Lead Associate / Advanced Associate - AOA

About the role

EY Assurance is hiring a Lead Associate / Advanced Associate for its Assurance team in Colombo. The role involves developing relationships with the global EY teams serving the engagement and supervising the delivery of GDS engagement management support activities, within a tight timeframe.

Key responsibilities

• Assist engagement teams with processes such as multi-location coordination, engagement economics, confirmations, and project and database management.
• Maintain and update global engagement team databases and contact lists.
• Collect client information from public databases and share it with the team through firm publications and databases.
• Own the work and ensure it is reviewed thoroughly before submission, meeting deadlines.
• Identify problems and exceptions and inform the regional engagement team promptly.
• Respond proactively to regional stakeholders and attend weekly or biweekly calls with regional counterparts, sharing progress and status.
• Build strong, open and honest working relationships, solicit feedback and take action on it.

Required profile

• Graduates with 0 to 3 years of general business experience.
• Experience in general management and ability to work within the GDS framework.
• Interest in business and commerciality.
• Confident, outgoing, with strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Able to meet tight deadlines, multi-task, pay attention to detail and anticipate issues.

Required skills

• Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).