Uki Assurance - London, United Kingdom - EY

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London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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The opportunity
Do you have the vision to see through problems? Then join EY to gain experiences that will last a lifetime

We're looking for a Senior Associate and/or an Assistant Manager to join our London-based Commodities Markets team as we continue to grow and develop in this space.

This is an opportunity to combine both technical and commercial insight to deliver solutions for our client's complex problems.

Financial Accounting Advisory Services (FAAS) & Commodities Markets

The Financial Accounting Advisory Services (FAAS) team works with businesses and finance teams of clients to address risks arising from accounting, financial reporting and regulatory issues.

FAAS teams serve as trusted advisors, both practical and innovative, to help our clients navigate through challenges in the changing economic and regulatory environment.

Commodities Markets (CM) is a specialization within FAAS, focused on clients active in trading gas, power, oil, metals, agriculture, chemical and related products

Our clients include:

Global trading houses specializing in trading commodities
Trading divisions of large conglomerates, consumer goods and industrial companies buying and selling commodities
Financial trading and broking companies
Industry bodies and infrastructure providers in the sector

Operating across the UK & Ireland and supporting EY practices across the EMEIA region, the team delivers four key services, Audit, Regulatory Compliance, Advisory and Risk consulting and Business Transformation.

The team provide a 'one-stop shop' service across Commodity Trading finance and operations.

Your key responsibilities

As a Commodities Markets Senior Associate, you will engage with clients, bringing them benefit from our insights, creativity and energy.

Together with local leadership, leveraging FAAS- and firm-wide pool of people as well as global CM specialists, you will help build a regional pipeline, pursue opportunities and deliver high-quality engagements.

You will typically work alongside the EY team leaders and client to help deliver projects in the area of business transformation, regulatory compliance, technology enablement, and control/risk governance.

More specifically you will provide advisory services by:

Assisting EY team leaders in delivering engagements through understanding the current state of operations through interviews and review of prior documentation including review of the current processes, systems, information flow and controls.
Gathering insights/industry practices and comparing them to the understanding of the current state to define the gap
Work with engagement team and client leaders to develop detailed solution and implementation roadmap to enhance business capabilities and operational effectiveness. Confer with personnel concerned to ensure successful functioning of newly implemented systems or procedures.
Demonstrate the ability to learn new digital technologies and participate in digital transformation engagements
Consistently support the delivery of our service offerings to clients and demonstrate indepth technical capabilities and professional knowledge.
Supporting the practice leaders and senior executives in generating new business connections and development of engagement pipeline
Ensure effective and efficient project execution according to professional and EY standards, set budgets, and timelines

To qualify for the role, you must have

A Bachelor's/ Master's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Economics, Mathematics, Information Technology or related field
35 years of relevant consulting and/or industry work experience in one of the below:
Front, middle or back-office for a commodity trading operation with exposure to various commodity transaction types (physical and financial) across multiple markets including understanding of risk and/or hedging strategies
Experience of working with one or more digital technology solutions such as data analytics, RPA, artificial intelligence, and block chain
Experience with documentation of business requirements for a process/technology solution, knowledge of software development lifecycle, and/or experience with solution design for a business problem
Current regulatory/ controls landscape associated with Commodity operations, including control and process design, redesign and/or mitigation related activities
Experience with how commodity markets operate (power, gas, crude, metals and/or refined products) and understanding of transaction lifecycle (front, middle, and back office)
Exposure to the physical commodities trading sector is essential. This experience may have been gathered through exposure to professional services (audit, consulting, technology, outsourcing) or operational roles in trading houses or banks.
Experience with key technology solutions used for commodity trading operations such as Commodity Trading Risk Management systems (e.g., OpenLink, As