Senior consultant - Audit of Financial Institutions and Private Equity PRAGUE

From small businesses to some of the world’s best-known brands, our clients count on reliable financial statements, information and processes to inform their ongoing strategies. More than ever, business is about interpreting and reacting to complex data — and they look to us for advice and services they can trust every time. You’ll use your professional skills and experience to make it happen, handling complex audit procedures across various organizations from financial industry and private equity.

The opportunity

You’ll help our clients meet their reporting requirements by accurately reporting on financial statements and providing meaningful insights into accounting and reporting matters. In return, you can expect leading-class learning and development tailored to your unique interests and motivations. You’ll be given all the skills, knowledge and opportunities to progress 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 you build your knowledge and experience, you’ll become a trustful advisor, influencing clients and engagement teams on resolutions that will impact entire industries. You will also be responsible for people management – supervising junior team members and developing them through effectively delegating audit tasks and providing guidance. You will be leading teams within top profile financial services/PE clients – banking, wealth & asset management, insurance. Big part of your work will be applying industry specific latest technological innovations such as data analytics, automation and artificial intelligence etc.

Skills and attributes for success

• Leading fieldwork, managing performance and keeping engagement leaders
• Completing audit processes and documenting higher-risk areas with involvement of technological innovations and AI to increase your technical and business skills in areas including revenue, financial instruments and income taxes
• Engaging clients and providing authoritative advice and professionalism throughout transactions
• Constantly developing your understanding of current market trends and processes and sharing your knowledge to develop junior colleagues
• Understanding our clients’ unique ambitions and needs and referring them to colleagues in other teams and areas to broaden our business relationships where possible

To qualify for the role you must have

• University degree (preferably in finance or accounting)
• 3 to 5 years of work experience as an auditor including experience with audit of financial institutions/PE in a Big4 company
• English language on advanced level, Czech or Slovak is a benefit
• 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

You can expect plenty of autonomy in this role, so you’ll also need the ability to take initiative and seek out opportunities to improve our current relationships and processes. If you’re serious about auditing and ready to take on some of our clients’ most complex issues, this role is for you.

What working at EY offers

We offer a competitive compensation package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to our business.
Additionally, we provide benefits that will surely please you:

• Time off: 5 weeks of vacation and 5 Personal Days.
• Benefit points: 30,000 CZK in the Cafeteria to spend as you wish—get a Multisport card, buy gifts, or enjoy vacation time via Slevomat.
• Professional development: You’ll continuously learn and develop new skills. We offer a unique professional development program and a wide range of courses in our learning map. We will cover your ACCA international certification (plus paid study leave) and support your further professional education. You will also have access to Udemy.com and language courses. Our colleagues will support you through counseling and internal coaching.
• Bonus based on personal and team performance.
• Referral reward: Earn 10,000 to 70,000 CZK for recommending a new colleague.
• iPhone for work and personal use.
• Employee discounts: Take advantage of attractive discounts across a wide range of services—Fruitisimo, Sushi Time, selected opticians, BodyBody fitness, and more.
• Health and care: Enjoy quick and convenient online consultations via uLékaře.cz with qualified doctors. We also provide life insurance.
• Teamwork and fun: At EY, it’s not just about work—there’s also fun and team social activities. Enjoy rewards after the busy season, team dinners, company events, and other great activities that strengthen our team atmosphere. You can also join our CSR initiatives.