FAAS - Senior
EY
EY
Advance your career with EY in a Senior FAAS (Control and Compliance) role. Join a global team dedicated to building exceptional careers and a better working world. This position offers the chance to leverage your expertise in SOX and IFC to support clients with accounting change, regulatory compliance, and control effectiveness. Be part of a dynamic environment focused on growth, learning, and impactful client work.
EY's Financial Accounting Advisory Services (FAAS) team provides crucial support in areas like accounting standards, regulatory adherence, and robust internal controls. As a Senior SOX professional, you'll be instrumental in ensuring financial reporting reliability and operational efficiency for our clients. This role requires a strong understanding of audit processes and the ability to manage complex projects from implementation to testing and remediation.
Key responsibilities include leading SOX and IFC design, walkthroughs, and implementation. You will conduct business process reviews, develop flowcharts and RCMs, and perform risk assessments to identify key accounts. Preparing comprehensive SOX documentation, testing control effectiveness, and suggesting improvements are central to this role. You'll also lead SOX compliance phases, support audit planning, and ensure clear communication of control deficiencies and their remediation. Strategic responsibilities include leading pursuit teams, developing client-specific solutions, and driving business growth through collaboration and proposal development. You will also contribute to internal capability building and practice area initiatives.
Furthermore, this role involves significant leadership and management duties. You will be responsible for decision-making, process optimization, and effective resource management, overseeing team performance to achieve organizational goals. This includes allocating personnel, supervising team members, assigning tasks, and ensuring the team has the necessary support and tools for success.
To excel in this role, you should be a qualified CA/CPA/ACCA with a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience, and 2–7 years specifically in SOX/IFC implementation. Essential experience includes RACM, control testing, and remediation, coupled with a strong understanding of the COSO framework and PCAOB requirements. Familiarity with financial statements under Indian/US GAAP is crucial. You must possess strong analytical, communication, and teamwork skills. Proficiency in Excel, Word, Visio, and other MS Office tools is required. Experience working with international clients and with previous multinational consulting firms or Big4 firms is highly preferred.
Exceptional human skills are also vital, including excellent written and oral communication, flexibility, and the ability to lead diverse, multi-geographical teams. Strong collaboration, rapid comprehension of complexity, comfort with ambiguity, and entrepreneurial problem-solving skills are key attributes. You should be capable of performing effectively under pressure and demonstrate a willingness to travel at short notice for short or extended durations.
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