risk Management Quality GCO etc.) to drive effective execution governance and decisionmaking across the formation lifecycle

Lead and oversee the endtoend ecosystem formation process proactively identifying risks dependencies and bottlenecks and driving process simplification and continuous improvement to support increasing volume complexity and scale of ecosystem relationships while ensuring a frictionless and transparent experience for business teams seeking to establish new relationships

Essential Functions of the Job

Own and lead the endtoend Ecosystem Formation process globally providing program leadership and governance oversight while coordinating activity across multiple onshore and GDS teams within the Ecosystem Service Bureau to ensure seamless handoffs and outcomes. Manage the GDS Ecosystem Formation team.

Act as a primary engagement and escalation point for EY business teams and senior stakeholders advising them on ecosystem formation requirements governance expectations risks and key decision points throughout the lifecycle

Provide oversight and accountability for first and secondlevel reviews of intake forms business cases and supporting documentation ensuring completeness accuracy firsttime quality and adherence to governance and risk standards

Guide and validate research and duediligence activities (leveraging EY systems and external sources) ensuring highquality inputs into formation templates and informed decisionmaking by stakeholders

Proactively manage stakeholder queries dependencies and escalations ensuring timely resolution of issues and maintaining momentum across multiple concurrent ecosystem formation requests

Lead and facilitate governancecritical stakeholder interactions ensuring meetings are outcomedriven decisions are clearly documented and actions are owned and tracked through to completion

Ensure clear executiveready communication of outcomes including synthesis of decisions risks next steps and timelines with accountability for followthrough across business and enabling teams

Oversee the preparation and quality of communications and documentation produced by the formation team ensuring consistency clarity and readiness for senior stakeholder and governance forums

Own the integrity and effective use of the Ecosystem Relationship Management System (ERMS) as the system of record ensuring accurate data capture transparency of status and meaningful managementlevel reporting

Establish and maintain robust documentation and knowledge repositories driving standardization accessibility and continuous improvement in information sharing across stakeholder groups

Ensure strict adherence to ecosystem formation quality controls and risk management requirements working closely with Independence Risk Management Quality GCO and other control functions to track approvals and resolve issues proactively

Oversee postformation activities including validation of relationship summaries readiness for onboarding and transition to steadystate relationship management ensuring a smooth and compliant handover

Own and drive regular review and refresh of the ecosystem formation process ensuring documentation controls and operating practices remain current effective and aligned to evolving business and regulatory requirements

Lead stakeholder enablement efforts including education communication and guidance to promote awareness compliance and consistent adoption of the ecosystem formation process globally

Champion continuous improvement and operational excellence identifying systemic bottlenecks inefficiencies and risks and leading targeted initiatives to simplify workflows improve scalability and enhance stakeholder experience ensure leverage and high adoption of AI.

Knowledge and Skill Guidance

Knowledge of Alliances and Ecosystem relationship formation strong program and operational leadership capabilities with the ability to own complex endtoend governancedriven processes and drive consistent outcomes across multiple workstreams stakeholders and geographies

Exceptional verbal and written communication skills including the ability to synthesize complex issues risks and dependencies into clear executiveready summaries and articulate process requirements decisions and expectations to senior stakeholders with confidence and clarity

Proven ability to engage influence and partner with senior stakeholders across Service Lines enabling functions and control teams operating effectively in a highly matrixed multigeography and virtual environment

Strong understanding of EY and GDS operating models including organizational structures governance forums approval mechanisms management information systems and interdependencies across Independence Risk Management Quality GCO and related functions (for internal candidates)

Sound judgment and analytical capability to oversee research due diligence and validation activities ensuring highquality riskaware inputs into ecosystem formation decisions and firsttimeright outcomes

Demonstrated ability to independently identify assess and resolve complex issues including rootcause analysis development of mitigation strategies and implementation of preventive controls to avoid recurrence

Deep working knowledge of continuous improvement principles with experience applying process optimization standardization and scalability concepts to improve efficiency quality and stakeholder experience

Strong organizational and prioritization skills with the ability to manage multiple concurrent formation requests balance competing demands and maintain momentum in a fastpaced highvolume environment

High level of comfort with data reporting and insights including the ability to interpret operational metrics identify trends and translate data into actionable management insights

Advanced proficiency in core business tools such as MS Excel PowerPoint SharePoint and related collaboration platforms with the ability to leverage these tools for analysis reporting documentation and seniorlevel communications

Other Guidance

• Academics & Experience: Bachelor of Business Administration Science Commerce or Technology Masters in Business Administration
• 12 years preferably operating in an individual contributor capacity with senior onshore standholders
• Location: GDS Argentina Buenos Aries
• Working Hours: Flexible based on assignment; substantial overlap with US time zones will be key