Fincrime/aml/compliance - Associate Director jobs at Ey in South Africa, Johannesburg

Role purpose

You will provide strategic and tactical support to pursuit teams in delivering high-quality pursuit materials, including coordination. You will assist in proposal development, manage timelines, and contribute to strategic communications that help EY win new business.

Core responsibilities

• Manage the execution of the pursuit process, including the critical path, timeline, strategic communications process, and interdependencies on the firm’s largest and strategically significant pursuits.
• Assess the competitive landscape and help develop a differentiated win strategy focused on client priorities while protecting EY’s interests.
• Develop a relationship map and tactics to navigate the client buying process.
• Consult with Partners, Client Executives, and BD leadership to develop and implement pursuit materials designed to achieve specific results.
• Collaborate with the extended pursuit team to define, package, and articulate a compelling client offer across the scope.
• Provide ongoing proposal strategy and support, including planning the storyline/key messages and preparing the extended team for orals.
• Be responsible for the development of all client-facing, written deliverables (e.g., meeting documents, proposals, presentations) that adhere to the firm's style guide in collaboration with the Creative Designer for design and formatting.
• Author original content when critical and/or necessary (e.g., cover letter, executive summary) and leverage relevant firm resources to source non-critical, boilerplate content when appropriate.
• Build collaborative relationships with pursuit teams, including Service Line, Account, and Business Development leaders as well as Senior Managers, Managers, and Staff.
• Manage multiple proposals/priorities simultaneously.

Required experience and skills

• 4+ years of relevant experience in business development, marketing, or project management.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially PowerPoint and Word.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
• Detail-oriented with strong organisational skills.
• Must be able to operate in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Solution-oriented with the ability to make sound recommendations and decisions.
• Self-motivated, resourceful, and able to work on one's own initiative with limited supervision.

Nice to have

• Experience in professional services is an asset.
• APMP, PMP certification is considered advantageous.
• Bachelor’s degree in Language, Communications, Marketing, or Business; a graduate degree or equivalent experience is preferred.

We are currently seeking the right candidate for an excellent career opportunity. As a Custom Analytics and Solutions associate your problem solving, development and product manager capabilities will be leveraged to help our clients navigate the complex world of modern data science and analytics. In this process, you will work with audit team members as well as other pillars in the Africa Assurance Innovation and Digital team. You will also be working closely with data engineers, solution architects, product management, data analysts and data scientists across Africa and our global firm to create or leverage analytical solutions for audit clients. You will experience high growth, high visibility in an area with plenty of opportunities to enhance your skillset and build your career.

Requirements:

With a wide variety of clients across geographies, sectors, and systems you will be required to conceptualise, analyse, design, and deliver data analytical solutions to support our audit teams responding to challenging problem statements. Depending on the situation this will be done by yourself, working as part of team, working as part of a multidisciplinary team across our Europe Middle East India and Africa (EMEIA) region or leveraging existing solutions that our global teams have developed. Effective data analytics or solutions will in many cases require you to work with and leverage specialists in the broader Africa Assurance Innovation and Digital team e.g. Automation, Process Mining, Data Delivery, Go-to-Market, or Implementation.

To be effective in your role delivering on client engagements will require an understanding of client’s relevant businesses and being able to manage relationships with clients and audit team representatives. As part of our EMEIA region you will need to build relationships and collaborate with our colleagues across the different regions in EMEIA. You’ll create and embed new process and knowledge into standardised, repetitive, re-usable processes. In doing so, you’ll stay abreast of developments in EY’s digital solutions and developments in the market. You should promote the use of these throughout the Assurance business and contribute to the EMEIA area network by sharing innovation solutions. Ultimately you will need to build a repertoire of data analytics solutions that can be used globally across our different clients.

Finally, as part of the Innovation team you will be required to proactively seek out learning opportunities to contribute to the advancement of the business.Skills and attribute for success

• Customer centric solution mindset
• Strong analytical skills and logical thinking is a mandatory requirement
• Excellent written and oral communication skills and fluency in written and spoken English
• Ability to present yourself in a competent and professional manner to clients always
• Active participation and proactive attitude to service delivery
• Ability to prioritise competing responsibilities
• Demonstrate lateral thinking skills
• Demonstrate a broad approach to problem solving
• Ability to work efficiently and meet all deadlines
• Ability to support management and junior staff
• Ability to work efficiently in teams
• Show enthusiasm towards learning
• Ability to pay attention to detail
• Independent, self-motivator
  

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Preferred degree in Mathematics, Engineering, Economics, Computer Science, Information Management or Statistics or equivalent
• Have the ability to absorb and learn new technologies as determined by our changing business and client’s requirements
• Be proficient in Excel, Word, Access, and PowerPoint
  

Experience which will be beneficial to the applicant

• Experience working for a professional services firm
• Experience working with external audit
• Ability to understand fundamentals of programming
• Understand business processes and how to analyse from a data point of view
• Understand of basic business processes, financial statement close process and related systems
  

We offer a competitive compensation package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognised for the value you bring to our business.
Plus, we offer

• The opportunity to manage a portfolio of talent within a designated service line
• A collaborative environment where everyone works together to create a better working world
• Excellent training and development prospects, both through established programs and on-the-job training
• The EY Tech MBA, offered in association with Hult International Business School through its innovative virtual learning mode, is available to all EY employees
• An excellent team of senior colleagues dedicated to managing and varying your workload
  

If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.It’s yours to build.Apply now.

Technology Consulting, IT Audit Senior Associate, Johannesburg

Our independent position and assessment capabilities provide clients with a candid and reliable overview of their risk landscape and the controls in place. As a risk assurance professional, you will be leading assessments and certification services that will directly support C-suite discussions and important business decisions regarding

compliance, cost and quality of our clients’ risk management programs. You will be part of an international network of professionals across geographies and sectors, delivering assessment and certification services that will help verify compliance and improve the performance of our clients.

Our structured career framework means you’ll continue to develop, whatever level you’re at. So, whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime.

Following areas:

• Application Risk & Controls practice
• Information Management and Analysis Services practice
• Financial Services Technology Risk and IT Regulatory Services
• In your role as a Risk Assurance Associate, you’ll:
• Effectively manage and motivate client engagement teams with diverse skills and backgrounds.
• Consistently deliver quality client services and manage expectations of client service delivery.
• Drive high-quality work products within expected timeframes and on budget.
• Monitor progress, manage risk and ensure key stakeholders are kept informed about progress and expected outcomes.
• Stay abreast of current business and industry trends relevant to the client's business.
• Develop and maintain long-term relationships and networks with clients and internal EY stakeholders - Demonstrate deep technical capabilities and professional knowledge.
• Possess in depth business acumen and demonstrate ability to quickly assimilate to new knowledge.
• Remain current on new developments in advisory services capabilities and industry knowledge.

Skills and attributes for success

• Identifying the key levers that impact solvency ratios and return on equity to optimize our clients’ capital position
• Modeling, documenting and preparing application files
• Validating estimate models
• Providing audit support for Solvency II and statutory reporting, including sample tests on Life
• Technical Provisions, IAS 19 and Pension funds
• Acting as an actuarial professional, providing guidance on a wide range of areas, such as life and general insurance, investment, corporate finance, risk management and pensions
• A member firm of Ernst & Young Global Limited
• Further developing your team by coaching and mentoring a junior colleague

To qualify for the role, you must have:

relevant discipline

At least 4 years of relevant consulting or industry experience, preferably in a professional services environment or

MNC.

• Candidates who possess professional certifications such as Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and / or Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) are highly encouraged to apply.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Access, Word, and PowerPoint
• Strong analytical, interpersonal, communication, writing and presentation skills
• Demonstrates integrity, values, principles, and work ethic
• Willingness to travel on overseas assignment as the need arises

What we look for

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working, career development and with FlexEY you can select benefits, which suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurances, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:

• A position in a business that truly recognizes the importance of strong risk capabilities
• Opportunities to develop your skills in a wide range of areas, supported by regular feedback from

• senior-level colleagues
• Plenty of chances to build lasting professional relationships both internally and externally
• A culture that recognizes success and rewards excellence

Consulting BPM–Pega System Architect(Developer)

As part of our EY-BPM team, you will help clients in developing state of the art applications to optimize business processes leveraging Pega Development platform. By leveraging various Pega OOTB Industry Frameworks, Portals, you will be developing, supporting enterprise level Pega applications which can be easily scalable, extendable with minimal customization.
Using your expertise in Pega, you will help our clients make better decisions and get work done with real-time AI and Digital transformation.

Your key role and responsibilities

• Hands on experience in developing, testing and support Pega applications

• Responsible for participating in Scrum ceremonies and status reporting

• Participate in design, development, QA, deployment activities as needed

• Completion of assigned tasks on time and regular status reporting to the lead

Must Have

• Certified Pega System Architect (CSA)

• 2-4 years of Pega Application development knowledge using Pega Development platform

• Hands-on experience in Case Management, Decision & Declarative rules, SLAs, Data Pages

• Security Management (RBAC/ABAC rules)

• Knowledge on UI/UX & Portals development rules

• Good communication skills

Good to Have

• Certified Senior System Architect (CSSA)

• Hands on experience on at least 2-3 development projects in Pega

• Experience in one or more Integrations such as REST, SOAP

• Understanding of Pega Best Practices, Guardrail improvement techniques

• Experience in One or more Pega frameworks such as CDH, CLM-KYC, Smart Dispute, CPM etc…

• Release Management or Deployments

• Knowledge on Pega Constellation

Nice to Have

• Good analytical skills

• Knowledge on Pega application performance tuning activities

• Knowledge on Pega Deployment Manager OR Custom CI/CD pipeline

• Experience in Pega Upgrades / Migrations and rule fixes

Not to Have

• People with experience only in Core Pega PRPC OR older versions of Pega such as 7.x/6.x

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

Apply now

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.

The Technology Procurement team manage circa $1.5B of spend annually and focus on requirements from the Technology teams. This is a superb opportunity to support EY Technology (EYT) at the forefront of developing, managing, and implementing technology solutions that span the full process life cycle – integral in identifying organizational needs across various regions and service lines, shaping strategic direction and architectural frameworks, and ensuring the successful delivery and management of operational services.

Your key responsibilities

• Be a senior individual contributor on a Technology Procurement team aligned to one or more service lines, as well as client serving business units.
• May develop category strategies for assigned categories and areas.
• Stakeholder and supplier relationship management.
• Manage full lifecycle of contracts for assigned programs of work and key suppliers
• Proactively manage contract negotiations for assigned projects.
• Build and foster collaborative working relationships with EYT and other internal business partners.
• Supporting and leading stakeholders through the Onboarding of Technology Goods and Services end-to-end process.
• Socialization and facilitation of the Procurement policy and processes, ensuring that the project teams and stakeholders understand the value of the policy and adhere to it accordingly.
• Timely and frequent submission of management information, including project status and savings reporting.
• Supporting Supply Chain Services’ overall global strategies.
• Facilitation of any needed market research to identify potential suppliers, ensure competitive pricing and terms, etc.
  

Skills and attributes for success

• 7 - 10 years of experience sourcing technology goods and services. Combination of work and experience may be considered.
• Experience in a leadership position a plus.
• Business Degree or equivalent a plus.
• CPM, CIPS or similar Procurement certification is welcomed, but not essential.
• Good knowledge of IT suppliers and emerging technologies.
• Experience working in an IT role as part of delivering technology solutions is a plus.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Experience with senior stakeholder engagement, and the ability to collaboratively co-develop strategies and set and manage expectations.
• Comprehensive experience with negotiating contracts related to software licensing & rationalization, cloud-based solutions and professional services.
• Comprehensive experience with negotiating contracts globally and regionally.
• Experience of working in a Sourcing/Procurement/Supplier Management team in a complex and global environment.
• Strong influencing and networking skills as the organization relies on working in cross-functional teams across borders.
• Fluent, effective, transparent, and timely English communication skills required across multiple mediums (email, voice, IM, etc) in a global environment.
• The ability to independently manage and prioritize workload.
• Proficient organizational skills.
• Demonstrate a positive attitude and have an appetite for change.
• Provide exceptional Client Service.
• May assume counsellor responsibilities as part of the role at a future date.

Your key responsibilities

• One of the roles will focus on M&A/(buy-side & sell-side) transactions and the other will focus on debt advisory transactions (for greenfield and brownfield projects or expansions). Each will involve the following responsibilities:
• Absorb new technical information fast, and quickly develop a deep understanding of the strategic rationale for transactions across different sectors.
• Gain exposure to a breadth of experience on different transaction and financing-led situations.
• Analyse key value drivers at a market and business level, and co-ordinate the supporting research.
• Model the financial implications of transactions and financing events.
• Produce analysis to support the core transaction / capital raising negotiation process.
• Prepare client reports and transaction materials for fund-raising, acquisitions and disposals, including reviewing of associated transactions documents.
• Prepare information memoranda for the disposal of businesses/ capital-raise, and co-ordinate the production of target profiles on acquisitions.
• Help set project budgets, and ensure the firm's risk procedures are implemented and documented.
• Interact with different specialists in the firm, and colleagues across the globe, to deliver enhanced transaction solutions.
• Ensure quality on all client deliverables, technical accuracy and exclusive insights.
• Lead the input of more junior team members, provide quality control and guidance, and on-the-job coaching (desirable but not a pre-requisite).
• Support new business development, including the production of high quality proposal, developing pitch documents and attending meetings with clients and prospects.

Skills and attributes for success

• ​​As an Associate Director in Capital Advisory you will require knowledge and experience in one or both of the following two areas:
• Capital Advisory/M&A advisory
• Corporate banking/Structured finance/Capital Markets/Securitisation

To qualify for the role you must have

• Strong numerical and financial skills and an understanding of financial statements.
• Experience in building financial models and valuing businesses using various methodologies, mainly DCF, precedent transactions and traded comparable companies.
• Strong written communication skills, experience of writing presentations and other process materials.
• Confident, with strong communication and people handling skills evidenced in client-facing situations.
• Committed to working to tight deadlines, efficient and evidencing strong project management skills.
• Take responsibility for own workload, ensuring you are utilized fully and that all tasks are efficiently completed.

​What we offer

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you'll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions.

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.

Key Responsibilities

As a Consultant Mergers & Acquisitions, you will work on buy- and sell-side M&A transactions. Your tasks and responsibilities will include:

• Assist corporates and financial investors in managing the M&A process from deal sourcing to final closing
• Assist in drafting all transaction documentation such as a pitch, proposal, teaser, information memorandum, management presentation a.o.
• Assist in identifying a long list of (international) potential buyers, both strategic and financial
• Assist in developing a business plan in order to make a valuation of the company
• Assist in the coordination of the due diligence process
• Assist in negotiations of commercial terms and legal documentation
• Assist in giving financial advice to clients on all transaction-related matters

Profile

• Master degree in finance, economics, business or related subject
• 2-5 years of experience, within a consultancy firm, investment bank or M&A department of a large corporate
• Good knowledge of Dutch, French and English, orally and in writing
• Strong analytical skills with good understanding of financial results and valuation techniques
• Excellent communication skills, client-focused and result-oriented
• Very capable in PowerPoint and Excel
• Team player, eager to learn, stress-resistant, entrepreneurial, pro-active and hands-on

What working at EY offers

• Attractive remuneration package - we offer an attractive remuneration package; including a company car and fuel card, iPhone plus subscription, health insurance, pension plan, meal vouchers and eco vouchers. We offer a flexible package to our people that gives them the power to choose what they value most; extra days off, leasing an electric bike, etc.
• Inspiring work environment - at EY we are dedicated to providing you with an inspiring work environment. A work environment which allows you to further develop your skills and enables you to fulfill your true potential.
• Personal growth - you will receive numerous trainings and will be coached by a counselor. We offer a clear career path tailored to your unique skills.
• Fun - by joining our EY- teams, you can participate in team activities, family days, summer and winter events, sports events and enjoy a drink during our monthly Together Thursday happy hour.
• Sustainability - we have a fleet of hybrid and electric cars. Our flex plan makes it possible for people that don’t want a company car to choose a more sustainable option. In the future we’ll move to a brand new office “The Wings”, a smart and energy efficient infrastructure which will allow us to reduce our ecological footprint even more.
• Diversity & Inclusion - at EY we are passionate about the inclusion and support of individuals of all groups; we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or disability status.