Transactional and Technical Topics Pensions - Audit 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.  

Location: Atlanta, Los Angeles, Dallas, Houston, Tulsa, Denver, Oklahoma City, San Antonio, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Tampa, Orlando, St. Louis, Boston, Iselin, New York, Philadelphia, Tysons.

 

 

The Americas Assurance Transactional and Technical Topics (“T3”) group encompasses the centralization of EY audit efforts in complex audit areas to a specialized team of professionals who work closely with internal engagement teams to assess risk, plan, and execute, and evidence work using a structured approach and standardized documentation. T3 team members are high-performing professionals consistently delivering a superior audit experience and providing insights to internal and external clients through deep subject matter competencies, excellent teaming, and a continuous improvement mindset.

 

The opportunity

 

You’ll help internal EY engagement teams and external clients meet their reporting requirements by accurately reporting and providing meaningful insights within a specific complex area of audit. The T3 Pensions team is growing and looking for individuals with interest or experience in public company pension plan sponsor audits and/or employee benefit plan audits. In return, you can expect to work alongside high-performing specialists in a highly structured and collaborative environment while enjoying a more predictable work scheduled. You’ll be given all the skills, knowledge, and opportunities to own your career and become ready to build a better working world for our people, our clients and the communities that support us.  

 

Your key responsibilities

 

Everything you’ll do will come back to providing exceptional audit activities for our clients. Colleagues and clients from a diverse array of backgrounds will look to you first for answers, so you’ll be a high- profile contact when it comes to resolving complex issues as it relates to pensions. As you build your knowledge and experience, you’ll become a credible advisor, influencing clients and engagement teams on resolutions that will impact entire industries.  

 

Skills and attributes for success  

 

• Leading fieldwork, managing performance, and managing audit flow of a specific complex audit

area across multiple engagements, keeping engagement leaders updated  

• Coaching internal EY engagement teams in completing robust risk assessments in a specific complex audit area and co-developing a responsive audit plan  
• Completing audit processes and documenting higher-risk areas to increase your technical and 

business skills in a specific complex audit area    

• Engaging internal EY engagement teams and external clients and providing authoritative advice

and professionalism throughout the audit  

• Developing a strong perspective of best practice within a specific complex audit area and 

delivering relevant insights to internal and external clients  

• Constantly developing your understanding of current market trends within a specific complex 

audit area and processes and sharing your knowledge to develop junior colleagues  

• Understanding clients’ unique ambitions and needs and referring them to colleagues in other 

teams and areas  

• Overseeing engagement economics and managing appropriate resources for efficient 

engagement models within a specific complex audit area  

• Use technology to continually learn, share knowledge and enhance service delivery  

 

To qualify for the role, you must have  

• A bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or business discipline, supported by 5 to 7 years' work experience as an auditor in a public accounting firm  
• Targeted and strong knowledge of specific complex audit area  
• US CPA licensure in your work state  
• Experience leading the planning, execution and reporting on audits of financial statements applying US GAAP  
• Experience with SEC clients using SOX 404 and applying PCAOB standards
• Proven project management skills  
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills and a collaborative approach to management
• The flexibility to constantly learn and adapt in a fast-paced environment.  
• The ability and will