Vacancies at 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

• Audit significant lending, credit risk management and impairment estimation processes of financial services companies
• Work closely with EY modelling, valuation, IT and economics specialists
• Implement leading data and analytics-based audit tools and approaches in the execution of audits
• Assist partners with generating new business opportunities and building client networks and relationships
• Manage engagement economics and communicate significant issues to partners and clients
• Understand our service offerings and actively identify opportunities to better serve clients
• Execute complex audit engagements, manage risk and apply professional scepticism
• Apply complex risk management policies and procedures on engagements with an understanding of global and local independence rules
• 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
• Participate as a reviewer in the Audit Quality Review process
• Explain our audit work in connection with internal or external inspections (regulator, AQR, peer review)

Qualifications And Experience

• CA(SA)
• Banking and credit risk process experience
• Thorough knowledge of current auditing techniques
• Experience of the entire audit process
• Compliance with regulatory requirements
• 6 - 8 years post articles Audit experience
• Technical Skills Requirements
• Five years to eight years of relevant work experience preferred
• Strong understanding of IFRS, including IFRS 9 and IFRS 7
• 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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The opportunity

The EMEIA Consulting Service Delivery Excellence team is seeking an experienced, structured and high-energy Senior Manger to handle a wide array of business tasks alongside the EMEIA Consulting Service Deliver Excellence Leader.

As Excellence Support Leader you will play a pivotal role, you will work alongside global and regional delivery excellence and risk management colleagues in evaluating and mitigating program risk. You will bring formality and structure to how we deliver on large scale projects from methodology and process, to tools and technology, to skillsets and leverage models, through to pricing and risk management.

This is an excellent opportunity to work with EMEIA Consulting Leadership.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Develop a maturity journey for best practice service delivery excellence, and work with regions to develop glidepath to bridge any gaps from current state to future state
• Balance an area perspective while being closely connected to the global team to define and deliver against the opportunities and optimize in a way that leverages the EMEIA talent pool and opportunities.
• Work closely with regions to optimize delivery on high-risk programs
• Many of these projects will be deals that draw on Hubs while pulling together a diverse service mix, including GDS and contingent labour. This requires experience in:
• delivering large scale transformative projects
• understanding use of contingent labour
• multi-party vendor management
• building outsource relationships and allowing us to use them selectively and appropriately to augment our capability and pricing and investment needs.
• Support the development of onshore HUB development and make sure that these large-scale tech projects also leverage the connections with TAX, Strategy and PAS.

Skills and attributes for success

To qualify for the role you must have

• Understanding and experience in delivering complex, large scale transformation projects
• Ability to engage with key stakeholders at all levels and influence change and create buy-in and support
• Ability to conduct and outline methodologies for quality assurance on projects
• Clear stakeholder identification and support both in terms of expectations and execution
• Ability to engage with senior program managers on program cost, quality, resourcing and timelines on expectations and delivery

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Ability to manage ambiguity, and relationships between Global and local teams
• Ability to flex working hours to accommodate global stakeholders
• Ability to facilitate discussions and meetings
• Ability to build virtual networks across different cultures, run effective conference calls/meetings to drive outcomes and agreed actions
• Highly effective written and verbal communication skills; ability to distill complex information to be easily digestible for a variety of audiences. Good command of the English language (verbal and written)
• Willingness to learn and adapt, and build strong relationships
• Cultural sensitivity and global mindset
• Team player