Manager, Corporate and Operational Strategy: Financial Services

Location:

Toronto

Other locations:
Primary Location Only

Date:
Oct 19, 2026

Requisition

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The opportunity

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, financial services, institutional investor, private equity, and public sector clients on strategic, commercial, operational, and investment-related decisions that drive long-term value creation. Our clients include leading insurers, pension funds, asset managers, wealth managers, sovereign and institutional investors, and global corporations facing complex growth, portfolio, and transformation challenges.

This job posting relates to an existing vacancy within our organization.

Areas of our work include:

• Investment strategy and growth strategy
• Institutional investor strategy and portfolio optimization
• Insurance strategy and transformation
• Capital allocation and investment decision-making
• Investment product and distribution strategy
• Market entry strategy and opportunity sizing
• Divestment options analysis
• Purpose-led strategy and long-term value
• Digital strategy and innovation
• Operating model design and performance improvement
• M&A, strategic transactions, and investment due diligence
• Customer and channel strategy for financial services organizations

You’ll work with a high-performing, integrated team which focuses on a variety of global and local corporate, government, and private equity clients. You’ll have a diverse range of stretching experiences which will give you continuous learning and development opportunities as well as a great sense of achievement. The Canadian Practice is closely integrated with the Americas EY Parthenon organization. We bring the power of our deep global and local insights, client relationships and an informed, current perspective.

Your key responsibilities

We are looking for a candidate to join as a Manager within the Canadian Corporate and Operational Strategy team. The Manager will play an integral role that involves working closely with other members of the rapidly growing Americas Corporate and Operational Strategy team to deliver a variety of engagements.

We are looking for candidates who can:

• Support client relationship management while executing projects, delivering a high degree of client satisfaction with the engagement process.
• Lead strategic engagements for clients across financial services, insurance, asset management, wealth management, and institutional investing sectors.
• Assess growth opportunities, competitive positioning, market dynamics, and investment strategies through rigorous quantitative and qualitative analysis.
• Support clients in evaluating portfolio strategies, capital allocation decisions, strategic investments, acquisitions, and divestitures.
• Develop strategic recommendations related to business growth, operating model transformation, product innovation, distribution effectiveness, and value creation.
• Analyze investment trends, industry disruptions, customer behavior, and emerging market opportunities to identify strategic implications for clients.
• Support commercial and investment due diligence engagements through market assessments, competitive analysis, and financial evaluation.
• Foster an inclusive culture throughout the team and within engagements and proactively build a personal network within the firm.
• Integrate AI into day-to-day delivery while validating outputs, challenging…