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EY UK • Manchester - St Peters Square

Assistant Manager - FAAS (Accounting & Transactions) - London, Reading or Manchester

Employment type:  Full time
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Job Description

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence.

We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go.

Join EY and help to build a better working world.

Assistant Manager – Financial Accounting Advisory Services (Accounting & Transactions) - London, Reading or Manchester

The opportunity

In Assurance at EY, we empower you to thrive in a dynamic and inclusive environment. As a key player in our assurance practice, you'll engage with diverse clients, providing critical insights that drive their success. We offer a wealth of career opportunities, from hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies to tailored professional development programs. Our culture fosters collaboration, innovation, and a commitment to excellence, ensuring that every team member feels valued and inspired to reach their full potential. Discover your future with us and be part of a team that makes a difference!

This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior to join EY’s market leading Financial Accounting Advisory Services (FAAS) team in the UK with a focus on technical accounting and reporting related services. We assist some of the largest global companies navigate the ever-changing accounting and reporting landscape to help them make informed, practical and sustainable decisions. Our range of services includes assisting clients with GAAP conversion, advising on financial accounting excellence matters and accounting for transactions including IPOs, and implementing improvements to internal controls, for example under US SOX and UK corporate reform.
You have the opportunity to develop your career through a broad scope of engagements, mentoring and formal learning. That’s how we develop outstanding leaders who team to deliver on our promises to all our stakeholders, and in so doing, play a critical role in building a better working world for our people, for our clients and for our communities.

Your key responsibilities

  • Supporting end-to-end delivery of projects such as cross border transactions, capital raising, controls and accounting projects, collaborating with client stakeholders, EY team members and building strong cross service line relationships. Clients are primarily UK based but occasional overseas travel may be required.
  • Developing your own portfolio of assurance projects, taking responsibility for delivery of complex deadline-driven engagements
  • Drafting impactful reports and delivering engaging presentations that clearly articulate client challenges and solutions.
  • Contributing proactively to business development initiatives and building robust internal and external networks.
  • Coaching and mentoring colleagues, clients and junior team members to foster professional growth
  • Supporting on internal financial, quality and risk management on your client projects
  • Driving the implementation of innovative ideas drawn from your client experience and personal ingenuity
  • Developing your own client service and other skills by learning on the job from colleagues, mentors, project leaders and our extensive learning opportunities.

Skills and attributes for success

What we look for:

  • Good understanding of IFRS including experience of IFRS conversions
  • Fully qualified ACCA / ACA / CPA / CA or Equivalent
  • People management experience
  • Proven ability to work on complex accounting issues and ability to clearly articulate the advice in written technical accounting papers.

Ideally, you’ll also have:

  • Big 4 Consulting or equivalent experience (other firms will be considered)
  • Extensive experience in Audit and ideally worked across a breadth of sectors
  • Internal controls experience or ideally SEC reporting including SOX


What we offer you

At EY, we’ll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences. We’ll empower you in a flexible environment, and fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learn more.

Are you ready to shape your future with confidence? Apply today.

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EY | Building a better working world

EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets.

Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.

EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions. Fueled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.

Company benefits

27 days annual leave + bank holidays
Adoption leave
Annual bonus
Buddy scheme
Buy or sell annual leave
Car allowance
Career and family coaching
Charity donation scheme
Coaching
Critical Illness Insurance
Cycle to work scheme
Dental coverage
Discretionary sick pay
Electric Car Salary Sacrifice
Employee discounts
Employee recognition scheme
Enhanced maternity leave
Enhanced paternity leave
Enhanced pension match/contribution
Eye Care Support – (free eyesight testing)
Financial advice
Health assessment
Health insurance
In house training
Income protection
Joining bonus
L&D budget
Learning platform
Life assurance
Lunch and learns
Menopause support
Mental health pathway
Mentoring
Personal development days
Physiotherapy
Professional subscriptions
Referral bonus
Shared parental leave
Special leave
Sports teams
Study support
Studying sabbaticals
Surrogacy leave
Wellbeing allowance – £500
Wellbeing incentive programme
Carer’s leave – Special Leave (4 weeks paid)

Working at EY UK

Company employees:

400000

Gender diversity (m:f):

52:48

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Awards & Accreditations

2nd - Most Inclusive Company

2nd - Most Inclusive Company

Flexa awards 2026
Best Career Progression

Top 10 - Best Career Progression

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