Ey-parthenon - Corporate Finance Business jobs at Ey in United States, Houston

With deep functional and sector expertise, paired with innovative AI-powered technology and an investor mindset, we partner with CEOs, Boards, Private Equity and Governments every step of the way – enabling you to shape your future with confidence.

Skills and attributes for success

• Commercial – as part of the team you will regularly advise businesses on valuations issues with regards to acquisition or divestitures and provide fairness opinions on transactions and restructurings.
• Regulatory and Accounting –you will work with management as part of an acquisition process to understand how the value of acquired intangible and financial assets will impact accounting requirements.
• Taxation – you will regularly undertake valuations for fiscal purposes in the US market and advise clients on all aspects of US tax valuation issues.
• Intangible Assets – within the team you would specialize in the valuation of Intangible assets such as trademarks, brand names, core deposit intangibles, customer relationships, banking and other licenses, patents, technology and know-how.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• A bachelor's degree in finance, economics, accounting or business and at least 5 years of related business valuation work experience; or a graduate degree and at least 4 years of related work experience.
• Previous Business Valuation experience.
• Financial modelling skills including experience building models from scratch.
• Demonstrated record of solving complex problems and completing challenging projects.
• You must either reside in or be in a commutable distance to your office location for this position.
• The ability and willingness to travel and work in excess of standard hours when necessary. In certain circumstances, travel may be required beyond your work location based on client and project needs.

Ideally, you will have

• Previous valuation experience in professional services/Big 4 Firm.
• Financial modelling experience.
• Achievement of or significant progress towards a CFA.
• ASA/AM designations are a plus with the expectation of one completed designation within a given timeframe.
• Knowledge of how to leverage firm-approved AI tools in a business setting, including Microsoft Copilot.

What we look for

We are looking for candidates who are highly motivated, analytical, logical thinkers with a passion for valuations and have very strong attention to detail. Being a strong team player is critical with the ability to adapt to changing requirements or deadlines in support of our client’s goals.

With deep functional and sector expertise, paired with innovative AI-powered technology and an investor mindset, we partner with CEOs, Boards, Private Equity and Governments every step of the way – enabling you to shape your future with confidence.

Skills and attributes for success

• Commercial – as part of the team you will regularly advise businesses on valuations issues with regards to acquisition or divestitures and provide fairness opinions on transactions and restructurings.
• Regulatory and Accounting – you will work with management as part of an acquisition process to understand how the value of acquired intangible and financial assets will impact accounting requirements.
• Taxation – you will regularly undertake valuations for fiscal purposes in the US market and advise clients on all aspects of US tax valuation issues.
• Intangible Assets – within the team you would specialize in the valuation of Intangible assets such as trademarks, brand names, core deposit intangibles, customer relationships, banking and other licenses, patents, technology and know-how.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• A bachelor's degree in finance, economics, accounting or business and at least 2 years of related business valuation work experience; or a graduate degree and approximately 18 months of related work experience.

• Previous Business Valuation experience.
• Financial modeling skills including experience building models from scratch.
• Demonstrated record of solving complex problems and completing challenging projects.
• You must either reside in or be in a commutable distance to your office location for this position.
• The ability and willingness to travel and work in excess of standard hours when necessary. In certain circumstances, travel may be required beyond your work location based on client and project needs.

Ideally, you will have

• Previous valuation experience in professional services/Big 4 Firm.
• Financial modeling experience.
• Achievement of or significant progress towards a CFA.
• ASA/AM designations are a plus with the expectation of one completed designation within a given timeframe.
• Knowledge of how to leverage firm-approved AI tools in a business setting, including Microsoft Copilot.

What we look for

We are looking for candidates who are highly motivated, analytical, logical thinkers with a passion for valuations and have very strong attention to detail. Being a strong team player is critical with the ability to adapt to changing requirements or deadlines in support of our client’s goals.

ity

This role requires strong strategic thinking, communication skills, and the ability to address complex organizational challenges with fit-for-purpose solutions. You will also support business development efforts and advise senior client stakeholders on transformation strategies aligned with sector trends and operational priorities.

You will be embedded within one or more strategic accounts, serving as a transformation architect responsible for shaping integrated, cross-functional solutions across domains such as wells, operations, supply chain, emissions, and enterprise functions. A key focus will be on elevating go-to-market maturity by aligning initiatives, identifying synergies, and influencing both design-time and delivery-time decisions.

Your key responsibilities

As a Manager, you will be involved in the effective management and delivery of complex processes, solutions, and projects—ensuring quality, managing risk, and contributing to business growth. You will:

• Exercise judgment in selecting methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for delivering results.
• Develop solutions to complex problems and recommend policy or procedural changes as needed.
• Be accountable for the budget, execution, and performance of transformation initiatives.
• Lead pursuit efforts including proposal development, team structuring, commercial approach, and use of EY accelerators.
• Serve as a transformation architect across priority accounts, integrating workstreams to drive account-wide value.
• Shape go-to-market and account strategies by aligning business priorities, solution assets, and strategic partners.

Skills and attributes for success

To thrive in this role, you will need strong expertise in transformation delivery, including the ability to analyze, problem-solve, and apply best practices to deliver business impact. You will also:

• Lead engagement delivery and program management.
• Manage client relationships through day-to-day and executive-level interactions.
• Support business development pursuits and prepare proposals.
• Travel as needed to support client delivery.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• A bachelor’s degree (required), master’s preferred.
• At least 5 years of relevant experience in business transformation, with deep sector expertise in oil and gas.
• Proven experience in:
• Operating model design and deployment
• Transformation strategy and business case development
• Portfolio governance, performance metric design, and cost transformation
• Agile organization development and digital strategy
• Familiarity with emerging technologies and future-back planning
• Strong foundational business skills, including:
• Client relationship management and trust-building
• Commercial acumen and proposal development
• Executive-level communication and change leadership
• Systems thinking, sustainability, and cross-functional team leadership

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Experience navigating complex stakeholder environments.
• Demonstrated leadership and ability to inspire teams.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience delivering transformation strategies at an account or enterprise level.
• Familiarity with technologies used in upstream and integrated operations
• Experience coordinating solution design and delivery across teams and ecosystem partners.

Financial Analyst, Financial Services Risk Management, (Structured Finance - Transactions) - Financial Services Office (Manager) (Multiple Positions) (1648569), Ernst & Young U.S. LLP, Houston, TX.

Analyze financial information and advise clients on issues facing the financial services sector, focusing on structured finance. Focus on evaluating and comparing the relative quality and risks associated with various securities, including asset-backed securities (ABS), commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS), residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS), and collateralized loan obligations (CLO). Conduct loan document review and data reviews on loan files, recalculating fields on data tapes and run exception reports to tie out with clients. Create collateral stratification tables used for assessing loan pool characteristics. Perform cash flow modeling on deals to tie out to clients’ loan amortization tables and bond analytics. Draft Engagement Letters, Proposals and Agreed upon Procedures Reports which detail due diligence, cash flow modeling and deal structuring.

Full time employment, Monday – Friday,40-45 hours per week, 8:30 am – 5:30 pm.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

Must have a Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, or a related field and 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate related work experience. Alternatively, must have a Master’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, or a related field and 4 years of related work experience.

Must have 4 years of Structured Finance transaction experience in the Financial Services industry.

Must have 4 years of experience in banking/capital markets at a commercial bank or comparable experience working as a consultant in a financial services company.

Must have 4 years of combined experience in at least 2 of the following requirement:
- Transaction issuance knowledge of fixed income products including CLO, ABS, RMBS, or CMBS and related real estate finance experience;
- Risk management, front office, or securitization related activities within Banking Capital Markets; or
- Structured Finance cash flow modeling experience

Must have at least 3 years of experience in asset file review, collateral stratification/analysis, bond analytics, securitization offering document review and/or other related securitization compliance reviews and at least 1 year of experience in the preparation of Agreed-Upon Procedures reports.

Must have 2 years of experience supervising and managing a team of consulting professionals.

Employer will accept any suitable combination of education, training or experience.

What we offer

We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package where you’ll be rewarded based on yourperformance and recognized for the value you bring to the business. The base salary for this job is $125,278.00 per year. In addition, our Total Rewards package includes medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, and a wide range of paid time off options. Join us in our team-led and leader-enabled hybrid model. 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.

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.
EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.

This particular position at Ernst & Young in the United States requires the qualified candidate to be a "United States worker" as defined by the U.S. Department of Labor regulations at 20 CFR 656.3. You can review this definition at at the bottom of page 750. Please feel free to apply to other positions that do not require you to be a "U.S. worker".

This role requires strong strategic thinking, communication skills, and the ability to address complex organizational challenges with fit-for-purpose solutions. You will also support business development efforts and advise senior client stakeholders on transformation strategies aligned with sector trends and operational priorities.

You will be embedded within one or more strategic accounts, serving as a transformation architect responsible for shaping integrated, cross-functional solutions across domains such as wells, operations, supply chain, emissions, and enterprise functions. A key focus will be on elevating go-to-market maturity by aligning initiatives, identifying synergies, and influencing both design-time and delivery-time decisions.

Your key responsibilities

As a Senior Manager, you will oversee the effective management and delivery of complex processes, solutions, and projects—ensuring quality, managing risk, and contributing to business growth. You will:

• Exercise judgment in selecting methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for delivering results.
• Develop solutions to complex problems and recommend policy or procedural changes as needed.
• Be accountable for the budget, execution, and performance of transformation initiatives.
• Lead pursuit efforts including proposal development, team structuring, commercial approach, and use of EY accelerators.
• Serve as a transformation architect across priority accounts, integrating workstreams to drive account-wide value.
• Shape go-to-market and account strategies by aligning business priorities, solution assets, and strategic partners.

Skills and attributes for success

To thrive in this role, you will need strong expertise in transformation architecture, including the ability to analyze, problem-solve, and apply best practices to deliver business impact. You will also:

• Lead engagement delivery and program management.
• Manage senior client relationships through day-to-day and executive-level interactions.
• Drive business development pursuits and prepare proposals.
• Travel as needed to support client delivery.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• A bachelor’s degree (required), master’s preferred.
• At least 8 years of relevant experience in business transformation, with deep sector expertise in oil and gas.
• Proven experience in:
• Operating model design and deployment
• Transformation strategy and business case development
• Portfolio governance, performance metric design, and cost transformation
• Agile organization development and digital strategy
• Familiarity with emerging technologies and future-back planning
• Strong foundational business skills, including:
• Client relationship management and trust-building
• Commercial acumen and proposal development
• Executive-level communication and change leadership
• Systems thinking, sustainability, and cross-functional team leadership

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Experience navigating complex stakeholder environments.
• Demonstrated leadership and ability to inspire teams.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience delivering transformation strategies at an account or enterprise level.
• Familiarity with technologies used in upstream and integrated operations
• Experience coordinating solution design and delivery across teams and ecosystem partners.

You will combine your finance capability with program and change management expertise to implement and embed improvements and deliver sustainable value.

Your key responsibilities

Your role as a manager will focus on supporting the strategy and delivery of client engagements, interacting at an executive level, as well as sales and practice development activities. In this role, you will help develop high-performing people and teams, supporting them to make an impact that matters, and setting the direction to deliver exceptional client service.

You will work to sell, deliver and manage finance transformation projects in one or more of the following areas

• Finance strategy development
• Finance operating model design
• Finance processes improvement
• Shared services and global business services design and implementation
• Outsourcing consulting (including managed services)
• Financial planning and analysis (FP&A)
• Finance systems and applications (e.g., SAP, Blackline), process mining, robotics, and intelligent automation
• Financial close, consolidation and reporting
• Cost management and profitability analysis
• Hydrocarbon accounting, Order-to-cash, procure-to-pay and record-to-report processes
• Core responsibilities will also include coaching and mentoring, and performance appraisal.

Skills and attributes for success

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, especially around breaking down complex structures into digestible and relevant points for a diverse set of clients and colleagues, at all levels.
• By drawing on your knowledge and experience, you'll sell and lead consulting engagements that solve complex issues, provide innovative commercial insights for clients, adapt methods and practices to fit operational team and cultural needs and contribute to thought leadership. You'll actively contribute to improving operational efficiency on projects and internal initiatives.
• Successfully manage engagement time and budgets
• In line with our commitment to quality, you'll consistently drive projects to completion, manage risk and ensure that work is of high quality.
• As an influential member of the team, you'll help to create a positive learning culture and will coach and counsel team members and help them to develop.
• Build relationships with client executives
• Be able to manage a virtual workforce across multiple time-zones as well as offshore teammates

To qualify for the role, you must have

• A bachelor's degree and approximately 5 years of related work experience; or a master's degree and approximately 4 years of related work experience
• Approximately 5 years of experience in providing consulting services in the finance function focused in at least one of the following areas: finance operating model design, performance management, shared services design and implementations, outsourcing consulting
• Experience in managing large-scale Finance Transformation and/or Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementations preferred
• Oil & Gas Industry experience with robust finance operations expertise
• Experience leading teams, managing engagement economics and business development
• Willingness to travel to meet client obligations

Ideally, you'll also have

• An advanced degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, Operations or superior academic achievement in a related field
• CPA
• Industry Knowledge in Hydrocarbon Accounting
• Planning/budgeting/forecasting and reporting/analytics experience

Tax Services Manager - National Tax – Passthrough Transactions Group/Modeling

Our National Tax Department (NTD) serves high-profile, national and multinational clients, providing a range of domestic and international transactional tax planning services and tax-related advisory services. The combination of knowledge and experience forms the basis of our ability to assist clients in meeting their business objectives. We believe that by managing our clients’ tax obligations responsibly and proactively we can make a critical difference, and you’ll be at the heart of this mission.

What to expect

Your typical day will involve working in small groups on fast-paced projects with internal or external clients. You’ll be heavily involved in formal deliverables, developing financial models, researching industry and company financial information and speaking to your findings. In addition, you’ll be exposed to companies across various industries and located around the world, learning new things every day. We’ll look to you to get familiar with tax policies and implications and build your knowledge around research tools and resources so you can speak articulately about a business or industry efficiently and effectively.

Your key responsibilities

• Have a leading role in providing tax advisory services to clients on all aspects of joint venture and partnership tax matters, including acquisition, formation, operation, restructuring and disposition issues
• Prepare and review detailed financial models to quantify the various transactional outcomes involved in a particular deal structure and/or industry segment
• Demonstrate an understanding of increasingly complex tax concepts and strong technical partnership tax skills, and effectively apply tax knowledge to client situations
• Provide high-quality and 'time-sensitive' service to support our clients' critical business needs
• Build on technical competence by taking advantage of learning from nationally recognized tax professionals
• Develop and guide junior tax professionals by providing effective feedback and training and ensuring team responsibilities are consistent with skills and developmental goals

To qualify for the role you must have

• A bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Operations Research, Financial Engineering, Statistics or related field and a minimum of six years related work experience; or a graduate degree in the above fields, Tax or Law and approximately more than five years of related work experience
• Strong quantitative skills with an emphasis on accounting and corporate finance
• Broad exposure to federal income taxation, including partnership taxation
• Expert MS Excel skills with the ability to review complex financial models and build flexible calculations from scratch
• Continuous learning mindset
• Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills, including prior experience developing team members and interacting with clients or executive-level management
• Effective organization and time management skills with the ability to work independently in a deal-driven environment
• Willingness to travel as needed, and working in a balanced hybrid environment

Ideally, you’ll also have

• A CPA certification – Needed for advancement
• Experience with modeling tax transactions
• Experience with partnership tax compliance
• Experience in a tax role in private client services or real estate