Consultant or Manager - Corporate and Operational Strategy: Mineral Economics Job Toronto area,Old Toronto Ontario Canada,Business

Location: Old Toronto

The opportunity

EY recognises the role that the Mining & Metals industries with an emphasis on Critical Materials will play a leading role in driving the transition of our societies, industries and economies to more sustainable ways of doing business. Critical Metals are growing rapidly in use, less well studied than larger bulk commodities and becoming of higher strategic relevance.

In being strategic about its Strategy Practice, EY sees the Critical Minerals evolution as an opportunity to build on its recent client activity to establish a leading strategic advisory position in this space.

Corporate and Operational Strategy is EY’s executive strategy practice. The EY-Parthenon brand is the home of our fast-growing global strategy capability. We advise corporate and private equity clients on strategic and commercial issues affecting their key investment choices. Areas of our work include:

Corporate and Portfolio strategy

Product and business unit strategy development

Market entry strategy, and opportunity sizing

Capital allocation, structure and raising

Acquisition and Divestment options analysis

Business model reinvention

Strategic cost evaluation

Commercial due diligence

Your key responsibilities:

Provide Techno-Economic based expertise to global teams performing work in Critical Materials by participating directly on client project teams or providing analysis specific support. In practical terms this means researching information, performing analyses, structuring recommendations backed by fact based techno-economic insights and creating documents to communicate recommendations.

Coach teammates with a more general consulting background on obtaining data, structuring and performing analysis in Critical and broader Mining & metals sectors.

Developing and updating tools to have current industry perspectives on supply, demand, capex, cost, price markers, evolving trade flows and frictions, industry structure and emerging technologies or significant trends – by tracking events in several specific sectors.

Grow the practice by linking economic, geo-political, company or industry specific events to ideas for client conversations and proposals to grow the practice.

Assist in marketing and showcasing the service line to EY offices and industry in the Americas and globally by writing points of view or speaking at conferences.

Manager:
Develop, manage and mentor junior team members; contribute to people initiatives. Support client relationship management while executing projects; delivering a high degree of client satisfaction with the engagement. Contribute to business development efforts; develop long term relationships and network internally and externally.

We are interested in candidates who have:

Engineering degree (preferably Geological, Mining, Metallurgical or Chemical) with a master’s degree in Mineral Economics, Microeconomics, Finance or a CFA designation.

Consultant:
2-4 years relevant work experience ideally in a corporate planning or an engineering firm’s project evaluation group. Investment banking backgrounds will be considered with the right educational qualifications.

Manager: 5-8 years relevant work experience ideally in a corporate planning or an engineering firm’s project evaluation group.

Work/leadership/ life experience with demonstrated impact in a team environment.

Strong aptitude for quantitative and qualitative analysis and the ability to link technical and micro-economic information to business strategy and financial outcomes.

Personable with good coaching and explanation skills, strategic thinker and deductive reasoner.

Problem-solving skills – analytical, quantitative and conceptual.

Advanced modelling skills (Excel) and visualization skills (Tableau and/or Power BI).

Effective…