Jobs at Ernst & Young Global Limited (EY)

Description of Role:

 The candidate will be responsible for providing HR administrative support to the Bloemfontein  HR team.

Key Responsibilities:

Assisting the HR Team with the following duties:

• Providing relevant administration and co-ordination support to the HR team.
• Responsible for accurate capture of information on relevant HR systems.
• Preparing and timeously updating People Folders and Employee reports.
• Supporting the A to Z of the People function from Recruitment to Exits.
• Supporting the following HR processes:  attraction, selection, assessment, letter of offer, on boarding, induction, performance management, career development, talent management, learning and development, climate surveys, annual increases and annual promotions as well as disciplinary issues.
• Responsible for maintaining and updating various tracking sheets and reports on a daily, weekly and monthly process, including (but not limited to) the following: Recruitment reports, Diversity and Inclusiveness reports, Staff turnover reports, Sick leave and Annual leave report, New Joiners Report, quarterly HR action plan reports, minutes relating to disciplinary and non-performance meetings as well as ad hoc related tasks.
• Oversee and manage trainee function including (but not limited to) SAICA processes, Trainee Induction, Trainee Exams etc, Graduate Campus Career Fairs.
• Act as liaison between graduate and the business
• Contractor Administration.
• Frequent and intensive liaison with the Shared Service Centre (SSC) to ensure contracts and all documentation and tasks are executed accurately and issued timeously.
• Support the HR team in managing programs that have financial impact on the firm such as but not limited to Service Commitments Agreements, Study Assistance program, Workbacks etc.
• Working with information from multiple data sources and ensuring accuracy.
• Responding accurately to stakeholder queries.
• Taking initiative to make necessary corrections when mistakes are found.
• Addressing queries with the relevant people or departments.

To qualify for the role, you must have:

• Relevant HR Qualification / Degree
• An active interest in developing a career involving the entire Human Resource value chain.
• Sense of urgency is essential as well as high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Above average computer literacy required (MS Office), with a focus on PowerPoint presentations as well as MS Excel.
• Appointments will be made to support the firm's BBBEE rating 

Skills and Attributes for success:

• Strong organizational and inter-personal skills.
• Regular in office interaction and collaboration
• Learning and change agile
• Very good written and verbal English language skills.
• Efficient administration and co-ordination capabilities.
• Pro-active.
• An inherent sense of urgency is vital
• Ability to multi-task effectively and pay attention to detail.
• Ability to prioritize and use own initiative.
• Ability to serve a workload with conflicting demands from various sources.
• Ability to work under pressure while maintaining an even temperament.
• Reliable
• Ability to take ownership of work.
• Ability to work overtime when required
• Ability to maintain confidence, be discreet and exercise good judgment.
• In this role you can expect to receive criticism, need to be mature in handling such, and diplomatic in conflict situations.
• Resilient

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Management and Boards of Directors rely heavily on Internal Audit to provide important proactive assessments and assurance around the effectiveness of controls and company processes, while also providing objective advisory support. You will be engaged in delivering some of the most significant and class-leading internal audit and risk engagements globally. As part of our market-leading global network of risk professionals, you will gain the valuable experience you need to become a successful risk advisor. At EY, we recognize that it is the perspectives, skills and enthusiasm you bring to our clients and team that makes the difference.

Your client responsibilities

• Work effectively as a team member, sharing responsibility, providing support, maintaining communication.
• Assign and manage tasks with other team members considering engagement needs and identified business outcomes, and organize own work such that important items get done first.
• Build strong internal relationships within EY and with other services across the organization.
• Research client industry, company structure, key customers and suppliers and possible insight into operations and the various processes.
• Develop and maintain productive working relationships with client personnel.
• Collaborate with the client to identify critical project outcomes, work products, barriers to success, and changes in expectations or scope.
• Manage time within budget of the engagement (s) for self and team.
• Identifying possible business risks and control weaknesses from the business processes under review.
• Review worked performed by team members.
• Review and/or draft documents and presentations to explain issues and solution options and implications.
• Display a logical thought process in understanding client challenges and exploring possible solutions.   
• Identify and escalate potential risks and issues to partner along with suggested preventive or mitigating actions.
• Present reports to client.
• Assist with drafting proposals.

Your people responsibilities

• Act as a visible role model for our people.
• Coach and mentor junior team members.
• Give honest supportive feedback to colleagues.
• Take personal responsibility for own performance and career development.
• Play an active role in EY and Service line team activities.
• Understand and follow workplace policies and procedures.

Technical skills requirements

• Must have Honours in Internal Audit, Accounting, Business, Finance or other related field.
• Must have CIA or equivalent.
• Minimum of 7 years of related work experience of which 3/ 4 must be supervising, coaching and managing staff.
• Related audit or applicable business experience.
• Proficient in Microsoft office (including Excel, Word, Outlook and PowerPoint).

Additional skills requirements

• Being able to multi-task and prioritise client commitments when working on multiple clients/ engagements.
• Strong analytical, interpersonal and communication skills
• Demonstrated integrity, values, principles, and work ethic.
• Enquiring mind.
• Analytical
• Self-starter
• Team Player
• Share EY’s values and vision
• Disciplined
• Able to handle pressure.
• Team building ability.
• Good communication skills.

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Management and Boards of Directors rely heavily on Internal Audit to provide important proactive assessments and assurance around the effectiveness of controls and company processes, while also providing objective advisory support. You will be engaged in delivering some of the most significant and class-leading internal audit and risk engagements globally. As part of our market-leading global network of risk professionals, you will gain the valuable experience you need to become a successful risk advisor. At EY, we recognize that it is the perspectives, skills and enthusiasm you bring to our clients that makes the difference.

Job purpose

As Associate3 in Enterprise Risk (Internal Audit), you will make a significant technical contribution to client engagements and internal projects. Within your role, you will actively establish, maintain and strengthen internal and external relationships.

Working closely with colleagues, you will confirm whether the work plan is properly executed, documented and concluded in compliance with EY's guidelines.

Your client responsibilities

• Work effectively as a team member, sharing responsibility, providing support, maintaining communication and updating senior team members on progress.
• Assign and manage tasks with other team members considering engagement needs and identified business outcomes, and organize own work such that important items get done first.
• Build strong internal relationships within EY and with other services across the organization.
• Develop and maintain productive working relationships with client personnel.
• Research client industry, company structure, key customers and suppliers and possible insight into operations and the various processes.
• Manage own time in line with budgets
• Preparing business process descriptions through interviews with the client and documenting understanding of business process and confirm the business process descriptions by performing a walkthrough of the process.
• Identifying possible business risks and control weaknesses from the business processes under review.
• Drafting detailed audit programmes to test controls in place.
• Assessment of design and implementation of key controls as well as the operating effectiveness, accuracy and validity thereof.
• Identify basic data analytic procedures
• Compilation of working papers substantiating scope and results of testing.
• Provide a coaching / mentoring role.
• Draft individual sections of documents and presentations to explain issues and solution options and implications.
• Display a logical thought process in understanding client challenges and exploring possible solutions.   
• Identify and escalate potential risks and issues to project manager along with suggested preventive or mitigating actions.
• Draft audit findings for review by EY Management.

Your people responsibilities

• Act as a visible role model for our people.
• Coach and mentor junior team members.
• Give honest supportive feedback to colleagues.
• Take personal responsibility for own performance and career development.
• Play an active role in EY and Service line team activities.
• Understand and follow workplace policies and procedures.

Technical skills requirements

• Must have Honours in Internal Audit,  Accounting,  Business, Finance or other related field
• CIA or part CIA will be an added benefit
• Minimum of 3 years of related work experience
• Related audit or applicable business experience
• Proficient in Microsoft office (including Excel, Word, Outlook and PowerPoint).

Additional skills requirements

• Strong analytical, interpersonal and communication skills.
• Demonstrated integrity, values, principles, and work ethic.
• Enquiring Mind
• Analytical
• Self-starter
• Team Player
• Share EY’s values and vision
• Disciplined
• Able to handle pressure
• Team building ability
• Good communication skills