Assistant Director (IT) Transaction Strategy & Execution - EY Parthenon

London, England, United Kingdom

12/11/2024

Assistant Director (Senior Manager) (IT) Transaction Strategy and Execution – EY Parthenon

At EY, you’ll 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 we’re 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.

EY’s market leading Transaction Strategy and Execution (TSE) team provides Technology & Operations advice to corporate and private equity firms who intend to acquire, divest or restructure businesses to improve their value. The team comprises advisors with specialist commercial, operations, technical and deal / transaction experience from industry, advisory and audit backgrounds.

The opportunity

We are seeking to further expand our team with technology consultants who work across a range of sectors that include Private Equity, Digital, Telecoms, Media and Technology (TMT). As a Senior Executive in our team, you’ll advise clients across all sectors, supporting key decision makers in developing and executing strategies for transactions use your intellectual guile and enthusiasm to apply your technical skills across the M&A transaction lifecycle; including value creation, pre-deal diligence, portfolio review and corporate carve-outs & integrations.

Your Key Responsibilities

As a Senior Executive within our TSE team, you’d assist in aspects of business origination, including pitches and presentations, and attending meetings with clients to help sell work and work in a transaction environment operating under tight M&A timeframes and demands and be familiar working in a large-scale consulting environment or industry role. As a consultant you’d use your prior technology sector knowledge and work on projects across digital transformation, technology transformation, AI and big data.

Skills And Attributes For Success

• Strategic Planning and Execution: Develop and implement strategic plans to enhance EBITDA and company performance and drive value creation.
• Financial Analysis and Modelling: Conduct in-depth financial analysis and build robust financial models to support investment decisions and value creation strategies.
• Operational and Technology Led Improvement: Identify and execute operational and technology improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and increase profitability.
• Performance Monitoring: Experience in monitoring and designing measures to monitor company performance against key metrics and implement corrective actions as needed.
• Due Diligence Mindset: Experience in thinking through investment initiatives, risks and opportunities to assess the value creation potential of new investment opportunities.
• Exit Strategy Planning: Develop and execute exit strategies to maximize returns on investment, including preparing companies for sale or public offering.
• Innovation and Transformation: Drive innovation and transformational change within companies to unlock new sources of value.
• Change Management: Manage and support change initiatives to ensure successful implementation and adoption of value creation strategies.
• Data-Driven Decision Making: Utilize data analytics and insights to inform value creation strategies and measure their impact.
• Develop experience of a range of different type of engagements, including value creation (e.g., synergy realization, technology enabled revenue growth, cost reduction), pre-deal (e.g., operational and technology due diligence, carve-out planning), post-deal (e.g., integration planning, tracking) and restructuring.
• Lead blended project teams comprising colleagues from our transactions and advisory practices as well as leading meetings with senior client stakeholders to advise, shape and drive the strategy and planning for integration, carve-out / separation and operational restructuring.
• Contribute to management of each engagement, including commercials and risk.
• Contribute to our practice development initiatives, supporting the continued focus on our team as a great place to work.
• You would act as a role model and support development of junior team members, coupled with the recruitment and training responsibilities.
• Be familiar working in a large-scale consulting environment or industry role where you can demonstrate the ability to perform and summarise analysis into management insights and recommended actions at pace.
  
  

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Proven experience and ability to communicate with clarity and impact to senior stakeholders. This may be demonstrable through leading large projects with senior visibility, success at presenting technical topics to non technical audiences or speaking at events.
• Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with company management teams and other stakeholders to align on value creation objectives and strategies.
• Strong written skills and experience of producing and reviewing high calibre reports, papers, presentations and thought leadership.
• A track record of successful project delivery in corporate businesses where you are responsible for managing project team members and vendors Have a broad range of IT experience including, infrastructure, applications, databases and networks.
• Professional services / consulting experience within Transactions: ideally due diligence, value creation, carve-out or integrations experience; or
• Deep understanding of one or more core aspects of a technology or technology orientedfunction (eg software engineering, CIO, CTO, networking, AI transformation, technology product delivery etc).
  
  

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Experience in building strong working relationships with senior clients, including influence, advice and support to key decision makers.
• Demonstrated aptitude for quantitative and qualitative analysis.
• Experience in supporting sales and business development processes for professional services projects in a large-scale consulting environment
  
  

What We Are Looking For

You’ll be a trusted business consultant to our clients and use your deep knowledge of multiple IT technologies to work closely to their needs. Your proven project management and stakeholder management experience will be key to the role. If you’re ready to take on a wide range of responsibilities and are committed to seeking out new ways to make a difference, this role is for you.

About EY Parthenon

EY-Parthenon teams work with clients to navigate complexity by helping them to reimagine their eco-systems, reshape their portfolios and reinvent themselves for a better future. With global connectivity and scale, EY-Parthenon teams focus on Strategy Realized — helping CEOs design and deliver strategies to better manage challenges while maximizing opportunities as they look to transform their businesses. From idea to implementation, EY-Parthenon teams help organizations to build a better working world by fostering long-term value. EY-Parthenon is a brand under which a number of EY member firms across the globe provide strategy consulting services. For more information, please visit ey.com/parthenon.

What Working At EY Offers

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensiveTotal Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.
  
  

Please note: Prior to finalizing your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness. The information you provide is kept entirely confidential and will not be used to evaluate your candidacy. We collect this data to help us analyse our recruitment process holistically and implement actions that promote diversity and inclusiveness. While optional, we encourage you to provide this information to hold us accountable towards our goal of building a better working world. We ask because it matters!

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

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Who We Are

EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We strive to achieve the right balance for our people, enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities. While our client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites, our flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a lifestyle balance.

About EY

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