Assurance

Assurance careers: broaden your experience

Assurance has never played a more vital role in restoring and maintaining public confidence in the world’s capital markets.

Ernst & Young is one of the most trusted, respected and influential organizations in the industry. As an assurance professional here you’ll have access to the latest accounting and auditing information, follow a global audit methodology — and use leading audit support tools.

Your aim: to provide peace of mind to our clients by using your skills and experience to give companies, investors and regulators confidence in the validity of financial statements, business-critical information or processes.

In doing so, you’ll broaden your experience, building career value and reputation. If you’re experienced in one of the following, we’re very interested in hearing from you.

• Audit and Accounting
• Fraud Investigation & Dispute Services

Within Assurance we operate in several business areas. Explore the tabs to learn more.

Auditing and accounting careers: giving a clear picture of business

As an auditor at Ernst & Young, your main aim will be to provide independent verification of our clients’ compliance with accounting principles. By doing so, you play an important role in helping businesses accurately reflect their financial picture and, in turn, protecting financial markets.

Because we use a Global Audit Methodology, audit is a practice rich in opportunity. The scale and scope of our clients’ businesses add to the wealth of experience and opportunity that an audit career here offers you.

As an audit professional here you will be part of a multidisciplinary team focused on providing services to your clients such as responding to regulatory reforms, managing the capital life cycle and improving business operations.

Play a sustainable role

You could also join our climate change and sustainability team. They provide global advice and recommendations that help clients navigate their climate change and sustainability journey with confidence.

You’ll work strategically with clients to help them balance risks, take advantage of opportunities and achieve their full potential in a changing world.

The next step in your career

Ernst & Young’s Financial Accounting Advisory Services (FAAS) practice offers focused technical assistance to help large, complex organizations understand the scope and implications of changing accounting standards, policies and practice. Our professionals provide focused business-oriented advice, project management and highly qualified technical knowledge to assess potential impacts, evaluate their options and effect sustainable change. And we coordinate technical and advisory resources from across Ernst & Young’s Global Assurance, Advisory, Transaction Advisory and Tax practices to develop a custom approach for each client.

The reasons clients turn to FAAS
Business leaders around the world face many challenges in today’s changing economic landscape. Serving as trusted business advisors, Ernst & Young’s Financial Accounting Advisory Services (FAAS) professionals help clients identify the right alternatives to address their complex accounting and reporting issues.

We offer an elite team of highly qualified professionals
FAAS is a part of our Assurance service line. Our professionals have strong technical accounting skills and are experienced in managing accounting change resulting from complex business decisions and regulatory changes.

Blending technical capabilities with practical application, FAAS professionals can deliver value to our clients. Our team is composed of professionals who assist in such areas as GAAP conversion, commodities, hedging, and advising companies that are increasing their M&A activity, undertaking an IPO or facing other regulatory or compliance matters.

Fast-track your career
Our FAAS practice offers exciting career opportunities with unlimited growth potential.

Because we attract talent from around the world and work with clients in every business sector, we offer our team members the opportunity to truly broaden their perspective of the firm and the services we can provide our clients, while fine-tuning their technical accounting skills.

• Dive deeper — Expand the depth and breadth of work you can provide clients and strengthen your technical knowledge through practical application.
• Accelerate faster — Be a part of a growing, entrepreneurial practice that works on a variety of projects with Fortune 250 companies.
• Climb higher — Assist clients at the highest level of an organization with accounting-related issues that can impact their business.
• Think bigger — Build your resume and increase your selling skills through greater exposure to non-audit clients. Integrate with other service lines across the firm to increase your perspective and expand your internal network. Grow your career by spending more time in the market collaborating with clients in an advisory role.

Qualifications
FAAS has opportunities available for professionals at the senior and manager level. We are seeking self-starters with strong technical accounting skills who are logical and analytical thinkers. Our professionals work in challenging, diverse and evolving client environments that sometimes require travel. We rely on our team’s strong written and verbal communication, presentation, client service and technical writing skills to deliver high-quality client deliverables and to help grow our business. FAAS requires our professionals to adhere to all Assurance certification requirements.

Understanding and managing fraud risk

Our Fraud Investigation and Dispute Services (FIDS) professionals help clients deal with the complex issues of fraud, regulatory compliance and business disputes that could otherwise detract from client efforts to achieve their company’s potential.

As part of this team you’ll draw on knowledge of fraud assessment, monitoring and prevention to identify issues that need addressing. Your focus will be on helping organizations manage fraud risk more effectively and treat it as a critical business priority.