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

Ernst & Young; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Ernst & Young seeks a Senior/Assistant Manager for its Audit Quality Support Team. In this role, you will assist with UK quality initiatives and improve audit processes, providing maternity cover for 12 months. Candidates should have a financial services audit background and relevant qualifications such as ACA, CA, or ACCA. This position offers a significant opportunity for professional development and networking within a leading financial services firm.

Qualifications

• Financial services audit background essential.
• Strong project management and technical auditing skills required.
• Passion for improving audit quality.

Responsibilities

• Assist with UK quality initiatives like standardisation and methodology changes.
• Monitor milestone and audit quality inputs.
• Create training content for audit teams.

Skills

Proactive communicator

Organised project manager

Strong technical auditing skills

Attention to detail

Strong written and oral communication skills

Education

ACA/CA/ACCA (ICAEW, ICAS, Irish Institute or equivalent)

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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