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What is Assurance at EY?
Assurance, which incorporates both core audit and other assurance services, includes understanding the key business and financial risks facing our clients and the wide array of markets they operate in. You will gain a unique insight and help review their internal processes, design responses to mitigate risk and verify the accounting treatment in all primary statements and disclosures within the financial statements, all whilst complying with company law, accounting and auditing standards.
If you are information-hungry, data-driven, and want immediate interaction with our stellar array of clients and an insight into some of the best businesses globally, and the opportunity to add real value - apply for our Graduate Programme in Assurance today!
Choosing your career
When submitting your application form, you may submit a preference for the types of clients you would like to work with during your graduate programme, if you wish. We have two areas of our business which focus on different clients and industries that both fall under assurance.
- Core Assurance (Non-Financial Services) Clients: Industrial, Commercial & Technology (ICT) clients including Automotive & Transportation, Government & Public Sector, Health & Life Sciences, Mining & Metals, Oil & Gas, Power & Utilities, Real Estate, Hospitality & Construction, Technology, Telecommunications, Media & Entertainment.
- Financial Services Clients: Asset Management, Banking and Insurance, Investment Services, Financial Services Industry, Foreign Exchange.
- No preference: If you are open to any client group or industry, then that is no problem! Please select "no preference" when submitting your graduate application.
Wishing you the very best of luck.
Our Assurance Graduate Programmes:
Assurance
Our assurance teams work with multiple clients across different industries to gain a unique insight into how businesses operate. Collaborate directly with C-Suite and senior management to make more informed decisions. Understand the factors driving business performance and become a more connected, responsive, and insightful professional providing you with the tools to shape the future with confidence.
Assurance is not just for Accountants.
Although Assurance services have its roots in accountancy, that is just the beginning of the story. You will be right there on-site with EY clients, reviewing strategy, assessing risk, driving change and adding real value. And, while technology does the routine work, you’ll have the opportunity to really get to know and understand your clients and their businesses. You may be surprised to learn that across all parts of Assurance, we offer bespoke roles in data analytics, AI and other emerging technologies where you can create innovative approaches to support EY clients.
Bring your analytical and innovation mindsets. Bring your thirst for knowledge and learning. Bring a healthy scepticism and an eye for detail. We’ll give you access to every kind of business there is, so you can help to make it work better.
What we do in Assurance
Our Assurance practice is built around our core audit delivery, but also encompasses a wide range of assurance services across our different sectors. Audits are the fundamental building blocks of effective capital markets. EY auditors use their knowledge, skills and experience to deliver high-quality audits with independence, integrity, objectivity and professional scepticism. In doing so, they help to support sustainable, long-term value creation
You will gain a deep understanding of our clients’ businesses from both an operational and financial perspective, drawing on your experience to provide real value to all levels of management.
The investment we are making in our wider Assurance business means that as well as joining one of the largest, most stable employers, you will be empowered to develop and be an expert in your field.
Organisations must identify, assess and address emerging risks without losing sight of their existing business and control environment. They are not only working to get ahead of the curve - often they are struggling to keep up. Management, audit committees and boards of directors rely on a robust audit process to provide assessments and assurance around the effectiveness of controls, company processes and ultimately their financial statements.
Our services can help clients strategically assess, re-mediate and improve issues identified in all facets of their business. Additionally, our ability to bring innovative ideas and advisory support, greater technology enablement and broad subject matter experience in complex areas globally allows us to help clients gain significantly enhanced value from the audit process.
Centre of Excellence
The Global Reporting Centre of Excellence (COE) engages with EY’s largest global audit clients, providing innovative solutions to global statutory reporting.
The COE is based in our Dublin office and operates at a truly global level. Through ground-breaking technology tools, the COE drives disruption in the management of global statutory audits, provides business insights into our clients’ performance, and partners with our clients, as they move to world class statutory reporting structures.
Data Analytics
EY teams help the world’s most sophisticated organisations with their complex business challenges. Today, integrity demands a particular focus. The largest and most technologically advanced Forensics services in the world, we combine deep technical, legal, accounting and financial knowledge with investigative and technology-related skills to protect and restore reputation.
We support clients when they are faced with damaging allegations of, for example, bribery, fraud or corruption. We bring the right people together quickly, armed with the right technology, to help deliver a high-quality, seamless service no matter where EY clients are based. We help to establish the facts, and then share them with the appropriate stakeholders.
The work also includes helping clients improve the effectiveness and efficiency of their compliance programmes, anti-fraud efforts, dispute resolution mechanisms and transaction-related activities.
The team forms part of the wider Forensic & Integrity Services (FIS) business unit and specialises in forensic technology services encompassing eDiscovery, Forensic Data Analytics and IT Forensic investigations.
Professional qualification routes:
Choosing your entry route
By joining the EY Assurance Graduate programme, you will have access to world-class learning and development opporunities, including the chance to pursue a professional accountancy qualification.
Find out more about our entry routes, pathways to qualification and benefits here.