Senior Manager - Business Transformation jobs at Ey in Denmark

We are looking for a highly motivated and skilled Engagement Manager to join our Transaction Strategy and Execution team, based in our Copenhagen office. The ideal candidate possesses a strong background in M&A strategy/execution (both pre- and post-deal) and experience in the operational aspects of M&A, including client-facing or in-house engagements in one or more of the following areas:

• Post-merger integration and/or carve-out assistance
• Operations due diligence
• Operational value creation
• Deal strategy, including synergies
• Technology (product) and/or IT due diligence

Your key responsibilities

• Lead and/or contribute to a variety of pre- and post-deal engagements, including due diligence, deal strategy/synergies, and operational value creation.
• Manage day-to-day engagement aspects, including commercial, staffing, and risk management.
• Assist in business origination, including pitches and presentations, and work in project teams with colleagues.
• Execute Strategy and Transaction services that support key decision-makers in developing and executing transaction strategies.
• Work in a fast-paced environment with strong business acumen to add value to our clients.
• Learn and develop technical and personal skills to support your career goals through structured learning, coaching, and experiences.
• Contribute to practice development initiatives, supporting our focus on creating a great workplace.
• Act as a role model and support the development of junior team members, along with recruitment and training responsibilities.

Skills and attributes for success

• Significant and recent experience in a consulting firm or industry, preparing and delivering programs in an M&A environment.
• Ability to problem-solve and communicate effectively with gravitas to all relevant stakeholders.
• Comfort with ambiguity and fluid situations in time-pressured environments.
• Professional presentation skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.

What we look for

• An agile, growth-oriented mindset. We’re looking for innovative individuals who can work in an agile way and keep pace with a rapidly changing world.
• Curiosity and a purpose-driven approach. We seek people who see opportunities instead of challenges and ask better questions to build a better working world.
• Inclusivity. We value individuals who embrace diverse perspectives and work inclusively to build safety and trust.

What we offer you

• Accelerate your leadership journey by joining as a senior leader within the team, leveraging your transformative leadership skills.
• Lead on some of the most exciting, challenging M&A deals.
• Broaden your horizons by working on integrated teams across the globe and collaborating with diverse backgrounds.
• Invest in your personal well-being and career development.
• Develop your personal purpose and help create a positive ripple effect on teams, clients, and society.
• Embrace flexibility with EY's hybrid work model, allowing you to balance in-office and remote work based on team needs and preferences.

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.

Your Key Responsibilities

As an HR Business Partner, you will be instrumental in developing and implementing HR strategies into operational execution. Your role encompasses the full HR spectrum, with 50% of your responsibilities focused on supporting the Danish EY- Parthenon business and the other 50% dedicated to a broader Nordic perspective, including coordinating Nordic EY-Parthenon and other Nordic HR projects. The responsibilities would include:

• Driving the annual performance review and remuneration process.
• Coaching leaders and managing performance and talent processes.
• Being visible in the business and build strong relationships and understand the needs of employees and leaders.
• Analyzing data to identify needs and crafting tailored solutions for talent development.
• Serving as the first point of contact for HR-related matters and supporting the broader HR agenda.
• Facilitating workshops and training sessions to enhance leadership capabilities and foster a culture of continuous improvement.

Skills and Attributes for Success

We are seeking a personable, pragmatic, and proactive communicator who excels at building strong relationships with partners and stakeholders. You should be comfortable presenting in both physical and virtual settings and fluency in both Danish and English (spoken and written) are essential.

• A relevant academic background and relevant HRBP experience.
• A desire to find fulfillment as a skilled HR Business Partner
• An experienced HR professional with a wide toolbox and a passion for addressing the needs of the business.
• The ability to adapt quickly in a fast-paced industry.

Start Date:As soon as we have identified the right person.

We will conduct interviews on an ongoing basis, so apply online with your resume attached as soon as possible.

Whether you are a sprinter, or a marathon runner is not important to us. The most important thing is that we reach the goal together.

Your key responsibilities

As a Manager or Senior Manager, you'll lead business transformation projects, working with senior client stakeholders to deliver strategic change. Responsibilities include managing project teams, overseeing project lifecycles, and ensuring high-quality outcomes. You'll co-create solutions with clients, facilitate executive workshops, and mentor junior colleagues. Your expertise will help clients address challenges, identify opportunities, and achieve sustainable results.

As a person you have

• You have 4-8 years of full-time experience from another management consulting firm or in-house strategy department
• You have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills and enjoy tackling complex problems to find actionable insights
• You have an open and positive mindset. We’re looking for people who are driven, proactive and ambitious and can work in an agile way
• You have proven project management and stakeholder management skills
• You have strong communication and presentation skills
• You have a learning mindset and eagerness to help our clients achieve their dreams

What we offer

• A strong, local, Nordic and global network of talented, passionate colleagues and subject matter experts
• An extensive learning environment with many learning events, courses, and opportunities such as embarking on an MBA in Sustainability
• A culturally and professionally diverse workplace with high inclusivity and social belonging
• A work environment where flexibility and good work-life balance is a high priority
• A platform to accelerate your technical capabilities and transformative leadership skills with future-focused courses and development programs

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Assess and evaluate current processes, organizational and HR operational efficiency and technology enablement and make recommendations for improvements.
• Lead and manage all aspects of HR Transformation projects, including project management, HR strategy design, solution design, implementation, testing and cut-over.
• Collaborate with clients to develop and implement comprehensive HR Transformation strategies.
• Establish a strong client relationship being their trusted advisor and work confidently with both the client and any external stakeholders.
• Play a key role in developing and growing our Nordic HR M&A and Transformation practice, including thought leadership, marketing, and business development.

Skills and attributes for success:

• Master’s degree in Business Administration, Social Science, Technology or related field
• Between 4-8 years of experience driving HR operations and technology Transformation projects in a consulting or corporate environment.
• Robust HR technology and process understanding and insights into dependencies between HR process delivery and HR data & system
• Documented experience working with organization structure, HR processes & technology and understanding of cross-country transformational programs and their interdependencies to other business areas.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and project management skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills, ability to work effectively with clients and team members.

The opportunity

• Leads the delivery of solution or infrastructure development services for a large or more complex project, using strong technical capabilities and outstanding hands-on experience!
• Takes accountability for the design, development, delivery and maintenance of solutions or infrastructure, driving compliance with and contributing to the development of relevant standards
• Fully understands business and user requirements and ensures design specifications meet the requirements from a business and technical perspective

Your key responsibilities

• Solves complex and escalated aspects of a project, performing coding, debugging, testing and troubleshooting throughout the development process
• Provides advanced technical expertise to maximize efficiency, reliability and value from current solutions, infrastructure and emerging technologies, showing technical leadership and identifying and implementing continuous improvement plans
• Develops strong working relationships with peers across Development & Engineering and Architecture teams, collaborating to develop and engineer leading solutions
• Provides a leadership role for the work group, ensuring the appropriate expectations, principles, structures, tools and responsibilities are in place to deliver the project
• Drives consistency to the relevant processes, procedures, standards, technical design whilst supporting the definition, maintenance and implementation of technology standard

Skills and attributes for success

• Advanced technical proficiency in designing, developing, and debugging solutions
• Advanced knowledge of one or more of: C#/Java or Python
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, IT, Mathematics, or related field preferred
• More than 10 years applied experience
• Significant relevant experience in either an internal or external software or platform engineering role, or similar
• Technical knowledge and experience in delivering software / platform engineering solutions (depending on specialism), providing comprehensive technical advice and handling user requirements
• CI/CD delivery using code management, configuration management and automation tools such as GitHub, ADO
• Proficiency in fine-tuning language models for specific tasks, including text generation, summarization, or question answering
• Knowledge of embedding models and their application in NLP tasks like similarity matching, clustering, and information retrieval
• Familiarity with designing and implementing agentic systems that combine AI models with external tools or environments for autonomous decision-making
• Ability to design robust evaluation frameworks for AI models and agents, including metrics development, A/B testing, and performance benchmarking

Ideally, you’ll also

• Microsoft/Google/AWS certificates
• Delivery using modern methodologies
• Significant proven experience in building application using container-orchestration systems like Kubernetes, and container engines like Docker

What we look for

• A self-starter, independent-thinker, curious and creative person with ambition and passion

Building a better working world

Your key responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy machine learning models and data-driven solutions in Azure.
• Lead end-to-end data science projects, from problem framing to model implementation and monitoring.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including data engineers, cloud architects, and domain experts.
• Translate business problems into analytical frameworks and actionable insights.
• Present findings and recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Mentor junior data scientists and contribute to EY’s internal knowledge base and best practices.

Skills and attributes for success

• Strong proficiency in Python for data analysis, machine learning, and scripting.
• Proven experience working with Microsoft Azure services (e.g., Azure Machine Learning, Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Azure Synapse).
• Solid understanding of ML concepts, statistics, and model evaluation techniques.
• Experience with data wrangling, feature engineering, and large-scale data processing.
• Familiarity with DevOps/MLOps in cloud environments is a strong plus.
• Ability to communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively.
• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in data science or advanced analytics roles.
• Hands-on project experience deploying models in production environments using Azure.
• Business acumen and experience working with clients or in consulting settings.
• Proficiency in Danish

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Experience with other programming languages (e.g., R, SQL, Scala) or visualization tools (e.g., Power BI).
• Experience in regulated industries such as healthcare, financial services, or energy.
• Certifications in Azure Data Science or related cloud technologies.

What we offer you

We offer a dynamic and inclusive workplace where innovation is encouraged. You will have opportunities for learning, certification, and career growth. We provide flexible working arrangements and foster global collaboration. You will have access to cutting-edge technologies and tools. Our purpose-driven culture values integrity, collaboration, and impact.

Your new role as Analyst/Senior Analyst

The one area that will be consistent throughout is the use of data driven solutions to analyse large and complex datasets – building sophisticated transaction driven analyses to help address our clients’ challenges in fast-changing markets. The central driver of the Data & Analytics group is a constant ambition to improve the M&A process, recognizing the significant untapped value that sits in the ever-growing volume of data our world is generating.

You will be a part of a Nordic-wide team, a group with a diverse set of backgrounds including data science, engineering, finance, and accounting (amongst others). You will have the opportunity to work on projects across the Nordic countries, as well as abroad, working side by side with talented and driven colleagues who will give you the support and guidance to succeed from day one.

Your skills & qualifications

We’re looking for enthusiastic analysts and senior analysts who thrive in fast-paced, dynamic environments, eager to combine technical and financial expertise to foster innovation and deliver valuable insights to our clients. To excel in this role, we imagine you have:

• A recent degree or up to 4 years of postgraduate experience.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• A passion for continuous learning and staying on top of emerging technology trends.
• An analytical mindset and enjoy tackling complex challenges.
• The ability to collaborate effectively within diverse teams, embracing colleagues from a wide range of technical and personal backgrounds.
• Experience or interest in data modelling, processing and visualization using tools such as Python, R, SQL, Power BI and/or Tableau.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake, Databricks, AI/ML, Git, or Cloud technology is a plus, though not required.

What we offer

At EY we put our colleagues at the centre, where you will have the ability to have a large impact on developing your career based on your own personal interests and goals – regardless of whether that includes industries and clients or developing your knowledge within specifics tools, technologies, and areas. On top of this you will receive opportunities to get involved in our exciting projects such as volunteer work, recruiting, and engagement with our student relations teams.

If you have any questions regarding the position, please contact Mathias Gade at +45 2529 4545.