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Our people are at the heart of the EY organization
We empower our people to cultivate their purpose by developing new skills and offering diverse experiences grounded in inspiring trust and confidence in the capital markets.
We have a deep commitment to enhance the growth and development of our professionals. We focus on making sure they have the right skills to succeed and become transformative leaders who can continue to innovate and drive audit quality.
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Quality audits help our clients shape their future with confidence
To serve the public interest, we build diverse teams that make better decisions and spark innovation. How? In an increasingly complex digital world, we attract and enable skilled professionals to deliver high-quality audits while achieving personal fulfilment in what they do everyday. We place their skills at the centre of our talent strategy, integrating technology specialists and subject matter professionals within audit teams. And we invest in their wellbeing, growth, learning and overall experience to help them thrive.
Specifically, what does this look like from day to day?
We seek out curious, ambitious, talented people and provide them with a holistic career experience designed to enable their success. This means:
- Harnessing their skills and augmenting that base with future-focused capabilities, so people can deliver high-quality audits now and into the future
- Fostering data fluency so they can be highly effective in the modern audit context
- Providing a platform to use leading edge technology in executing audits
- Offering learning to fuel quality and enrich careers, fostering personal and professional success
of our ~2,000 audit and technology assurance services professionals are technology specialists
Support for our teams:
By connecting coaching and training, and providing feedback and advice around audit methodology and quality control, we take a broad and deep approach to supporting our people in their work every day. At EY Canada, we have a 1:8 ratio of Quality Network and Professional Practice Group partners to all audit partners.
1.Our Quality Network
This network proactively improves audit quality by coaching and training audit teams, reviewing working papers, advising teams on audit methodology, as well as executing risk management and quality control procedures. The network also offers customized coaching based on specific risk areas and runs the Internal Control over Financial Reporting (ICFR) coaching program.
2.Our Professional Practice Group
This group consults with our teams on difficult accounting, auditing and regulatory matters. We have Professional Practice partners in each of our major offices so they are accessible to, and interacting with, audit partners, teams and clients. That proximity allows them to know partners and capabilities better, be more attuned to the effects of the regional economy and better understand the businesses we audit — and related risks. To promote high-quality financial reporting, this group regularly issues thought leadership, hosts webcasts, engages with standard setters and regulators and responds to their proposals.
Multidisciplinary firm approach
In today’s increasingly complex environment, our ability to execute high-quality audits is strengthened by our ability to bring the right resources to the audit at the right time.
Our multidisciplinary strategy allows us to include in our audit teams EY professionals who focus on tax, IT and valuation matters and, in certain audits, forensic accounting.
Having subject-matter resources in these areas to collaborate with our audit professionals helps us deliver high-quality audits at a time when IT environments, business models, transactions and worldwide tax regimes are increasing in complexity.
By bringing together diverse perspectives, audit teams can marry objectivity and professional skepticism with deep technical skill sets, helping us ask the right questions to perform high-quality audits.
