EY-Parthenon - Strategy and Execution - Corporate Real Estate - Transactions - Consultant

About the role

EY-Parthenon's Corporate Real Estate (CRE) practice works with clients to address their most complex CRE issues and challenges, advising on strategic, operational, and analytical matters. As a Senior Associate-Consultant, you will work at the forefront of high-profile corporate real estate engagements, tackling strategic and operational issues while partnering with practice leadership and client management to deliver innovative solutions.

Your key responsibilities

• Assess operating models, organizational structures, and business processes to streamline corporate real estate and facilities management service delivery
• Support transaction advisory engagements, including pre-deal due diligence, integration support and/or separation support
• Demonstrate strong understanding of the corporate real estate functional areas and the transaction lifecycle, including activities from diligence to sign to close
• Demonstrate strong financial modeling skills and ability to analyze real estate KPIs, benchmarks, and operational trends
• Develop innovative approaches to completing scopes of work
• Participate in team problem solving efforts and offer ideas to solve client issues
• Inspire teamwork and responsibility with engagement team members and use current technology/tools to enhance the effectiveness of deliverables and services
• Develop presentation materials, briefings, scorecards, and implementation documents
• Maintain responsibility for completion and accuracy of work products
• Actively expand consulting skills and professional development through training courses, mentoring, and daily interaction with clients
• Manage the creation of proposals, presentations and other client-facing materials and deliverables
• Communicate EY's point of view on relevant and current CRE topics and trends
• Analyze and draw insights from complex data sets
• Conduct relevant research, data analysis, and create reports

Skills and attributes for success

• Client-service oriented work ethic, driven by a desire to act
• Strong interpersonal and relationship building capabilities
• Outstanding listening, written and oral communication skills
• Exceptional ability to present and articulate ideas through storytelling
• Passion for strategic and creative problem solving
• Intellectual curiosity and comfort with ambiguity
• Ability to foster and refresh ongoing client relationships
• Comfort working across multi-disciplinary, collaborative, and distributed teams
• Eagerness to mentor and counsel junior staff
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple task assignments

Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree in Accounting, Engineering, Architecture, Business, Finance, or other business-related field and a minimum of 2 years of related work experience; or a graduate degree and approximately 18 months of related work experience
• Graduate degree in a relevant field/discipline is preferred
• Credible, related work experience, supporting business development and driving delivery of strategic projects for a large client or set of clients in the field of corporate real estate, management consulting, workplace consulting, or technology consulting
• Experience supporting project management activities, such as resource planning, schedule development, engagement pricing, and budget management
• Exceptional writing and presentation skills
• Excellent analytical skills and the confidence to translate complex data into meaningful insights
• Experience leading and managing in complex business environments
• High proficiency with the MS Office Suite of Products (including MS Excel and MS PowerPoint)
• You must either reside in or be in a commutable distance to your office location for this position
• The ability and willingness to travel and work in excess of standard hours when necessary. In certain circumstances, travel may be required beyond your work location based on client and project needs

Ideally, you will also have

• Prior professional services or management consulting experience, particularly in corporate real estate, M&A, divestiture, or transaction advisory
• Professional accreditation in real estate, construction, project management and process improvements, such as PE, PMP, CCIM, QCPR, MCR, SLCR, CPM and Lean Six Sigma
• Knowledge of how to leverage firm-approved AI tools in a business setting, including Microsoft Copilot

Benefits

• Comprehensive compensation and benefits package where you'll be rewarded based on your performance
• Medical and dental coverage
• Pension and 401(k) plans
• Wide range of paid time off options
• Flexible vacation policy – decide how much vacation time you need based on your personal circumstances
• Time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being
• Team-led and leader-enabled hybrid model – work together in person 40-60% of the time over the course of an engagement, project or year
• Professional development with future-focused skills and world-class experiences
• Flexible environment and inclusive culture of globally connected teams

Pay

The base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $130,000 to $205,000. Individual salaries within those ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography.