Job Vacancies at Ernst & Young Global Limited (EY)

Your Key Responsibilities

• As a Senior Manager, you work with client teams and EY teams to arrive at an enterprise solution that is scalable, adaptable and in synchronization with ever changing business needs. The role will also be required to participate in client and EY internal engagements, provide leadership, oversight and mentorship for junior team members, and support building out the reporting & analytics practice. You will also influence projects, vendors and/or SIs to ensure they are aligned with our approved methods and delivery standards. As a Senior Manager, you'll assist in developing applicable methodologies, tools, approaches, points of view, thought leadership and accelerators to differentiate EY in the ERP consulting market. Our seniors managers are thought leaders with demonstrated experience within their chosen SAP Module.

Project Management:

• Participate in large scale SAP client engagements. Consistently deliver quality client services, driving high-quality work products within the expected timeframes and on budget. Monitor progress, manage risk and ensure key stakeholders are kept informed about progress and expected outcomes. Manage expectations of client service delivery. Stay abreast of current business and industry trends relevant to the client's business. Should be a self-starter with excellent verbal and written communication skills. Should be comfortable interfacing with a client on a daily basis. This role requires daily interaction with the client at many levels.

Practice Management:

• Demonstrate deep technical capabilities and professional knowledge. Demonstrate ability to quickly assimilate to new knowledge. Possess in-depth business acumen. Remain current on new developments in Consulting capabilities and industry knowledge. Assist in developing applicable methodologies, tools, approaches, points of view, thought leadership and accelerators to differentiate EY in the consulting market. These are shared with all EY market facing organizations to provide consistency and common platforms with which to go to market.
• Provide subject matter expertise, design expertise and engagement management for a module within the SAP S/4HANA solution set.
• Deep knowledge of the overall SAP roadmap and experience with assisting clients to understand the myriad of options available to them. This should include preparing the business case to define an appropriate roadmap for their business and ultimately helping them in executing that roadmap.
• Work effectively as a team member, sharing responsibility, providing support, maintaining communication, and updating senior team members on progress.
• Help prepare 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 service lines across the organization.

Skills And Attributes For Success

• Effectively team with diverse skills and backgrounds and foster an innovative and inclusive team-oriented work environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication, presentation, client service and technical writing skills, coupled with a strong interest in further developing and integrating enterprise domain knowledge with technology skills.
• Demonstrate characteristics of a forward thinker and self-starter that thrives on new challenges and adapts quickly to learning new knowledge.
• Ability to lead a team of consulting professionals on multiple projects.
• A strong work ethic.

To qualify for the role you must have

A degree in computer science, accounting, finance, or a related field (MBA or Business Undergraduate degree preferred).

• SAP certification/s and relevant project experience at minimum
• Approximately 10+ years of total experience and SAP Implementation experience in minimum 4-6 full life cycle projects
• Prior Experience of bid and delivery solutioning as well as core delivery must in the SAP
• Expertise in SAP S/4 HANA and with relevant implementation experience
• Understanding SAP S/4HANA cloud service offerings with relevant implementation experience
• Experience in more than one of the functional workstream (FICO, SD, SF, EWM, TM, Ariba, BTP, Hybris, IBP) or over-all solution architect
• Worked on implementation RFP’s as a solution architect responsible for designing solutions end to end
• Strong verbal and written communication with out of box thinking abilities.
• Ability to understand Methodologies (Activate, Agile, SDLC, SCRUM) and other industry business fundamentals and ability to showcase a quick learning curve.
• Proficient in MS Office products (Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Strong knowledge in business processes and best practices
• Excellent business communication skills
• Strong knowledge in ASAP /Activate / EY Hybrid implementation methodologies
• Capability of presenting the value proposition in the module / area,
• Very good problem-solving abilities
• Excellent interpersonal skills, strong communication and presentation skills
• Experience executing a business blueprint and documenting business requirements that can be understood by a technical process team.
• Development of project documentation, training materials, requirements gathering, and project management methodology experience required.
• Demonstrated track record managing teams and complex engagements in the consulting arena
• Show initiative and creativity in developing innovative work-around solutions or new processes.
• Demonstrate deep knowledge of SAP solutions and appropriate industries to maintain credibility with prospective customers. Provide proof points with relevant customer stories.
• Support RFx completion in support of customer proposals.
• Engaging with Clients in understanding their requirements, scoping, discovering and defining solutions, explaining business benefits and use cases and a roadmap to meet their goals.
• Creating innovative solution designs that utilize our extensive service offerings.
• Understand client requirements (RFP/ RFI), build synopsis and have an ability to articulate the customer ask.
• Support the SAP implementation project and play solution architect role binding the entire solution to meet client requirements

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Prior consulting experience and a demonstrated history of driving revenue within existing clients and in developing new prospects at the "C" level of Fortune 500 companies.
• Comfortable working in a matrix environment due to previous experience
• Worked on global projects/global clients on significant large-scale projects
• Technically proficient with globally recognised current and relevant certifications to prove it
• Strong industry experience / exposure
• Comfortable communicating with senior client and EY stakeholders (globally) in verbal and written form
• Participated in large scale SAP client engagements.
• Consistently deliver quality client services, driving high-quality work products within the expected timeframes and on budget.
• Monitor progress, manage risk, and ensure key stakeholders are kept informed about progress and expected outcomes.
• Manage expectations of client service delivery.
• Stay abreast of current business and industry trends relevant to the client's business.
• Should be a self-starter with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Systems thinking - the ability to see how parts interact with the whole (big picture thinking)
• Ability to explain complex technical issues in a way that non-technical people may understand
• Project and program management planning and organizational skills
• Ability to deal with abstract concepts and communicate these effectively through compelling written and graphical materials
• Demonstrated ability to manage and supervise a team of technology advisors through all phases of the technology life cycle, including requirements definition, architecture, design, development, implementation, conversion, and testing

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The Opportunity

• We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Solutions Architect to join our Technology Consulting team. As a Solutions Architect, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and implementing technology solutions that meet the business requirements of our clients. You will work closely with our clients and cross-functional teams to identify, analyse, and define their technology needs and develop strategies to achieve their goals.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyse client requirements and design technology solutions that meet their business needs
• Develop detailed technical specifications and diagrams for technology solutions
• Identify technical risks and develop mitigation strategies
• Work closely with cross-functional teams including developers, project managers, and business analysts to ensure solutions are developed and delivered on time and within budget
• Conduct technology assessments and provide recommendations to improve system performance and scalability
• Collaborate with clients to understand their business goals and provide advice on how technology solutions can help achieve those goals
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and best practices to ensure our solutions are cutting-edge

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science or related fields
• 5+ years of experience as a Solutions Architect
• Proven experience designing and developing complex technology solutions
• Strong knowledge of enterprise-level technology stacks and architectures, including cloud-based technologies
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate with clients and cross-functional teams
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Experience in providing technical leadership and mentoring to junior team members
• Practical experience in Architecture Governance / Technical Design Authority
• Experience in identifying client needs and the ability to reason logically and creatively to provide options and recommendations to resolve problems.
• Experience in transitioning from On Premise to Cloud architectures from Microsoft, Amazon, SAP, Oracle.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Experience working within Architectural frameworks and standards such as TOGAF, IASA, ArchiMate or hold equivalent certifications.
• Experience in applying architecture in an agile/product-centric environment. E.g. SAFe

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• As a manager in our Strategy & Transformation team you will work across Business Consulting and EY Parthenon Strategy to lead engagement work streams. You will support business development, creating proposals and participating in solution development. You will manage high performing teams and develop the careers of colleagues.

Strategy & Transformation

Your Key Responsibilities

• Assist leading organisations develop corporate or divisional strategies that accelerate growth and deliver long term value.
• Define the roadmaps and strategic plans that will implement strategy.
• Design, reinvent and innovate business models that will create long term value and disrupt markets.
• Define and advise on the business model portfolios in which organisations should invest to create sustainable, long term value.
• Design and build operating models.
• Design, establish and operate innovation programs, including agile or lean approaches to developing new innovations in products, service, experiences or business models.
• Lead and manage large scale cross functional projects and strategic transformations.
• Analyze data and provide recommendations to client executives on strategic initiatives and transformations.
• Enable the implementation of concepts, solutions and systems that have been defined through research, strategy, ideation and innovation.
• Define and implement digital strategy that will transform client organisations and deliver additional value.
• Drive business development, build and grow the pipeline.
• Build client relationships and establish the team as a trusted advisor in the market place.
• Collaborate across EY service lines to increase value for our clients, contributing to building a better working world.

Skills And Attributes For Success

To qualify for the role you must have

• A passion for people — our people are our greatest asset. We need you to be able to lead project teams to bring out the best in our people and help them to develop and grow.
• Ability to build exceptional client relationships — our clients are at the centre of what we do. Through the delivery of Technology Transformation engagements, you will be responsible for managing key client relationships to make sure that we deliver quality and value.
• Ability to think strategically and to solve complex problems. You will demonstrate strong critical thinking skills focused on developing solutions, creating logical arguments or analysis, assimilating largest amounts to complex information, identifying or anticipating issues or challenges.
• Experience in managing transformation or innovation programs.
• Ability to communicate, making complex systems and situations simple to understand. You’ll communication visually, verbally and in written reports.
• Ability to manage projects –we help our client solve their complex technology challenges. You will need good project delivery skills to manage and deliver technology projects across our key clients.
• Ability to learn new ideas and capabilities rapidly through self–driven learning and research. You’ll need to be able to assimilate new ideas and information rapidly, making sense of the world around you and at clients.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Leadership capabilities that accept responsibility, build high performing teams, scales through appropriate delegation and teamwork, shares clear direction, gains support and commitment from others, provides openly learns from and accepts feedback from others whilst admitting mistakes in order to learn.
• Knowlegde of leading innovation, transformation snd strategy frameworks or methods with practical experience in having developed or implemented projects using these frameworks.
• Strong commercial awareness and proven ability to present technical information in a meaningful manner to key stakeholders.
• Experience in strategy, innovation or transformation consulting.
• are intellectually curious and passionate about solving complex problems. We are looking for people who are purpose driven and ask better questions to seek better answers
• have an entrepreneurial and growth-oriented mindset. What you know matters. We are looking for people who are innovative and can contribute to developing EY-Parthenon’s position and our team
• are enthusiastic and collaborate well in teams. We are looking for inclusive people who value differences and have a real desire to both learn and coach others

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• As a Senior Manager primarily responsible for mining tax assurance services within the Tax Accounting and Risk Advisory (TARAS) business, you will combine your tax technical and tax accounting skills with practical commercial, legislative and industry knowledge to provide assurance to our audit clients and to build valued relationships with them and your internal peers.
• As a tax audit professional at EY, you'll work in a high-performing and inclusive environment that offers you great opportunities to develop an interesting and fulfilling career. You will work in multidisciplinary teams to handle complex tax audit issues for leading companies. We will support you in your professional development, so you achieve your highest potential. At EY, we know it is your point of view, energy and enthusiasm that make the difference.

Key Responsibilities:

Client responsibilities

• Complete income tax audit procedures and documentation for higher-risk areas to broaden technical skills (e.g., normal and deferred taxes; uncertain tax positions and tax disclosure)
• Reviewing  mining royalty calculations
• Planning and execution of tax audit engagements from start to end
• Building technical competence within the TARAS team
• Preparation of tax reports with risks/SADs to be submitted to audit
• Preparation/Review and submission of income tax returns
• Preparation/Review of responses to SARS
• Build strong client relationships and networks
• Understand our tax service offerings
• Build strong internal relationships within Assurance and across other tax services offerings (such as International Tax, Transfer Pricing and Indirect specialist teams)
• Take ownership for the delivery of high quality tax audit work and assist in the preparation for external (IRBA / PCAOB) or internal Tax Quality Review (TQR) 
• Keep up to date with tax legislation, tax case law and any items published by the South African Revenue Services (Rulings, Interpretation Notes etc).
• Understand our permissible current tax service offerings and actively assist in identifying opportunities to better serve clients or developing new tax service offerings
• Regularly contribute towards tax technical opinions and publications
• Regularly participate in internal tax technical training sessions
• Understand the firm's revenue and growth goals.
• Contribute to the firm’s sales and market initiatives (i.e. Ability to identify out of scope work opportunities at clients).
• Ensure compliance with the firm’s Quality & Risk Management (Q&RM) procedures

People responsibilities

• Develop people through effectively supervising, coaching and mentoring trainees
• Develop self and others through both seeking and offering on-the-job coaching and knowledge sharing
• Understand, follow and communicate workplace policies and procedures to trainees
• Develop personal profile and awareness of EY offerings internally and within the marketplace
• Build relationships with key client sponsors
• Manage staff performance and regularly conduct honest staff appraisals.
• Ensure that the work environment contributes to improving staff morale and increasing staff productivity.

Qualifications & Experience

• CA(SA)/Bcom(Acc) or similar qualification with an appropriate post degree qualification in tax
• Accreditation with relevant professional body, SAICA, SAIT, etc.
• Minimum of 6 years of experience in mining tax.
• Detailed understanding of risk-based auditing, knowledge of audit process and auditing techniques (income tax)
• Knowledge of IFRS
• Understanding of Quality & Risk Management procedures
• Compliance with professional development and regulatory requirements 

Skills and Behavioural Attributes

• Strong knowledge of Income Tax  and Mining Royalty Acts
• Knowledge of SARS E-filing, Greatsoft and OneSource
• Client focused, an ability to actively maintain and develop strong relationships with clients. Strong audit methodology and tax accounting background
• Tax consulting experience and advisory experience (advantageous)
• Lateral thinker
• Attention to detail
• Strong planning and organizational skills
• An ability to tolerate pressure
• An ability to manage people
• An effective time manager and planner
• Good oral and written communication skills

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Description of Role:

•  As a supervisor within the business you will be responsible for the preparation of tax returns of individual tax returns for our clients with international mobile assignees (expatriates). You will be allocated a client portfolio and required to work with the managers on these accounts and also support them with the overall management of the client portfolio.  

Key Responsibilities:

 The following will be your main responsibilities in respect of the client portfolio allocated to you :

• Completion of personal income tax returns ( Annual and Provisional)
• Attending to all other compliance related matters such as disputes, ceasing of tax residency with SARS
• Managing and meeting all SARS tax filing deadlines in respect of your client portfolio
• The draft of opinions in relation to personal tax matters and expatriate tax matters in respect of your clients
• Attend and support your senior team members on all client meetings and tax briefings with individuals  
• Attend and support your managers with all administrative matters in respect of your clients such as billings  

Skills and Attributes for success: 

• Good communication skills (verbal and written)  
• Be able to demonstrate excellent reporting skills, both verbally and in writing 
• Have strong excel skills 
• Have strong ability to multi-task – must be able to handle multiple requests from various people 
• Be able to work under pressure 
• Be able to adhere to deadlines 
• Be well organised systematic worker, attention to detail is important 
• Be able to work well within a team and independently

To qualify for the role, you must have:

•  Have a Tertiary Qualifiation (degree or diploma ) with accounting , taxation as subjects
• A Higher Diploma in Tax and/or Hons in Tax would be an advantage as well as any experience in tax compliance
• At least 3 years of individual tax compliance experience