National Risk Consulting, SOX, Senior Consultant

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. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.   The exceptional EY experience. It's yours to build.   EY focuses on high-ethical standards and integrity among its employees and expects all candidates to demonstrate these qualities.  

Primary location for this role is in WA.

 

The opportunity  

The objective of our consulting risk services is to provide clients with a candid and reliable overview of their risk landscape.  Our solutions can be used by our clients to build confidence and trust with their customers, the overall market and when required by regulation or commercial agreements.   

 

Your key responsibilities  

You will be responsible for managing multiple client engagement teams within the Risk practice providing process and controls advisory services. You can expect to work with clients to address strategic, compliance, financial, and operational risks as well as perform internal control design support and remediation, control testing, develop internal audit plans, and provide internal audit and compliance program services.    

 

Skills and attributes for success 

• Understand current state processes, risks, and controls to provide enhancement recommendations
• Executive compliance and audit programs, which includes scoping, analysis and root cause frameworks, and future state control design configurations
• Provide benchmarking and leading practices assessments to enhance client control strategy, including developing business cases for transformations
• Led control transformation workstreams as part of larger transformation programs, which may include process redesign, system and employee migrations.
• Prepare companies for public company readiness, which includes setting up SOX programs. Assess internal controls and SOX framework in order to mitigate risk and apply it to client situations 
• Maintain relationships with clients and manage expectations of service, including work products, timing, and deliverables. Demonstrate a thorough understanding of compliance, financial, and operational risks along with performing internal control testing, develop internal audit plans, and provide internal audit services on an outsourcing basis.
• Bring and utilize extensive knowledge of the client's business/industry to identify technological developments and evaluate impacts on the client's business.
• Demonstrate excellent project management skills, inspire teamwork and responsibility with engagement team members, and use current technology/tools to enhance the effectiveness of deliverables and services. 
• Understand EY and its service lines and actively assess what the firm can deliver to serve clients.
• Technology and Telecommunication knowledge and experiences and huge plus. 

 

To qualify for the role, you must have 

• A bachelor's or master's degree 
• A minimum of 3 years of experience working as an Internal Auditor or External Auditor or risk adviser for a public accounting firm, a professional services firm, or within industry 
• Bring your significant experience in applying relevant technical knowledge in at least one of the following engagements: (a) assessing internal controls frameworks, including testing of design and operational effectiveness. (b) developing risk remediation strategies. (c) performing and interpreting gap analysis (d) experien