Audit Quality Support Team - Financial Services - Senior/Assistant Manager - 12 Month Secondmen[...]

Ernst & Young; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Ernst & Young as a Senior/Assistant Manager in the Audit Quality Support Team, where you will oversee critical audit initiatives and contribute to the enhancement of audit quality standards across various financial services projects. This role offers a unique opportunity to leverage and develop your technical, project management, and communication skills while working in a diverse and dynamic team environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in financial services audit is essential.
• Strong project management and technical auditing skills are required.

Responsibilities

• Support deployment of UK quality initiatives and processes.
• Assist in monitoring audit quality inputs and risk management.

Skills

Proactive communication

Innovative mindset

Organised project management

Strong technical auditing skills

Broad business knowledge

Attention to detail

Strong written communication

Deadline management

Education

ACA/ CA/ ACCA qualification

Job description

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

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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

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