GDS Risk Consulting Executive Director – Internal Control leader

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Job Title – Executive Director

Internal Controls solution leader, in EY Global Delivery Services – Risk Consulting

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EY Global Delivery Services (GDS)

EY Global Delivery Services (GDS) is a team of over 70,000 + people, working across borders, to provide innovative and strategic business solutions to EY member firms around the world. We are focused on attracting, retaining and engaging the best talent in our markets so our people remain empowered and inspired by one another. In GDS, you will collaborate with EY teams on exciting projects and work with well-known brands from across the globe. We’ll introduce you to an ever-expanding ecosystem of people, learning, skills and insights that will stay with you throughout your career.

Job purpose: 

As part of our GDS – Risk Consulting- Internal Controls team, you will help the clients by understanding their business needs and translating their strategies into realities through innovation. This role will actively establish, maintain and strengthen internal and external relationships. In line with our commitment to quality, you’ll consistently drive projects to completion with high quality deliverables, achieve operational efficiency, proactively identify and raise risks with the client as well as EY senior management team, identify automation opportunities and drive internal initiatives. 

The responsibilities of this role will include:

• Working closely with multiple senior stakeholders across the globe to build the GDS Risk brand and grow the practice. This will encompass building new services, solutions, GTM strategy, capacity and delivery capabilities in Internal controls domain.
• Monitor service delivery for some of the key engagements where we are working with client to transform their Internal controls and also deliver on testing of those.
• Develop strategies, plan, and sell Consulting projects and solutions related to Internal controls and emerging technologies.
• Participate in go to market, create proposals and respond to RFPs, client orals etc. Identify opportunities for cross-selling to current clients/introduce colleagues from other service lines.
• Understand clients’ challenges and industry related issues and offer solutions. Identify buyers, influencers & stakeholders in existing client engagements and build strong relationships.
• Own and anchor multiple accounts and grow the GDS penetration to large numbers for GDS Consulting.
• Work with client facing teams and management to prepare estimates, Point of Views, Position Papers and contribute towards pursuits and proposals.
• Drive Business solution-based assets for Internal controls in collaboration with the regional leadership.
• Travel to EY and Client locations to build client and stakeholder relationship.
• Help recruit employees; assign, direct, and evaluate their work; and oversee the development and maintenance of staff competence.
• Foster teamwork and lead by example.
• Grow talent base across all locations of GDS consulting.
• Conduct performance reviews and contribute to performance feedback for entire practice.
• Foster teamwork, quality culture and lead by example
• Technical responsibilities include:
• Demonstrating strong consulting experience, in-depth knowledge in Internal controls, ability to sell and run large scale consulting engagements with a distributed delivery mindset.
• Leading multiple global engagements related Internal controls, controls transformation, with large diverse teams spread across the globe.
• Drive data and technology led innovation and automation
• Enable build of new transformative solutions around internal controls

Skills and attributes for success

• Ability o build trusted relationships with wide set of stakeholders, internal and external to EY
• Strong go to market and solutioning experience
• Internal Controls managed services and Consulting experience across sectors.
• Sound domain knowledge of business processes and controls to mitigate financial and operational Risks
• Strong knowledge of regulatory requirements stemming from US SEC and other countries such as SOX 404 and UK Corporate Reform, J-SOX etc
• Strong knowledge of prevailing GRC tools and enterprise IT applications required to address system driven controls
• Ability to analyse financial statements and build scope of work for Internal Controls program
• Strong understanding of PCOAB guidelines, requirements as per global Auditing statndards
• Ability and experience of engaging with external auditors and articulating effectiveness of controls scope, explaining controls optimization strategies etc
• Strong project management experience
• Ability to work in a matrix organisation and working effectively with multiple priorities
• Deep sector experience in one or more sectors will be an added bonus

To qualify for the role, you must have

• CA/MBA with 15-17+ years of experience with Big 4 or Multi-National Risk team
• Good interpersonal skills; Good written and presentational skills
• Experience in Go to market skills
• Experience in managing team and solution designing

What we look for

• A Team of people with commercial acumen, technical experience and enthusiasm to learn new things in this fast-moving environment with consulting skills.
• An opportunity to be a part of market-leading, multi-disciplinary team of 1000 + professionals, in the only integrated global transaction business worldwide.
• Opportunities to work with EY Consulting practices globally with leading businesses across a range of industries

What working at EY offers

At EY, we’re dedicated to helping our clients, from start–ups to Fortune 500 companies — and the work we do with them is as varied as they are.

You get to work with inspiring and meaningful projects. Our focus is education and coaching alongside practical experience to ensure your personal development. We value our employees and you will be able to control your own development with an individual progression plan. You will quickly grow into a responsible role with challenging and stimulating assignments. Moreover, you will be part of an interdisciplinary environment that emphasizes high quality and knowledge exchange. Plus, we offer:

• Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around
• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you

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