EY Director & Analytics - EY-Parthenon 

United Kingdom, England, London 

156940951

Your key responsibilities

Given the speed of deals, you will be working across multiple projects alongside experienced financial due diligence (FDD) professionals, as part of our market leading Analytics and AI practice. You will have the opportunity to continue to develop your understanding of financial due diligence alongside technical training in a range of situations and sectors. When working on projects you will almost always be working as part of a wider cross service line team with the growing opportunity to reach out to other teams in the commercial and strategy divisions

In your role as a Director, you will lead the engagements whereby you will have responsibility for understanding the key business drivers, overseeing the approach with the client, agreeing value measurements with the client, providing value to the client through insights, factual conclusions and advice. You will manage the project teams and work closely with all members as well as forming strong internal links within Transaction Diligence and other departments in EY both in the UK and internationally to form multi-disciplinary teams. You will gather, verify and assess information to formulate views as well as plan, prepare and review deliverables in various forms including written reports, presentations and discussions with the client. In addition, you will:

• Plan and monitor the progress of the team
• Share your technical and other knowledge with your team and the department
• Build on and develop internal and external networks through personal contacts
• Understand the capabilities of the firm and look for opportunities to sell additional services to our clients
• Play a role in business plan initiatives (e.g. key accounts, recruitment, client service framework)
• Being a true business advisor to the client and establish yourself as a key client contact

Our clients are typically Private Equity and corporates of varying sizes, up to FTSE100. As we continue to grow the team you will have the opportunity to build out your own client relationships and internal networks to share knowledge or build a sector-specific profile

Skills and attributes for success

• Financial and commercial acumen to understand our client’s challenge
• Be able to gather, verify and assess information to formulate conclusions
• The ability to analyse at pace and know where to focus attention
• Strong attention to detail with a logical and methodical approach
• Demonstrable experience in planning, preparing and reviewing deliverables in various forms including visualisations, written reports, presentations and discussions with the client
• Team working and communication skills
• Ability to communicate key messages to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Attention to business development both with clients and in innovation

• Strong commercial experience and/or relevant industry or transaction experience (including financial due diligence experience).
• Understanding of data manipulation and integration analytic tools (e.g. Alteryx, SQL, Excel)

Excitement to learn and share knowledge through the training of others

• A passion to provide high quality service to your clients
• Experience of coaching and mentoring team members
• Extensive experience of stakeholder and client communication

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Have an ACA, ACCA or equivalent qualification
• Experience with data visualisation tools (e.g. PowerBI, Tableau)
• Experience in advanced analytics languages (Python, SQL, R)
• Experience of leading teams and working in a high paced transaction environment with a solid understanding of how Analytics can bring value throughout the transaction life cycle.
• Be an effective time manager, able to keep calm when under pressure to meet deadlines
• Be a team player with the ability to build effective relationships at all levels

What we look for

• Individuals who are innovative, entrepreneurial and eager to learn.