Executive, SSG, EY Parthenon

Executive (Junior Manager) - Tech - Strategy and Execution – EY Parthenon

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 Executive (Junior manager) in our team, you’ll 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 M&A (Mergers & Acquisitions) transaction lifecycle;

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

As an Executive within our Strategy and Execution team, you will assist in engagement delivery across sectors and business situations. You would use your knowledge of technical IT topics and work on buy-side and sell-side mandates across the transaction lifecycle. You will collaborate with broader teams across Strategy and Transactions (such as operational and financial due diligence) to deliver integrated insights

• Contribute to 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) engagements with clients across all sectors, including private equity and corporate
• Handle the engagement’s most critical studies and lead junior team members. On any given day, an Executive might coach / mentor junior team members, conduct industry research, perform qualitative and quantitative analysis, or participate in client discussions
• Work with engagement lead to develop hypotheses, insights, and key findings that are critical to the engagement
• Execute qualitative and quantitative analyses (e.g., IT spend analysis and benchmarking, organisational capabilities, technology capabilities) to support the formulation and validation of strategic recommendations
• Perform secondary research using various sources (e.g., analyst reports, market research reports, news articles)
• Analyse business plans and pro-forma financial models to help identify key assumptions and drivers
• Engage in business origination activities, including pitches, proposals and presentations
• Contribute to people initiatives, including recruiting, retaining and training current and future staff

• Broad knowledge…