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Professional Services

What is Professional Services?

‘Professional services’ sounds vague, but it’s essentially an industry that provides support, advice, and guidance to organizations and businesses through a subset of professional skills and knowledge.

Professional services firms exist in many different industries. They include lawyers, advertising professionals, architects, accountants, financial advisers, engineers, and consultants – to name a few!

Consultants can work for any organization that offers customized, knowledge-based services to a broad cross-section of clients. These organizations act as consultancy firms and assist other businesses, government departments, public and private organizations. Some of the core professional services they offer include:

• Financial services
• Audit and tax services
• Legal services
• Administration and human resources
• Project Management
• Data Research and analytics

Professional services consultants work in numerous areas, including sales, agriculture, the arts, environment, tourism development, operations research, human resources, building and construction, public relations, events, and many more!

These organizations are also widely acknowledged for the quality graduate and early career programs they’ve developed, providing young people with exceptional experience and giving them a strong stepping stone into their future careers.

To succeed within top-tier professional services and consultancy, you’ll need exceptional analytical skills to evaluate the issues and solid problem-solving skills to resolve them efficiently. Effective communication and strong leadership skills are essential to implement positive changes for your clients.

You’ll be innately curious and proactive in expanding your expertise to build upon the general and specific knowledge required to be effective in your role and keep your company at the forefront of the services they deliver.

Securing entry into these organizations can be competitive, but they’re an excellent starting point to a long-term and sustainable career for the right person.

 EY Career Path Accelerator

What is the EY Career Path Accelerator?

At EY, our shared vision is to make the accounting profession more affordable and accessible to students like you. One way we are doing this is by offering the EY Career Path Accelerator — a program designed to provide accredited business and elective courses toward the required 150 hours of education.  This is not a master’s program, but an alternative option to help students obtain the 150 hours of education required for CPA licensure.

EY Career Path Accelerator is an affordable, skills-focused way to accelerate your career path — job-related learning and skill development, the ability to enter the workforce CPA-eligible after your undergraduate degree, accredited coursework you can “take with you.”

Who is eligible?

Students who have accepted an EY internship offer and are actively pursuing an undergraduate degree that provides them the accounting hours they need to be eligible for CPA licensure. Interns are responsible for all accounting and state-specific credit hours prior to the start.

The EY Career Path Accelerator is about hands-on learning, real-world challenges and job-relevant skills to be day-one ready for full-time employment.

For more information about the program, please visit our website.

360 Careers

The world depends on a thriving accounting profession, and we invite you – as aspiring young professionals – to learn how you can launch an epic career at an iconic firm with our 360 Careers experience!

We understand that to truly excel and be happy in your career, you need the freedom to explore your interests and varied opportunities. That’s why we’ve designed 360 Careers new hire experience. 360 Careers is both a launchpad and an accelerator, giving early career professionals in Assurance and Tax the essential skills they need to grow as career long leaders at EY, forge their path as entrepreneurs, or advance to prominent C-suite positions later in their careers.

Here are the core components of the 360 Careers experience:

Learning:

• Through learning and development, we emphasize that accounting is not just a profession; it’s the “language of business” and the foundation of a successful business career.

Experiences:

• You’ll participate in structured skills-based experiences called “expeditions,” which support your career interests and expand your business knowledge to become a well-rounded professional.

Technology:

• Your personalized 360 Careers skills passport will be unique to you, based on your expeditions so you can track your proficiency level across various business, technical, and technology skills.

Community:

• As you move throughout this experience, you will have access to a supportive network of leaders, peers, and dedicated resources, who will provide guidance on your career path and help you map out your career journey from day one.

360 Careers: Professional careers with you at the center.

To learn more about 360 Careers, please visit our website. Get ready for an exceptionally unique experience with 360 Careers!

EY College Mentoring for Access and Persistence (MAP)

Mentoring for Access and Persistence

What happens after high school graduation? We can help you figure it out.

Who are we?

We are EY, one of the largest accounting and professional services organizations in the world. Our company is made up of passionate business professionals who have all traveled different roads to success. We want to support your path through our EY College MAP mentoring program.

What will we do?

EY College MAP is a team-mentoring program focused on empowering students so that they can gain access to college and succeed in higher education. We will support your journey from your junior to senior year. Our mentors will help you with the college application process, financial aid, major decisions, scholarships, etc.

Who can apply?

You don’t have to be an “A” student right now to achieve greatness in life. But you do have to be hungry. You have to make the decision to commit to your future and work hard to get there. You owe it to yourself to be nothing short of extraordinary.

How does it work?

You’re the driver, but your mentor is your guide. Even after you finish high school, we’ll be there for you, providing guidance, advice, help and encouragement as you achieve your goals.

EY College MAP supports the next generation

Questions about the program?

For School administrators and faculty (only), please direct your MAP inquires to our team at college.map@ey.com.

Transformative Leadership

Be the transformative leader the world needs

Bring your agility, curiosity and passion to EY and help others navigate uncertain times by welcoming change. Paint a compelling vision that rallies others to seek the answers we need for today and the future.

Transformative leadership at EY means being purpose-driven. It means bringing out the best in yourself with continuous investment in your personal development offered by EY. It means bringing out the best in others by actively mentoring and coaching others. It means building trust, and relating to others in an authentic, courageous and high integrity manner. And overall, it means being passionate about your team, business and impact on your community.

EY Transformative Leadership model

In today’s quickly changing world, ideas of leadership are changing fast too. That is why EY has developed a new Transformative Leadership model that brings together EY’s purpose, values and the leadership behaviours the world needs right now. The model is designed to help everyone at EY build a ‘better me’, a ‘better us’ and a better working world for EY clients and society.

Build the skills that can unlock doors anywhere

You never stop learning. And as a truly transformative leader, you can help our clients do the same. As the world undergoes unprecedented change, their ability to innovate depends on you. We’re investing in your learning so that you can build the transformative mindsets and tech skill sets we need to thrive.

Of course, it’s about much more than your formal learning. It’s also about the coaching and support you will need to grow. At EY, you’ll benefit from work experiences and opportunities that will help you transform, develop yourself and build a better working world.

EY Better You

Do great leaders emerge from a moment or mindset?

The EY Experience

We’re change agents and cyber gurus. Performance improvers and problem solvers. Data scientists and growth hackers. Bot programmers and software builders. Risk managers and confidence builders. We’re nearly 350,000 global perspectives ready to welcome yours.

Your bold ambition is just the beginning. Harness our global scale, our tech, our teams and our culture to realize your potential. Learn from the best, surround yourself with the curious, ask better questions to seek better answers and build a better working world.

The exceptional EY experience. It’s yours to build.

Assurance

Be an innovator and a problem solver, helping a complex world to work better by maintaining the confidence and trust that capital markets need.

Working in EY Assurance services – which comprises our sub-services lines Audit, Climate Change and Sustainability Services, Financial Accounting Advisory Services and Forensic & Integrity Services – exposes you to unique, varied and exciting work experiences. You can interact with multiple organizations, across different industries, and across different countries, to gain unique insights into how businesses operate. You can collaborate with decision-makers and colleagues around the world to understand the factors driving business performance, assess challenges and apply critical thinking. You can be part of multidisciplinary teams helping companies understand the risks and opportunities arising from climate change and sustainability issues.

Consulting

Help build a better working world by transforming businesses through the power of people, technology and innovation.

As part of EY Consulting, you’ll do more than offer insights. Your agility and curiosity will help clients navigate uncertain times by welcoming change and rallying others to seek the answers they need for today and the future.

Through our Transformation Realized™ framework, you’ll help clients bridge the gap between who they are today and who they need to be in years to come. You’ll help our clients build a better working world by realizing business transformation through three critical drivers to create long-term value for our people, clients and society.

Tax

EY Tax teams across the globe help clients understand and manage their tax compliance and reporting obligations responsibly and proactively. Our professionals help clients assess, improve and monitor their tax function’s processes, controls and risk management and maintain effective relationships with the tax authorities. Our practices include Indirect Tax, Business Tax, Global Compliance and Reporting, International Tax and Transaction Services, People Advisory Services, Tax Technology & Transformation.

Strategy and Transaction

To address clients’ toughest challenges, we bring together the right people in the right locations – diverse thinkers working together to achieve team goals and provide highly integrated, connected solutions.

Across all disciplines and from every angle, we draw on our shared creativity, experience and different perspectives to bring out the best in each other’s ideas.

We guide clients to make better, more informed decisions as they buy, sell, separate, integrate, reshape, restructure or rethink their business strategy. Strategy and Transactions teams bring together professionals across industries and geographies to evaluate clients’ strategy and capital agendas, helping to address their most complex issues.

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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

The ability to invite, leverage and learn from different perspectives is key to delivering for our clients.

Diversity is about differences. At EY, we think broadly about differences, which include nationality, background, education, gender, ethnicity, generation, age, working and thinking styles, religious background, sexual orientation, abilities, experiences, and technical skills. There are also differences according to geography, service line, sector and function.

Inclusiveness is about leveraging these differences to achieve better business outcomes. It is about creating an environment where EY people feel and are valued – where they feel they belong and contribute their personal best in every encounter.

We believe that only the highest-performing teams that maximize the power of different perspectives and backgrounds will succeed in the fast-changing environment brought by globalization. These teams are both diverse and inclusive, able to invite and learn from other perspectives. Our ability to include various viewpoints into our mindsets, behaviors and operations is fundamental to driving innovation, building strong relationships and delivering the best approaches for our clients.

It is more important than ever for organizations to create an environment where employees feel like they belong while also celebrating and recognizing uniqueness. It is fundamental to building an inclusive environment where all may thrive and relationships and innovation flourish.

EY Global Chairman and CEO, Carmine Di Sibio said that, “Diversity and inclusiveness are critical to building a better working world. Diverse opinions and skills lead to the best answers for our clients and our organization. We don’t get those diverse opinions and skills by bringing together people who look, think and act the same way, or who’ve had similar life experiences. We’re committed to building the highest-performing teams through the power of diversity and to providing equitable growth opportunities to our people around the world.”

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