EY-Parthenon - Strategy and Execution-Commercial Due Diligence- Experienced Associate

About the role

EY-Parthenon’s unique combination of transformative strategy, transactions, and corporate finance delivers real-world value. Associates 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. Associates 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.

Responsibilities

• Identify and analyze the client’s most strategic issues.
• Develop work plans, design and conduct analyses, and manage other case team members.
• Work on a variety of client issues, such as developing growth strategies, performing due diligence, assessing attractiveness of potential targets, understanding new markets, turning around underperforming institutions, reducing operating costs, and implementing change.
• Assume immediate management responsibility.

Requirements

• Outstanding academic performance, with a bachelor's degree and at least 1 year of related work experience; or a graduate degree and some 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.

Qualifications

• Outstanding academic performance, with a bachelor's degree and at least 1 year of related work experience; or a graduate degree and some 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.

Skills

• 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.
• Design 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.

Pay

The base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $100,000 to $110,000. Individual salaries within those ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography.

Schedule

Our expectation is for most people in external, client-serving roles to work together in person 40-60% of the time over the course of an engagement, project, or year.