Assurance - Centre of Excellence

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Our Assurance group is one of the most trusted, respected, and influential organizations in the industry. As part of our team, you will provide peace of mind to clients by using your skills and experience to give companies, investors, and regulators confidence in the validity of financial statements and business critical information or processes. Groups (or, as we call them, sub-service lines) within Assurance include External Audit, Climate Change and Sustainability Services, Financial Accounting Advisory Services and Fraud Investigation & Dispute Services.

Within EY’s Assurance practice, we also have a Centre of Excellence (COE) located in Halifax, Nova Scotia that predominantly performs work in the areas of Internal Controls over Financial Reporting (NI 52-109 and Sarbanes Oxley), Public and Private Company Independence Procedures, and other Assurance related procedures. We are currently seeking a full-time team member to join this growing team. The successful candidate will participate in client engagement teams, whereby they will be assessing, improving, and evaluating/testing our clients’ business processes and controls, assessing and evaluating whether EY is independent of the entity under audit, and/or performing substantive procedures and/or engagement specific procedures.

The objective of our COE is to inspire the confidence and trust that help enable a complex world to work. EY’s Assurance COE provides scalable offerings that allows our clients to benefit from our insights and efficiencies. As a part of the COE, you will work with multiple companies across different industries to gain a unique insight into how businesses operate.

This will allow you to understand the factors driving business performance and become a more connected, responsive, and insightful professional.

This job posting relates to an existing vacancy within our organization.

Key responsibilities of a full-time employee in our COE team are:

to analyze business and financial processes to identify risks and improvements in the controls frameworks for the various processes

to analyze and evaluate that EY meets all applicable criteria to be independent of its audit clients, and

to recognize potential audit issues or unusual relationships from basic analyses.

After training, we expect our employees to:

perform various substantive and analytical procedures to identify errors and/or misstatements,

effectively and efficiently identify potential independence issues, and clearly and accurately document the execution of specific audit procedures.

While completing day to day tasks we hope that all employees will assist clients in strengthening business performance, while ensuring a high quality in client service and informing supervisors of the engagement status.

We expect our employees to:

demonstrate and apply strong project management skills,

inspire teamwork and responsibility with engagement team members, and

use current technology and tools to enhance the effectiveness of deliverables and services.

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