Senior Associate

Senior Associate

Location: Gurgaon

Other locations: Primary Location Only

Salary: Competitive

Date: 23 Dec 2025

Job description

Requisition ID: 1668910

At EY, youll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And were counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.

Supervising Analyst/ Lead Analyst (65-1/2/3) - Independence - Risk Management Services

This role requires the candidate to conduct research and execute global Independence processes aligned with EY Global (EYG) policies. These processes aim to safeguard EYs independence by assisting professionals in complying with the firms personal Independence policies. The candidate will monitor professionals financial relationships to identify and report potential conflicts of interest with audit clients/Business teams/Regional Independence/Alliance Formation team. Additionally, this role involves providing coordinated support to EY professionals by answering their inquiries and questions on various country and personal Independence-related topics

The opportunity

Risk Management Services (RMS) is an internal function within EY GDS (Global Delivery services), responsible for protecting the organization from the risks that may arise from its professional practice. We work closely with all parts of the organization to identify and manage risks, providing coordinated advice and assistance on suite of services like Independence, Conflicts, Compliance, regulatory, policy and security issues as well as dealing with formation of Business relationships. Formed in 2007, the RMS team is growing rapidly as a Center of Excellence for all standardized quality/compliance related activities.

This role will be part of the largest sub-service function, i.e., Independence within Risk Management Services (RMS) responsible for assisting EY professionals to maintain auditor objectivity by identifying and mitigating any potential conflicts of interest that could compromise an auditors independence. This includes assessing Audit and Business relationships, conducting investigations, providing guidance on resolving independence matters, and monitoring for new independence threats.

RMS Independence team is currently 950+ people strong, operating from 3 countries and 5 centres: India (Gurugram, Kochi, Bengaluru), Poland (Wroclaw), Philippines (Manila). The team is closely integrated with Global Independence and has been involved in the development of key Independence processes.

The role offers opportunities to work in a dynamic, growth-focused environment, with a special emphasis on protecting EYs reputation as an independent auditor, by providing support on niche profiles to EY member firm practices. It also involves close collaboration with global/regional teams and Alliance stakeholders to strengthen the compliance framework and foster a mindset of continuous improvement and client enablement.

Key Responsibilities:

Cross-Functional Team Coordination: Foster strong relationships with business, Regional Independence and Alliance formation teams to ensure seamless Business relationship Independence approval form submissions.

Project Management Excellence: Manage daily inflow of requests for self and team, manage administrative issues and communicating process related nuances appropriately to the Business team/audit teams/ Alliance formation & team managers at GDS.