Job Description

From small businesses to some of the worlds best-known brands, our clients count on reliable financial statements, information and processes to form their ongoing strategies. More than ever, business is about interpreting and reacting to complex data - and they look to us for advice and services they can trust every time. You will use your professional skills and experience to make it happen, assisting our client to address the accounting and financial reporting challenges facing its business.

The opportunity

Youll help our clients meet their reporting requirements by accurately reporting on financial statements and providing meaningful insights into accounting and reporting matters. In return, you can expect leading-class learning and development tailored to your unique interests and motivations. Youll 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.

Your key responsibilities

Everything youll do will come back to providing exceptional audit activities for our clients. Colleagues and clients from a diverse array of backgrounds will look to you first for answers, so youll be a high-profile contact when it comes to resolving complex issues. As you build your knowledge and experience, youll become a credible advisor, influencing clients and engagement teams on resolutions that will impact entire industries.

Skills and attributes for success

* Leading fieldwork, managing performance and keeping engagement leaders updated on audit engagements
* Completing audit processes and documenting higher-risk areas to increase your technical and business skills in areas including revenue, financial instruments and income taxes
* Engaging clients and providing authoritative advice and professionalism throughout transactions
* Constantly developing your understanding of current market trends and processes and sharing your knowledge to develop junior colleagues
* Understanding our clients unique ambitions and needs and referring them to colleagues in other teams and areas to broaden our business relationships where possible

To qualify for the role you must have

* A bachelors degree in an accounting, finance or business discipline, supported by 5 to 8 years work experience as an auditor in a public accounting firm
* US CPA licensure in your work state
* Experience leading the planning, execution and reporting on audits of financial statements applying US GAAP
* Proven project management skills
* Excellent communication and negotiation skills and a collaborative approach to management
* The flexibility to constantly learn and adapt in a fast-paced environment

Ideally youll have

* Experience with SEC clients using SOX 404 and applying PCAOB standards

What we look for

Were interested in leaders with a genuine creative vision and the confidence to make it happen. You can expect plenty of autonomy in this role, so youll also need the ability to take initiative and seek out opportunities to improve our current relationships and processes. If youre serious about auditing and ready to take on some of our clients most complex issues, this role is for you.

What working at EY offers

We offer a competitive compensation package where youll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to our business. In addition, our Total Rewards package includes medical and dental coverage, both pension and 401(k) plans, a minimum of 22 days of vacation plus ten observed holidays and three paid personal days, and a range of programs and benefits designed to support your physical, financial and social well-being. Plus, we offer:

* Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues in the industry
* Opportunities to develop new skills and progress in your career
* The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way thats right for you

About EY

EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.

Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate.

Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.

If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

Join us in building a better working world. Apply now.

EY provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.