Manager - Assurance - National - FAAS-Financial&AccountingAdv - Chennai

The opportunity

Manager - NON-FS - Assurance - Financial Accounting Advisory Services

Location : Chennai

Assurance: Assurance's purpose is to inspire confidence and trust to enable a complex world to work. We do so by protecting and serving the public interest, promoting transparency, supporting investor confidence and economic growth and nurturing talent to provide future business leaders . We help clients by :

1) Ensuring their accounts comply with the requisite audit standards

2) Providing a robust and clear perspective to audit committees and

3) Providing critical information for stakeholders.

Our Service Offerings include External Audit, Financial Accounting Advisory Services (FAAS) , IFRS & US GAAP conversion , IPO and other public offering, Corporate Treasury - IFRS 9 accounting & implementation support etc.

Financial and Accounting Advisory Services (FAAS): EY's FAAS team helps in determining, monitoring and disclosing financial and non-financial insights for your stakeholders. FAAS addresses the CFO's agenda and provides CFOs, controllers, treasurers and review committees with insight and services to support compliance with evolving financial requirements and help provide transparency and trust in reporting to support better decision-making. We also help to support finance functions with robust financial data analytics and innovation through our tools.

Our services cover a wide range of accounting and reporting, transaction accounting, treasury, and corporate governance services that can make your clients' business meet changing market conditions, demands for greater transparency and changing regulatory requirements. We do this by providing innovative support to inspire confidence while addressing reporting challenges that stem from the changing economic and regulatory environment.

Your key responsibilities

Technical excellence

• Manage / execute FAAS projects, develop and implement solutions
• Identify and develop business opportunities; manage accounts

• Ability to explain complex accounting and financial reporting issues simply
• Advisory mindset, ability to develop solutions for the client with support from technical subject matter experts
• Specific financial reporting experience in at least one of the following:

• Transactions (acquisitions, carve outs, demergers, restructuring)
• Preparation for IPO including listing rules in India/UK/US
• Complex consolidation structure in an MNC environment including implementation of ERP/consolidation IT system
• Tax planning and complex structures
• Developing and delivering technical training
• Specific financial reporting topics: revenue recognition; financial instruments; off-balance sheet financing; consolidation and SPEs; banking; insurance;

• Regular travel will be required as you will be meeting with key clients

To qualify for the role you must have

• A qualified CA (or equivalent e.g. CPA/ICAEW/ACCA)
• Good academic record (1st/2nd time passes for ICAI or equivalent)
• Strong IGAAP and/or IFRS and/or US GAAP financial reporting experience in complex/large companies, most likely in audit/advisory/transaction vertical or MNC finance/M&A environment
• Minimum of 6 years of relevant post qualification experience

Skills and attributes for success

Creating Better Working World for Business by -

Being Progressive

Sets the highest standards expected of our profession, manages risk and provide quality results in a commercially viable way, embracing new revenue and pricing models

Being Innovative

Co-creates better, faster, smarter ways of working; collaborates widely within EY organization and externally to harness diverse thinking, experiment, create new solutions and maximize/improve existing EY products, services and processes

Being Commercial

Sets the highest standards expected of our profession, manages risk and provide quality results in a commercially viable way, embracing new revenue and pricing models

Creating Better Working World for Clients by -

Staying Connected

Digitally engage, bring all of EY knowledge and EY client business together into one cohesive ecosystem to build trust and enrich relationships

Staying Proactive

Actively listen, be highly responsive and proactively bring innovative ideas that inspire EY clients

Staying Insightful

Become a trusted advisor, ask better questions to bring bold insights to EY clients

Creating Better Working World for Teams by -

Inspiring

Paints a compelling vision of the future, leverages story-telling and rallies others with passion and purpose

Belonging

Establishes an inclusive, open and safe environment where people are aligned around a shared purpose, feel free to be themselves and are valued for their differing identities, perspectives and talents

Teaming

Brings together a diverse mix; plays to each other's strengths, coaches, collaborates and builds trust in a courageous manner to achieve collective goals

Creating a Better Working World by exhibiting -

Curiosity

Is a continuous learner, leads with questions, reflects and listens for the art of the possible to spark bold new insights

Well-being

Is mindful and fully present; maintains personal wellbeing to sustain positive energy and fuel resilience

Agility

Embraces change and through self-awareness, adapts behavior in diverse contexts

Quality and Risk Compliance

• Leads complex engagements/ projects, and/or delivers outstanding quality results in complex and challenging environments.
• Develops a reputation for identifying matters concerning quality or risk and escalates these to the executives in charge, by either consulting where necessary, or engaging the team to consult.
• Helps develop team member/counselee knowledge by sharing new insights

Ideally you'll also be

• Entrepreneurial - Being empowered to lead, being innovative and encouraged to take ownership to create a lasting impact.
• Intellectually stimulating - Getting opportunities to work on challenging assignments with premier clients and learn from the best minds in the industry.
• Digitally transforming - Being prepared to aid businesses become fit for the digital world through technology enabled innovation and alliances.
• Socially responsible - Making a difference by supporting communities to make
  the world a better place
• Pursuing passions beyond work - Encouraged to actively pursue passions beyond work.

What we look for

People with the ability to work in a collaborative way to provide services across multiple client departments while adhering to commercial and legal requirements. You will need a practical approach to solving issues and complex problems with the ability to deliver insightful and practical solutions. You should possess excellent communication, facilitation, relationship-building, presentation and negotiation skills. The role expects you to be flexible, adaptable, and creative, with willingness to travel.

What we offer

EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We strive to achieve the right balance for our people, enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities. While our client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites, our flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a lifestyle balance .

About EY

As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, we hire and develop the most passionate people in their field to help build a better working world. This starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities and creative freedom to make things better. So that whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime.