Assistant Director - Tech - Strategy and Execution - EY Parthenon

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Our Technology team 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.

The Technology team has competencies in Product & 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 in the "software economy"
• 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 hundreds of successful projects and provides a unique capability to help companies make critical choices and complete successful transactions.

As part of EY, you'll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with 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.

We are seeking to further expand our team with IT consultants who work across a range of sectors, including Private Equity, Digital and Telecoms. As an Assistant Director in our team, you will advise clients across all sectors, supporting key decision makers in developing and executing strategies for transactions use your intellectual guile and enthusiasm to apply your technical skills across the MM&A (Mergers & Acquisitions) transaction lifecycle;

including pre-deal diligence, portfolio review and corporate carve-outs & integrations.

As an Assistant Director within our Strategy and Execution team, you would assist in aspects of business origination, including pitches and presentations, and attend meetings with clients to help sell work and work in a transaction environment operating under tight M&A time frames and demands and be familiar working in a large-scale consulting environment or industry role. You would use your knowledge on technical IT topics and work on buyside and sellside mandates across the transaction lifecycle

• Advise senior clients across all sectors, supporting key decision makers in developing and executing strategies for transactions.
• Sell, run and deliver different types of engagements, including pre-deal (e.g. technology due diligence, carve-out planning), post-deal (e.g. sign to close, integration planning, synergy tracking) and value creation (e.g. cost reduction, tech enabled VC)
• Lead blended project teams comprising colleagues from our transactions and advisory practices.
• Lead complex engagements, including commercials, resourcing and risk.
• Lead on business origination, including use of networks and delivery of pitches and presentations to senior clients.
• Lead on practice development initiatives and training programmes, supporting the continued focus on our team as a great place to work.
• Act as a role model and support development of junior team members, coupled with the recruitment and training responsibilities.
• Learn and develop technical and personal skills to support achievement of career goals, through a blend of structured learning, coaching and experiences

• Professional services / consulting;
  Transactions: ideally due diligence, carve-out or integrations experience; and
• Broad knowledge and deep understanding of a typical IT function, including enterprise architecture, strategy, governance, systems…