Open Vacancies at Ernst & Young Global Limited (EY)

Key Responsibilities

• As an Assistant Manager you are required to assist the management of the team in ensuring that we continue to add value to our clients. 
• Attending client meetings, doing risk management and drafting documents are part and parcel of the opportunity. 
• Drafting opinions, responses to SARS audit findings and general Customs and or Excise advise are expected from the successful candidate. 
• The candidate will also be required to attend to SARS branch or Head Office to submit applications and documents. 
• The ability to work with Excel and or PowerBI to analyse “big data” is required.

Skills and Attributes for success

• The ability to work in a team effectively and constructively is a must
• Client focused, an ability to actively maintain and develop strong relationships with clients
• An effective time manager and planner
• Excellent communication skills, demonstrated through effective writing and articulate discussion
• Drafting clear and concise documents is important

To qualify for the role, you must have  

• A University Degree in Law LL.B, Commerce Honours, Accounting Honours, and or Logistics Honours is required
• Around 2-3 years working experience in consulting is required
• Work experience in Customs, Excise, Logistics and or International Trade is preferred

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Other accredited Customs, Excise and or International Trade qualifications would be beneficial

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Your key responsibilities:

• Provide timely and high-quality payroll support, project management, governance and service management services and work products that exceed client expectations, including regular contact with EY global payroll teams to verify that payroll services are delivered on time and accurately.
• Support on the review and resolution of client requests and queries on portfolio, including technical queries.
• Liase with the offshore and Africa teams as relevant to deliver on client payrolls.
• Be responsible for accurate and timely service delivery of payroll for our clients.
• Respond to payroll and governance payroll queries from clients and internal global stakeholders.
• Develop the client payroll calendar detailing all payroll delivery activities and dates; support the collection of client data and work with global EY teams to confirm receipt and set up OGM.
• Manage the creation and updates of payroll processes/procedure documentation for all clients and audit annually.
• Work with teams to correct as relevant, including working with and training offshore teams on payroll processes.
• Support in all activities within Payroll Operate that include sales and service opportunities under the direction of a senior manager or manager in the group.
• As an Assistant Manager in Payroll Operate you will help supervise the design, implementation and operation of global multi-country payroll operate services for our small clients.

Capabilities include:

• Implementation of centrally managed global outsourcing model, leveraging the global payroll tools to  provide clients with greater control, visibility and compliance for their global payroll;
• Governance of payroll operations with ability to lead the global country teams utilizing one global methodology to track the end-to-end process, and provide governance throughout our client life cycle to  mitigate risk, increase corporate transparency, increase compliance, ensure leveraging of key data  insights and provide clients with additional product offerings;
• Working, directing and resolving questions, identifying service opportunities with internal EY serving  Africa and global teams;
• Build on technical competence by keeping up to date on global trends, developments and regulations  and applying them to moderately complex situations and undertaking non-routine, complex project-type work as requested by clients;
• Exhibit competency in technology by maintaining complex sets of data, reviewing data analytics and analyzing trends, including the collection of data per agreed-upon payroll calendars and other requirements;
• Ensure the payroll processes and procedures documentation is relevant, up to date and used at all times;
• Manage payroll projects as assigned (including new client transitions) which will require ownership, project management, recommendations, solutions, root cause analysis, SLAs and metrics, decisions and resolution including the escalation of client and internal country issues;
• Identifying potential opportunities to expand client services (within payroll and in other SLs) based on current offerings and client feedback;
• Should be a subject matter expert in understanding the payroll rules and legislations in a multi-country environment and being up to date with current payroll knowledge and legislation.
• Good understanding of the Technology enablers within EY to support on innovation and continuous improvement within the practice;
• Responsible for ISAE3402, billings and payments, BRET and third party contractor management, pipeline management, debtors responsibility;
• Initiation and completion of the ASQs and QRM process with support from senior manager group as relevant.

Skills and attributes for success:

• Strong payroll processing background;
• Experience with South African/African payroll processing;
• Managing a wide variety of team members per client engagement;
• Be involved in identifying team structure for complex projects/engagements;
• Act as coach for team members as requested;
• Strong analytical skills, interpersonal, and written/verbal communication skills; problem-solving ability 
• and attention to detail;
• Project management skills;
• Up to date with current payroll knowledge and legislation; and
• Excellent communication, presentation and client service skills.

To qualify for the role, you should have:

• Bachelor’s degree/equivalent diploma preferably with an emphasis in accounting, business or finance 
• (This is preferable, not a mandatory requirement)
• 3+ years of relevant payroll and/or tax experience or equivalent experience in business or industry 
• preferable.
• Strong numbers acumen, including analytical abilities and knowledge of Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
• Excellent organizational and verbal/written communication skills with a proactive approach to problem 
• solving and attention to detail.
• Client-facing exposure in a payroll role.
• Project management experience with global or multi-national payrollss

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Responsibilities

Technical Role responsibilities

• Provide ad-hoc support to teams on informal queries relating to independence matters including Section 90 in South Africa and other local independence rules.
• Provide support to the consultation process as a Subject Matter Resource (SMR). An SMR works with client serving teams and our professional to ensure the consultations they submit to an Approver are complete in fact pattern, appropriately researched, well documented and have a conclusion that you as SMR would concur with.
• Assisting partners and managers with the application of complex risk management policies and procedures to resolve / manage arising risk matters through applying an understanding of our global and local policies.
• Responsible for supporting the Country Independence Leader and Regional Independence leader on all arising and urgent technical matters.
• Develop expertise in certain independence technical matters (personal independence, business relationships, and assessing independence for our different services to clients)).
• Manage independence technical projects from inception to completion through appropriate project management of self and other technical resources (if required).
• Assist with the development of technical material including:
• Communications to the business as reminders or as educational / informative pieces.
• Training material for in person and teams or pre-recorded WBL based training;
• Enablers, forms and template, guidance, and communications;
• Policy updates.
• Assist partners in responding to internal and external quality inspection findings and follow approval protocol for external inspection response submission.
• Assist partners and client serving teams with root cause analysis process following external and internal inspection findings. (This process is run by Assurance Professional Practice for which independence provides technical input)
• Present in-person and Teams based training as required.
• Train and coach peers, assistant managers in Independence and in Service Line Quality roles on technical matters through day to day interactions and reviews of work products. Similarly assist with developing of offshore support personnel dedicated to independence.
• Build strong internal relationships within service lines and across support teams
• Enhance EY’s brand positioning through strong external relationships across a network of external relationships through involvement on SAICA and IRBA committees as appropriate.

People Responsibilities

• Be recognized as a respected and supportive mentor, coach and counsellor, building career value for individuals
• Build and develop an inclusive culture and high-performing diverse teams
• Conduct performance reviews and contribute to performance feedback for all levels of staff
• Contribute to people initiatives including recruiting, retaining and training Assurance professionals
• Contribute to the maintenance of an educational program to continually develop personal skills
• Understand, follow and communicate workplace policies and procedures to all levels of staff
• Develop personal profile and awareness of EY offerings in the marketplace
• Build strong and long term relationships with key partners and ADs
• Act as an ambassador of EY in the market, with regulators and with clients

Qualifications and Experience

• CA(SA) is advantageous but not required
• Thorough knowledge of the IESBA code is highly advantageous but not required – demonstrated ability to analyse rules and apply them is however a required skillset.
• Experience of providing support to professionals on technical matters in a coaching and proactive manner
• Ability to critically review a fact pattern, make enquiries, research and apply to the code to determine reasonable outcomes. (Roles which evidence this skillset will be required)
• Understanding of Quality & Risk Management procedures
• Compliance with regulatory requirements
• 2 – 3 years post articles experience in an auditing or similar professional environment.
• Advantageous to have been in a part time or full time independence technical role in an audit firm.

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Your key responsibilities

• Lead project workstreams assisting finance organizations at insurance clients (property and casualty, life, reinsurance).
• Deliver high quality client solutions that meet and exceed client and EY expectations and are delivered on-time and on-budget.
• Drive day-to-day client solution delivery, including assisting with defining project approach, leading and motivating project teams, monitoring and managing project risks, , and successfully delivering client solutions.
• Support the pursuit of new business opportunities, including building strong client relations, understanding client needs and EY solution offerings, communicating client opportunities to EY leadership, and helping develop client opportunities.
• Demonstrate deep functional capabilities and professional knowledge, and stay current with insurance industry and regulatory leading practices.

To qualify for the role you must have

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in insurance industry
• Minimum of 2 years of consulting experience
• Other beneficial experience includes financial planning & analysis, management reporting, regulatory reporting, and/or related technology implementations.
• Experience implementing financial tools and technology (e.g. SAP, Oracle, Anaplan, etc)
• Work experience with the following type of insurers: property and casualty, life, and reinsurance
• Reporting experience with any of the following: GAAP, Statutory, IFRS
• Business Process Redesign and assessment of key finance processes (close, FP&A, etc.)
• Future state redesign
• Target Operating Model design
• Allocation (activity based costing) experience a plus
• Consulting experience, including assessments and implementations
• Experience leading junior resources in finance management workstream efforts
• Documenting requirements and processes (e.g., process flows)
• Working collaboratively in a team environment
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Willingness to travel 50% or more

Ideally, you'll also have

• CA (SA), MBA and/or professional certification (e.g. CPA, CFA) preferred.
• Experience in Onestream

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Your Key Responsibilities

• Assist leading organisations develop corporate or divisional strategies that accelerate growth and deliver long term value.
• Define the roadmaps and strategic plans that will implement strategy.
• Design, reinvent and innovate business models that will create long term value and disrupt markets.
• Define and advise on the business model portfolios in which organisations should invest to create sustainable, long term value.
• Design and build operating models.
• Design, establish and operate innovation programs, including agile or lean approaches to developing new innovations in products, service, experiences or business models.
• Lead and manage large scale cross functional projects and strategic transformations.
• Analyze data and provide recommendations to client executives on strategic initiatives and transformations.
• Enable the implementation of concepts, solutions and systems that have been defined through research, strategy, ideation and innovation.
• Define and implement digital strategy that will transform client organisations and deliver additional value.
• Drive business development, build and grow the pipeline.
• Build client relationships and establish the team as a trusted advisor in the market place.
• Collaborate across EY service lines to increase value for our clients, contributing to building a better working world.

Skills And Attributes For Success

To qualify for the role you must have

• A passion for people — our people are our greatest asset. We need you to be able to lead project teams to bring out the best in our people and help them to develop and grow.
• Ability to build exceptional client relationships — our clients are at the centre of what we do. Through the delivery of Technology Transformation engagements, you will be responsible for managing key client relationships to make sure that we deliver quality and value.
• Ability to think strategically and to solve complex problems. You will demonstrate strong critical thinking skills focused on developing solutions, creating logical arguments or analysis, assimilating largest amounts to complex information, identifying or anticipating issues or challenges.
• Experience in managing transformation or innovation programs.
• Ability to communicate, making complex systems and situations simple to understand. You’ll communication visually, verbally and in written reports.
• Ability to manage projects –we help our client solve their complex technology challenges. You will need good project delivery skills to manage and deliver technology projects across our key clients.
• Ability to learn new ideas and capabilities rapidly through self–driven learning and research. You’ll need to be able to assimilate new ideas and information rapidly, making sense of the world around you and at clients.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Leadership capabilities that accept responsibility, build high performing teams, scales through appropriate delegation and teamwork, shares clear direction, gains support and commitment from others, provides openly learns from and accepts feedback from others whilst admitting mistakes in order to learn.
• Knowlegde of leading innovation, transformation snd strategy frameworks or methods with practical experience in having developed or implemented projects using these frameworks.
• Strong commercial awareness and proven ability to present technical information in a meaningful manner to key stakeholders.
• Experience in strategy, innovation or transformation consulting. are intellectually curious and passionate about solving complex problems.
• We are looking for people who are purpose driven and ask better questions to seek better answers have an entrepreneurial and growth-oriented mindset. What you know matters.
• We are looking for people who are innovative and can contribute to developing EY-Parthenon’s position and our team are enthusiastic and collaborate well in teams.
• We are looking for inclusive people who value differences and have a real desire to both learn and coach others

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Your key responsibilities 

• Everything you do will lead to providing definitive auditing services that the capital markets and the client can rely upon.
• You will analyze financial statements, annual reports and annual general meetings for our clients to ensure that there are no breach of auditing standards.
• You will help our clients respond better to reporting and auditing issues within their businesses.  

Skills and attributes for success 

• Identifying potential audit issues or unusual trends in financial statements with detailed analytical trend analysis  
• Demonstrating your professionalism while working in clients’ environments and providing exceptional service  
• Operating effectively in a regulated environment, with a focus on protecting the capital markets and the investing public   
• Having a genuine passion for protecting the financial markets via audit procedures auditing, and the resilience to prioritize and adapt in a demanding, fast-moving, constantly changing environment  

To qualify for the role you must have 

• Bcom Honours
• Around 1-2 years’ post article experience as an accountant or auditor in the Assurance Space
• Excellent critical thinking and analysis skills, and the confidence to identify and resolve         problems   
• A proven record of excellence in communication and negotiation, supported by the technical writing skills to translate data into compelling stories and meaningful insights. 

Ideally, you’ll also have 

•  Qualified CA(SA)