Deloitte Jobs – Analyst

About the job

Your opportunity

A vacancy has arisen within the Professional Standards Review (“PSR”) Support Team for a dynamic and flexible individual with strong communication skills to help meet the increasingly high demands placed on this busy, exciting and innovative team. The analyst in this role will work within National Accounting & Audit operations in Cardiff. This is a division of the firm’s Audit & Assurance service line and is responsible for providing technical expertise to the wider practice along with a variety of quality, risk, regulatory and support activities. Concentrating the support efforts in a centre of excellence helps to ensure a high standard of compliance with underlying regulations whilst enabling client facing teams within the wider business to devote more of their time to providing services to their clients.

We encourage consideration of flexible ways of working, both formal and informal arrangements that allow for the best outcomes for our people and our clients. If this opportunity is of interest to you with some flexibility, please do discuss with us.

If you would like to hear more about our flexible working arrangements, please let us know.

Your role

You will be at the heart of ensuring our quality reviews are resourced by reviewers with the right skills and experience. You will need to develop an understanding of audit and assurance’s client base and the regulatory requirements that impact our quality reviews and match those requirements to our pool of reviewers. The role offers growth and continually evolves as in response to regular changes experienced in our operating environment. Additionally, individuals who demonstrate sufficient capacity and commitment in their primary roles might be given the opportunity to contribute to other projects, thus aiding their personal development.

Tasks will include:

• Understanding the quality review requirements across our client engagements
• Interacting with quality reviewers, matching their skills and expertise to engagements
• Helping to maintain systems which the firm uses to facilitate adherence to various compliance regulations.
• Managing calls and other communications to the PSR Support team either for resolution or referral to colleagues.
• Monitoring and dealing with regulatory and compliance requirements.
• Providing ad-hoc support to audit engagement teams and the wider Risk Community as may be required and facilitating information and work flows between departments, working collaboratively.
• Working effectively in diverse teams within an inclusive team culture where people are recognised for their contribution.

Your work, your choice

At Deloitte we believe the best impact is the value we add, not the hours we sit at our desk. We carefully consider agile ways of working, both formal and informal, that allow for the best impact for our people and our clients. Please speak to your recruiter about the working pattern that works best for you.

Location: UK-South-Cardiff

Work pattern: This is a permanent contract opportunity for a full-time role. However, our team members work a variety of agile working patterns. Tell us what arrangement works for you and we’ll try to accommodate.

Your professional experience

A successful applicant will be a self-starter and quick learner with strong communication and interpersonal skills. A medium level of IT user competence or a desire to develop these skills is useful. Ideally they will have experience in a supporting role in a professional organisation or be able to demonstrate the mix of skills and attributes that would enable them to make a real contribution to a busy team operating as a centre of excellence for our firm. They will be able to demonstrate an ability to follow defined processes while thinking outside those boundaries. They will be required to react to a variety of issues as they arise in order to be a successful part of this unique team. Prior knowledge of risk management or experience of financial services is helpful but not essential. All successful candidates will be required to sign enhanced confidentiality agreements and will be subject to certain investment restrictions on joining.

Key skills:

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to work across our business
• Ability to build relationships with quality reviewers, senior engagement team members
• A medium level of IT user ability. Training time will be allowed for adaptation to in-house IT tools.
• Ability to conduct research and analyse results.
• Rapid assimilation of information, with the ability to advise and make associated decisions.
• Team working.
• Working with initiative within agreed processes, managing workload effectively, meeting deadlines.
• Effective judgement and decision making.
• Attention to detail and focus on quality and compliance.
• Ability to manage and adapt to regular changes.

Your service line: Audit & Assurance

In an industry best known for looking back, Deloitte looks beyond.

Our Audit & Assurance team understand the most important decisions are the ones we are yet to make. Crafting the future in an informed and clear-sighted way means understanding current conditions, as well as the trends that are shaping tomorrow. That is why we use our expertise in audit to show where things stand now, and to help inform the next step. With the assurance we provide, we help our clients to look ahead with strength and confidence across all of their accounting, regulatory and transaction needs.

Innovation is the key, underpinned by audit quality. You will be joining a diverse team of experts capable of delivering meaningful and durable change for both our clients and our profession.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints. This can mean that you and your “Immediate Family Members” are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm. The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process.

About Deloitte

Our Purpose & Strategy

To make an impact that matters for our clients, our people and society – defines who we are and what we stand for. Our purpose provides the foundation for our strategy and our aspiration to be the undisputed leader in professional services: this is not about size, it’s about being the first choice. The first choice for the largest and most influential clients, and the first choice for the best talent.

What do we do?

Deloitte offers global integrated professional services that include Audit & Assurance, Consulting, Financial Advisory, Legal, Risk Advisory and Tax Consulting. Our approach combines intellectual leadership, industrial expertise, insight, consulting & problem solving capabilities whatever the role, technology revolutions and innovation from multiple disciplines to help our clients excel anywhere in the world.

Beyond the UK: Deloitte North and South Europe

The UK is part of Deloitte North and South Europe (NSE), the second largest member firm in the Deloitte network. Deloitte NSE combines operations in Belgium, Central Mediterranean (Italy, Greece, Malta), Ireland, the Middle East (Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, Palestinian Ruled Territories, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen), the Netherlands, the Nordics (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden), Switzerland and the UK. Deloitte NSE brings together 2,700 partners and over 50,000 people, combining our unmatched breadth and depth of capabilities in audit and assurance, consulting, financial advisory, risk advisory, and tax and legal across the region. Being part of Deloitte NSE supports our aspiration to be the undisputed leader in professional services and will create more opportunity and growth for our people.

What do we value?

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for maximum impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.

Being a Leader at Deloitte

Cultural fit and purpose-led leadership is crucial for Deloitte. Our leaders always set the example and inspire their colleagues. They make quality time for people and take an interest in them. They know what matters to people – both inside and outside work – and value them as individuals; always finding opportunities to develop them while showing respect and appreciation.

We expect colleagues at all levels to embrace and live our purpose and our leadership culture by challenging themselves to identify issues that are most important for our clients, our people, and for society and make an impact that matters.

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