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.

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 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

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 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.

TO QUALIFY FOR THE ROLE, YOU MUST HAVE

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).
• ACA or ACCA certification is desired but not a pre-requisite.
• Excellent project management skills including Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel