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.

• Proficient in the English…