Conflict Management Associate

EY; Gurugram District; Hybrid; INR 550,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

EY in India is seeking an Associate Analyst in Risk Management to help identify and mitigate conflicts of interest for engagements. The role supports engagement acceptance in line with EY policies and regulatory requirements.

It requires analytical thinking, strong communication, and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment. The candidate should be comfortable with evening/night shifts in Kochi center and prepared to handle complex, unstructured scenarios while delivering value and

Qualifications

• Post-graduate degree required.
• 1–2 years of experience in risk/compliance domains.
• Exposure to international clients would be preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop understanding of EY conflict policies and apply them to real situations.
• Perform initial review of conflict check submissions from client-serving teams.
• Identify entities related to the engagement and perform analysis.
• Review findings to identify potential conflicts.
• Share best practices and assist in developing training materials.
• Escalate promptly when required.
• Prepare conflict safeguards for client teams to address ethics obligations.
• Understand EY's structure, business strategies and service lines.
• Deliver on predefined targets with quality and timeliness.

Skills

Analytical skills

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Deadline driven

Independent work

Education

Post-graduate degree

International Certificate in Enterprise Risk Management

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Associate Analyst, Risk Management

The role of the Conflicts sub-function in RMS is to identify and address potential conflicts of interest of new or existing engagements.

The opportunity

This opportunity will enable the professional to help the firm and its client serving professionals in making right decisions with respect to engagement acceptance, in sync with EY internal compliance policies and regulatory framework. This role will assist in evaluating the risks associated with each engagement and suggest ways to mitigate them. As a conflicts management professional, this opportunity enables to assesses internal EY relationships with the parties involved and provides safeguards to address the threat of potential conflict to an acceptable level. The process also identifies certain matters that need to be considered, or complied with, from an independence perspective, as well as other professional ethical standards and legal or regulatory requirements.

The candidate should be comfortable working in a quick turnaround, unstructured & complex environment requiring out of box thinking, logical reasoning, sound communication skills and ability to make quick decisions. The candidate should be able to continuously add value to assigned processes and develop solutions for situations that may not have been previously documented.

The candidate should be flexible for working evening and night shifts (applicable only for Kochi centre)

Your key responsibilities

Technical Expertise:

• Develop an understanding of EY Global / local conflict policies and apply them to real situations.
• Perform initial review of conflict check submissions from EY client serving teams.
• Identify all the relevant entities related to the engagement and perform analysis.
• Review findings to identify potential conflicts.
• Share leading practices and support seniors in the development of training materials.
• Ensuring prompt escalation whenever required.
• Prepare appropriate conflict safeguards for client serving teams to address the firms ethical obligations.
• Understand the firm structure, business strategies and service lines of the firm.
• Deliver on pre-defined individual and team targets including delivering outcomes with quality and completion.

Skills and attributes for success

• Ability to work in a deadline driven environment.
• Attention to detail.
• Good analytical skills with a logical mind-set to take right decisions at right time.
• Ability to successfully multi-task while working independently or in coordination with other professionals
• Understand and maintain the confidentiality of all information.
• Interpersonal skills.
• Good level of written and verbal communication skills.
• Preferably working experience in a Compliance environment but not mandatory.
• Must have good working knowledge of MS office.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Post-graduate degree from a reputed institute.
• Preferably an International Certificate in Enterprise Risk Management or similar.
• 1-2 years of experience in the same domain or related profile
• Candidates with exposure to handling international customers/client interaction would be preferred.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Knowledge on difference between risk advisory and risk management
• Presentation skills, including public speaking and presentation creation using PowerPoint or a similar program
• Critical thinking skills with the ability to independently solve problems with data

Technologies and Tools

• Experience in MS office suites like Microsoft 365, MS excel, PowerPoint

What you can look for

• A Team of people with commercial acumen, technical experience and enthusiasm to learn new things in this fast-moving environment
• A team which has its foundation in the core values of trust, respect and teaming. The team which focuses on supporting its colleagues to excel in their respective domains and provides avenues to help acquire and demonstrate new skills.
• Opportunities to work with Global Executive risk management teams on strengthening and monitoring compliance framework