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Your key responsibilities
- Managing IFRS 17 and Solvency Assessment and Management actuarial audits for life or non-life insurers
- Supporting the Head of Actuarial Function and managing HAF engagements for life or non-life insurers and reinsurers
- Managing/supporting on engagements covering Transformation, Climate Change, ERM frameworks, ORSA, Risk Appetite or other topics
- Managing/supporting on value-adding projects covering IFRS17 implementation and other topics related to trends in the actuarial field
- Further developing our team by coaching and mentoring junior colleagues
- Continually learning and sharing your knowledge with the wider actuarial team
- Most of your work will be project based for a once-off set period time or on a recurring basis, which enables you to work with different team members and subject matter experts, gaining invaluable experience and technical knowledge.
Skills and attributes for success
- 3.5+ years’ experience in the Life or Non-Life Insurance industry
- FASSA, preferably with specialisation in life or non-life
- Managerial experience would be advantageous
- Strong self-management and structured in the way they work
- Team player and proactive, self-starter
- Experience in financial reporting (SAM/Solvency II and IFRS) preferential
- Consulting experience would be advantageous
- Critical thinker and solution-orientated approach
- Curious mindset and keenness to learn
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Your key responsibilities
- As a Senior Manager, you work with client teams and EY teams to arrive at an enterprise solution that is scalable, adaptable and in synchronization with ever changing business needs. The role will also be required to participate in client and EY internal engagements, provide leadership, oversight and mentorship for junior team members, and support building out the reporting & analytics practice. You will also influence projects, vendors and/or SIs to ensure they are aligned with our approved methods and delivery standards. As a Senior Manager, you'll assist in developing applicable methodologies, tools, approaches, points of view, thought leadership and accelerators to differentiate EY in the ERP consulting market. Our seniors managers are thought leaders with demonstrated experience within their chosen SAP Module.
- Project Management: Participate in large scale SAP client engagements. Consistently deliver quality client services, driving high-quality work products within the expected timeframes and on budget. Monitor progress, manage risk and ensure key stakeholders are kept informed about progress and expected outcomes. Manage expectations of client service delivery. Stay abreast of current business and industry trends relevant to the client's business. Should be a self-starter with excellent verbal and written communication skills. Should be comfortable interfacing with a client on a daily basis. This role requires daily interaction with the client at many levels.
- Practice Management: Demonstrate deep technical capabilities and professional knowledge. Demonstrate ability to quickly assimilate to new knowledge. Possess in-depth business acumen. Remain current on new developments in Consulting capabilities and industry knowledge. Assist in developing applicable methodologies, tools, approaches, points of view, thought leadership and accelerators to differentiate EY in the consulting market. These are shared with all EY market facing organizations to provide consistency and common platforms with which to go to market.
- Provide subject matter expertise, design expertise and engagement management for a module within the SAP S/4HANA solution set.
- Deep knowledge of the overall SAP roadmap and experience with assisting clients to understand the myriad of options available to them. This should include preparing the business case to define an appropriate roadmap for their business and ultimately helping them in executing that roadmap.
- Work effectively as a team member, sharing responsibility, providing support, maintaining communication, and updating senior team members on progress.
- Help prepare reports and schedules that will be delivered to clients and other parties.
- Develop and maintain productive working relationships with client personnel.
- Build strong internal relationships within EY Consulting and with other service lines across the organization.
Skills and attributes for success
- Effectively team with diverse skills and backgrounds and foster an innovative and inclusive team-oriented work environment.
- Strong written and verbal communication, presentation, client service and technical writing skills, coupled with a strong interest in further developing and integrating enterprise domain knowledge with technology skills.
- Demonstrate characteristics of a forward thinker and self-starter that thrives on new challenges and adapts quickly to learning new knowledge.
- Ability to lead a team of consulting professionals on multiple projects.
- A strong work ethic.
To qualify for the role you must have
- A degree in computer science, accounting, finance, or a related field (MBA or Business Undergraduate degree preferred).
- SAP certification/s and relevant project experience at minimum
- Approximately 10+ years of total experience and SAP Implementation experience in minimum 4-6 full life cycle projects
- Prior Experience of bid and delivery solutioning as well as core delivery must in the SAP
- Expertise in SAP S/4 HANA and with relevant implementation experience
- Understanding SAP S/4HANA cloud service offerings with relevant implementation experience
- Experience in more than one of the functional workstream (FICO, SD, SF, EWM, TM, Ariba, BTP, Hybris, IBP) or over-all solution architect
- Worked on implementation RFP’s as a solution architect responsible for designing solutions end to end
- Strong verbal and written communication with out of box thinking abilities.
- Ability to understand Methodologies (Activate, Agile, SDLC, SCRUM) and other industry business fundamentals and ability to showcase a quick learning curve.
- Proficient in MS Office products (Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Strong knowledge in business processes and best practices
- Excellent business communication skills
- Strong knowledge in ASAP /Activate / EY Hybrid implementation methodologies
- Capability of presenting the value proposition in the module / area,
- Very good problem-solving abilities
- Excellent interpersonal skills, strong communication and presentation skills
- Experience executing a business blueprint and documenting business requirements that can be understood by a technical process team.
- Development of project documentation, training materials, requirements gathering, and project management methodology experience required.
- Demonstrated track record managing teams and complex engagements in the consulting arena
- Show initiative and creativity in developing innovative work-around solutions or new processes.
- Demonstrate deep knowledge of SAP solutions and appropriate industries to maintain credibility with prospective customers. Provide proof points with relevant customer stories.
- Support RFx completion in support of customer proposals.
- Engaging with Clients in understanding their requirements, scoping, discovering and defining solutions, explaining business benefits and use cases and a roadmap to meet their goals.
- Creating innovative solution designs that utilize our extensive service offerings.
- Understand client requirements (RFP/ RFI), build synopsis and have an ability to articulate the customer ask.
- Support the SAP implementation project and play solution architect role binding the entire solution to meet client requirements
Ideally, you’ll also have
- Prior consulting experience and a demonstrated history of driving revenue within existing clients and in developing new prospects at the "C" level of Fortune 500 companies.
- Comfortable working in a matrix environment due to previous experience
- Worked on global projects/global clients on significant large-scale projects
- Technically proficient with globally recognised current and relevant certifications to prove it
- Strong industry experience / exposure
- Comfortable communicating with senior client and EY stakeholders (globally) in verbal and written form
- Participated in large scale SAP client engagements.
- Consistently deliver quality client services, driving high-quality work products within the expected timeframes and on budget.
- Monitor progress, manage risk, and ensure key stakeholders are kept informed about progress and expected outcomes.
- Manage expectations of client service delivery.
- Stay abreast of current business and industry trends relevant to the client's business.
- Should be a self-starter with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Systems thinking - the ability to see how parts interact with the whole (big picture thinking)
- Ability to explain complex technical issues in a way that non-technical people may understand
- Project and program management planning and organizational skills
- Ability to deal with abstract concepts and communicate these effectively through compelling written and graphical materials
- Demonstrated ability to manage and supervise a team of technology advisors through all phases of the technology life cycle, including requirements definition, architecture, design, development, implementation, conversion, and testing
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Your key responsibilities
- As an Assistant Manager within our VM&E team you're likely to spend your day to day advising clients on complex financial and capital decisions.
- You will be working with them to understand their data, their strategic requirements and create analysis using financial modelling and data analytics techniques aligned to their strategic priorities.
- You will work directly with clients in ensuring timely delivery of their needs and manage the engagement and the overall quality of work performed.
- You will also review complex models developed by our clients and critique models both their logical and commercial integrity.
Skills and attributes for success
- Strong corporate finance skills
- Strong financial modelling skills
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Leadership skills
- Strong client and stakeholder management skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Track record in managing project expenditures against budget and revenue, and providing guidance to team members to ensure the completion of work deliverables
- Excellent analytical, project management, communication, teamwork and interpersonal skills
- Strong Excel skills
- Strong knowledge and awareness of other data analytics tools and related software, including data visualization
- Fluent business English – both writing and verbal
- Intellectual curiosity
- Attention to detail
To qualify for the role you must have
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Engineering or a related field, plus 5 years of post-bachelor's, progressive related work experience; OR a Master's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Engineering or a related field, plus 4 years of related work experience.
- Superior financial modelling skills in MS Excel.
- At least 2 years of experience developing financial models and analytical solutions from scratch, utilizing best practice methodologies and performing quality control procedures.
- At least 1 year of experience of managing projects from start to finish.
- Ability to provide sound guidance to team members to ensure the completion of work deliverables.
Ideally, you’ll also have
- CFA certification or significant progress towards these or similar certifications.
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Key Responsibilities
- As an Assistant Manager you’ll be expected to manage discreet portions of an overall assignment.
- You’ll work in a team and report to either the Manager/Senior Manager or Partner directly depending on the nature of the assignment.
- You’ll also be expected to prepare documentation, assist in compiling defence documentation for transfer pricing audits, understand pricing methods for intangible assets, assist in compiling quality, practical solutions and assist with transfer pricing planning services.
Skills and Attributes for success
- You’ll demonstrate an understanding of transfer pricing concepts and be able to apply same to client situation
- You must have a good grounding in tax to be able to identify opportunities for transfer pricing and other special services
- You must be familiar with undertaking a functional and financial analysis and to participate in functional analysis interviews
- Be competent in undertaking economic analysis including determining appropriate search criteria and undertaking good analysis of results for the purpose of undertaking a comparability analysis
- Have good business acumen to understanding project profitability
- Display strong written, verbal communication and project management skills
To qualify for the role, you must have
- A minimum of 2 years of tax or transfer pricing experience
- An academic qualification in B Com or LLB degree and preferably studying towards a postgraduate qualification in tax ideally in the South African environment
Ideally, you’ll also have
- A good understanding of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Transfer Pricing Guidelines and OECD Guidelines on Profit Attribution
- A reasonable working knowledge of the OECD Model Tax Convention and Commentary
- Solid understanding of industries, business and tax in general
- Efficient management of time and working effectively under pressure
- Good networking skills and the ability to building solid relationships with various stakeholders
- Broad exposure to Transfer Pricing issues
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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 or equivalent
- Minimum of 7 years of related work experience
- Related audit or applicable business experience specifically within a financial services environment
- 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
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Your key responsibilities
- Support actuarial audits of IFRS4, IFRS17 and Solvency Assessment and Management reporting for life insurers, reinsurers and cell captives
- Support HAF engagements for life insurers and life reinsurers
- Support on ORSA reporting, scenario development, projections and reviews
- Involvement in our in-house actuarial tool development: IFRS17 and SAM reporting
- Develop our team by coaching and mentoring junior colleagues
- Most of your work will be project based for a once-off set period time or on a recurring basis, which enables you to work with different team members and subject matter experts, gaining invaluable experience and technical knowledge.
Skills and attributes for success
- 2+ years’ experience, preferably in the Life Insurance industry
- Good progress with Actuarial exams and a commitment to continue
- Team player and proactive, self-starter
- Curious mindset and keenness to learn
- Critical thinker and solution-orientated approach
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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.
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Your key responsibilities
- As a Manager, you will participate in and help supervise multiple and challenging tax engagements and to deliver innovative tax planning ideas and solutions for our diverse clients.
Skills and attributes for success
- Provide timely and high-quality services and work products that exceed client expectations.
- Coaching and mentoring more junior staff to execute assignments with accuracy and completeness
- Enhance technical skills by remaining up to date on trends, new legislative developments and tax authority decisions, and apply them to complex situations relevant to the client
- Identify opportunities for providing tax planning and other special services
- Demonstrate professionalism through a positive and cooperative attitude and by maintaining the confidential and proprietary nature of client relationships and related work products
- Thoroughly and accurately analyze information.
- Participate in and contribute to achieving team goals.
- Identify and sell opportunities for tax planning and other special services.
To qualify for the role you must have
- A BCom Honours degree but preferably a BCom Honours degree in accounting/accounting sciences, with a completed or in progress higher diploma / master’s degree in taxation favourable, plus a minimum of 5 years South African Corporate tax experience
- Big 4 firm experience preferable
- Excellent supervisory, analytical, and leadership ability
- A commitment to learning in a tax technology environment
- Strong project management and organizational skills
- Ability to work with tight deadlines
- Process oriented with excellent documentation skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
- Mature, proactive, committed, highly motivated and driven team player
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