Assurance Specialist - Ernst & Young

At EY, we're all in to shape your future with confidence. We'll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. Join EY and help to build a better working world.

Our UK and Ireland (UKI) Assurance team is fully integrated, working across borders to help clients deal with issues that are critical to their success, and winning new business as a result. From small businesses to some of the world's best-known brands, our clients count on reliable financial statements, information, and processes to inform their ongoing strategies. You'll use your professional skills and experience to make it happen, handling complex audit procedures across a broad range of clients. Your goal will be to help clients achieve their potential - and you can expect to do the same.

The opportunity: As an auditor at EY, you will provide independent verification of our clients' compliance with accounting principles. By doing so, you play a meaningful role in helping businesses accurately reflect their financial picture and improve their operations. In return, you can expect leading class learning and development tailored to your unique interests and motivations. You'll be given all the skills, knowledge, and opportunities to progress and become ready to build a better working world for our people, our clients and the communities that support us. We are expanding our Audit teams across the UK with vacancies in: Newcastle.

Your key responsibilities:

• Effectively leading engagements in accordance with the firm's methodologies and guidance, professional standards, and local legal and regulatory requirements.
• Building and nurturing new business relationships, engaging clients, and providing authoritative advice and professionalism throughout transactions.
• Understanding our clients' unique ambitions and needs, delivering value to the client by providing knowledge, ideas, and solutions for improving their business, assessing legal implications.
• Successfully and proactively managing multi-disciplinary teams, resolving any challenges, and ensuring the smooth delivery of team operations, client audits and services.
• Performance management and coaching of junior colleagues throughout the performance year.
• Identifying and acting upon staff needs, including resourcing, learning and development.
• Constantly refreshing your understanding of current market trends.

Skills and attributes for success: Colleagues and clients from a diverse array of backgrounds will look to you first for answers, so you'll be a high-profile contact and point of escalation when it comes to resolving complex issues. As you build your knowledge and experience, you'll become a credible advisor, influencing clients and engagement teams on resolutions that will impact entire industries. You'll also be introduced to career challenges that will take you into exciting new professional territory.

To qualify for the role you must have:

• Experience planning, leading, and delivering multiple major external audit and assurance engagements in a senior managerial capacity.
• Fully qualified as a chartered accountant e.g. ACA / ACCA / CA / ICAS / ICAEW or international equivalent.
• Excellent technical expertise with proven industry knowledge and sector experience in one or more of the following: Pharmaceutical; Retail; Automotive; Transportation; Manufacturing; Real Estate; Hospitality; Construction; Energy; Media; Technology; Telecom, Government & Public Sector; Oil, Gas & Utilities; Products & Services.
• Project and people management experience.

*Please note that evidence of qualification status will be requested pre-interview. We kindly request that applicants upload a copy of their qualification certificate at the point of application.

Ideally, you'll also have:

• Previous professional experience at Senior Manager level, or equivalent.
• Knowledge of current market issues in the UK.
• Experience using and applying UK GAAP and IFRS.
• Expertise using GAM to perform an assurance engagement in compliance with auditing standards.
• An application and solution-based approach to problem solving and a collaborative approach to management.
• The flexibility to constantly learn and adapt in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

What we look for: We're interested in professionals with a genuine creative vision and the confidence to make it happen. You can expect plenty of autonomy in this role, so we look for people who will take initiative and seek out opportunities to improve our current relationships and processes. If you're serious about auditing and ready to take on some of our clients' most complex issues, this role is for you.