Job Opportunities at Ernst & Young Global Limited (EY)

About the opportunity 

• As part of our External Audit team, you’ll experience ongoing professional development through diverse experiences, world-class learning and individually tailored coaching. That’s how we develop outstanding leaders who team to deliver on our promises to all of our stakeholders, and in so doing, play a critical role in building a better working world for our people, for our clients and for our communities. Sound interesting? Well this is just the beginning. Because whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime

Client responsibilities 

• Manage engagement economics and communicate significant issues, fees and estimates to complete to partners and clients
• Assist partners with generating new business opportunities and building client networks and relationships
• Understand our service offerings and actively identify opportunities to better serve clients
• Build strong internal relationships within Assurance and across other services
• Execution of complex audit engagements, managing risk and applying professional scepticism
• Application of complex risk management policies and procedures on engagements with an understanding of global and local independence rules
• Maximize operational efficiency with a focus on key performance drivers and improve operating practices by leading the implementation of all new audit solutions and enablers
• Enhance EY’s brand positioning through strong external relationships across a network of existing and future clients
• Provide strategic and relevant insight, connectedness and responsiveness to all clients that anticipates their needs
• Maximize business development opportunities through leveraging of networks across other service lines and geographies
• Participate as a reviewer in the Audit Quality Review process
• Defend the audit work in connection with internal or external inspections (regulator, AQR, peer review) 

Qualifications and Experience

• CA(SA)
• Thorough knowledge of current auditing techniques
• Experience of the entire audit process
• Familiarity with IFRS and local GAAP
• Detailed understanding of risk-based auditing and risk and control strategies
• Understanding of Quality & Risk Management procedures
• Compliance with regulatory requirements
• Insurance auditing experience
• Financial services auditing experience
• 6 - 8 years post articles Audit experience
   

Technical skills requirements

• Thorough knowledge of current auditing techniques
• Five years to eight years of relevant work experience preferred
• Experience of the entire audit process
• Understanding of IFRS and local GAAP
• Detailed understanding of risk-based auditing and risk and control strategies
• Understanding of Quality & Risk Management (Q&RM) procedures
• Compliance with and understanding of regulatory requirements
   

Additional skills requirements

• Track record with a blue-chip audit firm
• Professional accountancy qualification
• Strong academic record including a degree

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Job description

• We are looking for a Senior Associate who we can contribute technically to Data and Analytics client engagements and internal projects. An important part of your role will be to actively establish, maintain and strengthen internal and external relationships. You'll anticipate and identify risks within engagements and share any issues with senior members of the team.
• In line with EYs commitment to quality, you'll confirm that work is of high quality. As an influential member of the team, you'll help to create a positive learning culture, coach and counsel junior team members and help them to develop.

Client responsibilities

• Take an active role in data analytics engagements, owning assigned sections with a technical execution role around assessment, design and implementation of analytics solutions.
• Work effectively as a Senior Associate, taking accountability for assigned sections providing support, maintaining communication and updating senior team members on progress
• Document outputs that will serve as input to reports and schedules that will be delivered to clients and other parties
• Develop and maintain productive working relationships with client personnel
• Build strong internal relationships within EY Consulting and with other services across the organisation

People responsibilities

• Conduct performance reviews and contribute to performance feedback for staff
• Contribute to an educational program to continually develop personal skills of staff
• Understand and follow workplace policies and procedures
• A willingness to take on supervision and development of junior staff

Preferred experience:

• To execute data analytics and analytics driven solutions covering the entire spectrum from basic analytics to advanced analytics such as predictive modelling, machine learning and artificial intelligence, both in South Africa and abroad.

Technical skillset:

The successful candidate will need to demonstrate technical proficiency as follows:

Required:

• SQL
• Power BI
• Data manipulation and modelling/ ETL
• Data extraction
• Data transformation
• Data modelling
• Data handling

Advantageous:

• Azure Fundamentals or AWS Practioner certification
• SAS/ R (advantageous)
• Python
• Spotfire/ Qlikview/ Tableau
• Machine learning
• AI/ Artificial Intelligence
• Real time/ near real time analytics and technologies
• Internet of Things (IoT)
• Structured data
• Unstructured data
• Big data
• Integrating structured and unstructured data
• Building of data lakes
• Building of data warehouses
• Quantitative skills – This could include statistical, econometrical, mathematical skills etc.
   

Professional Experience:

The successful candidate will need to demonstrate experience in delivering or taking part in some of the following projects, for a minimum of 2 years in total:

• Descriptive/ informative analytics
• Predictive analytics
• Prescriptive/ decision making analytics
• Business Intelligence (BI implementations)
• Social media analytics
• Risk & control analytics
• Process analytics
• Operational analytics
• Financial modelling
• Risk scoring
• Risk modelling
   

People Management Experience:

• While not required, experience in mentoring and supervising junior team members will be advantageous.

Qualifications:

• Minimum B.Sc / B.Com Honours with focus on quantitative skills, financial engineering, mathematical modelling, data modelling, IT.