Senior Manager Software Strategy Group; SSG

Senior Manager Software Strategy Group (SSG)

(Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver) EY Studio+ Nederland – Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Our SSG (Software Strategy Group) sits within the 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.

SSG focuses on Product and Technology competency, which provides investment and acquisition guidance to clients across product and technical topics needed to assess and advise companies leveraging their own proprietary software for commercial advantage.

The team provides a unique capability to help companies make critical choices and complete successful transactions.

We are seeking to further expand our team with consultants who work across a range of sectors that include Private Equity, Digital Software, and tech-enabled services.

As a Senior Manager in our team you will advise clients across software and tech-enabled services sectors, supporting in developing and executing strategies for transactions. Use your knowledge and enthusiasm to apply your technical skills across the M&A transaction lifecycle; ranging from diligence to technology strategy assignments, including pre-deal diligence, portfolio review, and post-deal value creation engagements.

• Product and Technology diligence:
  Market-leading product and technology diligence of companies in the Software Economy, an inside-out assessment of product capabilities, product road map, software architecture, technical debt, R&D organization, and software development processes enabling investors to understand a software company’s capabilities and ability to execute against its corporate strategy while also identifying risks and opportunities.

• Leading pre-deal and post-deal value creation engagements with clients across all sectors, including private equity across North America.
• Senior Managers manage engagements, successful execution, lead the engagement team, and work directly with clients. Across each engagement a Senior Manager will lead and direct the analysis approach, coach/mentor team members, identify areas of necessary industry research, interview industry experts, conduct qualitative and quantitative investigation, and lead discussions with our clients.
• Lead discussions to develop hypotheses, insights, and key findings critical to the engagement.
• Executing qualitative and quantitative reviews (e.g. R&D spend analysis, feature functionality, benchmarking, competitor studies, organizational capabilities, technology capabilities) to support the formulation and validation of strategic recommendations.
• Conducting in-depth interviews with key organizational stakeholders, industry experts, and customers.
• Contribute to people initiatives; mentoring, coaching, recruiting, retaining, and training staff.

• A master or bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) with outstanding academic performance (Computer science or similar field would be a plus) and 6 years of software-related work experience (strategy consulting work experience a plus).
• Any prior experience as a functional head (e.g. CTO, CPO, CIO, Head of Engineering) within a software company or the software function of a more traditional company, especially product management, software engineering, data science, or Dev Ops and ideally with recognized industry expertise would be a bonus.
• Experience of transactions ideally in performing technology due diligence and/or strategic value creation…