EY Service Line Business Product Manager

EY focuses on high-ethical standards and integrity among its employees and expects all candidates to demonstrate these qualities.  At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.

 

EY Assurance services — comprising Audit, Financial Accounting Advisory Services (FAAS), Forensic & Integrity Services (Forensics) and Climate / Sustainability Services — address risk and complexity while identifying opportunities to enhance trust and confidence in business and the capital markets. EY Audit furthers the public interest by proactively addressing stakeholders’ needs for trust and confidence in the capital markets.
 
This is accomplished through a data-first approach enabled by analytics and digitally empowered teams who are committed to independence, integrity, objectivity and professional skepticism. FAAS and Forensics’ teams help protect and restore enterprise and financial reputations, support the finance function in enhancing decision-making and efficiency, and address the risks and opportunities arising from climate change and sustainability issues.
 
Together, EY Assurance services protect and promote sustainable, long-term value for stakeholders. Clients require greater insight from the services provided, while regulators and the capital markets want greater assurance over a wider range of measures and a deeper sense of trust across the business world. And EY people want more varied experiences and opportunities to add greater value
 

The opportunity

EY Assurance is growing its team of Business Product Managers and Business Product Owners, who will support the ongoing digital transformation of EY’s Assurance services through the development of new innovative technology.
 
This exciting program impacts all aspects of EY’s Assurance technology portfolio, driving on EY’s commitment to high quality audits, whilst transforming the user and client experience. To accomplish this, EY Assurance is investing in data analytics; intelligent automation; artificial intelligence; data and systems architecture.
 
Successful candidates will collaborate with business teams and stakeholders to define technology requirements; design technology products and capabilities; and manage the successful delivery and deployment of new releases to EY’s Assurance practice incl. 100,000+ EY users and 350,000+ client users.
 
This role represents EY’s global organization, working collectively across a wide range of stakeholders within an international setting.
 

Your key responsibilities

Business Product Owners and Business Product Managers will be aligned with products / product workstreams based on experiences and core competencies. In these roles, successful candidates will:

• Work with teams across the global to set the vision and determine detailed requirements.
• Interact with internal and external designers to create a compelling and exciting user experience.
• Partner with our internal methodology and certification teams to understand how your product(s) can smartly fit within EY Audit and Assurance methodologies and standards.
• Working as a team with your technology counterpart, ensure that the solutions envisaged are built in a robust and scalable way.
• Spend time with pilot teams to understand their journey through the product and the benefits they’ve observed on their engagements.
• Manage successful deployment and activation – as well as monitoring and measurement of product releases and gathering of user and client feedback.
• Drive ongoing iteration of future product upgrades and releases.
• Share best practices with other product owners and workstreams.
   

Skills and attributes for success
To qualify for the role, you must have

Overall, candidates will have significant audit / accounting related business experience (e.g. graduate degree in accounting and relevant local accounting designation – e.g. CPA). Candidates will also have a background or strong interest in  technology, innovation or product development. Specific finance system knowledge, programming experience is not required, but is desirable.

• You have prior experience of working in an Assurance / Audit role or alongside accountants  / auditors – enabling you with an understanding of accounting processes, activities, risks and data.
• You are excited by the prospect of working with a global team comprised of professionals from diverse backgrounds; and you strive to learn and operate in line with EY’s culture and EY’s values.
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