EY - Chartered Accountant - Control Assurance & Operational Risk

We are looking for someone who can conduct detailed audits and reviews for independent assurance to ensure that the control framework and governance systems are functioning as intended.

Roles & Responsibilities :

- You'll be required to identify internal control deficiencies and provide recommendations for improving company's operations, in terms of both efficient and effective performance.

- You'll effectively manage your team to conduct individual audits by defining audit objectives, preparing audit plans, prioritising work based on risk and ensuring adherence to the audit plan.

- You'll proactively evaluate risks and internal controls against changing trends, as well as market, economic and business conditions.

- You'll report on the audit findings and suggest appropriate corrective actions to remedy any non-conformances and ensure implementation is achieved within deadlines.

- You'll also evaluate information security and associated risk exposures.

- You'll be responsible for reviewing compliance within company's financial control framework and regulatory requirements and will maintain relationships with the finance team leads to create awareness and provide any relevant insights on the control framework.

- You'll also liaise with the Risk Management Group, as well as internal and external auditors to assist with the continual improvement of the risk management framework.

- You'll ensure your team applies the correct audit methodologies, practices and standards to deliver high quality audit documentation and reports and stay up to date on regulatory and statutory changes, as well as accounting standards.

- Your responsibilities will also include analysing major incidents across company's, ensuring swift resolution, capturing lessons learnt and sharing them with other businesses, as well as responding to requests from various stakeholders including regulators, auditors, and management.

Desired Skills :

- To be successful in this role, you'll have a tertiary qualification in a relevant discipline and a CA, as well as 7+ years of post-qualification experience in audit and/or operational risk preferably within an accounting or financial services environment.

- You'll demonstrate proven technical and analytical skills backed by attention to detail and sound judgement.

- You'll have strong written and verbal communication skills, demonstrate a strong sense of accountability and ownership, as well as an innovation mindset with a with a focus on improving processes to enhance efficiencies and add value.

- You'll also demonstrate the ability to work in a virtual global team, effectively manage a team and will have a strong customer service ethic with the ability to proactively understand client requirements.