2026 Assurance - Centre of Excellence Full-Time - Halifax

EY; Halifax; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A global professional services firm located in Halifax is seeking an Assurance team member to analyze business processes and assess audit independence. The role involves participating in client engagements and improving business performance while maintaining high-quality service. Candidates should be pursuing or hold a degree in business and possess strong communication and teamwork skills. The position offers potential for career development and robust benefits.

Benefits

Comprehensive Total Rewards package

$5,000 for mental health

$1,200 for wellness expenses

35-36 paid days off per year

Qualifications

• Pursuing or graduated from a business-related program.
• Advanced written and verbal communication skills required.
• Teamwork and integrity in a professional environment are essential.

Responsibilities

• Analyze business and financial processes to identify risks.
• Evaluate EY's independence from its audit clients.
• Document the execution of specific audit procedures.

Skills

Advanced written and verbal communication skills

Dedication to teamwork

Integrity in a professional environment

Education

Undergraduate or graduate diploma/degree in business

Job description

Overview

The opportunity

: your next adventure awaits

Our Assurance group is one of the most trusted, respected, and influential organizations in the industry. As part of our team, you will provide peace of mind to clients by using your skills and experience to give companies, investors, and regulators confidence in the validity of financial statements and business-critical information or processes. Groups (or, as we call them, sub-service lines) within Assurance include External Audit, Climate Change and Sustainability Services, Financial Accounting Advisory Services and Fraud Investigation & Dispute Services.

Within EY’s Assurance practice, we also have a Centre of Excellence (COE) located in Halifax, Nova Scotia that predominantly performs work in the areas of Internal Controls over Financial Reporting (NI 52-109 and Sarbanes Oxley), Public and Private Company Independence Procedures, and other Assurance related procedures. We are currently seeking a full-time team member to join this growing team. The successful candidate will participate in client engagement teams, whereby they will be assessing, improving, and evaluating / testing our clients’ business processes and controls, assessing and evaluating whether EY is independent of the entity under audit, and / or performing substantive procedures and / or engagement specific procedures.

The objective of our COE is to inspire the confidence and trust that help enable a complex world to work. EY’s Assurance COE provides scalable offerings that allows our clients to benefit from our insights and efficiencies. As a part of the COE, you will work with multiple companies across different industries to gain a unique insight into how businesses operate. This will allow you to understand the factors driving business performance and become a more connected, responsive, and insightful professional.

Responsibilities

• Analyze business and financial processes to identify risks and improvements in the controls frameworks for the various processes.
• Analyze and evaluate that EY meets all applicable criteria to be independent of its audit clients.
• Recognize potential audit issues or unusual relationships from basic analyses.
• After training, perform various substantive and analytical procedures to identify errors and/or misstatements.
• Effectively and efficiently identify potential independence issues.
• Clearly and accurately document the execution of specific audit procedures.
• Assist clients in strengthening business performance while ensuring high-quality client service and informing supervisors of the engagement status.

What we look for

• Be pursuing or graduated from an undergraduate or graduate diploma / degree program in business.
• Have advanced written and verbal communication skills.
• Possess strong dedication to teamwork.
• Be committed to integrity within a professional environment.
• Comfortable working in our hybrid working environment; working in person with teams and delivering in-person and virtual client service.

What’s in it for you

• Accelerate your technical capabilities and transformative leadership skills with future-focused courses and development programs.
• Broaden your horizons by working on highly integrated teams across the globe and collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds — both professionally and culturally.
• Bring out the best in yourself with continuous investment in your personal well-being and career development.
• Develop your own personal purpose and help us create a positive ripple effect on our teams, our business, clients, and society – building a better working world, together.
• A comprehensive Total Rewards package that incorporates medical & health benefits, including $5,000 for mental health and $1,200 for wellness expenses each year.
• 35-36 total paid days off a year which increases with promotions and years at EY.

What you can expect

• We are currently accepting full-time applications for our Centre of Excellence in our Assurance group for May and September 2026 located in Halifax.