Undergraduate Assurance Internship - Channel Islands jobs at Ey in United Kingdom, London Borough Of Sutton

From your very first day you'll earn a salary, work toward a globally recognised professional qualification and apply your insights and skills to solve complex business challenges.

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

• Working closely with clients, their bankers and legal advisers, transaction diligence teams and guiding other SPA team members to manage and deliver advice around the price adjustment mechanisms on M&A transactions. This may include analysis of cash, debt and working capital adjustments, preparation of pricing schedules, reviewing, and commenting on the financial aspects of the SPA, assisting the client with their preparation or review of Completion Accounts, and performing Leakage reviews.
• Supporting and contributing to the delivery of Transaction Forensics engagements, per agreed timeline and budget
• Adhering to Quality and Risk Management (QRM) to ensure client work is delivered consistently and in compliance with EY's quality standards
• Providing insightful, deal-relevant points of view and recommendations to the client by leveraging your technical and commercial experience
• Building valued relationships with internal contacts and external clients to develop and expand your own portfolio of projects, focusing on high value opportunities
• Supporting negotiations with clients throughout the transaction, agreeing detailed and compelling outputs

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Fully qualified as a chartered accountant e.g., ACA / ACCA / CA / ICAS / ICAEW or international equivalent
• Experience directing M&A transactions in a managerial capacity
• Expert in financial information analysis, including modelling, testing, documenting financial scenarios and anticipating challenges
• Commercial awareness and the desire to learn and retain industry knowledge
• Project management and people management experience

Ideally, you’ll also have

• An application and solution-based approach to problem solving
• Strong negotiation capabilities, able to analyse strengths/weaknesses of opposing cases, formulate alternative scenarios, and advise on strategic implications
• Ability to simultaneously handle multiple pressing assignments and sensitive and adversarial situations

What we offer

We offer a competitive remuneration package. 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.

Apply now.

: Prior to finalizing your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness.We collect this data to help us analyse our recruitment process holistically and implement actions that promote diversity and inclusiveness. While optional, we encourage you to provide this information to hold us accountable towards our goal of building a better working world.

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

• Working closely with clients, their bankers and legal advisers, transaction diligence teams and guiding other SPA team members to manage and deliver advice around the price adjustment mechanisms on M&A transactions. This may include analysis of cash, debt and working capital adjustments, preparation of pricing schedules, reviewing, and commenting on the financial aspects of the SPA, assisting the client with their preparation or review of Completion Accounts, and performing Leakage reviews.
• Supporting and contributing to the delivery of Transaction Forensics engagements, per agreed timeline and budget
• Adhering to Quality and Risk Management (QRM) to ensure client work is delivered consistently and in compliance with EY's quality standards
• Providing insightful, deal-relevant points of view and recommendations to the client by leveraging your technical and commercial experience
• Building valued relationships with internal contacts and external clients to develop and expand your own portfolio of projects, focusing on high value opportunities
• Supporting negotiations with clients throughout the transaction, agreeing detailed and compelling outputs

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Fully qualified as a chartered accountant e.g., ACA / ACCA / CA / ICAS / ICAEW or international equivalent
• Experience directing M&A transactions in a managerial capacity
• Expert in financial information analysis, including modelling, testing, documenting financial scenarios and anticipating challenges
• Commercial awareness and the desire to learn and retain industry knowledge
• Project management and people management experience

Ideally, you’ll also have

• An application and solution-based approach to problem solving
• Strong negotiation capabilities, able to analyse strengths/weaknesses of opposing cases, formulate alternative scenarios, and advise on strategic implications
• Ability to simultaneously handle multiple pressing assignments and sensitive and adversarial situations

What we offer

We offer a competitive remuneration package. 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.

Apply now.

: Prior to finalizing your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness.We collect this data to help us analyse our recruitment process holistically and implement actions that promote diversity and inclusiveness. While optional, we encourage you to provide this information to hold us accountable towards our goal of building a better working world.

This role will commence in 2026.

To manage your time effectively, working across a small number of engagements whilst receiving support and encouragement from your team/s, and reporting directly to the senior/supervisor. The role requires commitment to develop and build upon your technical knowledge as you progress up towards senior level, so it’s vital to ask questions to show your willingness to learn in both a team and individual manner. You will play a vital role in helping us Build a Better Working World for the future of Tax.

Responsibilities

• To contribute to the efficient and successful delivery of a wide variety of tax services to the client
• Build and maintain tax relationships both within the firm and externally with clients to provide exceptional client service
• Maintain a strong client focus and be responsive to client requests
• Demonstrate professionalism, competence and clarity of communication when dealing with clients
• Demonstrate basic understanding of a wide range of industries or sectors and be aware of technical issues or tax risks
• Stay informed of current business/economic developments relevant to the clients’ business
• Stay up to date with international tax legislation developments
• Build and maintain tax relationships with clients and provide high levels of client service
• Contribute to winning new work by proactively managing existing clients and contribute to winning new clients
• Contribute ideas/opinions to the tax teams and listen/respond to other team members’ views
• Use technology to continually learn, share knowledge with team members, and enhance service delivery
• Promote EY’s ethical and professional standards, including data confidentially, especially when dealing with outsiders

To qualify for the role you must have

• Motivation to study towards the ACCA or ICAEW (or ATT) professional qualification
• Communication and teaming skills

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Project and task management skills
• Strong IT 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.

The world around us is changing, through Generative AI transforming our daily work, and a changing macroeconomic climate. Our clients are going through significant change as a result of new compliance requirements, transformation and business needs.

Your responsibilities

Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Lead end-to-end delivery of projects (physical and virtual), assessing engagement risks and opportunities, driving the right outcomes for our clients
• Lead and manage client relationships and interactions, enabling and influencing strategic and operational decisions
• Lead on firm-wide campaigns and go-to-market initiatives including business development and pursuit activities for new and existing clients, developing the delivery of high-quality proposals
• Develop and present exceptional reports & presentations (PowerPoint, Word, etc.) for project deliverables, capturing problem statements and solutions/ recommendations for our clients
• Lead on internal financial, quality and risk management on client projects
• Lead your own and FAAS team’s development of functional and technical skills by establishing a culture of highest performing teams and inclusive behaviours
• Create an environment that encourages and drives innovation based on experience with the client, market, service line, functional group and EY

To qualify for the role, you must have:

• An accountancy qualification (e.g., ACA, CPA, ACCA, CIMA) or equivalent
• Financial Reporting and/or an Assurance/audit background
• Extensive experience working in assurance, consulting or transformational roles within Big 4, Consulting firms, and/or industry
• Experience in one or more of the below:

• • Accounting, Finance and Reporting related processes gained through Big 4, Consulting or industry environment e.g.,:

• • Record-to-Report (R2R), Financial & Non-financial Reporting
  • Financial Close, Consolidation and Reporting

• Experience in Business and Finance Transformation & Change programmes; managing senior stakeholders across Finance and the business, identifying improvement/optimisation opportunities, enabling and influencing client decision-making

• Process, Risks and Controls design, implementation and testing experience over Financial, Operational and Reporting processes using leading practice frameworks (e.g., COSO, SOx)
• Data analytics, including utilisation of technology to be able to automate extraction, preparation and presentation of information to present to senior stakeholders, including use of data warehousing, ETL and visualisation solutions
• Finance systems application design, build and implementation e.g., ERP (e.g., SAP, Oracle), EPM (e.g., SAC, CCH Tagetik) and/or other reporting automation solutions (e.g., BlackLine)

Other relevant experience may include whilst not limited to:

• Accounting and Regulatory change (e.g., Corporate Reform, SOx)
• Experience of Finance Data and architecture including general ledger, subledgers, master data structures, data objects etc.
• Experience of wider finance related processes including elements within Order-to-Cash (O2C), Procure-to-Pay (P2P) and Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
• Experience of non-financial reporting, including ESG reporting and relevant regulatory frameworks
• Internal finance function experience in Financial Reporting roles

We’re interested in leaders with a genuine creative vision and the confidence to make it happen. You can expect plenty of autonomy in this role, so you’ll also need the ability to take initiative and seek out opportunities to improve our current relationships and processes. If you’re serious about your career with us and ready to take on some of our clients’ most complex issues, this role is for you.
What we offer

We offer a competitive remuneration package. 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 your career
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be a leader.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

Apply now.

Prior to finalizing your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness. The information you provide is kept entirely confidential and will not be used to evaluate your candidacy. We collect this data to help us analyse our recruitment process holistically and implement actions that promote diversity and inclusiveness. While optional, we encourage you to provide this information to hold us accountable towards our goal of building a better working world. We ask because it matters!

Your key responsibilities

• Treasury systems design, select and implementation: you will play a pivotal role providing specialist advice in relation to the design of the future treasury function, developing transformation plan, managing Treasury Management System implementation from initiation to completion.
• Corporate Treasury Advisory and Consulting: maturity assessments; improvement and treasury transformation projects; controls and governance reviews; cash flow forecasting, cash flow management and liquidity optimisation; bank account rationalisation, banking rfp, financial due diligence support.
• EY Audit Support: Providing independent expert knowledge to EY Audit clients via EY Audit teams on financial instrument valuations and accounting, hedge accounting, expected credit loss allowance calculations and incremental borrowing rate calculations.
• Financial Accounting Advisory Services (FAAS): directly advising non-EY Audit clients on how they should be accounting for financial instruments in terms of IFRS 9, 13 and 16 and FRS 102.

• Actively establish, maintain, and strengthen internal and external relationships and networks.
• Manage client engagement risk and supervise the team to ensure client deliverables are met.
• Provide subject matter expertise to clients on industry best practices and emerging trends.
• People and performance management, coaching junior colleagues throughout the performance year

Skills and attributes for success

Colleagues and clients from a diverse array of backgrounds will look to you first for answers, so you’ll be a prominent contact when it comes to resolving complex issues. You will have the team behind giving you their full support. As you build your knowledge and experience, you’ll become a credible advisor, influencing clients and teams on resolutions that will impact entire engagements. Your technical skills will be stretched and tested as you broaden your knowledge of corporate treasury practices, systems, and solutions. You'll also be introduced to career challenges that will take you into exciting new professional territory.

To qualify for the role you must have

• One of the following:
• Fully qualified chartered accountant e.g. ACCA, ACA, CA, CPA, ICAS, or international equivalent, with professional external audit experience; OR
• Hold a Treasury qualification (ACT, AMCT, CFA) and have experience working in a Corporate Finance or Treasury role; OR
• Degree level education or international equivalent (preferably in an Accounting/Finance related subject)
• Treasury Management System certification: Kyriba, FIS, Gtreasury, ION, SAP, etc
• Relevant professional Treasury experience e.g. Corporate Treasury, hedge accounting, or valuations experience, or within a treasury or financial risk system software vendor
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Ideally you’ll also have

• The ability to assess business practices and articulate gaps and opportunities for improvement compared to typical industry practices
• Experience and understanding of treasury operations, including treasury systems (such as SAP S/4HANA), cash management, financial risk management, funding and debt management, bank relationship management
• Experience and understanding of treasury governance, processes risks and controls
• Knowledge of accounting and valuations of financial instruments (IFRS, UK GAAP or equivalent)
• Demonstrated interest in Financial Markets, Corporate Treasury, and/or financial risk modelling
• The ability to explain specialised concepts to non-technical audiences

What we look for

We’re interested in motivated and collaborative professionals with a genuine interest in learning and the confidence to make it happen. You can expect plenty of autonomy in this role, so you’ll also need the ability to take initiative and seek out opportunities to improve our current relationships and processes. If you’re serious about developing your career with us and ready to take on some of our clients’ most complex issues, this role is for you.

What we offer

We offer a competitive remuneration package. 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: Prior to finalizing your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness.We collect this data to help us analyse our recruitment process holistically and implement actions that promote diversity and inclusiveness. While optional, we encourage you to provide this information to hold us accountable towards our goal of building a better working world.