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Our Tax Technology and Transformation practice provides a wide range of services around various finance and tax operational challenges that our clients face with respect to technology, data, process and people. As part of a global team of tax and technology professionals in 150 countries, you will get plenty of opportunities to use and build upon your experience in strategy and process consulting, data management, implementation of tax software systems and designing and building tax requirements for various systems to help our clients improve the performance of tax functions.

As a member of the Tax Technology & Transformation practice, you’ll create exciting solutions and support the team in building and maintaining relationships with clients. You will be involved in key projects to assist our clients to optimise performance of their functions.

Your key responsibilities

Depending on the needs of our clients and your work experience, there are many different types of projects you could be working on; identifying ways to improve operational effectiveness in tax functions, reviewing the process and controls that are in place including technology, looking at effectiveness of the various technology systems our clients use to increase automation and data quality throughout tax processes, assessing the overall risk to establish a proper control environment; designing and building custom tax applications. As an associate / senior associate, you would be working with leadership as a part of these exciting and impactful projects.

Skills and attributes for success

• Strong leadership ability, attention to detail, problem-solving skills, analytical abilities

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Experience and the ability to learn and operate new technology solutions, processes and software. This should include traditional ERP solutions, EPM and other management performance technologies as well as the latest machine learning and AI technologies.

• Ability to work on deliverables from offshore teams (as needed) to deliver projects to time, cost and quality requirements

• Documenting technical and business requirements, including Identifying and prioritizing issues

• Have an interest and experience in improving the performance of finance and tax functions, the demonstrated ability to team with and motivate others, and willingness to develop meaningful and influential relationships with clients and colleagues

To qualify for the role you must have

• A degree in Information Systems, Accounting, Management Information Systems, Computer Science or a related field

• A minimum of one year (for associate) and three years (for senior associate) of related work experience

• A strong interest in technology and its use in business processes

• Excellent communication and business writing skills

• A natural flair for problem solving and an entrepreneurial approach to work

• Strong organizational and time management skills, with exceptional client-serving consulting skills

• Strong and motivated team player

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Experience in managing large, multidisciplinary projects that impact tax (e.g. ERP implementations, EPM and other finance transformations, etc)

• Embedding tax requirements into financial/business systems and processes (e.g., Oracle, SAP, HFM, Anaplan, Tagetik)

• Experience with custom applications (e.g., VBA/VSTO, SQL Server, MS Power Platform Suite)

• Knowledge in implementing tax technology solutions (e.g., ONESOURCE, Sabrix, Vertex, SharePoint, CCH, RPA software)

What we look for

What we offer

EY offers a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. We are committed to being an inclusive employer and are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. Plus, we offer:

• 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.

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Wide breadth of services of NFR includes, but not limited to:

• Undertaking risk and compliance management advice, remediation and transformation
• Conducting risk and compliance management framework design and operational effectiveness
• Regulatory compliance consulting (including but not limited to financial crime compliance, such as know your customer, customer due diligence, screening and transaction monitoring activities related consulting services)
• Enterprise risk and controls consulting
• Professional risk support for consulting, internal and external audit services
• Future operating models, including the use of technology to streamline compliance and risk management controls
• Regulatory preparedness and responding to regulatory criticism
• Providing guidance on current and emerging control practices
• Advising clients on risk culture, conduct and accountability regimes and practices
• Conducting important proactive assessments and assurance around the effectiveness of controls and corporate processes, while also providing objective consulting support

Support EY projects with respect to:

• Substantive matters of current and emerging HKMA, SFC, IA, MPFA and global regulatory expectations related to regulatory compliance including financial crime compliance, corporate governance, enterprise risk management, internal controls and internal audit to our financial service industry clients
• Assisting clients to maintain effective and efficient controls, to manage firm and strategic risks
• Providing advisory services to functional management and the Audit Committee on business risk profile and status or trends of related business internal controls
• Conducting internal audits and special reviews on complex or high-risk sites, in multiple disciplines across the business
• Substantive matters of current and emerging HKMA, SFC, IA, MPFA and global regulatory expectations regarding key banking compliance issues such as client onboarding, investor protection, licensing including cross-border compliance, suitability, sales practices, new product processes, product development and diligence, client money, KYC, customer due diligence, financial crime risk assessments, transaction monitoring, suspicious transaction reporting etc.
• Structure and function of banking, insurance and capital markets compliance roles and responsibilities and business models
• Use of technology and data including fintech and regtech innovation with respect to non-financial risk and compliance
• Advice and guidance on structuring approaches to emerging regulatory compliance or regulatory exam findings
• Regulatory issue remediation
• Regulatory change management including planning and communication with regulators
• Supporting mock exam reviews, policy development and drafting assistance with relationship management between regulators and financial institutions
• Assessment of compliance frameworks, understanding of core compliance functions: risk assessment, policy management, testing, monitoring and surveillance and reporting etc.
• Supporting the revision or formulation of new policies and controls aligned with regulatory and compliance guidelines and requirements

To qualify for the role you must have

• University degree majoring in business or legal related subjects, accounting or information systems
• Strong desire and ability to assimilate new knowledge including market development and regulatory change
• Relevant working experience with financial institutions or with regulatory bodies, such as SFC, HKMA, IA, MPFA or relevant foreign bodies or with consulting or audit firms
• Familiarity with financial services industry regulatory requirements
• Familiarity with the financial services businesses and operational workflows
• Familiarity with consulting methodologies and requirements is an advantage
• Working experience in compliance or risk departments or internal audit is highly preferred
• Strong planning and organizational skills
• Strong presentation skills to simplify complex information and an ability to relate to client stakeholders and understand their perspectives
• Proficient software skills including but not limited to PowerPoint, Excel and Word
• Excellent command of spoken and written English, fluency in Chinese written and spoken is an advantage
• Relevant professional qualifications, including Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), are an advantage

Your key responsibilities

• Responding to questions from individual audit teams on the application of the firm’s auditing methodology and risk management policies
• First level review of formal PPD consultations on significant auditing issues
• Making updates to financial service specific enablers and templates to reflect changes in methodology or regulatory guidance
• Other audit quality/ risk management projects which may arise on an ad hoc basis, such as assisting in the organisation of the firm’s annual audit quality review process

Skills and experience

• HKICPA (or equivalent)
• Excellent communication skills in Chinese and English
• A reasonable knowledge of current assurance quality and risk management issues and understanding of recent accounting developments
• Experience of managing and delivering Assurance engagements
• Strong organisational and project management skills, including the ability to plan ahead and manage your time

To qualify for the role you must have

• A good knowledge of IFRS/HKFRS and Auditing standards (ISA/HKSA)
• Experience in a similar role or recent experience of auditing of listed companies/other major entities
• Good organisational, project management and time management skills with a strong focus on delivering results including an ability to plan ahead and anticipate problems

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Experience in an FS environment or within a Big 4 professional services firm

What we look for

• A highly motivated individual who takes ownership of the role and makes a positive contribution to managing the firm’s risk.

What working at EY member firms 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

Description

This is a role where no two days are the same – so you’ll find yourself taking on plenty of new responsibilities as you go. You’ll work alongside clients and colleagues, balancing your time between supporting business development activities by providing tailored solutions, advising clients on transformation initiatives, delivering solution workshops, supporting market campaigns as well as work with technology ecosystem partners to incorporate suitable plug-ins.

If you’re flexible and ready to adapt to a constantly changing environment, there’s no better place to develop your skills. Since you’ll be working directly with clients and regional client teams, some travel may be required.

Responsibilities, Qualifications, Certifications - Internal

Your key responsibilities

• Perform the role of Solution Lead for taking CMS Solutions to clients across Asia Pacific.
• Act as a Technical Presales to support opportunities around Cyber managed services solutions while working closely with other solutions leaders, product leads, alliance managers, managed services team members, delivery teams and Client executives for designated accounts/markets in support of key sales and account plans to achieve and exceed defined targets.
• Be responsible for designing complex, multi-year, transformational managed services solutions that integrate People, process, technology and facility/location components into an effective and efficient solution, while considering data sovereignty and regulatory mandates.
• Prepare proposals/Presentations/statement of work (SOWs) and respond to RFIs/RFPs by articulating EY’s CMS value proposition against the customer defined requirements and propose winning solutions, across the areas of Cyber Threat Intelligence, Threat Detection and Incident Response, Threat and Vulnerability Management, Data Privacy and Protection, Security Architecture and Operations, Identity and Access Management and Third Party Cyber Risk Management.
• Work closely with Contract management and legal teams to ensure the proposed solution has the highest level of assurance along with well-defined service level management approach to effectively manage risk of engagements.
• Act as a trusted advisor by engaging clients and EY client executives throughout the pre & post sales lifecycle – starting from providing solution briefings to capture Client technical & business requirements, propose technical solution, select suitable technology stacks, scope resources, effort estimation and other associated costs for the expected outcome - to deliver a successful business value proposition by achieving high level of customer satisfaction.
• With your technical hands-on experience, you are expected to deliver engagements focused on developing business case (commercial and technical) for Cyber risk transformation and managed services, and ensure client expectations are met by quality output.
• Proactively participate in developing market-driven competitive service offerings around Cyber managed services and assist with developing content while working with regional teams including product management, sales, brand and communications, in-country cyber practice delivery teams and sector leaders.
• Support and proactively engage with clients and industry on providing latest cyber trends, changes in the threat landscape and EY Cyber Managed services offering in internal/external events and publish thought leadership.

Skills and attributes for success

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong drive to excel professionally, and to guide and motivate others

Dedicated, innovative, resourceful, analytical and able to work under pressure

• Exceptional communication, documentation and presentation skills and stakeholder management experiences
• Experience working with key cybersecurity solutions and platforms, primarily around Identity & Access Management, Cyber Threat Intelligence, Threat Detection and Response, Cyber Analytics and Automation, Vulnerability Management, Third Party Risk Management, Cloud Security, Data Loss Prevention and Data Protection & Data Privacy.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• 7+ Years of core managed security services PreSales/Solution design and practice development experience.
• Hands-on experience of successfully solutioning and delivering managed security services engagements across multiple cyber domains.
• Experience in solutioning complex cyber managed services deals of size >10Mil USD.
• Successful achievement of set goals/targets in the last three consecutive years.
• Experience and exposure to onshore, offshore and nearshore delivery and operating models;
• Expertise in constructing solutions with tiered and pay per use commercial models;
• Hands-On experience in tools such as Splunk, Elastic, Crowdstrike, Microsoft Security, ServiceNow, Palo Alto, Tanium, AttackIQ, Tenable, Qualys, Claroty, Nazomi, CyberX, Zscalar, BigID, Symantec, FireEye, Micro Focus, RSA, OneTrust.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Vendor certifications like SABSA, ITIL, CISSP
• Written and verbal communication skills in Chinese (preferable), Cantonese (Preferable)

What we look for

• Highly motivated individuals with excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to prioritize shifting workloads in a rapidly changing industry.
• An effective communicator, you’ll be a confident leader equipped with strong people management skills and a genuine passion to make things happen in a dynamic organization.

What we offer

Plus, we offer:

• 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.

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

Apply now.

Background

Responsibilities

As a Manager within the Financial Services Risk Management (“FSRM”) Team your role involves developing and implementing risk solutions for financial institutions clients with a focus on credit risk and climate risk.

• Project delivery and team management:
• Lead multiple engagements and ensure on-time and high-quality delivery
• Lead day to day client and stakeholder communication and management
• Provide coaching and mentoring to junior team members
• Continuously enhance existing solutions serving for credit risk management
• Develop new solutions to address evolving market needs
• Business Development / Pitching
• Build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Proactively identify and pursue new opportunities

Skills

• 5+ years of work experience with knowledge and hands-on experience in one or more of the following areas:

• Data analytics
• Credit risk IRB models for retail and wholesale exposures
• Expected Credit Loss models
• Credit risk stress testing models and scenario generation
• Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Program (ICAAP)
• Policy and procedure, key control points, end-to-end process credit risk area including loan approval / post-lending monitoring for both retail and wholesale exposures
• AI use case development experience on credit risk area
• Climate risk management / ISSB reporting
• Possesses strong project management skills and consulting skills, and able to adapt quickly and manage an environment of rapid change and development, and effectively lead others through this process;
• Someone who think out-of-the-box while developing models, reports or data code to solve challenging problems.

Background

• Master or Bachelor degree holder with major in Mathematical, Engineering, Statistical, Quantitative Finance, Computer Science or Artificial Intelligence
• Sound knowledge in statistical, quantitative analysis and data base language, strong background in programming languages (i.e., Python, SAS, R, SQL)
• Experience with deep learning tools such as Keras, TensorFlow, PyTorch, & MXNet
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Word
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, good command of written and spoken Chinese and English
• Ability to work collaboratively with team members and to work independently
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize workload and meet deadlines

FSO - Assurance - Audit - Insurance Groups - Senior Accountant - Hong Kong

Your key responsibilities

• Develop/maintain strong working relationships with key business decision makers throughout the year to communicate value and inform them of the firm's scope of services.
• Provide guidance/expertise and participate in the performance of audit procedures, especially focusing on complex and/or specialized issues.
• Support the planning, execution and delivery of assurance engagements
• Work effectively as a team member, sharing responsibility, providing support, maintaining communication and updating senior team members on progress
• Assist in preparing reports and schedules that will be delivered to clients and other parties
• Develop and maintain productive working relationships with client personnel
• Build strong internal relationships within Assurance and across other services
• Understand and follow workplace policies and procedures
• Use technology to continually learn, share knowledge with team members, and enhance service delivery. Maintain an educational program to continually develop skills;

To qualify for the role you must have

• An undergraduate or graduate degree in accounting and/or other appropriate academic major, as well as CPA certification;
• At least 2 years of experience as an auditor for a public accounting firm, or industry experience within insurance (life insurance, general insurance, retirement business and insurance brokerage), banking or investment management;
• Holder of HKICPA is a definite advantage;
• Familiarity of SFO, ICO, BO and MPFO preferable
• Excellent project management skills;
• Advanced written and verbal communication skills;
• A dedication to teamwork and leadership;
• Integrity within a professional environment;
• Occasional travelling is required.
• Excellent command of spoken and written English and Mandarin;

What working at EY offers

• 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

Your key responsibilities

Mercury related- Active and leading role in Markets Finance workstream within Mercury Local Deployment team:

• Understand Mercury usage model and asses the impacts to CS teams to prepare them for Mercury
• Act as change advocates for CS on Markets Finance areas
• Take part in Mercury workshops and provide input as needed (e.g. technology enablement requirements and testing).
• Lead training audience analysis and the alignment to global learning maps and collaborates define detailed training deployment schedule.
• Develop local learning networks to ensure effective execution of finance training strategy and training delivery to Finance end user groups; Oversee planning of local training logistics and communications and monitors progress of training initiative
• Post Launch: Take part in Hypercare calls to share and provide business insight to issues, and come up with resolutions
• Be an advocate for the best ways to use our new Mercury tools
• Be ready and open to flex while we understand where the business needs our support most

Markets Finance support

• Assist the MFA RL to manage the Global Integrated Planning processes for the region, working with markets leaders to establish and embed appropriate stretch targets. Including aligning partner accountabilities with markets metrics.
• Work closely with stakeholders from markets, service lines and business development to align on expectations.
• Provide insights to performance by analyzing data throughout the year on revenue, sales & pipeline, margin, trends, and annualized impacts, to support forward looking commercial insights and recommendations on how to achieve optimal financial performance.
• Work with markets leadership / operations to align reporting and strategies to respond including maximizing usage of global reporting tools.

To qualify for the role you must have

• Certified Accountant/Student Member in recognized accounting institution (e.g. HKICPA, ACCA, AICPA, CIMA, IPA etc)
• Proactive, organized and self-sufficient working style with ability to prioritise and multitask.
• Positive attitude coupled with excellent problem-solving skills
• Ability to understand, analyze and interpret data from a variety of sources.
• Basic computer knowledge (Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, PowerBI etc).
• Excellent communication skills – written and verbal in, English, Chinese and Cantonese.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• 2 years of relevant experience in Management Accounting, Planning, Budgeting and Financial Analysis, with knowledge of a professional services environment preferred
• Graduated in a business-related subject matter (i.e. Accounting, Finance)
• Sound experience in project management involving change in ERP.

• Customer focused and responsive with good commercial acumen / judgement.

What working at EY offers

• 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