Jobs at Ernst & Young

The opportunity:  

The EY-Parthenon Strategy team is currently seeking expand their team and recruit Senior Managers who will be able to build on their current strategy development, transaction and commercial experience, and work on a number of diverse and demanding projects for blue chip and entrepreneurial clients.

Your skills and experience will be valuable in working with clients to navigate complexity by helping them to reimagine their eco-systems, reshape their portfolios and reinvent themselves for a better future. From idea to implementation, you will help organizations build a better working world by fostering long-term value. With the EY-Parthenon global connectivity and scale, you will help CEOs design and deliver strategies to better manage challenges while maximizing opportunities as they look to transform their businesses.

You will work with a high-performing, integrated team which focuses on a variety of global and local corporate clients and private equity clients. You'll have a diverse range of stretching experiences which will give you continuous learning and development opportunities as well as a great sense of achievement.

Key responsibilities:

As a Senior Manager, you will be responsible for leading our largest client projects, shaping the deliverables, client relationships, and wider team, with the support and coaching of our directors and partners. You’ll also be involved in developing proposals and bids, and actively contribute to EY-Parthenon thought leadership and internal operational initiatives.

This will include:

• Managing project teams effectively
• Developing our business – identifying opportunities within existing clients and driving sales activity
• Working closely with wider EY teams – across Business Consulting, Tax, Transactions and Assurance to bring the best of the firm to our clients
• Developing a community within the team – owning / developing an offer, or other internal practice build initiatives such as Training, Professional Development, Innovation and Recruitment.
• Counselling of Managers and Consultants to provide career direction and advice.

Skills and attributes for success

Successful candidates are intellectually curious, passionate about solving complex problems, hardworking, have an enthusiastic and approachable demeanor with an entrepreneurial mind-set. We want people who are great communicators, who collaborate well with people and teams, and who have a real desire to both learn and coach others. We are looking for exciting candidates to join our team with the required characteristics.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Have a minimum of 8 years professional working experience in strategy consulting relating to purpose-led strategy, long-term value creation, business model reinvention, go-to-market strategy, market entry strategy and opportunity sizing, product and business unit strategy development, strategic cost evaluation and commercial due diligence
• Have either a relevant commercial experience or a strong strategy consulting background
• Have credible project management experience and demonstrate an ability to plan, deliver, structure, write and present work against tight deadlines
• Be willing to share your technical and other knowledge with your team

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Be an excellent communicator, both oral and written
• Have business development experience
• Have a drive to solve complex problems with senior stakeholders
• Be an effective time manager, able to keep calm when under pressure to meet deadlines
• Be a coach to junior team-members helping them with on-the-job training, informal discussions and formal EY-Parthenon training modules
• Be a team player with the ability to build effective relationships at all levels in EY and with clients, both in the Africa and internationally

What we look for

We are looking for a trusted business advisor who appreciates a collaborative culture by nurturing team members through mentoring and coaching, knowledge sharing and adapting relevant ideas from previous projects or experiences. We are interested in specialist who can develop and execute corporate and growth strategy using the most innovative approach. If you want to work with a network of international specialists who are focused on designing and implementing strategy and driving strategic transformation, this role is for you.

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Roles & Responsibilities:   

• Liaising with payroll partners / clients you will ensure timely and accurate processing of our monthly payrolls as mutually agreed with stakeholder. 
• Maintain payroll information by collecting and entering/uploading data.  
• Prepares/extracts payroll reports by compiling summaries of earnings, taxes, deductions, leave, disability, and non-taxable wages.  
• Determines payroll liabilities by calculating employee federal and state income and social security taxes and other statutory payments as required.  
• Establish, maintain and develop strong and trusted client relationships that result in high client satisfaction 
• Resolves payroll discrepancies/queries by collecting and analyzing information
• Maintains employee confidence and protects payroll operations by keeping information confidential.  
• Support team members on the requirements & objectives
• Support in creating and maintaining comprehensive project documentation, plans and reports
• Manage & provide a responsive, accurate client advisory service on payroll matters within agreed timelines.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.  
• Adhoc reporting and other duties as required

Technical Skills and Qualification:

• 0-3 years of experience in administering Africa Payroll, Preferable South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya and Ghana
• Should hold a bachelor’s degree in Commerce/Science with above 70% aggregate.
• Proven ability to communicate, both orally and in writing, in English in a clear and concise manner
• Proven ability to quickly learn new information, processes and procedures
• Experience in Microsoft Office suite of products, proficiency of any level
• Open to work in different shift timings

Core Competencies:

• Passion for Service Excellence, being Proactive & Positive
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple agenda concurrently
• Setting high standards for quality and quantity
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Analytically minded with strong attention to detail
• Demonstrates an ability to learn and think quickly
• Ability to work in a fast-paced pressurized environment