Auditor - FAAS - Manager - Multiple Positions - 1754137

EY•Chicago, IL

20d•Hybrid

About The Position

Ernst & Young U.S. LLP is hiring an Auditor in its Financial Accounting Advisory Services (FAAS) practice in Chicago, Illinois. The role assists corporate clients with strategic accounting and financial reporting challenges affecting their businesses and finance functions. It provides financial accounting, audit, and advisory services, examines and analyzes financial records, and helps translate complex accounting and reporting issues into solutions across accounting, reporting, governance, and transactions. The position addresses changes that create accounting and reporting challenges, such as regulatory reform, transactions, and internal transformation. It includes work on GAAP conversion, commodities, and hedging, and advising clients pursuing increased M&A activity or an IPO, or facing regulatory or compliance matters. The work may involve government ownership, regulatory intervention, complex IFRS and U.S. GAAP standards, and conversions from local GAAP to IFRS. The Auditor manages and motivates teams with diverse skills and backgrounds, monitors progress to deliver quality client services, demonstrates technical capabilities and professional knowledge, maintains long-term client relationships and networks, and cultivates business development opportunities. The schedule is Monday through Friday, 40 hours per week, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The role requires willingness and ability to travel up to 60% on short-term notice, including up to 10% internationally. EY describes its work model as hybrid, with most people in external, client-serving roles expected to work together in person 40–60% of the time over an engagement, project, or year.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, Mathematics, Law, Management, or a related field and 5 years of progressive post-baccalaureate work experience; alternatively, a master’s degree in one of these fields or a related field and 4 years of work experience.
2 years of recent experience providing financial accounting and advisory services to clients, including implementing accounting standards, finance function transformation, quarterly reporting, and due diligence; or 2 years of recent experience working on GAAP conversions, including IFRS, with a public accounting firm serving large multinational clients.
2 years of recent experience planning, executing, and reporting audits of financial statements prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAS and U.S. GAAP; or 2 years of recent experience providing financial reporting accounting services.
2 years of recent experience supervising financial accounting and advisory services teams consisting of two or more staff members.
2 years of recent experience with SEC financial reporting.
Active U.S. CPA certification, or a foreign certificate in accountancy and sufficient coursework or experience, as determined by the work-location state Board of Accountancy, to obtain U.S. CPA certification.
Ability and willingness to travel up to 60% on short-term notice, of which 10% may be international, to serve client needs.
The employer will accept any suitable combination of education, training, or experience.
Must qualify as a “United States worker” as defined by U.S. Department of Labor regulations at 20 CFR 656.3.

Responsibilities

Assist corporate clients with strategic accounting and financial reporting challenges affecting their businesses and finance functions.
Provide financial accounting, audit, and advisory services to corporate clients.
Examine and analyze financial records to prepare financial reports.
Translate complex accounting and financial reporting issues into solutions for accounting, reporting, governance, and transactions.
Identify changes that create accounting and reporting challenges, including regulatory reform, transactions, and internal transformation activities.
Work with teams on matters such as GAAP conversion, commodities, and hedging.
Advise corporate clients increasing M&A activity, undertaking an IPO, or facing regulatory or compliance matters on business, operational, and financial matters.
Address issues involving government ownership, regulatory intervention, IFRS and U.S. GAAP complexities, and conversions from local GAAP to IFRS.
Manage and motivate teams of professionals with diverse skills and backgrounds.
Monitor progress to consistently deliver quality client services.
Demonstrate technical capabilities and professional knowledge.
Maintain long-term client relationships and networks.
Cultivate business development opportunities.

Benefits

Medical and dental coverage
Pension and 401(k) plans
Paid time off options
Flexible vacation policy
EY Paid Holidays
Winter and Summer breaks
Personal and Family Care time off
Other leaves of absence to support physical, financial, and emotional well-being
Continuous learning and development
Tools and flexibility to support meaningful work
Leadership insights and coaching