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Senior – Financial Accounting Advisory Services (Accounting & Transactions) - London, Reading or Manchester
The opportunity
In Assurance at EY, we empower you to thrive in a dynamic and inclusive environment. As a key player in our assurance practice, you'll engage with diverse clients, providing critical insights that drive their success. We offer a wealth of career opportunities, from hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies to tailored professional development programs. Our culture fosters collaboration, innovation, and a commitment to excellence, ensuring that every team member feels valued and inspired to reach their full potential. Discover your future with us and be part of a team that makes a difference
This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior to join EY's market leading Financial Accounting Advisory Services (FAAS) team in the UK with a focus on technical accounting and reporting related services. We assist some of the largest global companies navigate the ever-changing accounting and reporting landscape to help them make informed, practical and sustainable decisions. Our range of services includes assisting clients with GAAP conversion, advising on financial accounting excellence matters and accounting for transactions including IPOs, and implementing improvements to internal controls, for example under US SOX and UK corporate reform.
You have the opportunity to develop your career through a broad scope of engagements, mentoring and formal learning. That's how we develop outstanding leaders who team to deliver on our promises to all our stakeholders, and in so doing, play a critical role in building a better working world for our people, for our clients and for our communities.
Your key responsibilities
1. Researching technical issues and providing input into the preparation of high-quality technical reports and presentations
2. Assisting in the preparation of high-quality client deliverables including (but not limited to):
3. Technical accounting analysis papers
4. GAAP compliant financial statements
5. Project reports
6. Special purpose financial information
7. Accounting policies documentation
8. Implementation of improvements to our clients' internal control environments
9. Ability to present technical accounting matters to clients and senior team members in a clear and concise manner
10. Managing and contributing to the delivery of a range of projects focussing on financial reporting
11. Conducting analyses on accounting policies in financial statements to support due diligence, tax and restructuring projects
12. Ability to work closely with both finance and non-finance teams to understand and to improve our clients' internal control arrangements, and
13. Building strong working relationships with other EY Teams and Service lines, as well as our clients
Skills and attributes for success
What we look for:
14. Good understanding of IFRS including experience of IFRS conversions
15. Fully qualified ACCA / ACA / CPA / CA or Equivalent
16. Proven ability to work on complex accounting issues and ability to clearly articulate the advice in written technical accounting papers.
Ideally, you'll also have:
17. Big 4 Consulting or equivalent experience (other firms will be considered)
18. Extensive experience in Audit and ideally worked across a breadth of sectors
19. Internal controls experience or ideally SEC reporting including SOX
What we offer you
At EY, we'll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences. We'll empower you in a flexible environment, and fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learn more.
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