Associate Director-government & Infrastructure-strategy jobs at Ey in United Kingdom, Belfast

Join our Government and Infrastructure Advisory (G&IA) team and you join a team of experienced professionals who bring to clients excellence in the planning, procurement and delivery of infrastructure. You will advise both public and private sector organisations that require support in developing and managing large scale infrastructure projects across a range of sectors. You will also advise on the long-term operation of assets and the creation of high performing organisations.

Your key responsibilities

• Working effectively as a senior member of the team under the supervision of Partners within SaT G&IA as well as other EY departments in both Ireland and internationally on the following assignments:

o Strategic advice - various advice relating to strategic matters, which vary considerably from client to client

o PPPs – advising public and private clients in relation to the procurement and funding of infrastructure assets through PPP

• Understanding our client requirements, co-developing our approach with the client, and providing value to our clients through insights, factual conclusions, and advice.
• Develop and maintain business relationships and market profile with a view to winning business for the practice
• Lead and manage a challenging and varied client portfolio, both public and private side
• Develop and maintain new products and service offerings
• Lead both internal and external projects
• Responsible for client engagement on assignments on day-to-day basis; updating client on project progress; discussing tasks to be completed and deliverables to be provided.
• Actively managing project financials and administration including client take on process, WIP control, billing etc.
• A focus on anticipating and identifying risks that require escalation and subsequently escalating these risks to more senior staff as appropriate.
• Working closely with colleagues you will ensure that work is properly executed, documented and concluded in compliance with our Quality & Risk Management guidelines.
• Actively establishing, maintaining, and strengthening your internal and external relationships.
• As an influential member of the team, you will help create a positive learning culture. You will be responsible for mentoring and developing more junior members of staff and providing constructive feedback on both a formal and informal basis. You will also be responsible for recruitment and retention of team members.
• Maintaining and constantly upgrading technical knowledge and personal skills.

Skills and attributes for success

• Ideally you will have an accounting qualification – Chartered Accountant or equivalent; a sound grasp of Irish Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and/or International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and financial accounting
• High level of business awareness and a strong understanding of the factors that drive financial performance
• Highly numerate with a sound grasp of Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• A track record in infrastructure advisory and/or corporate finance advisory, experience of working in a professional services environment, and exposure to high profile transactions, would all be a distinct advantage
• Familiarity with the development or formal review of financial models is a pre-requisite
• Strong leadership skills, willingness to learn and a positive attitude
  

To qualify for the role you must have

• Qualified with ACA, ACCA or equivalent qualification with proven relevant and transferrable work experience
• Relevant degree, numeric subjects preferred
• Strong interpersonal skills and client focus are important, as well as attention to detail and the ability to work under pressure
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Demonstrable organization and self-management skills
• Excellent business development and relationship management skills

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 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:

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

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Our Forensic & Integrity Services (Forensics) team is growing. As a Business Conduct & Ethics Associate/Senior Associate in our UK&I Managed Services Delivery Centre in Belfast you’ll play a key role in that growth.

Your key responsibilities

You will support our clients to proactively monitor and address important risks within their businesses, including those which may arise from their relationships with third parties and business partners. These may include bribery and corruption, sanctions, human rights, sustainability, reputational risk and fraud.

Because all clients have unique issues, no two projects look the same. However, the type work you undertake may include:

• Conducting and reviewing risk assessments on client organisations and/or their third parties
• Reviewing policies, procedures, and other key documentation
• Using open sources and proprietary databases to conduct research and background checks
• Analysing and interpreting company data and financial information
• Preparing clear and concise factual reports
• Highlighting risks or issues for escalation or remediation, and supporting with remediation efforts
• Liaising with clients and third parties
• Project management

Skills and attributes for success

• A curious and inquisitive approach to your work
• A strong desire to learn and absorb new information and ideas quickly
• The ability to quickly and effectively interpret and summarise information from multiple sources
• Attention to detail with a commitment to high quality and factual accuracy
• The ability to adapt and be flexible in a dynamic environment
• The ability to work both independently and within a team environment
• Time management and multitasking skills
• Excellent analytical and interpersonal abilities

To qualify for the role you must have

• Fluency and strong report writing skills in English
• Fluency or advanced working proficiency (including reading comprehension) in at least one of the following foreign languages:(Japanese, mandarin, Arabic, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Italian)
• Experience of conducting research and drafting reports, articles or essays in a professional or academic environment
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office

Ideally, you’ll also have

• A year or more of professional experience
• Experience in reviewing and analysing financial data
• Knowledge and experience with Business Conduct & Ethics topics such as bribery and corruption, sanctions, fraud, and third party risk.

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.

Please note;

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.

Tax Advisor - Private Client Services – Advisory

The EY Private Client Services team in Belfast act for and advise an extensive range of high net-worth individuals, entrepreneurs, private equity principals, high profile professional partnerships and their senior executives, and onshore and offshore trust structures. The services that we deliver include, but are not limited to;

• personal tax transaction and reorganisation advice;
• residency advice on leaving or coming to the UK;
• advice on optimisation of wealth from a tax perspective, and
• estate and succession tax advice.

Your key responsibilities

• Working as part of a team on the efficient management and delivery of a portfolio of private client tax advisory projects.
• Assist the senior team with the successful delivery of tax advisory projects, ensuring technical excellence and a practical and business driven approach is maintained.
• Build and foster relationships with clients and colleagues, providing excellent client service, identifying opportunities and managing expectations.
• Provision of development support to junior members of the team through effective supervision, coaching and mentoring.

Skills and attributes for success

• Personal advisory tax experience. Strong tax technical skills and keen to develop their advisory skill set further.
• Ability to plan and prioritise work, meet deadlines, monitor own budgets and fees.
• Ability to integrate with new teams quickly and build effective relationships at all levels.
• Confident communicator with good relationship skills and ability to manage client expectations.
• Client focused and commercially aware.
• Excellent communicator in range of situations both written and oral.
• Ability to identify areas of risk and know when to refer upwards.

Qualifications

• CTA part qualified and ATT qualified with relevant personal tax advisory experience; or
• ACA/CA/ACCA qualified with relevant personal tax advisory experience; or
• ATT qualified with a minimum of two years’ post-qualified relevant personal tax advisory experience

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.

The Resource Consultant is a named resource responsible for demand requests and fulfilment, triaging and escalating more complex requests to RMs and championing data accuracy.


Key Responsibilities:

Supply and demand management, including:

• Responsible for demand requests and fulfilment, escalation to RM for highly complex cases
• Liaising with Engagement Leads to ensure all open roles are accurately published allowing client servers to identify opportunities that align with their skills, aspirations, development, preferences and boundaries
• Providing a human insight to technology generated shortlists
• Presenting shortlists of candidates that meet requirements directly to Engagement Leads for low complex engagements or RMs for more complex engagements
• Supply side bench and capacity reporting
• Providing alternative resourcing options to Engagement Leads

Employee experience management, including:

• Working with RM to understand current and future client server characteristics (skills, aspirations, development, preferences, boundaries and availability)
• Advocating a DE&I lens on all resourcing decisions

Commercial reporting and analysis, including:

• Championing data accuracy across the Resourcing function and platforms
• Reviewing data trends (e.g. pipeline, performance, utilisation, DE&I) providing recommendations and highlighting areas of concern to be actioned
• Accessing and managing request dashboards (ProFinda)
• Regulatory reporting for service lines such as Audit

Skills and Attributes for Success:

• Experience of working in a Resourcing function would be advantageous
• Strong communication & interpersonal skills
• Excellent relationship building and stakeholder management skills
• Analytical and detail orientated
• Proactive and able to effectively plan/prioritise activities
• Creative thinking and solution driven
• Self-starter who can work autonomously

What 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.

Please note;

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.

Job Summary:

The roles are permanent, full-time positions, based in Belfast, and some travel to London may be required. Prior Independence experience is desirable but not essential.

The Personal Independence Associates will report into the Personal Independence Manager in Belfast and the Senior Management in the existing team based in London.

Your key responsibilities

• Analysing individuals’ financial holdings and relationships to determine if they and EY are independent under the relevant EY internal policy and external regulations.
• Operating key processes set out by our Global firm and assessing the Independence impact of certain financial and other relationships with EY audit clients.
• Ensuring completion of mandatory independence tasks by EY Partners and employees.
• Providing support to the senior members of the team with preparation of guidance and learning updates.
• Collaborate with the existing London-based Personal Independence team and be focused on great teaming.
• Assist with the training of new joiners to the team on the Personal Independence systems and processes.

To qualify for the role, you must:

• Have excellent communication skills and the confidence to deliver messages to EY Partners and employees at all levels.
• Be capable of working using own initiative, with excellent organisational skills.
• Have strong analytical and interpretation skills with excellent attention to detail.
• Be adaptable and flexible with good team working skills.
• Work to pre-determined deadlines and meet objectives under pressure.
• Have a desire to provide exceptional support to our Partners and employees using empathy where required.
• Be highly motivated individuals with a desire to seek new ways of improving our services to internal clients and stakeholders.

The following would be an advantage:

• An awareness of basic investment products (including ISAs, Pensions and Investment accounts). This is advantageous but not essential.

What 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.

Please note;

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.

Your key responsibilities

Given the speed of deals, you will be working across multiple projects alongside experienced financial due diligence (FDD) professionals. You will have the opportunity to continue to develop your skills to perform financial due diligence alongside technical training 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 with the growing opportunity to reach out to other teams in the commercial and strategy divisions

In your role as a Assistant Director you will have responsibility for understanding 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. You will project manage teams and work closely with all members as well as forming strong internal links within Transaction Diligence and other departments in EY both in the UK and internationally to form multi-disciplinary teams. You will gather, verify and assess information to formulate views as well as plan, prepare and review deliverables in various forms including written reports, presentations and discussions with the client. In addition, you will:

• Plan and monitor the progress of the team
• Share your technical and other knowledge with your team and the department
• Build on and develop internal and external networks through personal contacts
• Understand the capabilities of the firm and look for opportunities to sell additional services to our clients
• Play a role in business plan initiatives (e.g. key accounts, recruitment, client service framework)
• Being a true business advisor to the client and establish yourself as a key client contact

Our clients are typically Private Equity and corporates of varying sizes, up to FTSE100. As we continue to grow the team you will have the opportunity to build out your own client relationships and internal networks to share knowledge or build a sector-specific profile

Skills and attributes for success

• Financial and Commercial acumen to understand our client’s challenge
• Be able to gather, verify and assess information to formulate conclusions
• The ability to analyse at pace and know where to focus attention

• Strong attention to detail with a logical and methodical approach

• Demonstrable experience in planning, preparing and reviewing deliverables in various forms including visualisations, written reports, presentations and discussions with the client

• Team working and communication skills
• Ability to communicate key messages to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Attention to business development both with clients and in innovation

• Individuals who are innovative, entrepreneurial and eager to learn.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Strong commercial experience and/or relevant industry or transaction experience (including financial due diligence experience).
• Understanding of data manipulation and integration analytic tools (e.g. Alteryx, SQL, Excel)
• Excitement to learn and share knowledge through the training of others.
• A passion to provide high quality service to your clients.
• Experience of coaching and mentoring team members
• Extensive experience of Stakeholder and client communication

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Have an ACA, ACCA or equivalent qualification
• Experience with data visualisation tools (e.g. PowerBI, Tableau)
• Experience in advanced analytics languages (Python, SQL, R)
• Experience of leading teams and working in a high paced transaction environment with a solid understanding of how Analytics can bring value throughout the transaction life cycle.

• Be an effective time manager, able to keep calm when under pressure to meet deadlines
• Be a team player with the ability to build effective relationships at all levels

Your key responsibilities

• Efficient management and delivery of a mixed portfolio of private client tax compliance and related services
• Responsible for day-to-day client liaison
• Mentoring and technical support of junior colleagues, and review of their work.
• Build and maintain tax relationships with clients and colleagues, providing excellent client service, identifying opportunities and managing expectations.
• Assist the senior team with the successful delivery of tax projects, ensuring technical excellence and practical/business driven approach
• Opportunity to co-present at technical presentations and network with clients/targets.

Skills and attributes for success

• Ability to plan and prioritise work, meet deadlines, monitor own budgets and fees.
• Ability to integrate with new teams quickly and build effective relationships at all levels
• Confident with good relationship skills and ability to manage client expectations
• Relevant/appropriate personal tax experience. Experience with the Statutory Residence Test an advantage, but not essential as training will be provided.
• Client focused and commercially aware
• Strong technical skills and keen to develop further
• Excellent communicator in range of situations both written and oral
• Ability to identify areas of risk, carry out an effective review and know when to refer upwards

Qualifications

• CTA /ACA/CA/ACCA qualified with relevant personal tax experience; or
• ATT qualified with a minimum of two years’ post-qualified relevant personal tax experience
• Non-qualified with a minimum of five years’ relevant personal tax experience.

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.