Industries

Whether you join Advisory, Assurance, Tax or Transactions, you'll gain experience in a particular sector of industry.

Our commitment to developing and delivering sector insights will allow you to focus on a particular sector or develop clear points of view across a range of sectors in which our clients operate. As part of a multidisciplinary team, you’ll work directly with clients around the world to help them meet their goals and compete more effectively.

Find out more about your area of interest:

Automotive

EY’s Automotive network focuses on the mega trends in the global automotive industry. As one of our sector professionals, you’ll work alongside colleagues from Assurance, Tax, Transaction and Advisory. You’ll pool your knowledge to anticipate market trends, identify the implications for our clients and develop views on how they should respond.

Oil and gas

The oil and gas industry is constantly changing. Increasing regulatory pressures, price fluctuations and geopolitical complexities all present significant challenges. As one of our sector professionals, you’ll pool knowledge with talented colleagues to anticipate market trends, identify the implications for our clients and develop views on how they should respond.

Consumer Products

The global recession has reset the consumer products landscape. Value-seeking consumers, intensified customer and competitive pressures, increased commodity cost pressures and heightened foreign exchange volatility are all driving consumer product companies to be even leaner and more agile. They have a relentless focus on execution. As one of our sector professionals, you’ll pool your knowledge with talented colleagues to anticipate market trends, identify the implications for our clients and develop views on how they should respond.

Power and Utilities

In the drive to achieve a greener, more secure and more affordable energy future, the power and utilities sector needs to undergo a major transformation that will fundamentally change the sector’s business model. As one of our sector professionals, you’ll help clients master these new challenges.

Government and Public Sector

Governments and not-for-profit organizations around the world are seeking innovative answers to the complex challenges they face. As one of our sector professionals, you’ll share our enthusiasm and deep commitment to helping our clients identify ways to achieve their goals. Working alongside talented colleagues, you’ll help agencies and organizations develop methods to better serve the public.

Private Equity

Value creation goes beyond the private equity investment cycle to portfolio company and fund advice. As one of our sector professionals, you’ll deliver a tailored service to private equity funds to help them compete more effectively. This approach will encompass their transactions processes, investment stewardship and portfolio companies’ performance, with a focus on market, industry and regulatory issues.

Life Sciences

EY’s Life Sciences network helps life sciences companies address challenges at every stage of their development. As one of our sector professionals, you’ll work with clients ranging from emerging biotech or medtech firms to well-established, global pharmaceutical companies. Whether it’s helping companies to form innovative alliances, improve operations, address regulations or explore new markets, you’ll be able to make a difference.

Real Estate

Today’s real estate industry must adopt new approaches to address regulatory requirements and financial risks, while meeting the challenges of expanding globally and achieving sustainable growth. As one of our sector professionals, you’ll work alongside talented colleagues to help clients succeed in this changing world.

Media and Entertainment

In today’s world, the range of media options means integration and adaptability are becoming critical success factors for media and entertainment companies. As one of our sector professionals, you’ll pool knowledge with talented colleagues to anticipate market trends, identify the implications for our clients and develop views on how they should respond. Together, you’ll help clients achieve a competitive edge.

Technology

Driven by relentless innovation, compressed market timing and dynamic consumer demand, the technology industry is constantly changing. As one of our sector professionals, you’ll help clients succeed in this changing world. You’ll work alongside talented colleagues to anticipate market trends, identify the implications for our clients and develop views on how they should respond.

Mining and Metals

With volatile metals prices, uncertainty about demand and restricted capital markets, the global mining and metals industry faces a new era of challenges and opportunities. As one of our sector professionals, you’ll work alongside talented colleagues to anticipate market trends, identify the implications for clients and develop views on how they should respond. Together, you’ll help clients succeed in this changing world.

Telecommunications

In a rapidly changing environment, telecommunications operators face challenges of growth, operational efficiency, convergence, technology and increasing regulatory pressures. As one of our sector professionals, you’ll work alongside talented colleagues to anticipate market trends, identify the implications for our clients and develop views on how they should respond. Our Telecommunications network has centers in Paris, Cologne, Johannesburg, Delhi, Beijing and San Antonio. Together, you’ll help telecommunications companies succeed in today’s changing world.

Financial Services careers: helping our clients in a constantly changing, highly regulated world

Now more than ever, financial service organizations need to be up-to-date and compliant with regulation and legislation. They must also anticipate market trends.

Working in our Financial Services team you’ll not only assess our clients’ systems and controls, but also advise them on market developments and how they should respond to achieve a competitive advantage.

Your work will be truly global and you’ll gain valuable experience, benefiting from leading professional development opportunities and getting the support you need to reach your potential.

There are three areas within our Financial Services team – you’ll gain particular experience in one of them but work closely with the others to give our clients the solutions they need to reach their goals:

Asset Management

The asset management industry is evolving fast. As one of our sector professionals, you’ll help asset managers and service providers cope with the daily pressures of this dynamic environment. You’ll assist them in managing business growth, reducing risk, providing transparency or preparing for regulatory scrutiny.

Banking & Capital Markets

In today’s globally competitive and highly regulated environment, banks and securities firms need to manage risk effectively while satisfying an array of divergent stakeholders. As one of our sector professionals, you’ll pool your knowledge with talented colleagues to anticipate market trends, identify the implications for our clients and develop views on how they should respond.

Insurance

Insurers must increasingly address more complex and converging regulatory issues that challenge their risk management approaches, operations and financial reporting practices. As one of our sector professionals, you’ll help them address these issues and succeed in today’s changing world.

Financial Services Advisory opportunities

As the only major professional services firm with an integrated financial services practice across Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa, we need talented people who think and act in an open minded way.

We work with leading financial services clients across four key specialism’s: Actuarial, Financial Services Risk, IT Risk and Assurance, and Performance Improvement. We are growing fast across all the specialisms in all our countries.

Join us and you’ll help leading financial services companies ensure they are approaching risk management and performance improvement in the right way. You’ll bring a fresh perspective to every challenge and offer objective advice and fresh insights to help our clients make their business a better business.

Whatever you do, you’ll find that variety, challenge and fast personal and professional growth, working within diverse and international teams are the main features of a career at Ernst & Young.

Find out more about working in EMEIA Financial Services Advisory and opportunities across Europe.

Financial Services Assurance opportunities

As the only major professional services firm with an integrated financial services practice across Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa, we’re looking for talented assurance professionals.

We offer outstanding careers in financial and professional services, working with the best people on the most complex financial services issues and helping to shape the future of financial services. Our people specialise in our three key sectors, Asset Management, Banking and Capital Markets and Insurance.

If you are a highly motivated auditor ideally with a background in financial services, or have experience working on the implementation of new accounting and regulatory standards, join us.
Whatever you do, you’ll find that variety, challenge and fast personal and professional growth, working within diverse and international teams are the main features of a career at Ernst & Young.

Financial Accounting and Advisory Services in Financial Services Assurance

Today’s financial institutions must be able to respond quickly to accounting and reporting changes, and fully understand and manage the impact on their business, people and processes. In addition, the accounting requirements and process for mergers and acquisitions, de-mergers and IPOs are ever more complex and need specialist advice.

That is why we created Financial Accounting Advisory Services (FAAS) - a multi-disciplinary service that combines our technical accounting expertise with insight and solutions from Advisory, Transaction Advisory, Risk Management and Tax. The aim: to help our clients navigate the changing landscape of financial accounting and the resulting impact on accounting and reporting processes, controls and systems.

Find out more about working in EMEIA Financial Services Assurance including opportunities in Financial Accounting and Advisory Services, across Europe

Financial Services Tax opportunities

As the only major professional services firm with an integrated financial services practice across Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa, we’re looking for talented tax professionals.

We offer outstanding careers in financial and professional services, working with the best people on the most complex financial services issues and helping to shape the future of financial services. You’ll have opportunities to progress, learn and accelerate your career.

If you’re a qualified or nearly qualified ACA or CTA tax professional, with a track record in any area of tax – including Tax accounting under IFRS or US GAAP, transaction tax, indirect tax or transfer pricing; join us.

Find out more about working in EMEIA Financial Services Tax and opportunities across Europe

Financial Services Transactions opportunities

Against a backdrop of one of the most unprecedented periods of change in the financial services industry, our Financial Services Transaction Advisory Services team brings together specialists across disciplines to work with some of our largest clients on high-profile international transactions.

Join us and you'll be a member of our market-leading, multidisciplinary team in what is the only integrated transactions business across EMEIA. We’re looking to recruit experienced Transaction Advisory Services staff at all levels within Financial Services.