Director, Operational Due Diligence, Strategy & 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.
Are you building your tomorrow, today? Then think about a career with our Strategy and Execution team. The Strategy & Execcution team is the largest combined Operations and IT team in Europe. We have a market-leading proposition to create and maximise value for our clients, whether they are acquiring or divesting assets, or undertaking operational restructuring.
The opportunity
We advise a broad portfolio of clients throughout the transaction lifecycle across a range of industry sectors. We are a group of experienced industry professionals with backgrounds in Operations and IT which enables us to bring a wealth of deep sector and functional knowledge to our clients. As a team, we identify ideas and sources of value creation and design and deliver execution plans to realise benefits.
Your Key Responsibilities
As Director within our Strategy & Execution team, you’d drive aspects of business origination, including pitches and presentations to potential clients to help sell work, own meaningful client relationships and leading project delivery working with senior client stakeholders within tight timeframes for some of EY’s most demanding clients. As a consultant you’ll advise clients across all sectors, supporting key decision makers in developing and executing strategies for value creation.
You would also be expected to contribute to our practice development initiatives, supporting the continued focus on our team as a great place to work.
Skills & Attributes For Success
- Industry and functional experience: engineering, supply chain or graduate scheme experience at a large corporate
- Track record of commercial success across account and client management
- Consulting experience: 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
- Potential experience in a transformation or other client stakeholder management role
- Flexibility: be flexible to support on broader Operational and IT work
- Role model: act as a role model and support development of junior team members, coupled with the recruitment and training responsibilities
To qualify for the role you must have
Specialism in:
- Professional services, consulting or transactions (ideally Operational or IT due diligence) experience, or a deep understanding of one or more core operational functions
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to link operational analysis to financial statements, and understand the implications of findings to client strategy
- Demonstratable track record of delivering meaningful benefits for clients in value creation and into underperforming scenarios
Ideally, you’ll also have
- Opportunity origination track record and recognisable sector capabilities
- Experience in building strong working relationships with senior clients, including influence, advice and support to key decision makers
- Experience in supporting sales and business development processes for professional services projects in a large-scale consulting environment
- A track record of successful project delivery in corporate businesses where you are responsible for managing project team members and vendors
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and experience of producing and reviewing high-quality reports, papers, presentations and thought leadership
What We Are Looking For
We are looking for candidates who are highly motivated, driven, and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful value creation team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly over a number of client projects across the UK and globally.
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 comprehensive Total 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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