Associate Director SSG Strategy and Execution - EY Parthenon

Associate Director - (SSG) Strategy and Execution - EY Parthenon

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Associate Director – (SSG) Strategy and Execution – EY Parthenon

Our SSG (Software Strategy Group) sits within the Strategy and Execution team, which is EY’s leading market team providing Technology, Operations and Financial advice to corporate and private equity firms who intend to acquire, divest or restructure businesses. The team comprises advisors with specialist commercial, operations, software, technology, cyber, finance and deal / transaction experience from industry, advisory and audit backgrounds.

SSG has competencies in Product and Technology, Enterprise Technology and Cybersecurity:

• Product and Technology provides investment and acquisition guidance to clients across commercial, product, and technical topics needed to assess and advise companies leveraging their own proprietary software for commercial advantage
• Enterprise Technology assesses major technology risks and opportunities related to a transaction across key areas of enterprise technology holistically including enterprise and business systems, infrastructure, data and reporting, tech operating model, tech spend
• Cybersecurity focuses on understanding the business operating model, then applying our experience, benchmarks and tools to determine where Cyber is critical to the brand, operations, assets and applicable regulations.

The team has completed thousands of diligence engagements and provides a unique capability to help companies make critical choices and complete successful transactions.

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The opportunity

We are seeking to further expand our team with consultants who work across a range of sectors that include Private Equity, Digital, Software and tech-enabled services.

The opportunity sits in the Product and Technology competency of the SSG team

As an Associate Director in our team, you’ll advise clients across software and tech-enabled services sectors, supporting in developing and executing strategies for transactions, use your knowledge and enthusiasm to apply your technical skills across the M&A transaction lifecycle; ranging from diligence to technology strategy assignments including pre-deal diligence, portfolio review and post deal value creation engagements.

Your key responsibilities

Our Associate Directors manage teams that engage with clients on a variety of topics, ranging from diligence to strategy assignments:

• Product and Technology diligence:
  We provide market-leading product and technology diligence of companies in the Software Economy, an "inside-out" assessment of product capabilities, product road map, software architecture, technical debt, R&D organisation, and software development processes, enabling investors to understand a software company's capabilities and ability to execute against its corporate strategy, while also identifying risks and opportunities.
• Integrated diligence:
  When EY-Parthenon teams combine product and technology diligence with guiding commercial due diligence "outside-in" capabilities, we provide clients with a cohesive view of their target investment from both a market and an operational perspective, providing insights that each diligence workstream may not uncover separately. We are a leader and innovator in this integrated offering and bring extensive capabilities to the marketplace.
• Software development optimisation:
  We assess a company's software development organisation for capacity, talent, and process, and provide actionable recommendations to improve productivity, timeliness,…