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As Testing Manager, your focus will be planning and executing various test cycles for large SAP implementations. You will work with the project team and third parties to confirm the business requirements that must be tested and the approach to meet testing requirements. You will be responsible for working directly with the functional work streams to build test scenarios and cases that cover all business requirements and satisfy the defined test strategy. Testing cycles can include functional unit testing, system integration testing, user acceptance testing, and regression testing.

In this role, you will build and manage the delivery of technology transformation projects and programs that align with our organizational strategy. You will provide assurance to leadership by managing timelines, costs, and quality, while leading both technical and non-technical project teams in the development and implementation of innovative technology solutions.

Your key responsibilities

As a Manager in this dynamic role, you will be at the forefront of technology transformation, ensuring that projects are delivered effectively and efficiently. You will face challenges that require innovative problem-solving skills and will have the opportunity to learn and grow in a fast-paced environment. Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading workstream delivery and tracking deliverable completion and project status.
• Actively participating in client working sessions and leading workstreams from planning through execution to closure.
• Managing engagement economics and implementing resource plans and budgets.
• Travel required regularly as needed by external client.

Skills and attributes for success

To thrive in this role, you will need a blend of technical and interpersonal skills. Your ability to build and manage relationships will be key to your success. The following skills and attributes will make a significant impact:

• Define the test strategy, planning, implementing and quality assurance for large complex projects
• Proven ability to drive test design, preparation, and execution across extensive business and system requirements within tight timelines.
• Proficiency in project and portfolio management tools.
• Strong understanding of iterative and hybrid delivery methodologies.
• Ability to manage project or program resource management effectively.
• Excellent communication skills with a focus on client trust and value.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• A bachelor’s degree (4-year degree).
• Typically, no less than 4 - 6 years of proven experience in a testing lead role, specifically with large SAP implementations.
• Experience in developing test strategies, scenarios, and cases.
• Strong understanding of various testing methodologies and best practices.
• Demonstrate expertise in technical skills application functional design.
• Familiarity with the System Development Lifecycle.
• Knowledge of the Technology Landscape.
• Experience in leading teams.
• A flexibility and willingness to travel to meet client needs; travel is estimated at 40-60%.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Familiarity with testing tools and automation frameworks.
• Experience in leading complex technical initiatives.
• A track record of continuous process improvement.
• Strong analytical skills with a focus on innovative solutions.

The position reports to the Global Industry Strategy & Execution Lead. This is a permanent role.

Your key responsibilities

• Connect and collaborate: Be ‘the glue’ driving close connectivity and collaboration across the Sector, Super Region (SR), and Service Line (SL) teams and ensure alignment with global and SR enablement teams. Cultivate community engagement with the GCSPs that supports a view of client demand and buy in of prioritized accounts to drive growth of the Sector.
• Drive growth of Strategic and Premier Accounts: Work closely with GCSPs of the strategically important accounts in driving solutions and campaigns to fuel growth, while converting opportunities to wins for replication by strengthening relationships and working closely with SL and Region Account / Pursuit teams.
• Facilitate and drive execution: Support the shaping of the vision and ambition for the Sector in collaboration with the Global Sector Leader (GSL), SR Sector Leaders and SL representatives and drive end to end execution; Support the activities of the Sector Board ensuring disciplined and impactful board management. Understand and monitor macro-trends for the Sector and orchestrate the strategic planning cycle to drive growth, support prioritization and timely deployment of solutions, accounts and capital.
• Go-to-Market & ‘Big Bet’ Activation: Support GtM and operations teams to ensure effective delivery of the GtM strategy and execute Sector big bets and alliance initiatives. Involved in supporting capital allocation ensuring investments are prioritized against the Sector strategy to drive growth.
• Brand & Market Reputation: Jointly support with BMC and Insights, the right market reputation for the Sector including sector analyst relations and foster relationships with external parties to support EY’s strategic positioning within the Sector.

Skills and attributes for success

Ideally, you’ll have the ability to:

• work through high levels of stakeholder complexity, ambiguity, conflict and with abstract concepts
• identify innovative alternatives, digging into issues to surface core pain points
• Create and drive a project plan, and direct action with tact and diplomacy
• drive a program of work from start to finish
• easily shift between abstract strategic discussions and operational detail
• build trusted relationships and collaborate across dimensions of matrix

What we look for

• Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent qualification required
• 10+ years current experience with EY or Global Professional Services firm track record
• As the job involves responding to clients' needs and varying time zones, flexibility to work extended hours

Your key responsibilities

The goal is to support our clients to transform their business through product management. As a Product Manager, you will work with multi-discipline feature teams including user experience experts, architects, engineers and others to define and roll out products and services for large global organizations. You will take a user-centric and data-driven approach to product development. You will advocate for the user throughout the product development lifecycle. You can break down and simplify complex processes and touchpoints to deliver exceptional experiences. You are a strategic thinker, can prioritize and define product roadmaps, manage a product backlog, make quick decisions and coordinate the team to release quality products within planned timelines. You understand modern platform structures, cloud architectures, digital platforms and enablers, and data strategy considerations. In addition, you understand and have a perspective on how product and delivery organizations are structured and operate within complex, regulated national and global companies. Outside of client engagements, you have experience with business development activities (e.g. pursuits, proposals) and practice building activities such as mentoring teams and developing/delivering trainings.

Skills and attributes for

• Strategy and Organization
  • Develop product strategies that align with business objectives and account for technology, data and experience design considerations
  • Define product organization and operating models (e.g. product taxonomy, organizational structure, funding methods, product delivery processes, governance models, decision-making models) that help our clients better allocate funding, prioritize work and drive quality and efficient delivery
  • Improve portfolio management with product metrics and OKRs that align work to business objectives and increase transparency/traceability of outcomes
• Technology Delivery
  • Drive technology delivery through defining business requirements (user stories and acceptance criteria), prioritizing backlogs, and creating and maintaining roadmaps
  • Lead cross-functional teams of designers, engineers and testers through the software development lifecycle (SDLC) from ideation through implementation and deployment
  • Advocate and operationalize cross-functional best practices such as user testing, functional and regression test automation and alignment to industry/client standards
• Product Enablement
  • Utilize prevalent product management tools (e.g. JIRA, Azure DevOps, AhA!, Productboard) to ideate and deliver technology solutions
  • Utilize product analytics software and frameworks (e.g, Pendo, amplitude, etc.) to derive insights on user behavior, product performance, and value delivery, translating findings into actionable recommendations
  • Advise on and implement best practices and standards for experience design, agile delivery, technology and data
  • Operationalize leading technologies including generative AI to improve quality and efficiency throughout the SDLC (e.g. user story definition)
• Core Consulting
  • Construct and communicate a compelling story to rally the client around potential changes and associated benefits
  • Own the desired outcomes defined in client engagements and carry through to implementation
  • Manage service delivery, identifying future sales opportunities, and supporting practice development activities.
  • Maintain long-term client relationships and networks and cultivate business development opportunities.
  • Effectively work with client engagement teams with diverse skills and backgrounds fostering an innovative and inclusive work environment.
  • Demonstrate understanding of current technology environment and industry trends and provide recommendations for engagement and client service issues.

To qualify for the role you must have

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems Management, Accounting, Finance, or a related field and 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate work experience. Alternatively, will accept a Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems Management, Accounting, Finance, or a related field and 4 years of work experience.
• Facilitate discussions with technical, design and business subject-matter resources to document requirements, establish a vision, and articulate alternatives for future state solutions across various domains and channels.
• Has set product vision, defined and managed product roadmaps, prioritized and managed the backlog and has led product launches.
• Can participate in and drive ideation sessions, standups, sprints and scrums.
• Has a specific domain knowledge and understands the dynamics impacting their product such as market trends, technology and regulatory rules.
• Experience with successfully managing projects with defined deliverables and budgets. Experience must include budgeting and managing the schedule; client relationship management; communicating strategically around key issues; conflict resolution and consensus building.
• Must have a thorough understanding of complex information systems and technology organizations and to be able to work effectively between the application, data infrastructure, operations and security architectural spaces
• Proven delivery skills including the ability to scope/size a project; staff a team with the appropriate skill set; provide subject matter direction and guidance to a team; manage communications with the project sponsors and manage the delivery of an engagement workstream.
• Requires domestic and regional travel up to 80% to serve client needs.

Together, all in, to build a better working world.

Your key responsibilities

• Performing and reviewing daily accounting transactions of clients
• Performing month end / quarter end / year end closing activities
• Maintaining reconciliations with related and third parties
• Preparing tax returns and other compliance requirements
• Preparing payrolls for clients’ employees
• Coordination and communication with shared service centers and clients’ tax teams resident abroad
• Coordination and communication with clients’ tax offices
• Following legislative changes and implementing when applicable
• Coordination with other sub-service lines of EY Tax team
• Supervising the engagement team

Skills and attributes for success

• University degree, preferably in Accounting and Finance or Business Administration
• Knowledge of Uniform Chart of Account; experienced in general accounting for 2 -7 years
• Excellent Excel, PowerPoint and Word skills and experienced in reporting
• Fluency in both written and spoken English
• Knowledge of MS NAV, SAP and Oracle accounting systems is an asset
• Knowledge e-applications such as e-invoice, e-ledger etc.
• Proven originator and team player
• Ability to work with flexible working hours
• SMMM qualification is an asset

What we offer you

Building a better working world

Our Government & Public Sector Assurance practice is growing exponentially, and as a manager, 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.

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 manage teams.

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
• 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 an approximately 5 years of related work experience; or a graduate degree and approximately 4 years of related work experience, with approximately 2 years of audit experience with a public accounting firm
• A degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
• U.S. CPA license
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a secret clearance or higher.
• Excellent project management skills; advanced written and verbal communication skills
• Dedication to teamwork and leadership
• Integrity within a processional environment
• 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

• 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.

As a Tax Manager in our U.S. Tax Practice, you will help our clients identify and solve complex U.S. and international tax issues as well as assist them in pursuing and successfully aligning all of the different areas of taxation into a benefit-driven strategy.

Skills and attributes for success

• Strong understanding of U.S. tax concepts, including corporate federal and state income tax compliance, as well as income tax provision preparation and review.
• Experience in preparing and reviewing U.S. corporate and partnership tax returns for multinational clients, including income tax provisions for public and private companies.
• Proficient in conducting federal and state tax research, analyzing cross-border tax issues, and drafting technical memos.
• Ability to develop and deliver innovative tax planning ideas and solutions that meet or exceed client expectations.
• Strong analytical skills to assess clients' tax situations and provide practical recommendations.
• Capacity to make informed decisions in complex tax matters and develop implementation plans.
• Excellent relationship-building skills to establish and maintain long-term client partnerships.
• Commitment to continuous professional development and knowledge sharing to enhance service delivery.
• Ability to identify and pursue opportunities for tax planning and special services.
• Proficient in leveraging technology to enhance productivity.
• Effective communication skills to foster open dialogue and supervise team members.
• Willingness to participate in recruiting efforts and contribute to a collaborative, team-oriented culture that supports professional growth.

To qualify for the role you must have

• An undergraduate degree in a related field and a minimum of 3 years of experience in US Tax
• Completion of US CPA or US Enrolled Agent or other related experience or certification relevant to this area of specialization
• A commitment to learning in a tax technology environment
• Strong project management, analytical and organizational skills
• Ability to work within tight deadlines
• Process oriented with excellent documentation skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

What we offer

We offer a competitive compensation package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to our business. In addition, our Total Rewards package allows you to decide which benefits are right for you and which ones help you create a solid foundation for your future. Our Total Rewards package includes a comprehensive medical, prescription drug and dental coverage, a defined contribution pension plan, a great vacation policy plus firm paid days that allow you to enjoy longer long weekends throughout the year, statutory holidays and paid personal days (based on province of residence), and a range of exciting programs and benefits designed to support your physical, financial and social well-being. 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

The salary range for this job in British Columbia is $92,000 to $144,000. Individual salaries within this range are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and work location city.

Your key responsibilities

• Develops relationships with key internal customers to identify and proactively address emerging needs to evaluate and coach executive assistants on their performance
• Promotes an understanding of Enterprise Support Services (ESS) goals and contributions to secure necessary support from others to achieve business unit goals.
• Influences customers and/or organizational leadership to accomplish operational objectives
• Manages a group of people within a defined discipline, geography or national department
• Will also meet or exceed the needs of our internal clients by partnering with other groups within the matrix organization, cultivating those relationships, aligning people and processes, and identifying workplace efficiencies to add value.
• Sets up full project plans rapidly for project teams including objectives, milestones, priorities, teams, calendar and nature of deliverables
• Leads the assembly of the right team to achieve business goals by creating the right mix of skills and the right environment
• Alerts teams and colleagues to social, economic and technology trends likely to affect EY and/or our clients’ business
• Anticipates what customers will want and follows up on a regular basis
• Participates in teams drawn from other areas of EY

Skills and attributes for success

• Manages and counsels mid to large size teams up to approximately 30 people within a location or department
• Solicits on-going feedback from customers to evaluate and coach individuals on their performance
• Demonstrates proactive business development by initiating discussions with existing internal clients on possible additional work and satisfaction with current support
• Coordinates and assists with budget planning and is responsible for operating within approved budget
• Meets or exceeds the needs of our internal clients by partnering with other groups within the matrix organization, cultivating those relationships, aligning people and processes, and identifying workplace efficiencies to add value
• Creates a culture that supports knowledge transfer and teaming
• Participates on national or area projects

• Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook

• Works independently on complex projects

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline, or equivalent work experience required
• 8-10 plus years of experience
• 5 plus years of experience managing people
• In-office presence as needed to meet with teams and customers
• Must be flexible to travel
• Flexibility to work outside of core hours. This role will support EST time zone and must have flexibility to accomodate.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Experience with project management