EY Assistant Director - Tech Strategy Execution EY Parthenon 

United Kingdom, England, London 

477166197

The Technology team has competencies in Product & technology, Enterprise technology and Cybersecurity:

• Product and technology provides investment and acquisition guidance to clients across commercial, product, and technical topics needed to assess and advise companies in the “software economy”
• Enterprise technology assesses major technology risks and opportunities related to a transaction across key areas of enterprise technology holistically including enterprise and business systems, infrastructure, data and reporting, tech operating model, tech spend
• Cybersecurity focuses on

Skills and attributes for success

• Advise senior clients across all sectors, supporting key decision makers in developing and executing strategies for transactions.
• Sell, run and deliver different types of engagements, including pre-deal (e.g. technology due diligence, carve-out planning), post-deal (e.g. sign to close, integration planning, synergy tracking) and value creation (e.g. cost reduction, tech enabled VC)
• Lead blended project teams comprising colleagues from our transactions and advisory practices.
• Lead complex engagements, including commercials, resourcing and risk.
• Lead on business origination, including use of networks and delivery of pitches and presentations to senior clients.
• Lead on practice development initiatives and training programmes, supporting the continued focus on our team as a great place to work.
• Act as a role model and support development of junior team members, coupled with the recruitment and training responsibilities.
• Learn and develop technical and personal skills to support achievement of career goals, through a blend of structured learning, coaching and experiences

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Professional services / consulting; Transactions: ideally due diligence, carve-out or integrations experience; and
• Broad knowledge and deep understanding of a typical IT function, including enterprise architecture, strategy, governance, systems integration, application development, service delivery and infrastructure.
• Experience working with Private Equity and senior IT stakeholders
• Adept at building strong working relationships with senior clients, including influence, advice and support to key decision makers.
• Demonstrated aptitude for quantitative and qualitative analysis.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience of delivering high-quality reports and presentations.
• Experience of leading large, complex, global delivery programmes.
• Strong team leadership skills, particularly teams with diverse skills and backgrounds, coupled with the ability to lead and develop juniors.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.

You’ll be a trusted advisor to our clients and use your deep knowledge of multiple IT technologies 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.

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:

• 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.

Prior to finalizing your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness. The information you provide is kept entirely confidential and will not be used to evaluate your candidacy. We collect this data to help us analyse our recruitment process holistically and implement actions that promote diversity and inclusiveness. While optional, we encourage you to provide this information to hold us accountable towards our goal of building a better working world. We ask because it matters!