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Our Government & Public Sector-Financial Accounting Advisory Services (GPS-FAAS) team is growing exponentially, and as a Senior Manager you'll play a key role in that growth. Working across all Federal GPS sector service lines, you'll develop your career by communicating creative, strategic goals both internally and externally. It's all about listening to and understanding our clients to give them a truly exceptional experience in a field where there really are no off-the-shelf recommendations.

Your key responsibilities

The nature of this role means no two projects will be the same. That means you'll need to think on your feet and challenge existing practices to develop answers to complex issues. You'll also be collaborating with colleagues across multiple service lines, so we'll look to you to build relationships and identify opportunities for our clients to benefit from our knowledge in other areas. Regular travel will be required as you will be meeting with key clients, some of those being the most respected in their fields.

Skills and attributes for success

• Develop and maintain strong, productive working relationships with audit client personnel, assess audit clients' satisfaction and proactively maintain contact with the audit client throughout the year
• Direct field work, inform supervisors of the audit engagement status and manage assurance staff performance
• Demonstrate a thorough understanding of complex accounting and auditing concepts and apply them to client situations
• Develop people through effectively delegating audit tasks and providing guidance to assurance staff
• Provide performance feedback, training and performance reviews for assurance staff
• Contribute ideas/opinions to the assurance teams and listen/respond to other assurance team members' views
• Foster an efficient, innovative and team-oriented work environment
• Use technology to continually learn, share knowledge with assurance team members and enhance service delivery
• Direct field work, inform supervisors of the audit engagement status and manage assurance staff performance
• Foster an efficient, innovative and team-oriented work environment
• Use technology to continually learn, share knowledge with assurance team members and enhance service delivery
• Develop an understanding of EY's service lines and actively seek/encourage assurance team members to contribute ideas and identify opportunities to apply the firm's services

To qualify for the role you must have

• A bachelor's degree in accounting, finance or business discipline, supported by 7 years of progressive post baccalaureate work experience with Federal US GAAP
• U.S. CPA license in your work state
• Excellent project management skills

• Excellent communication and negotiation skills and a collaborative approach to management
• A proven record of excellence when managing, mentoring and improving a team of high-performing colleagues

• Dedication to teamwork and leadership
• Integrity within a professional environment
• The ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance
• Due to the nature of our work in the Government and Public Sector, work may be required to be completed at client, EY and/or contractor sites. Our goal is to assign professionals to projects within a commutable distance of their work location office. In certain circumstances, travel may be required beyond your work location based on client and project needs. Candidates should be willing to travel on average 25% to 30% or more in a hybrid environment.

Ideally you’ll also have

• CGFM and/or CDFM

What we look for

We're interested in versatile people with the ability to take on new responsibilities and listen to clients to get things done. We're not just looking for accounting and audit experience — we're after genuinely interesting people with the ability to build relationships, negotiate and think in unique and creative news ways. If you're a confident leader with a curious mind and the ability to solve complex issues, this role is for you.

Government & Public Sector Assurance-Senior

Our Government & Public Sector Assurance practice is growing exponentially, and as a senior, you'll play a key role in that growth. Together with our substantial investments in technology, knowledge, and learning resources on behalf of our audit professionals, this commitment will enable us to deliver quality assurance services to our clients and their stakeholders. While interacting with our clients, you'll develop your career by communicating and providing expertise around data integrity that can provide improved insight within the accounting, finance, governance, and regulatory space. It's all about understanding the business processes and data flow to provide a truly exceptional experience for our clients.

Your key responsibilities

The nature of this role means that you will be recognized as a primary day-to-day contact for our clients. That means you'll develop your knowledge by learning about current issues, profession, and business developments relevant to the client's industry, so we'll look to you to build relationships and expertise with team members.

Skills and attributes for success

• Develop and maintain productive working relationships with audit client personnel, assess audit clients' satisfaction and proactively maintain contact with the audit client throughout the year
• Direct field work, inform supervisors of the audit engagement status and manage assurance staff performance
• Demonstrate a thorough understanding of complex accounting and auditing concepts and apply them to client situations
• Develop people through effectively delegating audit tasks and providing guidance to assurance staff
• Provide performance feedback, training and performance reviews for assurance staff
• Contribute ideas/opinions to the assurance teams and listen/respond to other assurance team members' views
• Use technology to continually learn, share knowledge with assurance team members and enhance service delivery

To qualify for the role you must have

• A bachelor's degree an approximately 2 years of related work experience; or a graduate degree and approximately 1-2 years of related work experience
• A degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
• Sufficient course work to achieve CPA certification upon passing the examination
• Excellent project management skills
• Advanced written and verbal communication skills
• Dedication to teamwork and leadership
• Integrity within a processional environment
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a secret clearance or higher

Ideally you'll also have

• CPA licensure in your work state
• CGFM and/or CDFM

What we look for

We're interested in versatile people with the ability to take on new responsibilities and listen to clients to get things done. We're not just looking for accounting and audit experience — we're after genuinely interesting people with the ability to build relationships, negotiate and think in unique and creative news ways. If you're a confident leader with a curious mind and the ability to solve complex issues, this role is for you.

Our Government & Public Sector-Financial Accounting Advisory Services (GPS-FAAS) team is growing exponentially, and as a senior, you'll play a key role in that growth. Working across all Federal GPS sector service lines and interacting with our clients, you'll develop your career by communicating and providing expertise around data integrity that can provide improved insight within the accounting, finance, governance, and regulatory space. It's all about understanding the business processes and data flow to provide a truly exceptional experience for our clients.

Your key responsibilities

The nature of this role means that you will be recognized as a primary day-to-day contact for our clients. That means you'll need to understand how our client's data integrity and quality allow for more reliable reporting.  You'll also develop your knowledge by learning about current issues, profession, and business developments relevant to the client's industry, so we'll look to you to build relationships and expertise with team members.

Skills and attributes for success

• Consulting with clients on data integrity, and improving data quality
• Engaging clients and providing authoritative advice and professionalism throughout transactions
• Constantly developing your understanding of current market trends and processes and sharing your knowledge to develop junior colleagues
• Understanding our clients' unique ambitions and needs and referring them to colleagues in other teams and areas to broaden our business relationships where possible

To qualify for the role you must have

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related business discipline
• At least 3 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate work experience applying Federal US GAAP and GASB standards
• Pursing a CPA certification
• Experience with any of the following: preparation or auditing of Federal financial statements, operations research, advanced data analytics knowledge, exploratory data mining and data visualization
• Strong technical writing skills and
• A deep understanding of the objectives of Federal financial management, as well as commonly used terminology, processes and tools
• A proven record of excellence when managing, mentoring and improving a team of high-performing colleagues
• The confidence to assess risk and provide well thought out solutions
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a secret clearance or higher
• The EY Government and Public Sector Practice's staffing model is to assign resources to projects aligned to the office within the metropolitan area you have been hired; however, in certain circumstances, travel may be required within and/or beyond your geographic region based on client and project needs.  For roles within the federal practice, the flexibility to travel up to approximately 30% is preferred. Within the state, local and education practice, the flexibility to travel up to approximately 80% is preferred.

Ideally you'll also have

• US CPA licensure in your work state
• CGFM and/or CDFM

What we look for

We're interested in versatile people with the ability to take on new responsibilities and listen to clients to get things done. We're not just looking for technical accounting experience — we're after genuinely interesting people with the ability to build relationships, negotiate and think in unique and creative news ways. If you're a confident leader with a curious mind and the ability to solve complex issues, this role is for you.

Your key responsibilities

• Lead a team of ServiceNow specialists on App Engine Studio development projects.
• Design and develop complex workflows, business rules, integrations, and custom applications.
• Provide technical coaching and mentoring to junior developers on ServiceNow scripting.
• Define solution scope and deliver technical advisory services to support clients implementing ServiceNow programs of work.
• Translate client requirements into workable solutions, including creating architecture design documentation and ServiceNow roadmaps.
• Create and maintain platform implementation roadmaps while providing hands-on support for detailed design and implementation.
• Demonstrate product and technical leadership throughout ServiceNow engagements.
• Collaborate with technical and functional analysts, solution architects, and delivery managers to deliver high-quality ServiceNow solutions.

Skills and attributes for success

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• Strong ability to define architectural and design-level technical solutions aligned with client business needs.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience with the ServiceNow platform, including solution design and implementation.
• Successful delivery of at least 2 full ServiceNow projects, preferably involving App Engine and Service Portal.
• In-depth knowledge of ServiceNow integration technologies (SSO, SAML, SSL, SOAP/REST Web Services, LDAP, JDBC/ODBC).
• Proficiency in CSDM 3.0 framework and familiarity with popular coding languages.
• Strong problem-solving skills, creativity, and attention to detail.
  
• Ability to build strong, credible relationships with both business and technical stakeholders.
  
• Self-driven with the ability to manage tasks independently while contributing to the team’s capability development.
• Ideally, You’ll Also Have
  • ServiceNow certifications (e.g., CSA, CAD, CIS).
  • Consulting experience with client-facing roles.
  • Prior experience in Singapore Government projects.

What we look for

• Highly motivated individuals with excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to prioritize shifting workloads in a rapidly changing industry.
• An effective communicator, you’ll be a confident leader equipped with strong people management skills and a genuine passion to make things happen in a dynamic organization.

What we offer

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.

You will help our clients evaluate and enhance their business. You will be part of our account centric growth strategy focusing on issue-based and competency-driven client needs. That's what differentiates EY in the consulting marketplace.

Your key responsibilities

Everything you will be involved in comes down to providing excellent customer service and helping ensure your teams do the same. Whether it is; managing multiple client teams, leading IT internal audit engagements, external audit integration, or SOC reporting as well as assisting with business development activities across financial services’ sectors, you will build strong relations ships and become a trusted advisor to your clients.

Skills and attributes for success

• Providing guidance and knowledge, participating in performing procedures focusing on complex, judgmental, and/or specialized issues
• Working with the team/client to create plans for accomplishing engagement objectives. Making sure the strategy complies with professional standards and addresses the inherent risks
• Briefing the team on the client’s IT environment and industry IT trends
• Maintaining relationships with client management, managing expectations around work products, timing, and deliverables billing
• Demonstrating a thorough understanding of complex information systems and the client’s business/industry
• Demonstrating excellent project management skills, inspiring teamwork and responsibility with team members. Using current technology/tools to enhance the effectiveness of deliverables and services

To qualify for the role you must have

• A bachelor’s degree and at least 6 years of related work experience; or a graduate degree and approximately 4 years of related work experience
• A degree in business, accounting, finance, computer science, information systems or a related discipline
• Approximately 6 years of experience working as an IT auditor or IT risk advisor for a public accounting firm, professional services firm or financial services company, or comparable experience as an advisor to a financial services company
• Solid experience leading IT internal audit, external audit, service organization control reporting and/or IT internal controls engagements and assisting with business development activities within financial services
• Experience with internal audit risk assessments, SOX/internal controls, Service Organization Control (SOC) reporting, tools and enablers in the financial services sector
• Strong project management skills
• Advanced written and verbal communication skills and presentation skills
• Excellent leadership, teamwork and client service skills.
• Willingness to travel to meet client obligations

Ideally, you’ll also have

• CA, CGEIT, CIA, CISA, CISM, CISSP, CMA, CPA and CRISC certification is desired; non-certified hires are required to become certified within 1 year from the date of hire. Based on an individual’s professional background, area of specialization or industry focus, we recognize that other certifications, credentials or experience may be more relevant than the listed certifications and therefore may be acceptable substitutes with written consent of EY's Americas IT Risk & Assurance leadership

What we look for

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 auditing and ready to take on some of our clients’ most complex issues, this role is for you.

Your key responsibilities

You’ll spend most of your time working with a wide variety of clients delivering the latest data science and big data technologies and practices to design, build and maintain scalable and robust solutions that unify, enrich and analyze data from multiple sources.

Skills and attributes for success

• Applying data mining and statistical analysis techniques like hypothesis testing, segmentation, and modelling to analyze large amounts of data
• Helping our clients make data-driven decisions by working with structured and unstructured data sets, building out predictive models and advising our clients on data mining leading practices
• Building and applying data analysis algorithms (data mining, statistics, machine learning, natural language processing, sentiment analysis, text mining, etc.) as appropriate
• Designing, architecting, and developing solutions leveraging big data technology (Open Source, Hortonworks, AWS or Microsoft) to ingest, process and analyze large, disparate data sets to exceed business requirements
• Unifying, enriching, and analyzing customer data to derive new insights and opportunities
• Leveraging in-house data platforms as needed and recommending and building new data platforms/solutions as required to exceed business requirements
• Clearly communicating findings, recommendations, and opportunities to improve data systems and solutions
• Demonstrating deep understanding of and ability to teach data science, concepts, tools, features, functions, and benefits of different approaches to apply them
• Seeking out information to learn about emerging methodologies and technologies
• Clarifying problems by driving to understand the true issue
• Looking for opportunities for improving methods and outcomes
• Applying data driven approach in tying technology solutions to specific business outcomes
• Collaborating, influencing, and building consensus through constructive relationships and effective listening
• Solving problems by incorporating data into decision making

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Eligible to obtain and maintain a Secret Clearance
• Bachelor's degree
• At least 3-5+ years hands-on experience with data science, big data, and data engineering
• Extensive experience connecting to various data sources and structures: APIs, NoSQL, RDBMS, Hadoop, S3, Blob Storage, etc.
• Deep understanding of statistical modeling as well as ETL, data ingestion/cleansing and engineering skills
• Ability to set up data and experimental platforms
• Must have 1 of the following: Python, R, SAS, Python, Java/C# or Scala
• Must have 1 of the following: SQL, Hive, Pig
• Machine learning using k-NN, naive bayes, decision trees, SVM experience required
• Experience using data mining and statistical tools
• Solid pattern recognition and predictive modelling skills
• Recommendation engines, scoring systems, A/B testing
• Hands-on experience with various big data technologies in one or more ecosystems (Hadoop, AWS or Microsoft)
• Comfortable working on-site in the greater Washington, DC area as neeed

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Bachelor’s Degree or above in mathematics, information systems, statistics, computer science, or related disciplines
• Experience with Azure Data Factory and AzureML a plus
• Communication is essential, must be able to listen and understand the question and develop and deliver clear insights
• Experience communicating issues, status and thought leadership to partners and clients
• Developing people through effective leadership, coaching, mentoring and performance assessment of all levels of staff

Your key responsibilities

As one of our Program Senior Managers, you’ll work with government clients to support and improve a broad range of Program Management (PM) operations, including integration, scope, time, cost, quality, human resources, communications, risk, procurement and stakeholder management. You will have the opportunity to apply your knowledge on meaningful and complex projects, while working with multidisciplinary teams and industry leaders. Key responsibilities of the position include:

• Works in collaborative environment with various project teams to support the mission of and it’s components
• Acts as a trusted client advisor, responsible for project delivery
• Lead multiple operational projects and teams in a collaborative team environment
• Responsible for program and project scoping, planning and tracking, on-time delivery, and high quality deliverables and services
• Develops program implementation plans and establishes mechanisms for incorporating lessons learned for continuous improvement
• Responsible for managing the delivery of services in compliance with the Statement of Work (SOW)
• Meets financial objectives for the contact and task order(s)
• Prepares and participates in client presentations
• Provides strategic initiatives, produces status reports for the client, leads monthly COR reviews, and ensures acceptable performance and contract compliance
• Assist in identifying key capability gaps and assist in developing recommendations to address these gaps
• Coordinate with both internal and external stakeholders
• Participates in development of proposals in support of new business development
• Oversee a delivery team and be main point of contact for clients for assigned projects
• Supports hiring/recruiting as needed to support various business initiatives
• Supports business development and sales opportunities including but not limited to identifying growth opportunities and supporting and preparing RFI/RFP/RFQ solicitation responses (written and oral)
• Building, managing and motivating high-performing teams, including supporting people-related initiatives (e.g., recruitment, retention, training, competency development)
• Developing people through effective leadership, coaching, mentoring and performance assessment of all levels of staff
• Communicating workplace policies, procedures and practices to all levels of staff

Skills and attributes for success

• Understand clients’ cultures and operations to influence important decisions
• Leverage industry leading practices and trends to provide valuable insights to clients
• Assist with cultivating and managing business development opportunities. Understand EY and its service lines and actively assess/present ways to serve clients.
• Develop and maintain long-term client relationships and networks. Develop relationships with team members across all EY practices to serve client needs.

To qualify for the role you must have

• A bachelor's degree
• 15 years of experience leading teams on engagements required
• 10+ years managerial experience with direct supervisory responsibilities
• 10+ more years supporting DHS components
• 10+ more years managerial experience in supervising cross-functional teams and complex projects
• Subject matter expertise, demonstrating significant breadth and depth in multiple domains of work including business transformation, performance management, emerging technologies, innovation, travel, trade, biometrics, information systems, and technology platforms
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a secret clearance
• Program Management Professional (PMP) certification

Ideally you'll also have

• Portfolio management professional
• PM professional
• Project management professional
• Certified scrum master
• Lean Six Sigma master black belt