2025 ASU - COE - Full-Time

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  Location

  (CANADA) and Halifax

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  Job Reference

  21117

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  Functional Area/Experience

  Business, Accounting & Finance / Fresh Graduate

Job Description & Qualifications

What if your career could have a lasting impact on you, and on the world?

Here at EY, you’ll have the chance to build a truly exceptional experience. We’ll empower you with the latest technology, surround you with high-performing teams, and provide the global scale and diverse and inclusive culture you need to discover your full potential. Through our coaching and training programs, you’ll develop the skillsets you need to stay relevant today and, in the future, – all while building a network of colleagues, mentors, and leaders who will be on the journey with you at EY and beyond.

The exceptional EY experience. It's yours to build.

The opportunity: your next adventure awaits

Our Assurance group is one of the most trusted, respected, and influential organizations in the industry. As part of our team, you will provide peace of mind to clients by using your skills and experience to give companies, investors, and regulators confidence in the validity of financial statements and business-critical information or processes. Groups (or, as we call them, sub-service lines) within Assurance include External Audit, Climate Change and Sustainability Services, Financial Accounting Advisory Services and Fraud Investigation & Dispute Services.

Within EY’s Assurance practice, we also have a Centre of Excellence (COE) located in Halifax, Nova Scotia that predominantly performs work in the areas of Internal Controls over Financial Reporting (NI 52-109 and Sarbanes Oxley), Public and Private Company Independence Procedures, and other Assurance related procedures. We are currently seeking a full-time team member to join this growing team. The successful candidate will participate in client engagement teams, whereby they will be assessing, improving, and evaluating/testing our clients’ business processes and controls, assessing and evaluating whether EY is independent of the entity under audit, and/or performing substantive procedures and/or engagement specific procedures.

The objective of our COE is to inspire the confidence and trust that help enable a complex world to work. EY’s Assurance COE provides scalable offerings that allows our clients to benefit from our insights and efficiencies. As a part of the COE, you will work with multiple companies across different industries to gain a unique insight into how businesses operate. This will allow you to understand the factors driving business performance and become a more connected, responsive, and insightful professional.

Key responsibilities of a full-time employee in our COE team are:

• to analyze business and financial processes to identify risks and improvements in the controls frameworks for the various processes
• to analyze and evaluate that EY meets all applicable criteria to be independent of its audit clients, and
• to recognize potential audit issues or unusual relationships from basic analyses.

After training, we expect our employees to:

• perform various substantive and analytical procedures to identify errors and/or misstatements,
• effectively and efficiently identify potential independence issues, and
• clearly and accurately document the execution of specific audit procedures.

While completing day to day tasks we hope that all employees will assist clients in strengthening business performance, while ensuring a high quality in client service and informing supervisors of the engagement status.

We expect our employees to:

• demonstrate and apply strong project management skills,
• inspire teamwork and responsibility with engagement team members, and
• use current technology and tools to enhance the effectiveness of deliverables and services.

Students working for us should keep up to date on current business/economic developments relevant to the client's business and collaborate with team members to set goals and responsibilities for the engagement. This also includes maintaining long-term client relationships and networks.

If you’re ready to build on your potential, develop as an assurance professional, and join a growing team, this role is for you. Sound interesting? Well, this is just the beginning. Visit our website here to learn more.

What we look for

You have an agile, growth-oriented mindset. What you know matters. But the right mindset is just as important in determining success. We’re looking for people who are innovative, can work in an agile way and keep pace with a rapidly changing world.

You are curious and purpose driven. We’re looking for people who see opportunities instead of challenges, who ask better questions to seek better answers that build a better working world.

You are inclusive. We’re looking for people who seek out and embrace diverse perspectives, who value differences, and team inclusively to build safety and trust.

Qualifications:

• Be pursuing or graduated from an undergraduate or graduate diploma/degree program in business
• Have advanced written and verbal communication skills
• Possess strong dedication to teamwork
• Be committed to integrity within a professional environment
• Comfortable working in our hybrid working environment; working in person with teams and delivering in-person and virtual client service

What’s in it for you

• Accelerate your technical capabilities and transformative leadership skills with future-focused courses and development programs.
• Broaden your horizons by working on highly integrated teams across the globe and collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds — both professionally and culturally.
• Bring out the best in yourself with continuous investment in your personal well-being and career development.
• Develop your own personal purpose and help us create a positive ripple effect on our teams, our business, clients, and society – building a better working world, together.
• A comprehensive Total Rewards package that incorporates medical & health benefits, including $5,000 for mental health and $1,000 for wellness expenses each year.
• 35-36 total paid days off a year which increases with promotions and years at EY.

What you can expect

We are currently accepting full-time applications for our Centre of Excellence in our Assurance group for September 2025 located in Halifax.

To apply, please create a profile, and submit your most recent cover letter, resume, and unofficial transcripts as one single PDF.

Within a week of submitting your PDF application, you will be provided with a link to complete the video component of your application. You will have 48 hours to complete this video. All candidates must complete this video as part of the application process.

Successful applicants will be contacted for behavioral interview(s) with members of our Assurance practice and/or Talent Attraction and Acquisition team.

Diversity and Inclusion at EY

Diversity and inclusiveness are at the heart of who we are and how we work. We’re committed to fostering an environment where differences are valued, policies and practices are equitable, and our people feel a sense of belonging. We embrace diversity and are committed to combating systemic racism, advancing gender equity and women in leadership, advocating for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, promoting our neuroinclusion and accessibility initiatives, and are dedicated to amplifying the voices of Indigenous peoples (First Nations, Inuit, and Métis) nationally as we strive towards reconciliation. Our diverse experiences, abilities, backgrounds, and perspectives make our people unique and help guide us. Because when people feel free to be their authentic selves at work, they bring their best and are empowered to build a better working world.

Find out why time and again we're recognized as one of Canada's top employers. To learn more about career opportunities with us, visit us at ey.com/careers.

Please note: Due to high volumes of applicants and varying local deadlines. Only successful applicants moving forward to an interview will be contacted.