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Embracing change is fundamental to success; however, this must be done with trust and value at the very heart of what we do.

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EY Global Assurance Vice Chair

Shape your future with confidence with a career in Assurance

If you want to experience the scale, the technology, the teams, the challenges and the learning to build and personalise your career— while helping the world work better – join EY Assurance services. We exist to build trust in the capital markets and drive long-term value for organisations across the globe.

Working in EY Assurance services – which comprises our sub-services lines Audit, Climate Change and Sustainability Services (CCaSS), Financial Accounting Advisory Services (FAAS) and Forensic & Integrity Services – exposes you to unique, varied and exciting work experiences. You can interact with multiple organisations, across different industries, and across different countries, to gain unique insights into how businesses operate. You can collaborate with decision-makers and colleagues around the world to understand the factors driving business performance, assess challenges and apply critical thinking. You can be part of multidisciplinary teams helping companies understand the risks and opportunities arising from climate change and sustainability issues.

Assurance services may have its roots in accountancy, but that is just the beginning of the story. Increasingly, technology does the routine work, so you can get to know and understand your clients and their businesses. Across all parts of Assurance, we offer bespoke roles in data analytics or emerging technologies where you can create innovative approaches to support EY clients.

At EY, we believe in nurturing talent to provide future business leaders for the global marketplace. We will keep you relevant throughout your time with us through award-winning learning programs, such as the Audit Academy. We will help you to develop your skills and continue learning, so you’ll always be able to ask the most perceptive and challenging questions.

Whatever you do, you’ll do it as part of diverse and inclusive teams. Teamwork is the cornerstone of our success in Assurance, and we embrace it in an agile and intelligent way. This helps us better meet the clients’ needs, enhance their experience and increase the quality and value of what we do.

Explore our teams below.

Audits are the fundamental building blocks of effective capital markets. At EY, we pride ourselves on offering quality audits with integrity, exceptional client service and a wide understanding of industry sectors. Your knowledge, skills and experience, along with objectivity and professional scepticism, will enable you to help deliver high quality audits with independence. In so doing, you can inspire the confidence and trust to help a complex world work better.

You will combine your ability to build relationships with technical excellence. Harnessing advanced technologies, including the EY Digital Audit, you will bring richer insights, depth and responsiveness to audit work. You can assess risk and provide unrivaled insights. You can drive change and transformation, leading to strengthened accountability, transparency, trust and confidence.

Today, EY Audit offers you more exciting opportunities for learning and progression than ever before.
Bring your passion for change and help solve some of humanity’s greatest challenges with a career in EY Climate Change and Sustainability Services (CCaSS). Climate Change and Sustainability Services is a fast-growing part of our business that contributes directly to our purpose of building a better, more sustainable working world.

A career in EY Climate Change and Sustainability Services will place you in a nucleus of dedicated multidisciplinary professionals. Engineers, environmental scientists, psychologists, economists and others with diverse backgrounds, all working to help clients address a wide range of social, ethical and environmental risks. EY skilled professionals help deliver across three main service areas – Climate Change and Decarbonisation, Environmental Social Governance (ESG) and Environmental, Health and Safety.

By doing everything from innovating sustainable products and services, to reducing carbon footprints, to mitigating biodiversity risk to addressing energy security— you can be part of a truly momentous time in this field as governments, regulators and businesses seek to prioritise their efforts around climate change and sustainability.
EY Financial Accounting Advisory Services (FAAS) supports clients in addressing the CFO agenda, by building an effective and efficient finance function with a range of accounting, reporting and analytics services.

When you join the EY Financial Accounting Advisory Services team, you can work with finance leaders of organizations across the globe. You can provide CFOs, controllers, treasurers and audit committees with the critical insights and services they need to make better business decisions. From supporting compliance with evolving financial requirements, to providing transparency and trust in reporting, you’ll be part of dynamic, global, diverse teams that support finance functions with robust financial data analytics and technology.

You’ll unlock new value and discover unexpected potential by using leading-edge data tools and strategies like data mining, artificial intelligence and statistical analysis. You’ll develop deep technical knowledge, consulting and leadership skills, while inspiring confidence and fostering greater transparency— helping to build a better working world.
Our Financial Services Assurance practice is built around our core audit delivery, but also encompasses a wide range of assurance services across our different sectors. You will gain a deep understanding of our clients’ businesses and their financial accounts, drawing on your experience to provide options and recommendations to management and the board. We mirror our clients’ global operations, so be prepared to travel and explore business in new places.
Successful organisations understand that maintaining stakeholder trusts depends on their reputation for keeping promises, respecting laws and behaving ethically. Embracing integrity means doing what you say you will do, with unerring commitment.

When you join EY Forensic & Integrity Services, you will be at the heart of the integrity agenda, helping organisations protect and restore enterprise and their financial reputation. Our diverse teams help companies and their legal counsel to investigate facts, resolve disputes and manage regulatory challenges. We provide support when businesses are faced with damaging allegations of bribery, fraud or corruption. We help to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of compliance programs, anti-fraud efforts, dispute resolution mechanisms and transaction-related activities.

By working in EY Forensics & Integrity Services team, you will have the opportunity to build broad sector experience while developing deep subject-matter knowledge. You will learn new technologies, processes, tools and insights. You will help to build a better working world by instilling a culture of integrity in businesses across the globe.
In Technology Risk, EY teams provide services to help companies understand and manage business risks related to technology in the Transformative Age. From Attestation, Certification, Third party-related compliance, IT Audit, IT Risk Management, Pre-assessment and pre-implementation services and regulatory compliance.

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If you're analytical, innovative, data-driven or a early career wanting to make an impact in the world of work, you’ll find an Assurance career as unique as you are.

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