EY-Parthenon - Strategy and Execution - Deal Technology - PE - Director - Multiple Locations

Key Responsibilities

As a Director with EY-Parthenon's Strategy and Execution Deal Technology practice, you will be a vital member of the team managing and executing IT focused projects across sectors. You’ll work day to day with investment teams, operating partners, and C-Suite executives at middle market Portfolio companies. You will be developing and executing strategies for transactions. Part of your role will also involve developing experience in different types of engagements, including pre-deal (e.g., operational and carve-out planning) and post-deal (e.g., integration planning, value creation).

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Manage senior client relationships and influence client perspectives.
• Solve problems from beginning to end (problem identification, hypothesis development, synthesis, and recommendation with a compelling narrative).
• Understand and translate client needs into approach and outcomes for project delivery.
• Collaborate effectively with project teams comprising colleagues from across the EY-Parthenon sub-service lines.
• Drive value to our clients through a business and commercially driven approach.
• Contribute to our practice development initiatives, supporting the continued focus on our team as a great place to work.
• Coach junior colleagues to become high-performing.
• Develop and apply technical and personal skills to support career goals.

Skills And Attributes For Success

• Build Trusted Relationships
• Strong Problem Solving and Storytelling
• Outcomes-driven
• Effective through Collaboration
• Business and Commercially Driven
• Business Development
• Talent Development
• Learning

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in business, Accounting, Finance, Engineering, Computer Science, Business Information and Operations Management, or Analytics and 5 years of related work experience; or a graduate degree and approximately 3 years of related work experience.
• MBA is preferred.
• Significant management consulting experience.
• Excellent analytical skills and the confidence to translate complex data into meaningful insights.
• Interest in understanding of how Private Equity dynamics work, navigating stakeholders across investment teams, operating partners/advisors, and leaders at the Portfolio Companies.
• Experience in business integrations, divestitures, and/or carve-outs with a demonstrated aptitude for quantitative and qualitative analysis.
• Experience leading and managing in complex business environments.
• The ability to synthesize approaches to complex integration/divestiture conflicts.
• Excellent negotiation and influencing skills, and the ability to develop long-lasting relationships both internally and externally.
• Expertise in a minimum of 4 of the following IT skillsets:
• IT strategy
• Enterprise architecture
• Infrastructure and cloud architecture
• Cyber and IAM architecture
• Digital Technology Strategy
• IT operating model transformation
• IT cost reduction
• IT security / cyber
• IT shared services
• IT organization transformation
• ERP implementation
• Digital business enablement using digital technology enablers (i.e., advanced analytics, robotic process automation, virtual reality)
• Cloud SaaS or PaaS (including Collaboration)
• Cloud IaaS or Data Center migration planning and execution
• Identity and Access Management (IAM) / Active Directory services strategy
• IT service management
• Operations Center (e.g., NOC, SOC) or Managed Service Provider
• IT TSA development
• IT finance management
• IT infrastructure management
• IT outsourcing / offshoring
• IT contract management
• IT or Cyber Diligence
• IT synergy identification
• Data governance, separation, and transition
• Integration and Separation Planning
• Experience with and demonstrated success in at least one key business process such as procurement to pay, record to report, order to cash, plan to make, hire to retire.
• Certifications in Agile, ITIL, PMP, Six Sigma, CISSP or CISA highly desired.

Prior Experience

• A proven record of excellence in an IT transactions role.
• Experience gained within another large professional services organization.
• Knowledge of how to leverage firm-approved AI tools in a business setting, including Microsoft Copilot.
• Established networking skills in a relevant industry.

Location

Locations: New York, Hoboken, Atlanta, Denver, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Boston, Detroit, McLean, San Francisco, Chicago, Houston, Seattle, Dallas