Parthenon - Strategy and Execution - Corporate and Growth Strategy - Financial Services -Director

Position: EY-Parthenon - Strategy and Execution - Corporate and Growth Strategy - Financial Services -Director
Location:

Chicago, New York

At EY, we're all in to shape your future with confidence.

We'll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go.  Join EY and help to build a better working world.

** The opportunity*
* EY-Parthenon's unique combination of transformative strategy, transactions 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 - enabling you to shape your future with confidence.

In today's complex business landscape, creativity has become a necessary ingredient for sustained success. EY-Parthenon has an ideal balance of strengths - deep and concentrated skills with broad executional capabilities, intimate client relationships with larger networks of support, and proven processes along with a progressive spirit to unlock opportunity for our clients, amplify the impact of our strategies, and make EY-Parthenon the global advisor of choice for business leaders.

You have the opportunity to develop your career through a broad scope of engagements, mentoring and formal learning.

The EY-Parthenon Strategy and Execution
- Corporate and Growth Strategy
- Financial Services Practice primarily focuses on projects for the C-Suite or line of business executives and covers the banking, capital markets, asset management, wealth management, and insurance segments.  Representative projects include a corporate portfolio strategy for an international commercial lending institution, a revenue growth and market expansion strategy for a large regional bank holding company, a strategic due diligence for a global wealth management company, a product strategy for a bank looking to launch a retail crypto offering, a tokenization strategy for an asset manager looking to launch a tokenized fund, and a GenAI strategy for a large financial services firm.

** Your key responsibilities*
* Within EY-Parthenon's Strategy and Execution
- Corporate and Growth Strategy
- Financial Services practice, Directors are responsible for leading work streams and engagements, translating client needs into project tasks and deliverables, manage day-to-day problem-solving and team analytical activities, and serve as key liaisons between consulting team members, EY-Parthenon Senior Directors and Partners, and our clients.

Our teams work on a variety of client issues. The range of assignments includes developing long-term strategies for organizations, evaluating the potential acquisition of businesses, improving educational achievement outcomes, developing new marketing channel strategies, reducing operating costs, and evaluating new business ventures.

** Skills and attributes for success*
* + Develop business strategies using tools such as market analysis, customer research, macroeconomic forecasting, and portfolio optimization.

+ Review transaction rationale and/or deal documents to identify critical business issues and risks relating to a proposed transaction.

+ Manage and motivate work streams and teams with diverse skills and backgrounds.

+ Develop, manage and mentor junior team members at the Associate, Senior Associate, and Consultant levels.

To qualify for the role, you must have

+ A bachelor's degree with outstanding academic performance and 5 years of related work experience; or a graduate degree and approximately 3 years of related work experience.

+ Experience managing business strategy development in the banking, capital markets, payments, wealth management, and/or asset management sectors; this experience can come from prior consulting work or direct experience in the financial services industry

+ Experience managing M&A strategic diligence projects in complex environments

+ Ability to make detailed assessments of industry, products, markets, competitors and customers to identify risks and opportunities.

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