Audit Quality Support Team - Financial Services - Senior/Assistant Manager - 12 Month FTC

EY; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior/Assistant Manager for their Audit Quality team. This role offers a unique opportunity to enhance your technical and soft skills while contributing to key audit initiatives. You will engage with senior team members, manage projects, and improve audit quality across financial services. The company promotes a diverse and inclusive culture, offering flexible working arrangements and a comprehensive benefits package. Join a team that values your contributions and empowers you to shape your future with confidence.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Continuous learning opportunities

Diverse and inclusive culture

Career development support

Qualifications

• Must have ACA/CA/ACCA qualification and financial services audit background.
• Strong project management and technical auditing skills required.

Responsibilities

• Assist with UK quality initiatives and standardisation processes.
• Support audit quality network initiatives and risk management improvements.

Skills

Proactive communication

Project management

Technical auditing skills

Organisational skills

Attention to detail

Strong written and oral communication

Innovative mindset

Education

ACA/CA/ACCA

Job description

The opportunity

Our Audit Quality team (AQT) plays a vital role in supporting our Audit Quality Programme. As an AQT Senior/Assistant Manager you will contribute to a growing team supporting our audits teams across various projects and initiatives.

We are looking for a senior/Assistant manager to support our team to provide maternity cover for a 12-month secondment/Fixed Term Contract. This role will provide you with an excellent opportunity to further develop both of your technical and soft skills and help in expanding your network across all levels of the business.

Your key responsibilities

• Assist with the deployment of UK quality initiatives including:
  • Standardisation
  • Digital implementation and methodology changes
  • Production of enablement to support audit teams with changes to global methodology
  • Creation of training content for areas identified as requiring extra guidance and support
  • Supporting the Audit quality network (QEN) initiative
  • Improvements to risk management processes and monitoring
• Assist with standard UK FSO Audit Quality team process including:
  • Milestone monitoring
  • AQST monitoring
  • Business unit leader reporting
  • Digital implementation protocols
  • Risk management reporting
  • Audit quality inputs into talent processes

Skills and attributes for success

• Proactive communicator, quick to engage with senior members of the audit quality team
• Innovative mindset, focussed on ways to improve delivery of AQT projects and processes
• Organised project manager with strong prioritisation skills
• Strong technical auditing and accounting skills with a drive for improving audit quality within the wide FS audit business
• Broad business knowledge to apply across financial institution entities
• Flexible working style and ability to navigate across diverse culture to adapt to the different teams and projects you will be working with/on.
• Ability to build constructive and professional relationships with senior audit team members
• Attention to detail
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Proactive communication and deadline management

To qualify for the role, you must have

• ACA/ CA/ ACCA (ICAEW, ICAS, Irish Institute or equivalent international qualification)
• Financial services audit background
• Strong project management and technical (auditing and accounting) skills
• Strong focus on and passion for audit quality

What we offer

EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We strive to achieve the right balance for our people, enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities. While our client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites, our flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a lifestyle balance.

We offer a competitive remuneration package. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings, and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

The exceptional EY experience. Shape your future with confidence!

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Please note: Prior to finalizing your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness. The information you provide is kept entirely confidential and will not be used to evaluate your candidacy. We collect this data to help us analyse our recruitment process holistically and implement actions that promote diversity and inclusiveness. While optional, we encourage you to provide this information to hold us accountable towards our goal of building a better working world. We ask because it matters!