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

About the role

EY-Parthenon’s Corporate Real Estate practice offers transformative strategy, transactions, and corporate finance solutions. This role involves strategic and operational corporate real estate issues, working closely with practice leadership and client management.

Responsibilities

• Make intelligent and informed decisions about people, place, and technology during major M&A and divestiture engagements, or during corporate transformations.
• Support transaction advisory engagements, including pre-deal due diligence, integration support, and separation support.
• Develop innovative approaches to completing scopes of work.
• Participate in team problem-solving efforts and offer ideas to solve client issues.
• Manage the creation of proposals, presentations, and other client-facing materials and deliverables.
• Analyze and draw insights from complex data sets.
• Communicate EY's point of view on relevant and current CRE topics and trends.

Requirements

• 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.
• 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).

Qualifications

• Prior professional services or management consulting experience, particularly in an corporate real estate, M&A, divestiture, or transaction advisory.
• Knowledge of how to leverage firm-approved AI tools in a business setting, including Microsoft Copilot.

Skills and Attributes

• Strong understanding of the corporate real estate functional areas, and the transaction lifecycle, including activities from diligence to sign to close.
• Strong financial modeling skills and ability to analyze real estate KPIs, benchmarks and operational trends.
• Demonstrate strong interpersonal and relationship building capabilities.
• Outstanding listening, written and oral communication skills.
• 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.

Benefits

Comprehensive compensation and benefits package including medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, and a wide range of paid time off options.

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.

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. Under our flexible vacation policy, you’ll decide how much vacation time you need based on your own personal circumstances. You’ll also be granted 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.