Job Opportunities at Ernst & Young Global Limited (EY)

Job purpose

• As Senior Associate in Enterprise Risk, you will make a significant technical contribution to Risk client engagements and internal projects. Within your role, you will actively establish, maintain and strengthen internal and external relationships. You will also identify and escalate potential business opportunities for EY within existing engagements.
• With a clear focus on anticipating and identifying risks, you will escalate issues as appropriate. Working closely with colleagues, you will confirm whether the work plan is properly executed, documented and concluded in compliance with EY's guidelines. As an influential member of the team, you will help to create a positive learning culture, coach and counsel junior team members and help them to develop.

Your client responsibilities

• Work effectively as a team member, sharing responsibility, providing support, maintaining communication and updating senior team members on progress.
• Assign and manage tasks with other team members considering engagement needs and identified business outcomes, and organize own work such that important items get done first.
• Build strong internal relationships within EY and with other services across the organization.
• Develop and maintain productive working relationships with client personnel.
• Collaborate with the client to identify critical project outcomes, work products, barriers to success, and changes in expectations or scope.
• Preparing business process descriptions through interviews with the client’s middle and senior management and documenting understanding of business process and confirm the business process descriptions by performing a walkthrough of the process.
• Identifying possible business risks and control weaknesses from the business processes under review.
• Drafting detailed audit programmes to test controls in place.
• Assessment of design and implementation of key controls as well as the operating effectiveness, accuracy and validity thereof.
• Compilation of working papers substantiating scope and results of testing.
• Provide a coaching / mentoring role.
• Draft individual sections of documents and presentations to explain issues and solution options and implications.
• Display a logical thought process in understanding client challenges and exploring possible solutions.   
• Identify and escalate potential risks and issues to project manager along with suggested preventive or mitigating actions.
• Draft audit findings for review by EY Senior Management.
   

Your people responsibilities

• Act as a visible role model for our people.
• Coach and mentor junior team members.
• Give honest supportive feedback to colleagues.
• Take personal responsibility for own performance and career development.
• Play an active role in EY and Service line team activities.
• Understand and follow workplace policies and procedures.
   

Technical skills requirements

• Must have Honours in Internal Audit,  Accounting,  Business, Finance or other related field
• Must have CIA
• Minimum of 4 years of related work experience
• Related audit or applicable business experience
• Proficient in Microsoft office (including Excel, Word, Outlook and PowerPoint).
   

Additional skills requirements

• Strong analytical, interpersonal and communication skills.
• Demonstrated integrity, values, principles, and work ethic.
• Enquiring Mind
• Analytical
• Self-starter
• Team Player
• Share EY’s values and vision
• Disciplined
• Able to handle pressure
• Team building ability
• Good communication skills
   

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Job description

The global business environment is rapidly adapting to transformational measures and developments. EY understand the challenges that may arise as a result of these changes. As our Senior Manager, you will use your skills and experience to help our clients anticipate and manage the impact of these changes and challenges to their businesses. 

The opportunity 

• You will work with challenging but motivating projects spread across a wide spectrum of companies and industries. Nonetheless, you will be working with a vibrant team that is focused on helping our clients succeed. Moreover, this role will offer you a diverse and independent work schedule that requires commitment and initiative.  

Qualifications

• Everything you do will lead to providing definitive auditing services that the capital markets and the client can rely upon. You will analyze financial statements, annual reports and annual general meetings for our clients to ensure that there are no breach of auditing standards. You will help our clients respond better to reporting and auditing issues within their businesses.   

Skills and attributes for success 

• Identifying potential audit issues or unusual trends in financial statements with detailed analytical trend analysis  
• Demonstrating your professionalism while working in clients’ environments and providing exceptional service  
• Operating effectively in a regulated environment, with a focus on protecting the capital markets and the investing public   
• Having a genuine passion for protecting the financial markets via audit procedures auditing, and the resilience to prioritize and adapt in a demanding, fast-moving, constantly changing environment   

To qualify for the role you must have 

• Bcom Honours
• Around 5-7 years’ experience as an accountant or auditor in the various sectors – Mining, Financial Service, Retail etc.   
• Excellent critical thinking and analysis skills, and the confidence to identify and resolve problems   
• A proven record of excellence in communication and negotiation, supported by the technical writing skills to translate data into compelling stories and meaningful insights.  

Ideally, you’ll also have 

•  Qualified CA(SA) 

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Job description

• Our Assurance group is one of the most trusted, respected and influential organizations in the industry. As part of our PE team, you will provide peace of mind to clients by using your skills and experience to give companies, investors and regulators confidence in the validity of financial statements and business-critical information or processes. 

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.  

Qualifications

• You’ll help our clients meet their reporting requirements by providing an objective and independent examination of their financial statements. In addition, you will conduct timely and constructive discussions with the management on accounting and reporting matters and provide a robust and clear perspective to audit committees. In doing so, you play an important role in providing services to clients such as responding to regulatory reforms, managing capital life cycle and improving business operations.

Skills and attributes

•       Work effectively as a team member, sharing responsibility, providing support, maintaining communication and updating team members on progress  
•       Contribute ideas/opinions to the assurance teams and listen/respond to other assurance team members' views 
•       Demonstrate professionalism and competence in the audit client's environment. 
•       Integrity within a professional environment 
•       Strong written and verbal communication skills 

To qualify for the role you must have

•       CA(SA) with no more than 4 years of post-articles experience  
•       Preferably with client experience from:
•       Consumer Products & Retail 
•       Automotive

Ideally, you’ll also have

•       Strong analytical skills 
•       Good project management skills 

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Job description
Senior Polyglot Software Engineer

• Our company is seeking senior polyglot software engineers to help lead the development of systems to assist our clients realize business value through digitization and innovation.
• We are looking for applicants that are deeply interested in software technology and driven to continuously learn out of curiosity. 
• Rapidly assimilating new knowledge and sharing your insights is a natural consequence of your passion for the subject matter and craft.
• As a member of our engineering team you will be working on client engagements and demonstrate confident and highly professional demeanor in all of your client interactions

Client responsibilities

• Contribute to the solution architecture and design
• Lead development streams and take ownership of large system components
• Ensure requirements are perfectly understood and clearly documented
• Apply agile software development practices and tools
• Propose and enforce adherence to  standards and best practices
• Ensure deliverables are of the highest quality through testing, reviews and use of tooling
• Constructively challenge the status quo and propose better ways of working
• Support and coach other team members
   

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

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.

Qualifications:

• Knowledge of two or more programming languages such as Python and Scala
• Fullstack development experience
• 5+ years of experience developing and implementing software applications
• Experience leading other team members 
• Graduate degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems or another quantitative field.
• Experience working on large-scale software projects
• Experience developing software in a multitude of industries
• Outstanding collaboration and communication skills

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Job description

Audit Senior Manager/Associate Director - Financial Services:

• Our Assurance group is one of the most trusted, respected and influential organizations in the industry. As part of our team, you will provide peace of mind to clients by using your skills and experience to give companies, investors and regulators confidence in the validity of financial statements and business-critical information or processes.  

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