Brand Strategy Assistant Director jobs at Ey in Canada, Toronto

EY Canada’s Corporate Development Office (CDO), responsible for managing mergers and acquisitions for EY Canada, has an exciting opportunity for a full-time position as an Assistant Director - Corporate Development. This role supports an important strategic inorganic growth objective of the firm as part of our All-In Strategy. In addition to the CDO, you will be a core member of our Strategic Investment Office, working closely with various areas of the business involved in:

• The identification and validation of potential acquisition targets and management of transactions from inception through due diligence, day 1 readiness, successful closure, onboarding, and integration into the firm.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Deal Sourcing, Target Analysis and Administration
• Work with our business leaders across Service Lines, Sub-service lines, Competencies, Industry Groups and Sectors to understand the areas of strategic priority for inorganic growth.
• Develop and maintain a robust M&A pipeline, working directly with our leaders as well as through the running of markets scans, targeted research and relationships with investment bankers,
• Build strong internal relationships with our leaders, maintaining regular touch points to continue to drive deal origination.
• Take part in target outreach, supporting initial exploratory discussions and strategic alignment sessions.
• Develop a deep understanding of how EY assess targets in terms of Strategic, Cultural and Financial fit, leveraging that knowledge and experience to evaluate and document potential M&A
• targets, providing critical insights to assist leadership decide on the right opportunities to pursue.
• Support valuation modelling and business cases development.
• Support in the preparation of expressions of interest (EOI), letters of intent (LOI), and purchase and sale agreements (PSA).
• Maintain an awareness of M&A activity outside of EY, including market trends
• Maintain and enhance CDO governance, acquisition tracking, and reporting.
• Bring thought leadership around continuous improvement of CDO tools, processes and procedures including the use of AI and automation.
• Oversee and manage the acquisitions database, ensuring accurate and up-to-date information.
• Assist in Post Acquisition Reporting (PAR), and deal evaluation against business case.

Transaction Management Office (TMO)

• Working with the Director of Corporate Development, you will have the opportunity to lead the TMO on certain transactions, providing TMO support on others, as appropriate.
• Help plan and execute due diligence and day 1 readiness activities, coordinating across multiple internal workstreams and target leadership.
• Build and maintain relationships with Target leadership, in many cases acting as a single point of contact.
• Manage and maintain transaction documentation: project kick-off materials, org charts, timeline & milestone charts, status updates, meeting notes, action logs, confidentiality NDA logs, etc.
• Identify, document, and manage program risks, ensuring all stakeholders are informed and appropriate actions are taken.
• Coordinate team meetings with multiple internal stakeholders and target leadership.
• Maintain constant communications across multiple workstreams, understanding and coordinating the flow of critical and relevant information to the right audiences in a timely manner.
• Lead team meetings, driving the agenda, identifying and tracking key decisions and actions.
• Coordinate the collection and distribution of diligence responses and supporting documentation shared by the target.
• Help ensure that we close transactions on a timely basis and have a robust onboarding and integration plan.

Strategic Investment Office (SIO)

• Act as a core member of the Strategic Investment Office, supporting its initiatives and objectives.
• Collaborate with the SIO team to assess investment requests and provide insights and recommendations.
• Assist in the development of business cases for investment requests, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
• Assist in the preparation of detailed investment reports and presentations for the Strategic Investment Committee (SIC).
• Engage with cross-functional teams to assist in the tracking and reporting on the performance of approved investments, providing analysis and insights to leadership.

What You Will Gain from This Role

• Broad Exposure : You’ll understand the “inner-workings” of EY, working directly with our Chief Investment Office (CIO), Director of Corporate Development, our newly formed Strategic Investment Committee (made up of our CIO, Chair & CEO, COO/CFO along with 3 other members of our EC) and your CDO and SIO team colleagues. You will also develop relationships with your colleagues in Finance, Global Corporate Development, CTO, C&I, Talent as well as with leaders across all Service Lines and Industry Groups. You’ll have direct insight and exposure into the strategic initiatives of the firm.
• Leadership : You’ll develop key leadership attributes, gain confidence in chairing discussions, presenting ideas, and managing critical decision points.
• Understand EY: You will develop a deeper understanding of the firm’s capabilities and strategic growth priorities.
• M&A Experience: You’ll hone your skills across the M&A transaction lifecycle, including financial modeling, due diligence processes, and integration strategies, including cross border transactions and intra-firm agreements.

What We Look For

• Positive Attitude : A strong work ethic, willingness to learn, and openness to welcome new challenges.
• Work Independently : Ability to work effectively under pressure and time constraints in an unstructured environment relying on self-direction.
• Creativity : Leverage past experiences to continuously improve and streamline processes.
• Teaming – Be dedicated to the program and help your team be successful.
• Strategic Mindset : Understand the ‘big picture’ of the transaction and its strategic importance.
• Organizational Skills : Diligently track, execute, and follow up on daily activities; manage your own and your team's workload effectively. Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects andmeet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Consulting Skills : Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a high degree of proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint and financial analysis tools. Advanced Microsoft Suite skills considered anadvantage.
• Confidentiality : Ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality.
• Executive Presence : Ability to work seamlessly with and direct the activities of senior leaders demonstrating credibility and inspiring confidence.
• Analytical Skills : Ability to synthesize information, draw conclusions, and make appropriate recommendations.
• Financial Modeling Skills : Proficiency in financial modeling and analysis tools is essential.
• Communications : Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex information clearly and concisely to a senior leadership audience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration or a related field
• CPA, CBV and or CFA designation or working towards it is considered an asset

SSG focuses on Product and Technology competency which provides investment and acquisition guidance to clients across product, and technical topics needed to assess and advise companies leveraging their own proprietary software for commercial advantage

Your key responsibilities:

As a Senior Manager in our team, you’ll advise clients across software and tech-enabled services sectors, supporting in developing and executing strategies for transactions, use your knowledge and enthusiasm to apply your technical skills across the M&A transaction lifecycle; ranging from diligence to technology strategy assignments including pre-deal diligence, portfolio review and post deal value creation engagements.

• Product and Technology diligence: We provide market-leading product and technology diligence of companies in the Software Economy, an "inside-out" assessment of product capabilities, product road map, software architecture, technical debt, R&D organization, and software development processes, enabling investors to understand a software company's capabilities and ability to execute against its corporate strategy, while also identifying risks and opportunities.

Skills and attributes for success:

• Leading pre deal, post deal, value creation engagements with clients across all sectors including private equity across North America.
• Senior Managers manage an engagement’s successful execution, lead the engagement team and work directly with clients. Across each engagement, a Senior Manager will
• lead and direct the analysis approach, coach/ mentor team members, identify areas of necessary industry research, interview industry experts, conduct qualitative and
• quantitative investigation, and lead discussions with our clients
• Lead discussions to develop hypotheses, insights, and key findings critical to the engagement
• Executing qualitative and quantitative reviews (e.g., R&D Spend analysis, feature functionality benchmarking, competitor studies, organizational capabilities, technology capabilities) to support the formulation and validation of strategic recommendations
• Conducting in-depth interviews with key organizational stakeholders, industry experts and customers
• Contribute to people initiatives; mentoring, coaching, recruiting, retaining and training staff.

Desirable knowledge and experience:

• A master’s or bachelor's degree (or equivalent) with outstanding academic performance (Computer science or similar field would be a plus) and 6+ years of software-related work experience (strategy consulting work experience a plus)
• Any prior experience as functional head (e.g. CTO, CPO, CIO, Head of Engineering) within a software company, or the software function of a more traditional company, especially product management, software engineering, data science or DevOps, and ideally with recognized industry expertise would be a bonus
• Experience of transactions, ideally in performing of Technology Due Diligence and/or strategic value creation assignments (AI diligence experience is a plus)
• Ability to comment on technology aspects of transactions that are relevant and valued by clients and readers of Product and Technology Due Diligence reports
  Program and project management expertise with demonstrable experience in managing and being responsible for the delivery of successful programs
• Demonstrable experience or knowledge of structured methodologies and industry standards for Product Management, UI/UX design principles, Software Architecture, Software
• Development Life Cycle methods and the ability to provide insights based on experience
• Ability to analyze and assess software design artifacts such as architecture diagrams, software manifests, and user experience flows
• Proficient in the English language, including the ability to listen, understand, read and communicate effectively, both in writing and verbally, in a professional environment
• Report writing skills to convert valuable software-related insights into due diligence (DD) reports for consumption by stakeholders, ensuring clarity and actionable recommendations.
• Excellent problem solving, project management, facilitation and interpersonal skills
• Ability to multitask and work efficiently in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to make detailed assessments of industry, products, markets, competitors and customers to identify risks and opportunities
• Effective organization and time management skills with ability to work under pressure and adhere to project deadlines
• Flexible with working locations, the ability to learn quickly and leverage skills in new situations
  

Ideal candidate characteristics:

• You will be a charismatic and effective leader of diverse teams
• You will be a fluid and professional communicator with “C-suite” presence
• You will have a strong grasp of ethical and regulatory obligations
• You’ll be a trusted business consultant to our clients and use your deep knowledge of technology trends to work closely to their needs
• Your proven project management and stakeholder management experience will be key to the role

If you’re ready to take on a wide range of responsibilities and are committed to seeking out new ways to make a difference, this role is for you

What we offer you

The salary range for the Senior Manager job in British Columbia is $144,000 to $192,000. Individual salaries within these ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and work location city.

As an Audit Administrative Assistant, you will be a professional member of the EY Assurance team. Together with our substantial investments in technology, knowledge, and learning resources for our audit professionals, you will be part of the team that delivers quality assurance services to our clients and their stakeholders

Your key responsibilities

As an Administrative Assistant, you will assist Audit Managers and Partners in organizing the workflow, supporting the organization of files, and communicating with the audit teams.

Skills and attributes for success

• Setting up new client files or rolling forward in Caseware/Canvas
• Working in MS Excel to manipulate trial balances for importing
• Importing trial balances into Caseware/Canvas
• Preparing and balancing financial statements in Caseware
• Updating/formatting financial statements, making adjusting entries
• Proofreading financial statements (if required)
• Prepare bank, A/R, A/P and inventory confirmations
• Finalizing financial statements, ensuring files have required sign offs and archiving
• Coordinating the flow of tax returns and review notes between tax and audit
• Preparing corporate/partnership/trust tax returns packages for client
• Organizing and saving signed tax documents
• Efiling tax returns/forms/Paper filing returns when necessary
• Maintain and organize the client directory
• Assist managers with client meeting presentations
• General help to organize the managers and facilitate communication and meetings
• Prepare covering letters, tax letters and all other correspondence
• Respond to any other duties as required

Corporate and Operational Strategy is EY’s executive strategy practice. The EY-Parthenon brand is the home of our fast-growing global strategy capability. We advise corporate and private equity clients on strategic and commercial issues affecting their key investment choices. Areas of our work include:

• Corporate and Portfolio strategy
• Product and business unit strategy development
• Market entry strategy, and opportunity sizing
• Capital allocation, structure and raising
• Acquisition and Divestment options analysis
• Business model reinvention
• Strategic cost evaluation
• Commercial due diligence

Your key responsibilities:

• Provide Techno-Economic based expertise to global teams performing work in Critical Materials by participating directly on client project teams or providing analysis specific support. In practical terms this means researching information, performing analyses, structuring recommendations backed by fact based techno-economic insights and creating documents to communicate recommendations.
• Coach teammates with a more general consulting background on obtaining data, structuring and performing analysis in Critical and broader Mining & metals sectors.
• Developing and updating tools to have current industry perspectives on supply, demand, capex, cost, price markers, evolving trade flows and frictions, industry structure and emerging technologies or significant trends – by tracking events in several specific sectors.
• Grow the practice by linking economic, geo-political, company or industry specific events to ideas for client conversations and proposals to grow the practice.
• Assist in marketing and showcasing the service line to EY offices and industry in the Americas and globally by writing points of view or speaking at conferences.
• Director/Manager:
  
  • Develop, manage and mentor junior team members; contribute to people initiatives.
  • Support client relationship management while executing projects; delivering a high degree of client satisfaction with the engagement.
  • Contribute to business development efforts; develop long term relationships and network internally and externally.

We are interested in candidates who have:

• Engineering degree (preferably Geological, Mining, Metallurgical or Chemical) with a master’s degree in Mineral Economics, Microeconomics, Finance or a CFA designation.
• Consultant:
  
  • 2-4 years relevant work experience ideally in a corporate planning or an engineering firm’s project evaluation group. Investment banking backgrounds will be considered with the right educational qualifications.
• Director (Manager):
  
  • 5-8 years relevant work experience ideally in a corporate planning or an engineering firm’s project evaluation group.
• Work/leadership/ life experience with demonstrated impact in a team environment.
• Strong aptitude for quantitative and qualitative analysis and the ability to link technical and micro-economic information to business strategy and financial outcomes.
• Personable with good coaching and explanation skills, strategic thinker and deductive reasoner.
• Problem-solving skills – analytical, quantitative and conceptual.
• Advanced modelling skills (Excel) and visualization skills (Tableau and/or Power BI).
• Effective organization and time management skills with ability to work under demanding environment and adhere to project deadlines.
• Strong written and verbal communication abilities.
• Comfort with shaping tangible insights in an ambiguous environment.

Lead marketing that powers Canada’s future.

We’re looking for a strategic thinker and an influential leader who can:

• Set the vision for sector marketing and translate it into actionable strategies that drive growth and market leadership.

• Partner with senior leaders to align marketing priorities with business objectives and deliver high-impact initiatives.

• Lead go-to-market programs that position EY as a trusted advisor and innovator in Industrials and Energy.

• Harness market intelligence to anticipate trends, identify opportunities, and inform strategic investments.

• Champion collaboration across industry groups, service lines, alliances and stakeholders to ensure seamless execution and measurable results.

• Inspire and develop talent, fostering a high-performing marketing team equipped to deliver excellence.

• Allocate budgets to optimize spend, drive performance and support the overarching marketing strategy.

• Track performance and ROI to ensure marketing activity delivers tangible impact.

What we look for

• Prior experience with brand and marketing strategy and campaign development, preference for experience within a professional services setting.
• Strong skills in managing and supporting multiple stakeholders across the portfolio.
• Strong grasp of data analytics, performance metrics, and full-funnel optimization.
• Professional maturity, resilience and adaptability.
• At ease managing multiple high-priority projects and navigating ambiguity in a deadline-driven and matrixed environment
• Strong leadership skills and experience with overseeing staff
• Process-driven, always looking for ways to improve efficiency and effectiveness
• Ability to work both independently and with the team, relying on strong influencing skills to achieve results
• A bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Marketing, or a related field is required. A graduate degree is preferred.
• A minimum of 10 years of relevant business experience.
• In-depth knowledge of professional services and its unique characteristics.
• Proven experience in program, project, and campaign management and execution.
• Strong skills in stakeholder management, with the ability to work comfortably with senior leaders.
• Comprehensive knowledge of marketing trends, execution, and measurement.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills, with demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities, stakeholders, and complex projects and initiatives simultaneously.
• This role involves interaction with internal and external clients and professionals nationally and globally. Professional competency in the English language is therefore a requirement of this role. Bilingualism in both French and English is considered an asset

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Past experience in professional services is highly desirable.
• B2B marketing experience an asset.

What we offer you

We offer a competitive compensation package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to our business. Plus, we offer:

• Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around
• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you

The salary range for this job in British Columbia is $92,300 to $153,800. Individual salaries within this range are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and work location city.

Manager - Service Design, EY Studio+ UK

About EY Studio+ UK

We’re one of the biggest and most mature Service Design functions in the world, the elder statesperson of Service Design if you will. We’ve been around for 17 years and been part of EY for the last five.

We take our practitioners seriously and you will be given the freedom and support to develop your craft, your thinking, your work and your career in a way that suits you and delivers for the practice and your clients.

Responsibilities, Qualifications, Certifications

The role

This role is open to those with demonstrable experience of working as a Service Design Manager within industry. You will have a portfolio of projects that you can talk through and demonstrate how you have applied service design to business or organisational challenges either in house or within a consulting role.

There are a couple of things that we ask of everybody.

• You will be endlessly inquisitive, and ruthlessly user focused and able to use a combination of logic, empathy, rigour and storytelling to articulate a customer or business problem before working creatively and technically to articulate a service that solves it.

• You will be a natural collaborator. Ideas breed ideas, and so we work multi-disciplinary teams and embed clients in our process. We work in the open, we share our thinking early and we build on each other’s contribution.

• You will be visual. We work generatively. We create things to clarify thinking, align understanding and move towards a solution that works.

• You will be iterative. No-one gets it right first time. We don’t expect to.

• You will be ambitious yet realistic in your solutions. Our work sits in the sweet spot between desirable, viable, feasible and allowable. Getting it there is a big part of what we do.

• You will be a doer AND a thinker and know when to switch from one to the other and how to create time and space for both.

• You will navigate complexity. People, organisations, technology, policies, regulations. Designing services puts you at the centre of complexity. We need to make sense of it all quickly, and flex and adapt to move through it effectively.

• You’ll be fascinated by service in all its forms with a desire to deliver great solutions in the teams we put together for clients, to help them improve existing services, invent new ones, and ultimately grow businesses.

• You will be competent in service design methods, and know how to shepherd clients through a service design process, creating good work and advocates for EY Studio+ UK as you go.

• You will be a self-starter and have an explorative mindset, creating new perspectives and identifying the spaces you can be impactful for both EY Studio+ UK and its clients.

Your key responsibilities

• You will develop and manage plans for project teams, updates stakeholders, and escalates scope
• You will develop relationships that can benefit our firm and our clients (e.g., with stakeholders in target organizations) and beyond the workplace to enhance our presence and impact in the community
• You will identify and share trends, topics and resources (e.g., professional bodies, market developments such as sector-specific trends, regulatory guidance) that will increase the relevance and value of our service delivery and seizes opportunities to grow knowledge
• You will take a systematic approach to making decisions, considering all relevant data
• You are considered a direct point of contact for client and team, speaks to client regularly about future trends, and begin to own and grow the firm’s relationship with the client
• You will maintain open and proactive communication and build credibility based on understanding client issues and offering innovative solutions
• You will create and deliver presentations that engage a range of audiences and respond to their questions and concerns
• You will integrate data and apply judgment in forming practical insights and addressing potential issues, leveraging opportunities and analyses that enable decision-making by critical stakeholders
• You will share technical, sector and market knowledge to inform client thinking

Skills and attributes

• You will confidently and authentically presents complex messages skilfully, using a variety of media and methods that build excellent relationships based on a trust
• You will demonstrate influencing skills that address the varied interests and individual style of others, recognizing people have different sources of motivation and ways to achieve success
• You will create a positive team environment, balancing individual initiative with team collaboration and with EY priorities, and encourages people to speak up and express differing views
• You will devise approaches to resolve conflicts, including those that arise from cultural differences, and keeps negotiations or dialogue moving forward, even when solutions are not apparent
• You will adopt appropriate coaching techniques to meet the various needs of team members
• You will assemble the right team to achieve business goals by creating the right mix of skills and the right conditions to work together effectively
• You will improve commitment and engagement of team members, while focusing on the achievement of their goals
• You will provide constructive feedback tailored to each person’s style and environment
• You will recommend development activities tailored to each team member’s needs and learning style
• You will resolve competing priorities and resource allocation issues, building collaboration across organizational boundaries

To qualify for the role you must

• Be able to describe EY Studio+ UK capabilities and commitments accurately when discussing possible business opportunities with external contacts

• Show that you have consistently produced service design work of high quality that is accurate, complete and compelling

• Demonstrate ability to lead a small (<3 designers) team and/or manage budgets (<£100k) effectively with some oversight

• Be able to create presentations that are clear and impactful, translating EY Studio+ UK ’s services into meaningful value propositions for clients

• Show how you have contributed to a positive design team environment

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:

• Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around

• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career

• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you

If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

Apply now.

Key responsibilities

• Work with local or global tax teams to coordinate and track tax deliverables,
• Support development of contracting, billing/invoicing, scope/fees and related administrative processes
• Update document repositories
• Prepare executive level reporting, presentations, data analytics
• Support development of proposals
• Support and assist with ad-hoc support as needed

Our ideal candidate has:

• Strong organizational and time management skills
• Excellent communication skills – written/oral
• Proven project management skills, and an ability to plan and prioritize work
• Ability to work non-standard hours to support global time zones (if/when required)
• College diploma or bachelor’s degree in a related field
• Microsoft suite knowledge (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
• Tech-savvy
• Tax/accounting/finance knowledge or background (not required but nice to have)

What we offer you

When you thrive, we thrive. The EY benefits package goes above and beyond, focusing on your physical, emotional, financial and social well-being:

• $5,000 per year for mental health support benefits
• Wellbeing benefit of $1,200/year

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