EY-Parthenon - Strategy and Execution-Commercial Due Diligence-Senior Associate-Consultant

About the position As a Consultant within EY-Parthenon, you will help make intelligent, informed decisions in today's complex business landscape. You will be an important part of a diversely talented, highly experienced team, working at the forefront of high-profile transactions. The EY-Parthenon sub-service line comprises three competencies: Strategy; Transaction Strategy and Execution; and Turnaround and Restructuring Strategy. EY-Parthenon Strategy is a leading advisory organization focused on strategy consulting, committed to combining unconventional thinking with client insights to deliver actionable strategies. In today’s complex business landscape, creativity has become a necessary ingredient for sustained success. EY-Parthenon Strategy has an ideal balance of strengths – deep and concentrated skills with broad executional capabilities, intimate client relationships with larger networks of support, and proven processes along with a progressive spirit to unlock opportunity for our clients, amplify the impact of our strategies, and make EY-Parthenon Strategy the global advisor of choice for business leaders. You have the opportunity to develop your career through a broad scope of engagements, mentoring, and formal learning. That’s how we develop outstanding leaders who team to deliver on our promises to all of our stakeholders, and in so doing, play a critical role in building a better working world for our people, for our clients, and for our communities.

Responsibilities

• Consultants identify and analyze the client’s most strategic issues.
• They are generally the primary contact for our clients, responsible for developing work plans, designing and conducting analyses, synthesizing conclusions and managing other case team members.
• Consultants work on a variety of client issues, such as developing growth strategies for organizations, performing due diligence on acquisition candidates, assessing attractiveness of potential targets, understanding new markets, turning around underperforming institutions, reducing operating costs and implementing change, and have the opportunity to assume immediate management responsibility.
• Perform secondary research using a variety of sources (e.g., analyst reports, market research reports, news articles).
• Executing various analyses (e.g., customer segmentation, market sizing, competitor analysis, macroeconomic forecasting) to support the strategic recommendations.
• Designing and executing in-depth interview guides with key organizational stakeholders, industry experts and customers.
• Analyzing business plans and pro-forma financial models to help identify key assumptions and drivers.
• Managing and directing the analytical efforts of junior team members at the Associate and Senior Associate levels on a daily basis.

Requirements

• Outstanding academic performance, with a bachelor's degree and at least 2 years of related work experience; or a graduate degree and approximately 18 months of related work experience.
• Experience in strategy consulting, private equity, investment banking, market research, or a quantitative type of research function.
• Ability to make detailed assessments of industry, products, markets, competitors and customers to identify risks and opportunities.
• Proficient in the English language, including the ability to listen, understand, read and communicate effectively, both in writing and verbally, in a professional environment.
• Effective organization and time management skills with ability to work under pressure and adhere to project deadlines.
• Willingness and ability to travel, when necessary (approximately 25-50%)

Nice-to-haves

• MBA or graduate degree with at least 18 months of related work experience.
• Excellent problem solving, project management, facilitation and interpersonal skills.
• Strong aptitude for quantitative and qualitative analysis and the ability to link business strategy to performance.
• Being a strong team player with the ability to adapt to changing requirements or deadlines in support of our clients’ goals.

Benefits

• Comprehensive compensation and benefits package
• Medical and dental coverage
• Pension and 401(k) plans
• Wide range of paid time off options
• Flexible vacation policy
• Time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence