Assistant Director - M&A Analytics - EY Parthenon

Assistant Director, M&A Analytics – EY-Parthenon, Birmingham The opportunity

At EY-Parthenon, our unique combination of transformative strategy, transactions, tax and corporate finance delivers real-world value – solutions that work in practice, not just on paper. Benefiting from EY’s full spectrum of services, we’ve reimagined strategic consulting to work in a world of increasing complexity. With deep functional and sector expertise, paired with innovative AI‑powered technology and an investor mindset, we partner with CEOs, boards, private equity and governments every step of the way.

Join the fastest growing and most innovative deal analytics team in the UK.

EY-Parthenon’s Transaction Analytics team helps clients use data to make better decisions at critical moments in the deal lifecycle. We work with private equity investors, corporates, management teams and other advisers on buy‑side, sell‑side, vendor assistance and exit readiness engagements.

Our work sits at the intersection of M&A, financial due diligence, commercial insight and advanced analytics. We turn complex financial, operational and commercial datasets into clear, robust analysis that supports the equity story, helps answer bidder and investor questions, and gives clients greater confidence in transaction decisions.

This is an opportunity to join our growing Birmingham Transaction Analytics team and help build a regional platform within one of the UK’s leading deal analytics practices.

Our core work is delivered during the exciting and high‑speed phases of an M&A process. We use data and analytics to assess a target company’s financial performance, business projections and key value drivers, identifying opportunities, risks, sensitivities and potential mitigations that can influence transaction outcomes.

The Transaction Analytics team works closely with Financial Due Diligence, Corporate Finance, Strategy, Tax and sector specialists to provide deeper insights, challenge value drivers and bring innovative digital capabilities to live deal situations. Our work includes building reconciled data cubes, dynamic databooks and dashboards that support vendor due diligence, commercial due diligence, information memoranda, management presentations and bidder Q&A.

Companies are collecting more data than ever before across finance, ERP, CRM, billing, operational and external sources. Our challenge is to use analytics at pace to identify and explain trends that may otherwise remain hidden — and to convert those insights into a clear transaction narrative.

At Assistant Director level, this is also a leadership opportunity: you will play a central role in growing the Birmingham Transaction Analytics team, developing people, building client relationships and shaping our regional go‑to‑market proposition.

• Lead Transaction Analytics engagements and work streams across a range of sectors and transaction situations.
• Shape analytics scope, approach, timelines and deliverables with Partners, Directors, clients and other EY work streams.
• Lead senior client conversations with management teams, CFOs, private equity deal teams, corporate clients and other advisers.
• Oversee the creation of reconciled data cubes, dynamic databooks, dashboards and visual outputs that support due diligence, equity‑story development and bidder Q&A.
• Use analytics to test value drivers, evidence growth stories, identify risks and challenge transaction assumptions.
• Project manage teams across multiple engagements, ensuring quality, timeliness, risk management and commercial relevance of outputs.
• Build, coach and mentor junior team members, helping develop the Birmingham Transaction Analytics capability.
• Develop internal and external networks across Transaction Diligence, Corporate Finance, Strategy, Tax, sector teams and the wider EY-Parthenon platform.
• Contribute to business development, proposals, credentials, key accounts, recruitment and go‑to‑market initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to expand the role of analytics across the transaction lifecycle and help develop reusable tools, assets and methodologies.

• Strong financial and…