Technology Assurance - Senior Associate

Hammerjack Pty Ltd; Metro Manila; On-site; PHP 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

EY is seeking a Senior Associate to supervise day-to-day project activities and coach staff. You will support Managers and Partners, participate in talent initiatives, and help reinforce the audit practice through quality delivery.

The role focuses on IT risk assessments, controls implementation, and client-facing activities across engagements, with opportunities to travel to client sites within and outside the Philippines.

Qualifications

• Graduate of Bachelor's Degree in Accountancy, Accounting Information Systems, Internal Audit, Computer Science, Management Information Systems or related business course.
• 3-5 years of relevant work experience (Preferred: IT Audit, SOX Audit, SOC Audit; Secondary: Internal Audit (i.e., financial or operations), Compliance)
• Preferred: CPA, CISA, CRISC, CIA

Responsibilities

• Lead and supervise project activities with guidance from Managers.
• Provide coaching and support to Associates on understanding client processes, risks and controls.
• Perform quality reviews of audit work for methodology adherence, readability, and accuracy.
• Evaluate control design and operating effectiveness using a risk-based approach.
• Discuss issues with client management and prepare remediation plans and due dates.
• Monitor deliverables against timeline and propose mitigation actions.

Skills

Planning

Analytical thinking

Communication

Documentation

Teamwork

Time management

Client engagement

English proficiency

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Accountancy or related field

CPA or equivalent (preferred)

CISA (preferred)

CRISC (preferred)

CIA (preferred)

Tools

Visio

Power BI

Excel

Job description

As a Senior Associate, you are expected to supervise the day-to-day project activities, to provide coaching to your staff, provide support and/or updates to your Manager and/or Partners and assist in administrative activities (e.g., talent and quality initiatives, and operations) which aim to reinforce the practice.

The opportunity

We are looking for exceptional talents to join our Technology Risk team. This opportunity will leverage your credentials in IT audit experience and client- management skills, to deliver high quality results in assessments, and support for implementation of controls and tech risk solutions.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Execute projects with varying levels of complexity based on the defined approach and methodology with guidance from Managers
• Gathering relevant information to understand the client's business, processes, risks and controls (e.g., organizational structure, management, protocols)
• Provide guidance and support to Associates in understanding the client's business, processes, risks and controls through walkthrough discussions with the client counterparts and performing site visits when needed
• Perform quality review of audit work done by Associates and provide timely and constructive feedback (e.g., compliance with methodology, readability, informational and typographical accuracy, completeness, conciseness, consistency, etc.)
• Evaluate control design and/or operating effectiveness using a risk-based approach
• Evaluate third-party service organization and complementary user entity controls, as applicable
• Discuss audit issues with client management and prepare deficiency listing, including obtaining remediation action plans and due dates
• Monitor and report status of deliverables against planned timeline, including identifying and providing recommendations to mitigate and/or address issues and dependencies
• Contribute ideas with the team to improve ways of working and complete project outputs
• Attend and participate in internal trainings, and complete the required and assigned learnings
• Conduct trainings and/or seminars and be part of internal and external Firm projects
• Participate and contribute to any internal capacity and capability building activities for the benefit of the team – examples include people engagement, onboarding and quality and service delivery initiatives
• Develop positive relationship with peers, supervisors, and mentors/counselors

Skills and Attributes for success

• Planning skills: Able to organize and prioritize project activities and schedules and delegate appropriate tasks to Associates
• Analytical and Problem-Solving skills: Able to understand and convey business problems/issues and respond insightfully within orbit if impractical solutions
• Communication and Presentation skills: Able to provide quality output and communicate effectively with the client and internal team. Clearly communicate expectations and tasks assigned to Associates
• Documentation skills: Able to perform process mapping (e.g., Visio ) and convey critical information through storytelling/storyboarding and data visualization (e.g. Power BI , Excel)
• Capable of producing high-quality outputs against project objectives to tight deadlines
• Able to work effectively and efficiently and an individual contributor or in a team
• Able to meet tight deadlines and follow the project timeline.
• Flexible and is willing to work in client sites within and outside the Philippines and is open to secondment in other EY offices (within or outside the country)
• Has a good attitude towards work and a strong desire to learn, especially concepts on information system processes and security
• Interested to pursue along their career and technology assurance practice
• Has excellent English language skills (written and verbal)
• Proficient to Microsoft 365 (e.g., Outlook, Teams, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel)

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Graduate of Bachelor's Degree in Accountancy, Accounting Information Systems, Internal Audit, Computer Science, Management Information Systems or graduate of any Business Course.
• 3-5 years of relevant work experience (Preferred: IT Audit, SOX Audit, SOC Audit; Secondary: Internal Audit (i.e., financial or operations), Compliance)
• Preferred: Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA)