Global accounting and consulting firm EY Han Young said on the 26th that it will integrate AI organizations that had been independently run across several institutional sectors into a companywide, integrated AI specialist organization called "EY AI Hub."
Centered on the AI consulting organization, EY AI Hub will be expanded and operated in a companywide matrix structure that spans the audit institutional sector, the tax institutional sector, EY-Parthenon (strategy and financial advisory institutional sector), and financial services. EY Han Young said that by concentrating, around EY AI Hub, the AI services and technological capabilities that each business institutional sector had been pursuing individually, it has established a system to maximize companywide synergy.
EY AI Hub will oversee research on AI technology, the establishment of an integrated strategy, and the operation of shared infrastructure, while each business institutional sector will use this foundation to plan and execute industry-specific AI solutions. Through the matrix structure centered on EY AI Hub, it will further raise the AI service capabilities that had shown strengths by institutional sector, and support the strengthening of AI services that reflect each institutional sector's unique expertise and understanding of the market.
Under the strategic leadership of Lee Bok-han, EY Han Young market institutional sector head, Lee Dong-hyun, EY Asia East technology, media and telecom industry leader, will oversee EY AI Hub. EY AI Hub will support, across the company, technology strategy, shared infrastructure, global collaboration, and an internal diffusion framework. For external clients, it will provide customized AI transformation (AX) advisory services by work area, and internally, by simultaneously pursuing work efficiency and AI innovation, it aims to embed AI across the organization and enhance the competitiveness of AI services.
EY Consulting, which has led industry-specific AI consulting since 2020, currently provides end-to-end AX strategy and implementation roadmap design, build, and operation services across all stages—strategy, adoption and build, operation, and advancement—through 14 business headquarters (competencies) tailored to corporations' AI maturity. Led by Kim Su-yeon, EY Consulting AI leader, and Partner Kang Se-young, it delivers comprehensive services spanning the entire process, including defining industry-customized AI solutions, building models, and field application and operation.
In the audit institutional sector, AX innovation in financial and accounting audit work is being achieved internally and externally. The Financial Accounting Advisory Services (FAAS), led by Deputy Minister Park Geun-young, has prepared an AX diagnostic methodology applicable to core finance work areas such as accounting and treasury and is providing diagnostic services. It is developing detailed solutions such as AI internal accounting, AI disclosures, and AI settlement of account analysis and reporting, and will sequentially roll out advanced services.
The forensic ethics management advisory services team led by Jeong Dae-hyeong, EY Han Young forensic leader, has independently developed an AI-based evidence document review system and is improving the accuracy and efficiency of various digital forensic tasks, including accounting fraud investigations, corporations' internal investigations, and litigation support.
AI tools applied to audit practice are also being actively introduced. Digital audit leader Son Dong-chun is applying various AI-based tools to audit work, including "EYQ generative AI for audit professionals," "EY Canvas AI," and "EY Smart Automation Intelligent Checklist," driving improvements in efficiency and quality across tasks such as risk assessment, document analysis, and automation of audit procedures. In addition, the Center of Excellence (CoE), newly established in Jul., is led by Deputy Minister Lee Yu-chang and is spearheading the advancement of AI- and automation-based audit frameworks.
In the tax institutional sector, Deputy Minister Shin Jang-gyu and Partner Lee So-yeon are leading the development of an "AI-based Connected Tax Compliance Solution" that automates major tax filing tasks such as corporate tax, value-added taxes, international taxation, income tax, payroll, and bookkeeping.
In EY-Parthenon (strategy and financial advisory institutional sector), under the leadership of AI leader Kim Jong-won, it is preparing a solution that integrates domestic M&A transaction information to provide information on domestic M&A assets for sale, partnerships, and investment opportunities. Going further, it is developing a "Korea M&A Exchange (working title)" that introduces offerings tailored to corporations. At the same time, it is conceiving an "AI predictive modeling solution" that performs five-year scenario analysis based on corporate financial data and automates valuation.
In financial services, it has built a "financial AI center" composed of three industries—banking and cards, insurance, and securities—and 10 detailed service areas, and is unveiling various finance-specialized AI-related service offerings to major financial institutions, including AI agents, AI analytics, AI data, AI contact centers, AI governance, AI infrastructure, and AI managed services. Deputy Minister Lee Geon-young serves as the AI leader for financial services.
In addition, the EY Han Young Korea Institute for Industrial Economics & Trade (KIET), led by research director Kwon Young-dae, is contributing to companywide AI strategy development and the strengthening of the knowledge base by analyzing the latest global AI trends and technology insights. Also, the management support institutional sector—including HR, IT, marketing, legal, and alliances—is closely collaborating with EY AI Hub on technology development and internal implementation to support the embedding of AI capabilities across the organization.
EY Han Young CEO Park Yong-geun said, "EY AI Hub is EY Han Young's strategic choice to bring together companywide capabilities into one to maximize synergy and, on that basis, deliver differentiated value to clients," adding, "By organically connecting each business institutional sector's expertise and technological strength, we will provide more sophisticated and practical AI solutions to clients, and at the same time, through companywide AI embedding internally, achieve work innovation and the advancement of expertise."