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We’re looking for an incumbent who is competent enough to lead projects that provide advisory services specially accounting change and GAAP conversion for IFRS/ US GAAP.

Manage quality of service delivery

• Ensure quality in delivering client service by directing daily progress of fieldwork, informing Supervisors of engagement status
• Follow through on client requests in a timely fashion, and manage expectations regarding the timing of deliverables and reports
• Explain the client's critical success factors to the engagement team.
• Working directly with the onshore engagement team on a daily basis to deliver work to onshore clients;
• Demonstrate a good understanding of accounting concepts, stay informed of professional standards and updates thereon ; and effectively apply this knowledge to moderately difficult and/or complex client situations
• Identify engagement and client service issues. Research and benchmark client data to industry data.
• Explain the client's critical success factors to the engagement team.
• Apply independent and objective professional judgment in applying accounting standards to meet
• engagement expectations, including regulatory requirements.
• Coordinating with on-shore technical accounting teams to understand their accounting issue(s) and provide research assistance on an as-needed basis on U.S. GAAP and IFRS accounting pronouncements.
• Demonstrate knowledge on special accounting matters, new accounting pronouncements, technology oriented solution driven by accounting as a functional expertise
• Primary responsibility for project managing in connection with transactions, ensuring relevant deal information flow and appropriate coordination between legal and the other cross-functional deal team members
• Customize each presentation to the acquisition’s specific attributes
• Work on a variety of corporate finance transactions in all stages, from initial client pitches to transaction closing
• Receive direction from the Manager, Senior Manager and Partner

kills and attributes for success

• Good understanding of IFRS/US/UK GAAP/ GAAP Conversion and International auditing standards.
• Coordinating with on-shore technical accounting teams to understand their accounting issue(s) and provide research assistance on an as-needed basis on U.S. GAAP and IFRS accounting pronouncements.
• Primary responsibility for project management in connection with project role and responsibilities, ensuring relevant information flow and appropriate coordination between cross-functional team members within the finance function
• Work on a variety of GAAP conversion and accounting matters through all stages, from initial client pitches to audit closing.
• Work on data Analysis, Research & update relating to accounting standards and regulations.
• Prepare comprehensive documentation outlining the conversion process and adjustments made.
• Work closely with senior analysts and managers to ensure accurate conversion processes.
• Identify and resolve discrepancies or issues in the GAAP conversion process and communicate the same to Managers in effective and timely manner.
• Participate in training sessions and professional development opportunities to enhance knowledge of GAAP and related standards.
• Strong written and verbal communication, presentation and technical writing skills
• Ability and comfort level in researching client inquires and emerging issues, including regulations,industry practices and new technologies
• Flexibility and willingness to travel on short notice, as necessary

Working experience in relation to the following services/solutions:

• GAAP conversion engagements at least from IFRS and US GAAP & vice versa (end to end)Implementation of new accounting standards specially IFRS/ USGAAP, Minimum IFRS 15/ASC 606, IFRS 16/ ASC 842, IFRS 9/ASC 825, ASC 326, ASC 815
• Experience or working knowledge on IFRS 17/ASC 944 would be an added advantage.
• Drafting and designing accounting policies
• Technical accounting research and advice
• Consolidation and reporting under IFRS and US GAAP
• Disclosure Support
• Professional experience
• Typical experience may include, whilst not limited to:
• Experience of working in an advisory role.
• Skills and experience with: technical accounting matters, whitepapers on significant issues like consolidation, IFRS 15, 16, 9 and Knowledge of IFRS 17 would be an added advantage (Corresponding standards in USGAAP as mentioned above).
• GAAP Conversion through different GAAPs not limited to IFRS and USGAAP
• Hands-on consulting experience at a Big 4, or top tier consulting firm

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Chartered Accountant (CA), CPA (US) or ACCA (UK)
• 2-5 years (post qualification) in Assurance including at least 1 years of Financial Accounting and \
• Advisory experience

What we look for

You get to work with inspiring and meaningful projects. Our focus is education and coaching alongside practical experience to ensure your personal development. We value our employees and you will be able to control your own development with an individual progression plan. You will quickly grow into a responsible role with challenging and stimulating assignments. Moreover, you will be part of an interdisciplinary environment that emphasizes high quality and knowledge exchange. 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

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.

P&C (Property & Casualty - Personal and Commercial Insurance)

Candidate should have experience in working in Property & Casualty lines (both Personal and Commercial Insurance), should be familiar with anyone or more functional process – PC, BC, CC. (Preferred Guidewire/Duckcreek)

LOBS Line of Business (Personal and Commercial Lines): must have

• Property
• Auto
• General Liability

Good to have -

• Casualty Lines Professional Liability, Directors & Officers, Errors & Omissions, EPL, etc
• Inland Marine, Cargo
• Workers Compensation
• Umbrella, Excess Liability

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Experience in creating business process map for future state architecture, creating WBS for overall conversion strategy, requirement refinement process in multi-vendor engagement.
• Worked on multiple Business transformation, upgrade and modernization programs.
• Conducted multiple Due-Diligence and Assessment projects as part of Transformation roadmaps to evaluate current state maturity, gaps in functionalities and COTs solution features.
• Requirements Gathering, Elicitation –writing BRDs, FSDs. Conducting JAD sessions and Workshops to capture requirements and working close with Product Owner.
• Work with the client to define the most optimal future state operational process and related product configuration.
• Define scope by providing innovative solutions and challenging all new client requirements and change requests but simultaneously ensuring that client gets the required business value.
• Elaborate and deliver clearly defined requirement documents with relevant dataflow and process flow diagrams.
• Work closely with product design development team to analyse and extract functional enhancements.
• Provide product consultancy and assist the client with acceptance criteria gathering and support throughout the project life cycle.

Product Experience/Other Skills:

• Product Knowledge – Guidewire, Duckcreek, Exigent, Genius, Sapiens, One-Shield, Acquarium, Majesco. (Preferred Guidewire/Duckcreek)
• Strong skills in stakeholder management, communication, and resolving conflict working with multi-cultural / global stakeholders.
• Should have handled international client transition and end to end processes in P&C insurance domain.
• Should be ready to work in flexible shifts (a good amount of overlap with US/UK hours).
• Good organizational and time management skills required.
• Should have good written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Industry certifications AINS 21 - Property and Liability Insurance Principles, AINS 22 - Personal Insurance, AINS 23 - Commercial Insurance and AINS 24 - General Insurance for IT and Support Professionals will be added advantage.
• Additional experience in Life or other insurance domain is added advantage.

Role - CCaas PM and BA

– Manager

CCaaS PM and BA

• Hands-on experience capturing business requirements for contact center migrations (Amazon Connect, Genesys, NICE, Five9).
• Knowledge of contact center operations, KPIs, SLAs, and compliance needs in insurance.
• Familiar with IVR/IVA and core telephony including WFM, KM, Quality, Reporting analytics, Agent Assist AI enablement.
• Document user stories, and acceptance criteria while collaborating with onshore counterpart(s).
• General understanding of CTI integrations; ability to document integration use cases, requirements.
• Support test planning, test case design, test execution along with business stakeholders.
• Proven experience in project management.
• Strong leadership and team management abilities.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency in project management tools (e.g., MS Project, Jira, Trello).
• Knowledge of project management methodologies (e.g., Agile, Waterfall, PMP).

Must have vertical & Industry Experience in Insurance Contact Centre transformation.

Responsibilities – Staff:

• Designing and developing software components using various tools viz., PySpark, Sqoop, Flume, Azure Databricks and etc.
• Perform detailed analysis and effectively interact with the onshore/offshore team members.
• Ensure all deliverables conform to the highest quality standards and are executed in a timely manner.
• Work independently with minimum supervision.
• The role is deadline oriented and may require working under US time schedule.
• Identify areas of improvement and bring in a change to streamline the work environment.
• Conducting performance tests.
• Consulting with the design team.
• Ensuring high performance of applications and providing support.
• Team player and works well with development/ product engineering teams
• Problem solver and good at troubleshooting complex problems to find the root cause and provide solution.
• Passionate developer who is committed to deliver high-quality solutions/products.

Position Requirements - Staff:

• 2 – 4 years of experience in BCM or WAM industry, Exposure to US based asset management or fund administration firm will be an add on.
• Should have an understanding of data in BCM/WAM space, well versed with KDEs (Funds, Positions, Transactions, Trail Balance, Securities, Investor and etc) and their granularities.
• Should be strong in programming languages namely Python.
• Should have hands-on experience on Big Data tools namely PySpark, Sqoop, Hive and Hadoop Cluster.
• Should have hands-on experience on Cloud technologies, preferably Azure and experience in working with Azure Databricks.
• Should be an expert working on databases namely Oracle, SQL Server and exposure to Big Data is a plus.
• Knowledge on Data Visualization tools is a plus.
• Should be able to write programs to perform file/data validations, EDA and data cleansing.
• Should be highly data driven and able to write complex data transformation programs using PySpark, Python.
• Experience in data integration and data processing using Spark and Python.
• Hands-on experience in creating real time data streamin solutions using Spark Streaming, Flume.
• Experience in handling large data set (in terabytes) and writing Spark jobs and hive queries to perform data analysis.
• Experience working in an agile environment

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.

Requisition Id : 1636915

SaT :

The practice provides experience working with various sectors such as, Transport, Social & Health care, Education, Urban & Infrastructure, Economic Development Advisory , Water waste & Sanitation, Power & Utilities and Public Finance & Management.

SaT - TCF - Infrastructure Advisory :

Whether clients are preserving, optimizing, raising or investing, our Connected Capital Solutions (CCS) are our five go-to-market offerings that help drive competitive advantage and increased returns through improved decision-making. The CCS include Strategy, Corporate Finance, Buy and Integrate, Sell and Separate and Reshaping Results, and are underpinned by our Connected Capital Technologies.

Your key responsibilities

Technical Excellence

Strong understanding of investment promotion frameworks and economic development strategies.

Ability to conduct economic, financial, and policy analysis for sectors and projects.

Knowledge of PPP frameworks, industrial policies, and incentive structures at national and state levels.

Skills and attributes

To qualify for the role you must have
Qualification

Preference for candidates with MBA, MPP, or Masters in Economics/Planning.

Consultant level: 2–4 years’ experience in investment promotion, economic research, or consulting.

Senior Consultant level: 4–7 years’ experience, including exposure to government advisory or sector-specific projects.

Manager level: 7–10 years’ progressive experience in investment promotion, strategy consulting, or project management with government clients.

What we look for

People with the ability to work in a collaborative manner to provide services across multiple client departments while following the commercial and legal requirements. You will need a practical approach to solving issues and complex problems with the ability to deliver insightful and practical solutions. We look for people who are agile, curious, mindful and able to sustain postivie energy, while being adaptable and creative in their approach.

What we offer

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

Requirements:

• Experience working in Wealth or Asset management Industry in the areas of portfolio accounting / fund accounting
• Work experience in fund accounting platform migrations/implementations would be a big plus
• Strong knowledge on various asset classes such as fixed income, equity, derivatives across front office, middle office and back office for either or both “buy” and “sell” side of business
• Exposure to portfolio management, trade execution, data control and operations and portfolio administration
• Should Posses high-level understanding of data model and application/business architecture around the package
• Good experience understanding client requirements and streamline them appropriately to the team.
• Understand high-level business requirements and relate them to appropriate package capabilities
• Review client processes and workflows and make recommendations to the client to maximise benefits from package.
• Good Leadership skills
• Excellent client-facing skills
• MBA/CA/CFA/MCA/ BE / B.Tech/ equivalent with 5 to 10 year’s experience

Preferred skills:

• Good Techno functional knowledge of Core Wealth / Asset management with good exposure to Geneva /FIS Hedge Fund Portfolio Manager/Temenos Multifonds, Simcorp etc
• Exposure to Charles River, Aladdin, Bloomberg AIM or other front office platforms
• Technical experience of working on data, understand relational data models, SQL queries
• Experience in any or more of Oracle, MS SQL, DB2 databases. Good data analytics skills
• Advanced excel and VBA skills

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.

Responsibilities:

• Understand the intricacies of Funds and Fund-of-Fund investment operations and financial statement reporting preferably Private Equity funds
• Define new procedures and controls to enhance the overall operational risk process
• Drive high-quality work products within expected timeframes and budget
• Ability to execute detailed procedures based on knowledge of fund controllership, investment books and records, and/or financial reporting processes
• Perform critical accounting activities, including capital calls, valuations, and transaction processing
• Identify, evaluate, and suggest new technology opportunities that is value-driven for platform enablement and act as key differentiators for any offerings in WAM/BCM space.
• Facilitate and encourage the necessary conversations between the Business and Technology to determine the what and the how of the product features.
• Work with Technology and business partners in identifying process improvement areas and bring in the culture of automation.
• Collaborate with business, architects to translate business requirements into scalable solution options and provide inputs to product roadmap/strategy.

Requirements:

• 1 -3 years of experience in Asset management sector, Exposure to US based asset management or fund administration firm will be an addon
• Experience with software tools including document management systems, workflow systems, partnership accounting, investment accounting such as eFront, Investran, or other investment sub-ledger software
• Experience in financial statement reporting/analysis
• Master’s degree in accounting or finance mandatory. MBA or CA will be good to have.
• A Strong understanding of financial industry with fund accounting, expense reporting, tax reporting, asset types and derivatives is mandatory.
• Functional knowledge: good knowledge and understanding of financial instruments and exposure to banking/WAM domains, Exposure to US based asset management or fund administration firm will be an addon.
• An understanding of financial products and services, in particular private equity funds
• Experience related to fund controllership, investment books and records, and/or fund
• General understanding of US GAAP and regulatory requirements is a plus.
• Experience on financial statements is a plus.
• Crisp and effective executive communication skills, including significant experience presenting cross-functionally and across all levels.
• Understanding of the applications used in the FA or reporting process
• Understanding BRD would be an added advantage.
• Should pay attention to detail, proficient in MS applications (Word, Excel, Power Point), excellent analytical skills and must display effective interaction capabilities with various stakeholders.

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.