EY-Parthenon - Strategy and Execution - Deal Technology - Senior Director

Key Responsibilities

• Lead project teams comprising of colleagues from across the EY-Parthenon sub service lines.
• Manage and direct client service teams in developing and executing strategies for transactions.
• Focus on business and practice development, including presentations and client meetings.
• Contribute to practice development initiatives, supporting the continued focus on team culture.
• Coach and mentor team members to support achievement of their career goals.
• Build strong working relationships with senior clients, including influence, advice, and support to key decision makers.

Skills And Attributes For Success

• Project Management – lead project teams comprising of colleagues from across the EY-Parthenon sub service lines.
• Business and Commercially Driven – working in a fast-paced, exciting environment with strong business acumen to drive value to our clients.
• Business Development – drive client pursuits, including presentations and client meetings. Contribute to our practice development initiatives, supporting the continued focus on our team as a great place to work.
• People development – coach and mentor team members to support achievement of their career goals.
• Building Relationships - Strong working relationships with senior clients, including influence, advice, and support to key decision makers.

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, Engineering, Computer Science, or Analytics and 8 years of related work experience; or a graduate degree and approximately 7 years of related work experience.
• MBA is preferred.
• Significant M&A management consulting experience.
• Excellent analytical skills and the confidence to translate complex data into meaningful insights.
• 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 5 of the following IT skillsets:
• IT strategy
• Enterprise architecture
• Digital Technology Strategy
• Digital IT operating model transformation
• IT cost reduction
• IT security
• 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/PaaS strategy and delivery
• Cloud IaaS migration planning and execution
• IT service management and TSA development
• IT finance management
• IT infrastructure management
• IT outsourcing / offshoring
• IT contract management
• IT Diligence
• IT synergy identification
• Data separation and transition
• 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.
• A proven record of excellence in an IT mergers or acquisitions 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.