Assurance Consultant

Job Summary

As part of our EY-Assurance Team, the role requires the incumbent to proactively develop relationships with the global EY teams serving these engagements and supervise the delivery of GDS engagement management support activities.

We're looking for candidates with experience in carrying out routine substantive and controls-based assurance testing for the engagement teams during the financial year end for the Europe or US region.

Your key responsibilities

• Clearly and accurately document the execution of specific review procedures as defined by the engagement teams
• Demonstrate basic understanding of an industry or sector and be aware of technical issues
• Stay informed of current business/economic developments relevant to the clients business
• Recognize potential review issues or unusual relationships from basic analysis of the financial statements and communicate them to the immediate supervisor
• Collaborate with seniors and engagement teams to set goals and responsibilities
• Deliver work in line with designated methodology, project plan or process in line with EY standards
• Demonstrate professionalism, competence and clarity of communication when dealing with the team members
• Maintain a strong client focus, be responsive to team requests, and develop/maintain productive working relationships with team contacts
• Where appropriate, challenge procedures used in the past by team members and attempt to enhance review techniques
• Compare efficiency of review procedures performed across different clients and suggest ideas for improvement
• Contribute ideas/opinions to the assurance teams and listen/respond to other team members views
• Use technology to continually learn, share knowledge with team members, and enhance service delivery
• Promote EY's ethical and professional standards, including data confidentiality, especially when dealing with outsiders

Skills and attributes for success

• strong communication and interpersonal skills
• meet tight deadlines
• multi-task
• attention to detail
• basic accounting and book-keeping
• communicate with leaders and peers
• Plan ahead and anticipate potential issues before they arise
• Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Ability to work effectively in a team

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Candidates with CA Completed / CA Inter with Articleship completed
• 6 months to 1 year of relevant work experience preferred.

Ideally, you will also have

• Interest in business and commerciality.

What we look for

• A Team of people with commercial acumen, technical experience and enthusiasm to learn new things in this fast-moving environment
• An opportunity to be part of a market-leading, multi-disciplinary team in the only integrated global assurance business worldwide.
• Opportunity to work with EY GDS Assurance practices globally with leading businesses across a range of industries

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