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Senior Manager, Transaction Diligence, Belfast or Derry/Londonderry

The Transaction Diligence team at EY currently has exciting opportunities. You'll work with a high-performing, integrated team which focuses on a variety of high-profile IPOs and transactions. You'll have a diverse range of stretching experiences which will give you continuous learning and development opportunities as well as a great sense of achievement.

You will be working alongside experienced due diligence professionals, where you will continue to develop your skills to perform due diligence in a range of situations and sectors. There is the opportunity for travel, both within the UK and potentially internationally. When working on projects you will almost always be working as part of a wider cross service line team.

Skills and attributes for success

• Commercial thinking and ability to analyse businesses at pace
• An ability to interact with and challenge management teams
• Strong attention to detail with a logical and methodical approach
• Team working and communication skills

To qualify for the role you must have

• A Degree (ideally in a financially related topic)
• ACA (or equivalent) qualification ideally with First Time Passes
• Project management and Excel skills
• Evidence of report writing skills
• A passion to provide high quality service to your clients

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Transactions experience
• Client facing experience from a professional services background

What we look for

What’s most important is that you’re dedicated to working with your colleagues as part of a high-performing team. You’ll need to thrive in picking up new skills as you go, so natural curiosity, a lot of questions and the confidence to speak up when you see something that could be improved are essential. If you’ve got the right combination of technical knowledge and communication skills, this role is for you.

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.

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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.

Your key responsibilities

• Helping clients unlock value from their information assets through collaboration with domain experts and by embedding innovative data analytics solutions in existing services lines
• Leading diverse teams with varying skillsets, who use different Data and Analytics technologies.
• The ability to adapt your leadership style to fit team, client, and cultural needs. They will look to you to anticipate and identify risks and escalate issues as appropriate. As an influential member of the team, you’ll create a positive learning culture and will coach and counsel junior members of the team and help them develop
• Working in multi-disciplinary teams across a range of industries to help our clients transform and improve their business
• A passion to contribute to the growth of the team, bringing energy, enthusiasm, and the courage to lead and develop others
• Drawing on your knowledge and experience, you’ll create innovative insights which will add value to both our clients and to the broader society
• Champion operational efficiency improvements on projects and internal initiatives
• Consistently drive projects to completion, ensuring the work is of high quality.
• Contribute to the development of the wider Data & Analytics team’s future by building our brand, by attending relevant events, collaborating with other internal teams, producing thought leadership, etc
• Actively establish, maintain, and strengthen internal and external relationships. With guidance from partners, directors, and other senior managers, you’ll identify potential business opportunities for EY to incubate or drive new solutions and services

Skills and attributes for success

• Relevant experience in consulting or industry with significant management experience
• Demonstrated ability to supervise and develop others, effectively communicate, budgets, managing client expectations, delivering quality projects, timelines, etc.
• Ability to communicate technical information to non-technical colleagues and clients
• Proven work experience as a Data Architect
• Experience of gathering and analysing system requirements
• Proven cloud data architecture experience (Azure/AWS)
• Deep understanding of both relational and non-relational databases
• Ability to design cloud architectures at a conceptual, logical, and physical level
• Analytically minded and can assimilate and apply new techniques and knowledge, to deliver insights and solve problems
• Professional with ability to work in diverse, evolving, and dynamic client environments
• Experience in the following aspects of the data analytics lifecycle, for example:
  • Cloud and Data Architecture
  • Data Pipelines and ETL/ELT
  • Data Modelling
  • Understanding of Data Governance principles
• A completed degree (bachelors, masters, or PhD) or relevant professional experience
• It would be advantageous if you had attained data-related cloud certifications in Azure and/or AWS

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Experience in consulting or industry with significant management experience
• Demonstrated ability to supervise and develop others, effectively communicate, budgets, managing client expectations, delivering quality projects, timelines, etc.
• Ability to communicate technical information to non-technical colleagues and clients
• Proven work experience as a Data Architect
• Experience of gathering and analysing system requirements
• Proven cloud data architecture experience (Azure/AWS)
• Deep understanding of both relational and non-relational databases
• Ability to design cloud architectures at a conceptual, logical, and physical level

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.

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

• Overall responsibility for leading the management and delivery of UK tax reporting and UK tax transaction analysis for a range of private equity clients.
• Provision of development support to junior members of the team through effective supervision, coaching and mentoring.
• Contribution to people initiatives, including retaining and training our team.
• Pursuit of business development opportunities.
• Management of the successful delivery of technically complex and demanding consulting projects for their clients, ensuring technical excellence and practical / business focus approach taken
• Significant role in the management of the team both in terms of strategy and operations and also through managing junior staff development and assignments.

Skills and attributes for success

• Relevant/appropriate tax experience in a similar role. Technical and practical knowledge and experience in advising UK and non-UK Private Equity Houses
• Client focused, strategically and commercially aware. Management and delivery of client expectations, ensuring technical excellence and practical/business driven approach.
• Strong tax technical skills
• Strong client relationship management skills with ability to develop quality outputs to clients
• Effective time management, ability to remain calm when under pressure to meet deadlines.
• Excellent communicator in a range of situations both written and oral.
• Ability to identify areas of risk, carry out an effective review and know when to refer upwards.

To qualify for the role you must have

• CTA/ ACA / Law qualification / Tax specialist qualification / or breadth of knowledge equivalent to a Tax specialist qualification
• Strong tax technical skills
• Business development skills, able to identify and convert opportunities to sell work
• Experience of coaching and developing more junior staff
• Knowledge of the taxation of partnerships and private equity funds

Qualifications

• CTA preferred;
• ATT/ACA/CA/ACCA with relevant tax experience: or
• Demonstrable experience in a managerial role within a private equity tax environment.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Project management skills, plan and prioritize work, meet deadlines, monitor own budget
• Ability to solve problems creatively and pragmatically
• Experience in private equity fund compliance in the following areas:
  • Private equity fund transaction analysis;
  • Private equity Partnership computations and returns;
  • Investor Reporting.

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;

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. Read more about our commitment to diversity& inclusiveness .

Data Engineer Senior Consultant – Job Specification

Belfast or Derry/Londonderry

Your Client Impact

• Design, develop, and deploy end-to-end data pipelines for complex business problems, supporting analytics, modernising data infrastructure and AI/ML initiatives.
• Design and implement data models, ETL/ELT workflows, and data integration solutions across structured and unstructured sources
• Collaborate with AI engineers, data scientists, and business analysts to deliver integrated solutions that unlock business value.
• Ensure data quality, integrity, and governance throughout the data lifecycle.
• Optimize data storage, retrieval, and processing for performance and scalability on cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP, Databricks, Snowflake).
• Translate business requirements into technical data engineering solutions, including architecture decisions and technology selection.
• Contribute to proposals, technical assessments, and internal knowledge sharing.
• Data preparation, feature engineering, and MLOps activities to collaborate with AI engineers, data scientists, and business analysts to deliver integrated solutions

Essential Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent certification in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, Mathematics, or related quantitative field.

Essential Criteria

• Experience building and maintaining data pipelines using platforms such as Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Snowflake, or similar
• Good programming skills in Python and SQL, with familiarity with data engineering libraries (e.g., pandas, PySpark, dbt)
• Solid understanding of data modelling, ETL/ELT processes, and Lakehouse concepts
• Experience with data quality frameworks, data governance, and compliance requirements.
• Familiarity with version control (Git), CI/CD pipelines, and workflow orchestration tools (Airflow, Prefect).

Soft Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset with attention to detail.
• Good team player with effective communication and storytelling with data and insights.
• Consulting skills, including development of presentation decks and client-facing documentation.

Preferred Criteria

• Experience with real-time data processing (Kafka, Kinesis, Azure Event Hub).
• Knowledge of big data storage solutions (Delta Lake, Parquet, Avro).
• Experience with data visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau, Looker).
• Understanding of AI/ML concepts and collaboration with AI teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certifications such as:
• Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional
• Azure Data Engineer Associate
• AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty
• SnowPro Advanced: Data Engineer

Your key responsibilities

• • Collaboration: The ability to work closely with cross-functional teams to develop, test, and deploy advanced machine learning models, ensuring alignment with business objectives and seamless integration into client operations.

• • Data Analysis: The capability to analyse large and complex datasets to extract actionable insights. Your analytical skills will be key in identifying trends, patterns, and anomalies that can inform business strategies.

• • Data Pipeline Management: Be able to design, implement, and maintain data pipelines that are critical for model training and deployment. Your expertise will ensure the reliability and efficiency of our data infrastructure.

• • Communication: The skill to effectively communicate complex analytical findings and model results to stakeholders, translating data-driven insights into business language that informs decision-making.

• • Continuous Learning: The ability to stay informed of the latest advancements in data science, including techniques and tools, to ensure our team remains at the cutting edge of the field.

• • Understand key business drivers within an organization and help to articulate and quantify the value that data and AI can deliver.

To qualify for the role;

• • Experience in building and deploying machine learning or deep learning models in real-world applications.

• • A completed degree (bachelors, masters, or PhD).

• • Excellent leadership and organisational skills, with a track record of developing and leading high-performing teams.

• • Proficiency in Python, SQL, and deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow and PyTorch. Experience with R is a nice-to-have.

• • A strong foundation in statistics, mathematics, and programming is essential for success in this role.

The following will be an advantage;

• • Problem-Solving: Ability to translate business assumptions and rules into feature engineering and model explainability, addressing business problems with data-driven solutions.

• • Collaborative Development: Work under the guidance of senior data scientists and solution architects to build models that align with strategic visions and client needs.

What we look for

We’re interested in candidates 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.

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.

Please note;

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. Read more about our commitment to diversity& inclusiveness

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.