Energy & Natural Resources Senior Manager at Ernst & Young Global Limited (EY)

The opportunity

You will use your skills and knowledge of the financial market to help our clients meet their financial reporting requirements by accurately appraising and reporting on financial statements to provide meaningful understanding of accounting and reporting matters. As a Senior Manager and Adviser for EY, your everyday work-life will be filled with operational tasks and professional challenges. All the knowledge and skills of the EY brand will be made available to you as you as you build a better working world for our people, our clients and the communities that support us.

Your key responsibilities

Everything you’ll do will come back to providing exceptional audit activities for our clients. Colleagues and clients from a diverse array of backgrounds will look to you first for answers, so you’ll be a high-profile contact when it comes to resolving complex issues. As you build your knowledge and experience, you’ll become a credible advisor, influencing clients and engagement teams on resolutions that will impact entire industries.

Skills and attributes for success

• Leading fieldwork, managing performance and keeping engagement leaders updated on audit engagements
• Completing audit processes and documenting higher-risk areas to increase your technical and business skills in areas including revenue, financial instruments and income taxes
• Engaging clients and providing authoritative advice and professionalism throughout transactions
• Constantly developing your understanding of current market trends and processes and sharing your knowledge to develop junior colleagues
• Understanding our clients’ unique ambitions and needs and referring them to colleagues in other teams and areas to broaden our business relationships where possible

To qualify for the role, you must have

• A honours degree in an accounting, finance or business discipline
• CA(SA)
• At least 7-10 years similar experience
• Experience leading the planning, execution and reporting on audits
• Proven project management skills
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills and a collaborative approach to management
• Excellent technical expertise with proven industry knowledge in Energy and Natural Resources
• Proven experience in delivering external audit and assurance engagements.

Ideally, you’ll also have:

• Expertise in primary accounting frameworks, E.g. IFRS and related financial reporting matters.