Job description
Despite the best efforts of regulators, internal controls and risk departments, corruption and corporate fraud continue to challenge businesses and governments across the globe. Society’s growing expectations in relation to Business Conduct and Ethics (BC&E), coupled with the increased reliance by most organisations on third parties, pose an ever-evolving challenge to all business leaders. The Forensic & Integrity Services practice helps our clients to meet this challenge by delivering a combination of human intelligence and expertise, consulting capabilities, and innovative technology.
The opportunity
As a Manager in the Forensic & Integrity Services practice, you’ll play a key role in managing and delivering engagements to address our clients’ ethics and compliance challenges, including integrity due diligence, business intelligence, consulting and managed services, as well as technology-enabled compliance solutions. Working with some of our largest clients and with access to the wide array of resources and support provided by EY, this is a great opportunity to develop your BC&E knowledge and your client management skills.
Your key responsibilities
You’ll work with our clients’ compliance, procurement, and legal departments to deliver complex programmes and develop practical solutions that address strategic and operational challenges across a variety of risk areas, including bribery and corruption, sanctions, human rights, sustainability, reputational risk and fraud.
Because all clients have unique issues, no two projects look the same. However, the work you oversee as a Manager may include:
- Scoping and managing business intelligence and due diligence reports focused on identifying issues of concern related to our clients third party relationships
- Developing research methodologies, drafting guidance, and report templates
- Training, coaching, and developing materials to support the growth and development of junior staff
- Overseeing the delivery of managed services, including providing oversight and first-line support to internal teams, tracking SLAs and KPIs, and reporting back to programme and client teams
- Holding workshops or interviews with clients to identify pain points in their current processes
- Reviewing our clients’ policies and procedures related to third-party risk and compliance and identifying areas for improvement or aligning with leading practices
Your key responsibilities will include:
- Display an understanding of client needs, priorities and anticipate related challenges.
- Identify and resolve issues on your engagements demonstrating a broad technical and people skillset.
- Ensure high quality working papers and analysis by team members.
- Prepare client deliverables including due diligence and business intelligence reports, and present findings to clients.
- Liaise with senior client personnel, in-house counsel, external legal teams, witnesses and regulators.
- Coach team members, contribute to the knowledge sharing culture of the team, and hold difficult conversations.
- Effectively balance your personal commitments with your professional needs.
- Engage and participate in Sales and Marketing efforts including building the profile of the practice and firm in internal as well as external events.
- Keep abreast of regulatory, business, and economic developments and their impact on the solutions of EY Forensic & Integrity Services.
- Meet mandatory compliance, learning and other professional requirements.
Skills and attributes for success
- Attention to detail, whether performing project management functions to support our quality agenda or working with our teams to perform risk assessments or review transaction details.
- Proven ability to use technology and analytics to solve business problems and deliver insights.
- A capacity to demonstrate empathy, vulnerability, and trust.
- Self-awareness, respect for differences in individual style and background of your team members.
- Effective time management skills and the ability to prioritise competing deadlines and commitments.
- Knowledge of current and emerging regulatory environments including relevant bribery and corruption legislation and enforcement actions and emerging legislation such as UK Corporate Reform
To qualify for the role you must have
- A minimum of 5 years of work experience
- Evidence of technical experience in integrity due diligence, business/corporate intelligence or third party compliance reviews/audits in a consulting environment
- Experience of coaching or supervising junior team members, including reviewing technical and written work
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including presenting and report writing in English
Ideally, you’ll also have
- Professional qualifications relating to fraud, anti-money laundering or accountancy
- Experience working in-house for or on secondment to a company in a compliance or internal audit department
- Foreign language skills
- Market-facing experience with key client management
- Experience of understanding, digesting, explaining and analysing financial information