Manager - M&A Analytics - EY-Parthenon

Manager, M&A Analytics – EY-Parthenon, Birmingham

At EY-Parthenon, the Transaction Analytics team helps clients use data to make better decisions at critical moments in the deal lifecycle. Our work sits at the intersection of M&A, financial due diligence, commercial insight and advanced analytics, turning complex datasets into clear, robust analysis that supports equity stories and transaction decisions.

This role offers 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.

• Own the day‑to‑day delivery of analytics work streams on live M&A engagements.
• Translate transaction hypotheses into practical analysis plans, prioritising work based on materiality, timeline and client need.
• Manage and coach junior team members, reviewing analytical outputs for quality, accuracy and commercial relevance.
• Lead client discussions on data availability, quality, analytical approach and emerging findings.
• Build and review reconciled data cubes, dynamic databooks and dashboards that support due diligence, equity‑story development and bidder Q&A.
• Coordinate with Financial Due Diligence, Corporate Finance, Strategy, Tax and sector teams to align insights across work streams.
• Ensure analytical outputs are accurate, clearly documented, repeatable and capable of supporting client, investor and bidder questions.
• Contribute to the development of reusable tools, templates, sector‑specific approaches and Birmingham team capability.

• Strong commercial thinking and understanding of business drivers.
• Ability to analyse businesses rapidly and identify focus areas in a live transaction environment.
• Strong attention to detail with a logical, structured and methodical approach.
• Experience planning, preparing and reviewing visualisations, reports, presentations and client discussion materials.
• Strong team management, coaching and communication skills.
• Ability to communicate complex analytical findings to technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Confidence working across service lines and building effective relationships at different levels.

• Commercial or relevant industry, analytics, finance or transaction experience.
• Experience managing analytical work streams or projects, including reviewing outputs from junior team members.
• Proficiency with data manipulation, integration and visualisation tools such as Excel, Alteryx, Power BI, Tableau, SQL or Python.
• A passion for providing high quality service to clients.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver quality outputs under transaction timelines.

• Experience in a transaction, financial due diligence, corporate finance, strategy, consulting or professional services environment.
• ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent qualification.
• Experience leading client‑facing discussions or presenting analytical findings to senior stakeholders.
• Experience using SQL, Python, R, VBA or other analytical languages.
• Experience developing dashboards, databooks, reconciled data models or analytical outputs that support commercial or transaction decisions.

We seek candidates who can combine analytical capability with commercial judgment, comfortable leading teams, asking the right questions, challenging analysis and converting complex data into clear insight that drives transaction decisions.

We provide future‑focused skills development, a global network of over 25,000 professionals across 150 countries, and a culture that values uniqueness, wellbeing and cross‑cultural collaboration to help you grow and deliver impact.