Employment / Litigation Law Clerk - Toronto jobs at Ey in Canada, Toronto

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As a financial analyst in our team, you will:

• Become from day one a contributing team member, performing in a professional environment alongside a vibrant and exciting team of experienced financial due diligence professionals.
• Learn and develop technical and personal skills to support achievement of career goals, through a blend of structured learning, coaching and experiences.
• Gain diverse experience, with each project offering new opportunities to expand your technical expertise over a wide range of sectors.
• Be a vital member of the team executing financial due diligence projects. You’ll be focused on understanding the client’s business, profit drivers and trends, help clients mitigate risks and improve deal structures.

What we look for

• Excellent academic background, including a bachelor’s degree from a top tier university in Accounting / Finance / Banking / Economics, or anyother related field with a strong quantitative focus

• relevant working experience,ideally in a Corporate Finance department, or Big4 professional services firm
• Excellent written and verbal skills both in Greek and English
• Advanced knowledge in MS Office packages , in particular MS Excel and PowerPoint
• Strong numerical / analytical ability and a sound grasp of financial accounting
• Strong team participation , communication , and interpersonal skills , particularly in teams with diverse skills and backgrounds
• Strong problem-solving , attention to detail and project management skills
• Willingness to learn, proactivity and the ability to adapt to new challenges and ideas and work under tight deadlines
• Professionalism

Ideally, you’ll also have

• An MBA or a master’s degree in accounting / finance / Auditing,or any other related field with strong business and quantitative focus

• Working experience in audit and assurance and/or M&A role
• An active CPA/ACCA/ACA/CFA certification (or in a final stage of completion)
• Solid negotiation and influencing skills, and the ability to develop long-lasting relationships both internally and externally

Additionally, we offer you the ability to Shape your Future with Confidence by:

• Developing your professional growth:
• You'll have unlimited access to educational platforms, EY Badges and EY Degrees, alongside support for certifications. You will experience personalized coaching and feedback, and gain exposure to international projects, through our expansive global network, empowering you to define and achieve your own success.
• Dive into our innovative GenAI ecosystem, designed to enhance your EY journey and support your career growth. These advanced AI tools will empower you to focus on higher-value work and meaningful interactions, enriching your professional experience like never before.
• Empowering your personal fulfilment: We focus on your financial, social, mental and physical wellbeing.
• Our competitive rewards package, depending on your experience, includes cutting-edge technological equipment, ticket restaurant vouchers, a private health and life insurance scheme, income protection and an exclusive EY benefits club card that provides a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions.
• Our flexible working arrangement (hybrid model) is defined based on your own preferences and team’s needs, and we enjoy other initiatives such as summer short Fridays and an EY Day Off.
• Our commitment to a sustainable way of operating, encourages volunteerism, promotes sustainable practices and offers opportunities for you to create a positive societal impact.
• Our pride lies in working at EY as one of the most recognized employers in Greece through our multiple awards received over the last 3 years (Top Employer, Great Place to Work and Best Workplace in Professional Services & Consulting).
• Fueling an inclusive culture:We prioritize a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment, where you’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

Building a better working world

Your key responsibilities

Work as a Java Developer to contribute in various streams of implementation in Banking projects:

• Collaborate with agile team members to achieve project and client goals
• Analyzing requirements and translating business requirements into designs
• coding, testing, debugging and documenting software applications
• Provide leadership and guidance to other technical professionals

Skills and attributes for success

• Excellent knowledge of Java supported by 2+ years of professional experience
• Familiar with Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate / JPA and Maven
• Hands on experience working with REST and SOAP web services
• Very good knowledge of SQL and one of database engines
• Excellent knowledge of Git
• Good English language verbal and written communication
• Experience working in international projects

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, IT, Science, other Technical qualification
• 3+ years in a corporate IT environment in a similar positions
• Demonstrable experience of Java and frameworks commonly used in Java projects
• Strong communication skills
• 3+ years of Banking experience

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Knowledge of Kafka or RabbitMQ is an advantage
• Knowledge of Camunda Platform is an advantage
• Hands on experience working with microservices architecture
• Experience working with AWS or Azure cloud products and services
• Certificates proving certain skills: Java, Spring, SQL, AWS or Azure Cloud
• Experience in agile / scrum methodology

What we look for

• Strong Java developer
• Able to work on independently
• Willing to guide other team members
• Willingness to learn and expand technical skills working in international environment and Agile methodology

What we offer

EY Global Delivery Services (GDS) is a dynamic and truly global delivery network. We work across ten locations – Argentina, China, Hungary, India, the Philippines, Poland, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Spain and the United Kingdom – and with teams from all EY service lines, geographies and sectors, playing a vital role in the delivery of the EY growth strategy. From accountants to coders to advisory consultants, we offer a wide variety of fulfilling career opportunities that span all business disciplines. In GDS, you will collaborate with EY teams on exciting projects and work with well-known brands from across the globe. We’ll introduce you to an ever-expanding ecosystem of people, learning, skills and insights that will stay with you throughout your career.

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

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FP&A, Global SL Finance - Assistant Director

Core to what we do is helping SL Leadership

What we look for:

• Proven experience in a strategy, analytics, or business modelling role.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyse, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy.
• Proficient in using AI tools for data mining, trend analysis, and predictive modelling.
• Strong problem-solving skills and business acumen including ability to develop best in class solutions and recommendations.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to interpret and convey complex data in a clear, concise manner.
• Exceptional curiosity and creativity in data exploration, with the ability to think beyond day-to-day tasks.
• Familiarity with various analytics and business modelling tools and techniques.
• Ability to leverage AI insights to provide actionable recommendations and support strategic initiatives.
• Commitment to staying updated with the latest AI advancements and their applications in finance.
• Independent and collaborative work style - analyse problems, design, and implement solutions independently and with X-Finance and multi-disciplinary teams, escalating and communicating progress and issues upwards as appropriate;
• Global mindset – ability to work effectively as a virtual team member. Ability and willingness to work in a multicultural and diverse environment and flex style as appropriate.

Responsibilities:

• Analyse business challenges, explore connections, and provide transformative insight
• Understand complex business issues and devise approaches to resolve these effectively.
• Analyse diverse data sets to provide insights and identify connections to support specific business questions
• Interpret strategic outlook and derive business cases to understand impacts and implications on the business
• Contribute to transformation projects by developing new business models based on analytical interpretations of strategic intent
• Leverage financial and non-financial data to inform strategic decisions, bringing forth actionable insights that drive growth and operational efficiency
• Harness financial tech tools and digitalization to modernize the finance function, thus facilitating real-time reporting and analysis (e.g. automation, AI)
• Enhance performance and decision-making by delivering high-quality results swiftly and effectively
• Communicate to stakeholders in a clear, understandable way and managed stakeholder relationships and expectations

Skills and attributes for success

• Graduate and/or professional certification in a business-related subject matter is required to perform this position.
• An understanding of corporate financial management and financial planning and analysis.
• Excellent communication skills – written and verbal; excellent presentation
• A highly team-oriented approach, with flexibility regarding tasks undertaken and the ability to prioritize conflicting demands to meet exacting deadlines.
• Strong technical skills with the ability to analyze problems, design and implement solutions independently.
• Strong interpersonal skills - can work alongside and gain the trust and respect of stakeholders at all levels of seniority and within different functions
• Strong understanding of AI and machine learning algorithms, with experience in applying these technologies to financial data.
• Advanced Excel skills (e.g, pivot tables, v-lookups, charts/graphs), with ability to manipulate and draw trends from vast amounts of data as well as for sensitivity analysis and scenario modeling
• Advanced PowerPoint skills, with ability to summarize clearly and succinctly for leadership what insights and observations are being recommended for leadership materials that is easy to read and understand by a combination of taglines, comments, and data visualization.
• Advanced EY reporting tool skills is useful (e.g., FR/Markets/Revenue Analyzer cubes, Essentials tools, ThoughtSpot, etc.)
• Understanding of the key issues and opportunities relating to Technology, AI and Automation both for finance transformation and for EY overall – technology skillsets or willingness to develop required
• Credibility and confidence to challenge and propose better ways of doing things, build bridges and harmonize divergent interests and priorities.
• Ability to be flexible for meetings and work to be performed outside of standard working hours to accommodate a global audience
• Ability to work in a self-sufficient manner, operating across multiple projects and managing conflicting priorities

As a Staff, you will join our Actuarial team and participate in client engagements and opportunities for pension and or benefits actuarial services. You will work on technical aspects of actuarial engagements while ensuring client needs are met. You will apply project management skills as well as technical and professional knowledge to ensure that the engagement work products are of the highest quality.

Your key responsibilities

• Advising EY’s audit teams on actuarial and accounting matters related to complex pension arrangements and other post-employment benefits - OPEB
• Assisting the team in due diligence reviews in mergers and acquisitions transactions on defined benefit plans and broader people-related topics
• Participating in a broad range of consulting actuarial, pension and benefit engagements, including pension and benefit cost management, governance, policy, risk, and operational aspects
• Working with EY colleagues in Canada and across the globe to deliver One EY solutions
• Supporting actuarial engagements relating to actuarial audit support, mergers and acquisitions, pension valuation and other pension advisory services
• Supporting compensation engagements as needed, including conducting research and analysis on compensation, total rewards, talent retention/attraction
• Participating in the overall and day-to-day technical and business aspects of client projects to ensure high quality engagement work products, solutions, and deliverables for clients
• Identifying, developing and implementing initiatives to improve engagement productivity, increase efficiencies, mitigate risks, and address issues for clients
• Contributing to the attainment of group and individual goals by sharing knowledge, identifying business and or productivity opportunities and facilitating teamwork

Skills and attributes for success

• Up to 2 years of pension actuarial experience
• Actively pursuing ACIA / ASA
• Previous pension, OPEB accounting and/or valuation experience preferred
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel
• Strong project management skills within a professional environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication abilities

Ideally, you’ll also

• Work independently in a fast-paced, dynamic and team-oriented environment
• Share knowledge and motivate colleagues as well as initiative to stay abreast of pension and benefit actuarial trends and developments

Your key responsibilities

As an Accounting & Tax Technician, you'll:

• Prepare journal entries, trial balance, general ledger financial statements and the supporting schedules
• Prepare personal, corporate, trust and partnership tax returns
• Collate and e-file submissions of tax returns
• Verify tax assessments
• Research general tax issues
• Interact with tax authorities
• Develop direct contacts with clients
• Provide clients with quality, timely and responsive services and work products

Skills and attributes for success

• The ability to effectively manage multiple tasks in a fast paced and high volume environment with keen attention to client needs
• The ability to manage time spent against budget, and work alongside team members to ensure the timely completion of work deliverables
• The ability to be proactive, use own initiative, and work independently, as well as part of the team
• The ability to demonstrate sound judgment regarding confidential and sensitive matters
• Excellent organization skills and attention to detail
• Good communication skills

To qualify for the role, you must have

• College diploma in accounting, finance or tax, or equivalent
• Previous related tax and accounting experience would be an asset, especially with marketable securities
• Experience using Caseware and Taxprep is highly desirable
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools
• The flexibility to work additional hours

Ideally, you’ll also

• A commitment to learning and using our tax technology and processes
• Accounting experience for investment portfolios

What we offer

When you thrive, we thrive. The EY benefits package goes above and beyond, focusing on your physical, emotional, financial and social well-being:

• $5,000 per year for mental health support benefits
• Wellbeing benefit of $1,200/year

Discover how, when and where you can work at

Recognizing the changing and fast-paced professional landscape, you will team with engagement leadership to bring our broad range of capabilities and insights to enhance the effectiveness of the finance and operations function. You will be part of our Finance Transformation team and help clients by focusing on providing business advisory services that achieve measurable benefits in operational efficiency and strategic decision making.

As part of the Finance Transformation team, you will actively participate in engagements covering the following expertise areas:

• Finance Transformation Strategy & Roadmap
• Financial Statement Close & Consolidations
• FP&A, Controlling Excellence & Management Reporting
• Finance Operating Model Design
• Finance & Accounting Process Improvement, Mapping and Documentation
• Global Business Services including Shared Service Centers, Outsourcing

What you will do

As an influential member of the team, you'll help to create a positive learning culture and will actively coach and counsel junior team members to help them develop.

Client responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of Finance Transformation engagements, which involves advising clients on their internal finance strategy, operating models, and financial processes
• Assist in managing the financial aspects of engagements by organizing staffing, tracking budget and communicating issues to project leaders
• Participate in business development initiatives (POVs, Proposals, NextWave Sessions, among others)
• Build strong internal relationships within Consulting and across other services

People Management responsibilities

• Keep people at center through effective supervising, coaching, and mentoring of staff members
• Conduct performance reviews and contribute to performance feedback for staff
• Contribute to people initiatives including recruiting, retaining and training Finance Transformation professionals
• Maintain an educational program to continually develop personal skills and knowledge
• Understand and follow workplace policies and procedures

Skills and attributes for success

• The ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and keep an open mind (know when to lead and when to follow)
• Experience managing staff on multiple projects and providing direction to team members
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, able to speak fluently and professionally in English, French an asset
• A high level of motivation and a self-starting attitude
• An ability to think outside of the box, thrive on new challenges, and understand clients and teammates’ work style

What you will bring to this role

• Strong academic record including a bachelor's degree and approximately a minimum of 7 years’ experience in industry or with a recognized consulting firm
• Professional designation and/or qualification is desired i.e. MBA, CPA, CA, CMA, CGA
• Experience in delivering projects that cover the full life cycle of assessment, design and implementation support
• Experience with emerging technologies and robotic process automation roll-out is an asset
• Experience managing staff on multiple projects and providing direction to team members
• Travel may be required for this role

Ideally, you’ll also have knowledge and experience of a number of the following areas: finance transformation; process transformation and improvement; planning, budgeting and forecasting; performance measurement and performance management; business performance reporting; cost reduction; shared service centers and business process outsourcing; financial statement close

What we offer

We offer a competitive compensation package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to our business. In addition, our Total Rewards package allows you decide which benefits are right for you and which ones help you create a solid foundation for your future. Our Total Rewards package includes a comprehensive medical, prescription drug and dental coverage, a defined contribution pension plan, a great vacation policy plus firm paid days that allow you to enjoy longer long weekends throughout the year, statutory holidays and paid personal days (based on province of residence), and a range of exciting programs and benefits designed to support your physical, financial and social well-being. Plus, we offer:

• Support and coaching from some of the most engaging colleagues in the industry
• Learning opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you

EY Tax Technology and Transformation – TTT - provides innovative solutions to help companies manage the challenges of existing and emerging technologies, particularly the increasing data demands they face. Our services include:

• Digital Tax Transformation
• Tax Applications-as-a-Service
• Tax Data Improvement
• Enhanced Tax Analytics and Reporting
• Emerging Tax Technologies, including Robotic Process Automation - RPA, Machine Learning - ML, Artificial Intelligence - AI, data lake development, and business intelligence
• Tax Technology Program Mobilization
• Custom Tax Technology Application Development and Deployment
• Implementation and Configuration of Direct and Indirect Tax Systems
• Tax Operating Model Transformation, focusing on process improvement, risk management, and controls
• Tax Function Assessments

Core elements of the role

• Develop agile tax operating models and metrics, helping clients uncover improvement opportunities.
• Optimize tax processes to enhance business outcomes across corporate, indirect, and international tax domains.
• Design efficient and controlled tax processes with enabling technologies to minimize risk.
• Implement technologies that boost business performance, integrating upstream financial systems with downstream tax tools.
• Collaborate with finance and IT teams to enhance the tax relevance of financial data in ERP systems, e.g., SAP, Oracle, and reporting tools, e.g., Hyperion, BPC.
• Manage client expectations and ensure exceptional service through ongoing communication with clients and EY project teams.
• Proactively identify and address risks within engagements, escalating issues to senior team members.
• Lead and contribute to a flexible, dynamic, and team-oriented culture.
• Promote continuous development and a positive work environment.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Undergraduate degree in Finance, Accounting, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 4+ years of relevant experience, including at least 2 years in Canadian corporate tax, either in industry or at a professional services firm.
• Proven experience in optimizing tax processes and implementing tax solutions.
• Strong facilitation skills for workshops assessing tax processes and systems, and the ability to present solutions to C-suite and tax leadership.
• Highly organized with the capability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent leadership skills with a focus on motivating and developing team members.
• Superior verbal and written communication skills, with experience in drafting presentations and proposals.
• Relevant experience with one or more of:
• Tax software, e.g., Hyperion Tax Provision, Longview Tax, OneSource
• Tax data and reporting for systems like SAP, Oracle, BPC, Hyperion
• Content and workflow management tools, e.g., SharePoint
• Tax process and operational assessments
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills (e.g., Power Query, Power Pivot, Power BI, data modeling)
• Willingness to travel within North America up to 20% of the time.

What we offer

We offer a competitive compensation package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to our business. In addition, our Total Rewards package allows you to decide which benefits are right for you and which ones help you create a solid foundation for your future. Our Total Rewards package includes a comprehensive medical, prescription drug and dental coverage, a defined contribution pension plan, a great vacation policy plus firm paid days that allow you to enjoy longer long weekends throughout the year, statutory holidays and paid personal days (based on province of residence), and a range of exciting programs and benefits designed to support your physical, financial and social well-being. Plus, we offer:

• Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around
  
• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
  
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you