Assistant Manager Assurance Delivery Network (ADN) - JHB at Ernst & Young Global Limited (EY)

Principal Accountabilities:

• Assist in managing the Centre of Excellence (COE) team, which provides audit support to audit teams across South Africa and Rest of Africa;
• Coaching, supervision and co-ordination of COE staff;
• Assist with work in progress management and administration;
• Assist with planning, execution and review of group deliverables management;
• Assist with mapping out planned deadlines for the COE as a whole with regard to the various audit teams to which we provide support on an annual basis;
• Assist with month end reporting and other month end tasks;
• Monitoring compliance with independence requirements with regard to each request for work performed;
• Participation in the facilitation of training and orientation of new joiners;
• Assist in performance feedback process;
• Manage relationships with key audit teams that are supported by the COE;
• Drive new initiatives and general growth of the COE;
• Prepare budgets for new requests;
• Allocation of new requests to staff;
• Monitor correspondence with regard to calls that are in progress;
• Follow up on the progress of current calls;
• Review of control logs and status updates before being sent to the relevant audit teams;
• Contribute to the development of your own and team’s technical acumen;
• Develop strategies to solve complex technical challenges;
• Train, coach, and supervise staff;
• Keep up to date with local and national business and economic issues;

Minimum Qualifications:

• Professional qualification – CA(SA)
• 3 years completed traineeship.
• Computer literate and highly proficient in Microsoft office suite (Excel, Word and PowerPoint); Google suite;
• IFRS and IFRS for SME's knowledge.
• Project management skills
• Experience in project- and process management with a variety of stakeholders is a benefit
• You have energy, enthusiasm and the courage to lead tasks and projects
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong solution-oriented mindset