Job Openings at Ernst & Young Global Limited (EY)

Your Key Responsibilities

• In this role, you'll leverage the entire Microsoft 365 product suite to create impactful business solutions, with an eye towards emerging technologies and AI-assisted development practices that include tools like Microsoft Copilot to optimize and enhance the development process.

Specific Functions:

• Define and manage requirements that align with business objectives.
• Design solutions that integrate seamlessly with the Microsoft 365 ecosystem.
• Develop and deploy Microsoft 365 solutions, utilizing best practices and modern development aids where appropriate.
• Provide ongoing support and administration of deployed solutions.

To Qualify for the Role, You Must Have:

• A Bachelor's degree in Technology or a related field.
• At least 2 years of experience with Microsoft 365 products (Teams, SharePoint, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI).
• Proficiency in AI-assisted development practices as part of the solution development toolkit.
• A track record of using structured frameworks/methodologies for project and solution lifecycle management.
• Strong customer engagement skills, with the ability to bridge technology and business discussions to uncover the value of tech-enabled solutions.
• Excellent communication skills, with confidence in leading diverse groups ranging from technical teams to senior stakeholders.

Ideally, You’ll Also Have:

• Microsoft Certifications relevant to the role.
• Experience in managing the cultural aspects of technology transformations.
• A history of engaging with a diverse international client base across multiple industries.

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Graduate recruitment

• Recruitment of Assurance Delivery Network (ADN) & Assurance trainees
• Opening of requisitions on SuccessFactors and managing applications on YELLO (recruitment tool) for different year’s pipelines
• Onboarding, pack checking & verification processes of new intake
• Producing, presenting and participating in Live Grad events
• TLC calls (check-in calls with signed students in pipeline)
• University career fairs – UFS as well as NWU (Vaal and Potchefstroom campuses)
• Grad Reporting
• Management of University led projects & other contributions
• Running annual ethical project with University of Free State (Project Alpha) – launch, judging of submitted projects, arranging & hosting gala event
• Ongoing planning for different pipelines in Graduate recruitment (school visits, University visits etc)
• Induction - prepares employees for working environment by establishing and conducting orientation and training programs (all intake)
• Maintaining good relationships with key persons at different varsities; EY presence on campus
• Overseeing recruitment of Gqeberha Assurance trainees; approvals of recruitment 
• SAICA winter camp presentations (Matric)

Experienced recruitment

• Experienced recruitment for ADN management and other – with recruiter in different service lines
• Opening of requisitions as per recruitment need and upon approval -
• Onboarding process and induction of new joiners (other than graduate recruitment) – Welcome to EY (WTEY)

TALENT

Payroll & Benefits

• Payroll: adhere to strict payroll deadlines by national payroll department – ensuring all changes are submitted and processed.   (Done for Assurance, Consulting, Tax in Bloemfontein and Gqeberha)
• Coordinating employee benefits programs that is organised Nationally and inform employees of benefits, liaising between Benefits manager and employees
• Co-ordinating National wellness checks; ensuring regular check-ins by Discovery as well as AON representatives

NB:

• May payroll ADN November intake – increase May payroll (if approved)

Administration

• Managing personnel information on CoreHR Successfactors (processing) for all Service lines in Gqeberha and Bloemfontein
• Managing people lists, reporting of Bloemfontein and Gqeberha
• Liaison with Training office on new joiners to be added, employees to be discharged; any TCMS queries / amendments
• Conducting exit interviews; assist exiting employees with exit process and checklists (All Service lines) 30 April Cecilia Jacobs
• Annual Supervisor exits (Assurance) 28 March Celine Malgas, Matthew Nom Chong; 31 July Thozama Gobozi
• Assist Tax, Assurance, Consulting with different queries and then oversee staff in Enablement for both Bloemfontein and Gqeberha
• Partner assistance to Donovan van Straaten, Mark Biggs (limited) and Morne Potgieter (limited)
• General assistance to Gqeberha office
• Management meetings with partners & managers – ensuring actions taken

Training & Development

• Learning and Development facilitation with L&D and office managers
• Co-ordinating training with facilitators; assisting with training needs; catering if approved
• Motivation of office to ensure their My Learning is up to date by attending workshops, web-based learnings and completing EY Badges.

Performance Management

• Counsellor allocations and motivation of regular connection
• Performance management and counsellor connect sessions; Leadership review workbooks (LRW); LEAD process
• Aspire Tool management with trainees (Previously LTS management)
• Running PIP sessions in both offices for all service lines

Employee Relations & Compliance

• Hearing and resolving employee grievances – escalating to Employee relation department if cannot be resolved locally
• Employee Relations support when needed
• Annual Department of Labour visits – collating information from National, payroll and managing visit locally

Events

• Arrange Townhall meetings – when requested; catering if required
• Coordinating events, meetings – graduate as well as office related (incl APC and ITC) (with assistance of social committee). Arranging of catering
• Long service awards annually with national

Other

• Annual Assistant Manager process (Assurance and other SL) together with FLY campaign
• Monthly HR meetings with Gqeberha office representatives
• Part in the EY Africa Engagement Team and am the point of contact in Bloemfontein office to execute on the following:
• EY Ripples corporate social responsibility drives (Bloemfontein and oversee Gqeberha)
• Serves on National D&I committee 
• Sounding board for any and gives input of ways of working
• Helps drive various employee surveys which takes place throughout the year in both Bloemfontein and Gqeberha (EYPP).  Morale of offices is very important on the agenda and active participation of whole office are encouraged.  
• Rolling out of engagement initiatives in Bloemfontein and Gqeberha – ensuring National programmes are replicated in regions

OFFICE

• Overall office management – overseeing Tsebo staff – stock management; parking bay management
• Liaising with Facilities nationally on maintenance needed, improvements to be done
• SHE Representative in office  (Health and safety compliance - monthly reporting)
• Regular meetings in terms of Crisis Management Plan (office) and compliance
• Invoicing (PO’s, Invoices) – Talent; Grad  and office
• Arranging catering – Talent; Grad  and office
• ROPA (Data Security)

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Your key responsibilities

• You’ll be heavily involved at all stages of the project life cycle, making this a high-profile opportunity to take on a wide range of responsibilities and diversify your skills and experience. It’s all about translating information from a variety of sources into quantitative and qualitative analyses to inform and advise our clients. That will include building relationships with clients in a spectrum of industries and getting to know their unique needs and aspirations to provide tailored global services.  It will also mean demonstrating your leadership by supervising multiple transfer pricing engagements and contributing to the delivery of quality tax planning services for our diverse clients.

Skills and attributes for success

• Applying complex transfer pricing concepts and economic/financial knowledge to resolve client challenges.
• Drafting of contemporaneous transfer pricing documentation including, conducting functional analysis interviews; attending to economic and industry analyses. Consulting and tax advice, including transfer pricing risk and accrual reviews as well as planning.
• Mentoring and coaching, including managing of other team members.
• Assist with business unit budgets and individual work performance.
• Supplying innovative transfer pricing and economic ideas, alongside responsive services and work products.
• Modelling financial outcomes, valuing intangible assets and developing practical planning approaches.
• Coordinating work with other client service colleagues globally to drive collaboration.

To qualify for the role you must have

• Undergrad degree with an Hdip tax / Business degree / CA (SA) or similar qualification.
• Broad exposure to Transfer Pricing issues preferred, consulting experience a bonus.
• Strong organisational skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• The ability to work at a fast pace, often with shifting responsibilities
• Minimum of 5 years of related experience

 Ideally, you’ll also have

• A consistent record of excellence in a professional services environment
• Existing transfer pricing experience

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Key Responsibilities

• Working effectively as a leader, team member, giving guidance, providing support, maintaining open communication channels;
• Proactively keeping managers and senior managers up to date on engagement status;
• Communicate with French-speaking Africa, in-country teams and external stakeholders
• Review deliverables and ensure adherence to both IFRS and OHADA standards;
• Present and deliver work products to clients;
• Build strong internal relationships within the compliance and reporting team and across other services and regions;
• Coach, mentor and develop junior staff members;
• Contribute to the business achieving its metrics;
• Develop and maintain productive working relationships with client personnel; and
• Ensuring all team members are adequately planned on client engagements.

Qualifications & Experience

• SAICA, SAIPA or equivalent relevant experience
• 3 years minimum practical accounting, tax and/or auditing experience with knowledge in OHADA regulations
• Proven experience in delivering accounting and tax services to clients, including in the OHADA region
• Fluent in French to effectively communicate with clients and teams in French-speaking Africa Commercial – beneficial but not manditory
• Legislative and industry knowledge including a robust understanding of OHADA norms
• Ability to apply our global compliance process and tools + Q&RM procedures
• Strong Knowledge of IFRS and OHADA accounting principles
• Experience and exposure to ERP systems
• Project management skills
• Proven ability to manage and lead self + others, as well as to effectively manage deadlines
• "Can do" or winning mind set; team player

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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

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Your key responsibilities 

• As a talent manager, you will be responsible for providing consultative support to various business units within the Assurance Service Line on matter relating to the end to end employee lifecycle, ensuring efficient and effective delivery of HR services. You will be involved in discussions with the business to develop the talent agenda based on the business needs and drivers. Other key responsibilities include:  
• Partners and communicates extensively with business leaders to design and deliver talent initiatives; provide coaching and guidance to support the firm's strategic growth agenda 
• In coordination with members of the Talent team, helps execute major talent processes including compensation planning, performance management, talent development, onboarding / integration, workforce planning and employee engagement strategies across a geography or practice area 
• Serves as the first point of contact on employee relations issues; manages/handles issues as appropriate (communicating with Talent Team and practice leadership); escalates issues, as needed 
• Provides coaching to Sub Service Line leaders on managing employee issues that may arise 
• Coordinates with Learning & Development Consultants on program implementation 
• Coordinates with Talent Acquisition team to ensure the hiring of candidates to support the firm's strategic growth agenda 
• Coordinates with Talent Shared Services staff to ensure proper handling of administrative issues and needs. 
• Along with Total Reward team and the Assurance Talent Leader, provide advice to the business on compensation & benefit programs, flexible working, health and well-being programs that will have an impact on employee engagement, retention and performance 
• Respond to complex and urgent employee queries relevant to their respective business units(s) that have been escalated 
• Work closely with the SAICA training office to support and enable the training learning and development over the three-year period 
• Support the business in the event of any high potential exits and take pro-active steps along with business to manage such instances 

Skills and attributes for success 

• Ability to manage multiple priorities; thrive in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment 
• Strong business acumen; understands the professional service industry 
• Relationship-building skills 
• Experience and understanding of employment legislation 
• Strong communication skills 
• Ablility to operate effectively and independently in a new environment; using good judgement and experience to support decision-making 

To qualify for the role you must have 

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience 
• Minimum of 5years relevant experience in a HR Business Partner role 

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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.
• 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 own time in line with budgets
• Prepare or review business process descriptions through interviews with the client’s middle and senior management 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.
• Identify basic data analytic procedures
• Assessment of design and implementation of key controls as well as the operating effectiveness, accuracy and validity thereof.
• Compilation of working papers substantiating scope and results of testing.
• Provide a coaching / mentoring role.
• Review sections prepared by junior staff
• 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 Senior Management.
• Assist with presenting findings 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
• Minimum of 5 years of related work experience
• Related audit or applicable business experience
• Proficient in Microsoft office (including Excel, Word, Outlook and PowerPoint).

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Principal Responsibilities: 

• Conduct daily, weekly and monthly review of financial accounts across the sub-area and engage Country Finance teams for feedback on specific questions/ queries, including items raised by Regional Finance and Operations
• Oversee, directly support and/or perform when necessary, all Country ledgers, and reporting ensuring compliance with appropriate standards and regulatory requirements for respective Southern Cluster entities
• Working closely with the Regional Finance team, this position ensures that there are effective financial and accounting system controls and consistent standards in place in the countries where programs are operating. The accountability of this position is to drive excellence in business operations, finance, systems and processes
• The incumbent must also understand the creditors, debtors, general ledger, and payroll functions with an ability to obtain a detailed understanding / ability to make process/ procedure recommendations through interactions with the various teams
• Assist in the rollout of any financial and operational models/ tools developed by the Regional team across the sub-area
• Develop and maintain internal control and safeguards, including policies and procedures
• Execute on financial and operational projects as required from time to time meeting relevant quality standards and deadlines.

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• Experience coordinating and managing controlling, general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll and business operations
• Technology savvy with SAP experience desirable
• Demonstrate ability to recruit, mentor, train and retain a diverse team; the foresight and ability to delegate accordingly
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills; experience in effectively communicating key data