EY Personal Independence - Senior Manager Permanent London/Leeds 

United Kingdom, England, London 

841441005

Your key responsibilities

Your primary responsibility will be to ensure that the EY partners and client facing professionals comply with the relevant personal independence rules and regulations. This will include managing a small team of managers and junior staff with assisting our partners and client facing professionals with personal independence matters. You will also be expected to manage various personal independence projects and processes. Key responsibilities will include:

• Advising on a broad range of personal independence, investment product and pension consultations
• Overseeing and monitoring our systems, processes and procedures ensuring that we are meeting our requirements and delivering quality at the highest levels.
• Leading the partner and employee personal independence audit testing process, liaising with the individuals and reviewers involved, analysing results and any resulting matters to address
• Managing the resolution, documentation and communication of potential personal independence breaches
• Key relationship contact for Partner Matters and Talent with regard to onboarding for new partners and employees
• Identifying trends and hot topics requiring further guidance and training
• Supporting the UK Independence Leader and Directors on independence related initiatives/campaigns
• Liaison with UK Firm Communications Team to ensure appropriate messaging to ensure compliance with Independence obligations
• Supporting UK Independence Leader and Directors with the preparation of matters to be reported to the UK LLP Board and other governance bodies
• Liaison with EY Global Independence Team
• Responding to regulatory requests and findings from practice reviews by preparing appropriate reports and action plans, followed by implementation of the proposed actions.
• Setting clear targets and monitoring performance and progress against timetable.
• Coaching / mentoring / managing members of the Independence Team
• Provide training/support to offshore colleagues in EY overseas ‘shared services centres’ in respect of outsourced independence activities, including development of new service offerings, reviewing the output/quality of work they produce and providing feedback as required

Desired

• Independence professionals with significant previous experience at Manager / Senior Manager level
• Experience of managing a team

Considered

• Individuals with professional qualifications and a strong working knowledge of the concept of Independence and the UK FRC Ethical Standard
• Individuals with other significant risk management/regulatory/compliance experience

The role holder will be expected to have the following attributes:

• Strong communicator with colleagues at all levels including delivering tough messages to senior leaders within the firm
• Ability to build strong working relationships
• Strong analytical and interpretation skills with excellent attention to detail
• Ability to think strategically and handle complex concepts
• Proactive and capable of working using own initiative
• Proven leadership and team management skills
• Adaptable and flexible with good team working skills and the ability to multi-task
• Strong project management skills and proficiency at driving projects to a close
• Ability to work to pre-determined deadlines and meet objectives under pressure