Associate Analyst

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Job Title:

Associate Analyst

Requesting Function:

Risk Management Services

Sub Function:

Independence

Team background:­­

Risk Management Services team at EY plays an important role in managing the internal risks of the firm associated with accepting a new client or an engagement or risks associated with any of our ongoing audit / non audit engagement. Formed in 2007, the RMS team is growing rapidly as a Center of Excellence for all standardized quality/compliance related activities.

Auditor Independence is a regulatory requirement that aims to create an ‘arm’s length’ distance between the Accounting Firm, its client serving employees and EY’s audit clients. This is done to ensure that that EY Member Practices and their professionals should be (in fact) and should appear to be (in appearance) free from interests that might be regarded as being incompatible with objectivity, integrity, and impartiality of the audit.

Job Summary:

• Independence support is the largest sub-service function within Risk Management Services (RMS) responsible for assisting Assurance and Risk Management teams in maintaining EY’s Independence for its current and future audit clients. RMS Independence team is currently 850+ people strong and operating from 4 locations, 5 centers: India (Gurugram, Kochi, Bangaluru), Poland (Wroclaw), Philippines (Manila). The team is closely integrated with Global Independence and EY RM community and has been involved in development of key RM processes.

Key responsibilities:

• Facilitates and drives the processes to completion and assisting the client team in completing the independence requirements.
• Understands key requirements of firm and regulators’ RMS rules and policies.
• Performs initial review of submissions from client teams and evaluates completeness, accuracy, and appropriateness of proposed transaction/requests.
• Acts as a liaison between the client teams, other members of the RMS team, and various functional areas within the firm.
• Manages tasks and activities in a timely manner and is responsible for specific outcomes.
• Uses analytical and project management methodology and tools.
• Learns the firm structure, business strategies, service lines, and people of the firm.
• Builds a network of people within RMS and across the firm.
• Plans and organizes own work and pro-actively keeps others informed of status and activities.
• Individual is expected to apply judgment to initial consultations and/or submission review and rapidly develop understanding of key requirements of firm and regulator’s RMS rules and policies.
• Individual will reference existing policies; however, due to frequency of unique situations will need to research issues and, through situation specific inquiries, propose solutions to issues.
• Provide feedback required to continuously improve processes. 

Qualifications:

• Postgraduate/Graduate
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills 
• Excellent communication skills, both written & verbal. 
• Good analytical thinking / ability to take decisions.
• Proficient with MS Excel, and Word

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