Financial Accounting Advisory Services (FAAS) - Assistant Manager

EY; Dublin; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

EY in Ireland is seeking an Assistant Manager for FAAS within FSO Assurance, based in Dublin and Limerick. You will support CFOs and finance teams with complex accounting issues, regulatory reporting and finance transformation initiatives.

You'll work in a multidisciplinary team, manage engagements, and help deliver insights from financial data while developing client relationships across the financial services sector.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate/graduate degree in accounting or related field (Business, Economics, Finance).
• 3 years of experience as an auditor or in banking/finance industries (insurance, wealth/asset management).
• Excellent project management skills including MS Word, PowerPoint and Excel.

Responsibilities

• Research and develop solutions to complex accounting and regulatory issues.
• Stay updated with industry/accounting changes to propose solutions.
• Collaborate with client reporting teams to deliver insights and improve reporting processes.
• Lead the delivery of technical support on accounting/regulatory queries to clients.
• Assist clients with new/revised accounting standards and GAAP changes.
• Plan, execute and deliver engagements including large-scale finance transformations.
• Mentor junior team members and serve as a point of contact with senior leaders.
• Leverage technology to learn, share knowledge and enhance service delivery.
• Build strong internal relationships within Assurance and cross-service lines.

Skills

Auditing experience

Project management

Regulatory reporting

Education

Accounting/Finance degree

Tools

Microsoft Word

PowerPoint

Excel

Job description

Financial Accounting & Advisory Services (FAAS) – Assistant Manager

Location: Dublin and Limerick

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship: No

Business Area: FSO Assurance

Contract Type: Full-Time – Permanent

FAAS addresses the CFO’s agenda and provides CFOs, controllers, treasurers and audit committees with insight and services to support compliance with evolving financial requirements and help provide transparency and trust in reporting to support better decision‑making. We also help to support finance functions with robust financial data analytics and innovation through our tools.

The Team and the opportunity

EY have a number of career opportunities available, and we are interested in meeting with strong candidates who are looking for a new challenge, one where you can develop your range of skills significantly. Be that a move out of industry into practice, or from within practice into advisory services. You will play a key role in supporting the development of new, and strengthening existing, client relationships and help our clients, who are leaders in the Financial Services industry, navigate the complex finance issues facing their business.

The FAAS team specialises in supporting our clients in delivering accounting and regulatory change and implementing finance transformation. FAAS operates within a global and EMEIA network across EY.

Your Key Responsibilities

Within FAAS, you'll work as part of a multi-disciplinary and high-performing team of problem solvers with extensive experience helping financial services organisations solve their complex business issues from strategy to execution in one or more of the following areas:

• Research and develop solutions to complex technical accounting and/or regulatory issues.
• Keep up to date with industry, regulatory and accounting change to proactively develop and present solutions to our clients and potential clients.
• Work with our client’s financial and regulatory reporting teams to help deliver insights from financial information and to improve reporting processes.
• Lead the delivery of technical support on ad-hoc accounting and regulatory queries from clients and teams in other service lines and across EMEIA.
• Assist clients with the implementation of new and revised accounting standards, GAAP conversions and regulatory change.
• Lead the planning, execution and delivery of engagements including those involving large scale financial and accounting change or complex transactions in large Finance functions.
• Lead junior team members effectively, providing support and guidance whilst acting as the key point of contact with senior leaders.
• Leverage technology to continually learn, share knowledge with team members, and enhance service delivery; and
• Build strong internal relationships within Assurance and across the other service lines we work with and support.

Skills, experience & qualifications needed

We’re interested in future leaders with a genuine creative vision and the confidence to make it happen. Our opportunities will allow you to apply your financial accounting, regulatory reporting or change expertise to a variety of projects whilst offering you excellent career and progression opportunities. You can expect plenty of autonomy in this role, so you’ll also need the ability to take initiative and seek out opportunities to improve our current processes and ways of working. To qualify for the role, you ideally will have:

• An undergraduate or graduate degree in accounting and/or other appropriate academic major (including Business, Economics, Accounting, Finance).
• A minimum of 3 years of experience as an auditor for a public accounting firm, and/or industry experience within banking, aircraft leasing, wealth and asset management or insurance; and
• Excellent project management skills including Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel.