EY Assistant Manager Assurance Delivery Network 

South Africa, Gauteng, Johannesburg 

685517648

Principal Accountabilities:

• Assist in managing the Centre of Excellence (COE) team, which provides audit support to audit teams across South Africa and Rest of Africa;

• Coaching, supervision and co-ordination of COE staff;

• Assist with work in progress management and administration;

• Assist with planning, execution and review of group deliverables management;

• Assist with mapping out planned deadlines for the COE as a whole with regard to the various audit teams to which we provide support on an annual basis;

• Assist with month end reporting and other month end tasks;

• Monitoring compliance with independence requirements with regard to each request for work performed;

• Participation in the facilitation of training and orientation of new joiners;

• Assist in performance feedback process;

• Manage relationships with key audit teams that are supported by the COE;

• Drive new initiatives and general growth of the COE;

• Prepare budgets for new requests;

• Allocation of new requests to staff;

• Monitor correspondence with regard to calls that are in progress;

• Follow up on the progress of current calls;

• Review of control logs and status updates before being sent to the relevant audit teams;

• Contribute to the development of your own and team’s technical acumen;

• Develop strategies to solve complex technical challenges;

• Train, coach, and supervise staff;

• Keep up to date with local and national business and economic issues;

Minimum Qualifications:

• Professional qualification – CA(SA)

• 3 years completed traineeship.

• Computer literate and highly proficient in Microsoft office suite (Excel, Word and PowerPoint); Google suite;

• IFRS and IFRS for SME's knowledge.

• Project management skills

• Experience in project- and process management with a variety of stakeholders is a benefit

• You have energy, enthusiasm and the courage to lead tasks and projects

• Good communication and interpersonal skills

• Strong solution-oriented mindset