AddressJob Description
DOES THIS DESCRIBE YOU?
You are a self-motivated and confident leader with experience managing challenging technical projects, and engaging with key stakeholders along the way. You can be a spokesperson for the board’s staff and are focused on building strong relationships with key stakeholders. You are keenly interested in the public interest and practical ethical issues and have the presence to drive the discussion forward in a collaborative environment. You are an excellent communicator at ease both in navigating a multicultural work setting and in liaising with senior representatives of the accountancy profession, the regulatory community, and other key stakeholders. You have advanced and diversified knowledge analyzing the interactions of technical standards and assessing and addressing the implications of change across ethics and audit- and assurance-related ethics literature. This means the board and your colleagues can look to you for ideas and solutions to novel problems. Your wide-ranging project leadership experience means you can manage diverse resources and deliver on multiple projects.
As a member of the staff leadership team of the International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants (IESBA), you will support our global mission and lead key projects and initiatives in fulfillment of the IESBA’s strategic commitments. You will work closely with board members in crafting standard-setting solutions to complex or emerging ethical issues and support the IESBA senior technical team members in managing the IESBA’s work program.
THE OPPORTUNITY
Around the world, businesses, investors, the corporate governance community, regulators, policy makers, standard setters, professional accountancy bodies, accounting firms, and other stakeholders are focused on the future of corporate reporting in a rapidly changing world. Major forces are at play: sustainability imperatives; new technologies, business methods, and service delivery models; challenges of relevance and trust; and public demands for accountability and integrity in the private and public sectors. In this dynamic and uncertain world, the IESBA is focused on setting high-quality ethics (including independence) standards as a linchpin to public trust in the production, reporting, and assurance of financial and non-financial information that is fundamental to the proper functioning of financial markets and economies worldwide.
Your ability to operate effectively in this role will be predicated on your ability to appreciate the changing context in which professional accountants operate and the rapidly evolving stakeholder expectations concerning sustainability, to absorb technical concepts underpinning ethical principles, and to synthesize complex variables influencing ethical behavior into creative, cogent proposals that advance high-quality ethics standard-setting and thought leadership.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
As part of a dynamic, collaborative, and multicultural team, you will work closely with experienced board members from around the world. You will be responsible for, among other things:
- Conducting project research, including engaging with stakeholders such as regulators, national and international standard setters, policy makers, investors, governance groups, professional accountancy organizations, and accounting firms around the world, as appropriate.
- Leading the development of standards, guidance, and consultation or thought leadership papers, in partnership with board members and in coordination or collaboration with other standard setters (particularly the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB)).
- Leading or participating in discussions of the IESBA, IESBA Consultative Advisory Group (CAG), and IESBA-National Standard Setters (NSS) liaison group, and actioning outcomes of discussions and decisions.
- Serving as a primary liaison with key stakeholders and managing significant aspects of the relationship.
- Leading or supporting outreach activities in coordination with board leadership and the senior technical team.
- Directing and supervising members of the technical staff.
- Overseeing the development of quarterly reports to the Public Interest Oversight Board (PIOB) on the activities of the IESBA.
YOUR QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in leading the delivery of complex projects involving employed and volunteer experts in a public interest-oriented environment.
- Knowledge of issues relating to ethics and independence – experience in standard-setting is a plus, as is an understanding of the special considerations relating to public interest entities, small- and medium-sized entities and practices (SMEs/SMPs), and/or public sector entities.
- Excellent communication skills, both oral and written. Fluency in written and spoken English is essential – knowledge of another language is desirable.
- Excellent technical and project management skills, and strong computer literacy.
- At a minimum, a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in accounting or other relevant fields, e.g., law.
YOUR PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
- People-focused, able to work with people at all levels of an organization and across cultures, and to act as a role model and coach/mentor to other staff
- Able to effectively communicate information to stakeholders and staff to gain cooperation.
- Gravitas to influence the way groups view and approach issues and are diplomatic in building consensus among varying perspectives and steering credible paths forward.
- Detail-oriented, organized, and focused on quality.
- Flexible, innovative, and proactive; able to handle changing priorities confidently.
Primary Location (New York City) Salary Range: $212,000 - $265,000
The SSBs are an equal employment employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.
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