Assistant Director Asean Executive Recruitment jobs at Ey in Singapore, Singapore

As anr in Financial Diligence team, you will be a vital member of the practice managing and performing due diligence in a range of situations and sectors. When working on projects you will almost always be working as part of a wider cross service line team.

Your key responsibilities

• Help clients achieve their strategic goals, whether they are acquiring or divesting assets.
• Advise clients during the due diligence process to identify key value drivers and challenge assumptions about future performance
• Work with other EY service teams to deliver an integrated service to our clients.
• Likely to also work on a number of cross border assignments working with other EY offices around the world

Skills and attributes for success

• Prepare analyses of historical and pro forma financial information to assess trends and fluctuations that may impact cash flow requirements and deal valuation
• Perform industry and company research utilizing online tools and publicly available information
• Assist in researching technical accounting issues to evaluate implications on transaction valuation and structuring
• Assist in preparing reports and schedules that will be delivered to clients and other parties
• Develop and maintain productive working relationships with client personnel

To qualify for the role you must have

• Bachelor's degree with at least 8 years of relevant work experience
• Entrepreneurial mind set and business acumen
• Passion for helping clients achieve their potential
• Able to analyse financial and non-financial information to formulate views and conclusions.
• Familiar with fundamental concepts of accounting including IFRS
• Good presentation skills and prior audit experience would be advantageous
• Possess data analysis & critical thinking skills with a flair in MS Excel applications

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Transactions/auditing experience
• Client facing experience from a professional services background

Join our External Audit team and you will help our clients meet their reporting requirements by providing an objective and independent examination of their financial statements. In addition, you will conduct timely and constructive discussions with the management on accounting and reporting matters and provide a robust and clear perspective to audit committees.

Your key responsibilities

• Support the planning, execution and delivery of assurance engagements
• Clearly and accurately document the execution of specific audit procedures as defined by the engagement objectives, audit client's engagement history, and planned audit approach
• Recognize potential audit issues or unusual relationships from basic analysis of the financial statements and communicate them to the assurance team

Skills and attributes for success

• Work effectively as a team member, sharing responsibility, providing support, maintaining communication and updating senior team members on progress
• Contribute ideas/opinions to the assurance teams and listen/respond to other assurance team members' views
• Demonstrate professionalism and competence in the audit client's environment
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Good project management skills
• Integrity within a professional environment

To qualify for the role, you must have:

• A degree in Accountancy/ Business related
• Min 1 year's relevant work experience in the audit field

Ideally, you’ll also have:

• Prior working experience in global professional services organization or mid-tier firms will be highly advantageous

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

Typically, you will analyse the financial results oftargeted forYou will work on opportunities across ASEAN and occasionally across APAC.

Your key responsibilities

• Understand the key business drivers, co-developing our approach with the client, agreeing value measurements with the client, providing value to the client through insights, factual conclusions and advice
• Gather, verify and analyse information, and formulate views
• Plan, prepare and review deliverables in various forms including excel databooks, written reports, presentations and discussions with the client
• Plan and monitor the progress of the team
• Work closely with all members as well as forming strong internal links within transaction support and other departments in EY both in the ASEAN and Asia-pacific to form multi-disciplinary teams
• Understand the capabilities of the firm and look for opportunities to sell additional services to our clients

Skills and attributes for success

What we look for

• Bachelor's degree with minimum 9 years of relevant work experience
• Chartered Accountant or equivalent qualified
• Commercial awareness gained through direct experience of the financial services sector (either from within an Audit or Transaction Support role)
• Strong academic record
• Effective written and verbal communication
• Strong word, excel and PowerPoint skills
• Demonstrate a keen interest inthefinancial servicessector
• Excellent analytical, report-writing and interpersonal abilities
• Ability to work well within a team
• Strong work initiative and the ability to adapt to new challenges and ideas

Ideally, you also have

• Prior experience ofworking on mergers and acquisitions
• Experience gained within another large professional services organizationcovering the Financial Services industry
• Experience in ASEAN

What we offer you

EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions. Fueled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.

As part of our Financial Services Organization (FSO) business development team, you’ll build strategic relationships with executives from leading organizations. By understanding their business issues and imperatives and collaborating with other teams, you’ll broaden your experience. Collaborating with other teams, you will help to identify and shape the solutions to client issues. Backed by the resources of a global organization, you’ll gain experiences and foster relationships that will support your long-term success.

Your key responsibilities

You’ll be working with

Skills and attributes for success

• Demonstrating market leadership

• Serving as a Business Development Director on for a defined account portfolio as the client facing BD Executive.
• Building and leveraging personal external networks and relationships.
• Participating in and/or lead the account(s) most strategic pursuits.

• Executing market strategy and objectives
  • Working with the leadership team to develop a market execution plan and aligning Service Line and account-based initiatives.
  • Own and initiate select key relationships in the market.
  • Monitoring market segment trends, industry issues, and competitive intelligence.
  • Analyzing and reacting to business competition and developmentsto maintain agility and responsiveness to clients’ needs and requirements.

• Helping to build and develop a high impact BD organization

• Ensuring business development objectives are met as part of a high impact business development team.
• Conducting win/loss debriefs across and Assessment of Service Quality (ASQ)/Expectations of Service Quality (ESQ) discussions

• • Educating and communicating cross‑Service Line opportunity triggers to internal stakeholders (e.g., Partners, Business Development Executives (BDEs) and Senior Managers)

• Sales Management

• Deploying and monitoring Sales Management processes, policies and procedures in order to ensure the consistency, efficiency and quality of internal and external customer expectations
• Ensuring continuous improvement in customer experiences through development and deployment of best practice processes
• Driving operational excellence in the following areas:
• Lead generation – uncovering clients’ requirements and hence EY opportunities
• Pipeline — discipline and reporting
• Financial — negotiation, pricing, margin
• Sales and revenue forecasting
• Account planning reviews
• Win/Loss debrief reporting and recommendation

To qualify for the role you must have

• A Bachelor degree in any fields
• At least 15 years of relevant working experience in Business Development or Sales management in Financial Services Industry focusing in the following:
  • Banking
  • Insurance
  • Wealth Asset Management
• Proven revenue generating track record through business development, sales, and bidding management.
• Possess good network and strong knowledge of the target markets will be advantageous
• Good business acumen with excellent sales and negotiation skills
• Strong project and people management experience, good organizational skills and attention to detail
• Executive presence, able to quickly establish personal credibility and demonstrate expertise
• Strong proven analytical, conceptual and strategic skills; able to foresee the market potential and develop strategies to grow the business
• Highly motivated, persistent, results driven attitude and able to overcome barriers and get results through people

All in to shape the future with confidence.

As a member of the ASEAN Executive Recruitment team, you will play a pivotal role in helping us to achieve our Partner growth ambitions for the region.

This role ensures the firm attracts, assesses, and integrates top-tier executive talent aligned with strategic growth objectives.

Key responsibilities:

• Work closely with Partners and Service Line Leaders to forecast leadership needs and develop recruitment strategies

• Proactively build and maintain relationships with potential candidates to create effective pipelines for future hiring needs

• Work closely with Talent Attraction colleagues to provide market mapping and competitor analysis to identify potential candidates.
• Act as advisor to candidates throughout the recruitment process
• Engage in complex offer negotiations involving equity, profit-sharing, and partnership terms
• Work closely with onboarding teams in each market to ensure the successful integration of new partners.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership on talent trends, compensation benchmarks, and succession planning

• Position the firm as a destination for senior leaders through targeted branding and thought leadership initiatives

What we’re looking for:

• Proven experience managing multiple executive level searches within a professional services firm (ideally a partnership model)
• If coming from an agency we’re looking for someone who has worked with professional services clients (ideally a partnership a model)
• Ability to be responsive and effective in a fast-paced yet consensus driven environment
• Exceptional project management and prioritization skills – attention to detail is key
• The ability to not only think strategically but also execute operationally
• Exceptional interpersonal and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence and collaborate across teams and geographies
• High level of integrity and the ability to manage confidential information

Qualifications:

• 8+ years in executive search or senior talent acquisition, preferably within professional services.
• Proven track record in Partner-level or C-suite recruitment
• Experience working in at least two of the following markets: Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines.
• Ability to communicate with confidence and gravitas inEnglish. A second SE Asian language would be a plus.

All in to shape the future with confidence.

team and you will help enable EY client account teams and management to run the business effectively, by participating in one of our services (i.e. Billing, Payroll, Account Payable, etc). You’ll help to improve engagement profitability, manage enterprise wide risk and support market development activities. You will support EY planning, reporting and forecasting and analysis, or help EY people manage day-to-day activities, such as managing engagements, process and auditing time and expense or invoice processing. You’ll also work with other parts of our organisation, sharing your financial experience and insights to achieve specific goals. You’ll get all the support you need to stay on top of regulations — and the advice and help you‘ll need to meet your own professional goals.

Job description:

• Prepares monthly statements by collecting data; analyzing and investigating variances; summarizing data, information, and trends.
• Prepares state quarterly and annual statements by assembling data.
• Complies with state and federal tax filing requirements by studying regulations; adhering to requirements; advising management on required actions; calculating quarterly estimated tax payments; assembling data for quarterly and annual tax filings.
• Responds to financial inquiries by gathering, analyzing, summarizing, and interpreting data.
• Provides financial advice by studying operational issues; applying financial principles and practices; developing recommendations.
• Prepares special reports by studying variances; preparing budgets; developing forecasts.
• Updates job knowledge by keeping current with financial regulations and accepted practices; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.
• Accomplishes finance and organization mission by completing related results as needed.

Requirement:

• Candidate must possess at least a Bachelor's Degree in Accounting major with minimum GPA 3.20 out of 4.00 from reputable universties (local and overseas)
• Have extensive knowledge in Microsoft Excel (able to use formula related to finance)
• Have a good communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to communicate both written / oral in English
• Have a strong understanding of accounting and finance as well as taxation is required

By joining this team, you will support our clients from the earliest stages of project analysis and evaluation through procurement, financial close, construction, and operations.

You will assist clients in devising and comparing financial plans and delivery approaches for projects involving public, federal, or private financing, project revenues, and/or grants, while providing support for the implementation of those plans.

As part of our project finance team, you will enhance your commercial capabilities by working with our global networks and fast-moving, emerging clients.

Our diverse client portfolio will help you build skills in pitching, briefing, managing relationships, and challenging assumptions.

In our friendly and collaborative environment, you will receive the support, formal training, and coaching needed to progress quickly along your chosen career path.

Your key responsibilities

In Infrastructure Advisory you will:

• Have experience in the infrastructure sector, particularly in transport, power and utilities, health, and education projects. Experience in the UK, Australia, or Canada in the PPP/PFI and project financing sector is advantageous, as is experience in Asia.

• Develop and manage key client relationships and deal origination capabilities, from securing advisory mandates to achieving transaction closure, acting on government and private sector transactions in the infrastructure sector.
• Possess knowledge of PPP/PFI, concessions, and acquisition and project financing structures/contracts related to the infrastructure sector.
• Work on project delivery covering feasibility, design, procurement, construction, and handover.
• Have project financing knowledge, with an understanding of project financial modeling and financing markets, which would be highly valued.
• Understand economic or social infrastructure procurement and delivery.

To qualify for the role you must have

• More than 8 years of experience in a top-tier advisory firm, infrastructure service provider, bank, relevant government agency or other relevant sector.
• A university degree, preferably majoring in Economics, Finance, Accounting, Management, Law, or Engineering from reputable local or overseas universities. A Master's degree is ideal.
• Professional qualifications such as CFA, FRM, ASIA, CPA, CA, or CMA are considered advantageous.
• A high-performance professional who can articulate a value proposition, developing business cases/ models and lead and advise on projects in the infrastructure sector from bid stage to financial close
• Advanced financial modelling skills, project finance modelling experience s an advantage.
• Willingness and ability to travel when necessary.

What’s most important is that you’re dedicated to supporting your colleagues as part of a high-performing team. You’ll need to thrive in picking up new skills and talents as you go, so natural curiosity, a lot of questions and the confidence to speak up when you see something that could be improved are essential.

If you’ve got the right combination of technical knowledge and communication skills, this role is for you.