EY Assurance - Audit Senior Southampton 

United Kingdom, England, Southampton 

550266047

As an auditor at EY, you will provide independent verification of our clients’ compliance with accounting principles. By doing so, you play a meaningful role in helping businesses accurately reflect their financial picture. In return, you can expect leading class learning and development tailored to your unique interests and motivations. You’ll be given all the skills, knowledge, and opportunities to progress and become ready to build a better working world for our people, our clients and the communities that support us.

Your key responsibilities

• Everything you do will come back to providing exceptional audit services for our clients.
• Leading fieldwork and keeping engagement managers updated on audits.
• Accurately reporting on financial statements and providing meaningful insights into accounting and reporting matters.
• Completing audit processes and documenting higher-risk areas to increase your technical and business skills.
• Engaging clients and providing authoritative advice and professionalism throughout transactions.
• Constantly developing your understanding of current market trends.

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 high-profile contact when it comes to resolving complex issues. As you build your knowledge and experience, you’ll become a credible advisor, influencing clients and engagement teams on resolutions that will impact entire industries. 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

Experience delivering and reporting on external audits.
Fully qualified as a chartered accountant e.g. ACA / ACCA / CA / ICAS / ICAEW or international equivalent.
Non-financial services industry exposure.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Knowledge of current market issues in the UK
• Experience using SOX 404 and applying UK GAAP and IFRS
• Project management or team supervisory experience
• The flexibility to constantly learn and adapt in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

What we look for

We’re interested in professionals with a genuine creative vision and the confidence to make it happen. You can expect plenty of autonomy in this role, so we look for people who will 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.

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. 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!