Executive, SSG, 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.

The opportunity: 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 using 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.

Your key responsibilities: 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.

Skills and attributes for success:

• 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.

To qualify for the role, you must have:

• Broad knowledge and deep understanding of one or more core aspects of a typical IT function, including Enterprise Architecture, IT Strategy and Governance, Systems Integration and Application Development, IT Service Delivery, IT Infrastructure, IT Financials and the dynamics of an IT function.
• Proven experience and the ability to communicate with clarity and impact to senior stakeholders. This may be demonstrable through experience working in large projects with senior visibility, success at presenting technical topics to non-technical audiences or speaking at events.
• Ability to deliver high-quality work products, including databooks, reports, or client-ready materials, with strong attention to detail and the ability to self-review for accuracy.
• Ability to analyse and triangulate multiple data sources, generating clear, actionable insights and “so-what” recommendations that support client decision-making.
• Flexible with working locations, with the ability to learn quickly and leverage skills in new situations.
• Experience with transactions, ideally in performing IT Due Diligence and/or IT post-merger integration, separation/carve-out assignments, is useful but not a must.

What we are looking for: You will be a trusted business consultant to our clients and use your knowledge of multiple IT technologies to work closely to their needs. Your agility to adapt to a fast-paced environment and ability to build trust with the team and clients will be key to the role. If you’re ready to take on a wide range of responsibilities and are committed to seeking out new ways to make a difference, this role is for you.

About EY Parthenon: EY-Parthenon teams work with clients to navigate complexity by helping them to reimagine their eco-systems, reshape their portfolios and reinvent themselves for a better future. With global connectivity and scale, EY-Parthenon teams focus on Strategy Realized — helping CEOs design and deliver strategies to better manage challenges while maximizing opportunities as they look to transform their businesses. From idea to implementation, EY-Parthenon teams help organizations to build a better working world by fostering long-term value. EY-Parthenon is a brand under which a number of EY member firms across the globe provide strategy consulting services.

What working at EY offers: We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

Please note: Prior to finalizing your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness. The information you provide is kept entirely confidential and will not be used to evaluate your candidacy. We collect this data to help us analyse our recruitment process holistically and implement actions that promote diversity and inclusiveness. While optional, we encourage you to provide this information to hold us accountable towards our goal of building a better working world. We ask because it matters!

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible. The exceptional EY experience. It’s yours to build. Apply now.