Ernst & Young Office Visit

Office Visit to Ernst & Young (E&Y) was jointly held by Sungai Long Campus and Kampar Campus on 10^th February 2012. The purpose of the visit is to provide participants with better understanding and gaining insight into the operation as well as career prospect in the world’s leading accounting firm.

            Accounting Society chartered a UTAR bus which carried a total number of 40 participants (including 8 committee members and 1 DSA officer-Ms. Vivian) for the visit. We departed sharply at 1.00p.m and the journey took around one hour to reach the destination.

The building of Menara Mellenium and the scene where participants are waiting in front of the main entrance.

We were greeted by E&Y staffs who soon after led us to the conference room. The program started off with a brief talk about given by E&Y Human Resource senior manager. From the talk, we realise that E&Y is recognised as the most globally integrated professional services organisation in terms of mindset, actions and structure. Moreover, E&Y are building and fostering the approachable and leading people culture which has fascinate over 152,000 employees worldwide; while externally, they have resounding brand and reputation that allows them to have 30% of public listed company in Malaysia as its clients.

The program continued by sharing session delivered by two experiences staffs: Adelyn Teh, senior manager of Business Tax Services department and Jason Yuen, which is the director of Information Technology Risk Advisory (ITRA) department. Ms. Adelyn told us she likes the inclusive working environment in E&Y where her point of view is heard and her contributions are valued. In addition, she emphasised that E&Y has less office politic issues compare to other firms.

            Mr. Jason left the company few years ago before he joined back E&Y in ITRA department. In between this few years time, he has worked in many established company such as Microsoft. The word ITRA is totally new for us: it combines IT and assurance professional to help the clients leverage technology to achieve a competitive advantage, advising on how to make IT more efficient and manage the risk associated with running IT operations, explained Mr. Jason.

Preparing to start the info and sharing sessions

            After the sharing session, we enjoyed some refreshments while encouraged to do networking. We have a precious time chatting with E&Y staffs. According to the speakers, most of the question that participants interested is the minimum requirements to join the company. Soon we were enlightened in Q&A session. The speaker encouraged us to put more efforts to boost our academic results since we do not have any working experience. Besides, soft skills is the another key factor that cannot be neglected by fresh graduates when securing their first job.

Refreshments prepared by Ernst &Young

  

In order to express appreciations, the representatives from both campus delivered pennants and souvenir to E&Y. Later, the atmosphere in the room became exhilarated when the speaker was giving out Starbucks’ voucher worth RM20 to participant who can answer question given by them.

Representatives for each campus deliver pennant and souvenir to the speaker.

Last but not least, the HR senior executive officer Ms. Tang led us together with her colleague and gave us an informational tour of E&Y office. We were shown the working area where the auditors and tax officers perform their duties. Ms. Tang told us we did not have the opportunity met up with their auditors since it is their peak period to prepare financial reports of their clients. Finally, the trip ended up with photo taking session at their reception counter.

We left Menara Millenium at 4:30p.m and the bus sent everyone back to UTAR. Everyone enjoyed the trip as it provided them a lot of information about E&Y and different types of career pathway in accounting industry alone. Each students was given a goodies pack including souvenir and contact information should they need to contact anyone from the authorized training organizations in the future.We hope to make another office visit as soon as possible.