Ross Lacey

Ross is the EY Global Finance Transformation Strategy and Vision Leader. He joined EY in 2006 running the Finance Consulting Business in the UK. For 10 years, he led an EY team supporting the market leading European Global Business Services (GBS) operation for a global consumer products company. Over the last five years he has led EY’s consulting team at a global energy company.

He began his working life as a derivatives accountant before embarking on a career in consulting from 1995. Throughout that time, he has focused on finance transformation across multiple sectors including telecoms, technology, media, consumer products and financial services.

Ross was boarding school educated in England and has a degree in Economics and International Politics from the London School of Economics. He has an identical twin brother who also used to work at EY. Ross divides his time between Manchester and London and has three children.

How Ross is building a better working world

“I try to help clients, both individually and collectively, to think about how things could be and imagine what’s really possible. It’s my job to give clients the confidence to use imagination and vision as a North Star to innovate and improve things.

I help institutionalize a mindset of continuous questioning, disruption and innovation by putting customers and stakeholders first and focusing everything clients do on delivering against their future needs. This creates opportunities to innovate and transform the ‘status quo’.”