EY SaT-ITDD-Assistant Manager 

India, Uttar Pradesh 

986379746

IT Pre Deal Responsibilities

• Conduct rapid diagnostics & detailed IT due diligence looking into a company's immediate and future major Technology issues, digital propositions, product profitability, cost base, processes and overall options for performance improvement
• Analyzing target data to build up a view on the technology of the business including cost, products and systems, and IT contracts
• Develop hypotheses / insights on key issues and actively contribute to the wider team discussion, highlighting the impact of technology on the business strategy, operations, and ultimately, deal valuation
• Developing an understanding of IT benchmark and qualitative information to provide insights to clients to describe a typical IT function
• Assisting in client communications, calls and meetings
• Contribute to drafting a robust, well-structured report, that captures key findings and conclusions
• Supporting the identification or review of client synergies for IT
• Assist in development of financial models for IT, including synergy savings, one-time costs, and stranded costs

Wider responsibilities

• Interacting with senior client stakeholders as well as internal stakeholders (Partners and Directors)
• Preparation of proposal materials and development of team propositions and initiatives
• Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients
• Define and conduct appropriate primary and secondary research, and quantitative analyses, to validate hypotheses and address all scope areas
• Competently build robust and transparent market models and analytical spreadsheets
• Collaborate with project team members – often across disciplines – to flag and address emerging diligence issues
• Contribute to business development activity including developing successful pitches and selling, on from the initial “diagnostic” project phase into implementation work

Mandatory Skills

• MBA/Bachelor’s degree in related field from an accredited college/university preferably with major in technology
• 4 to 7 years of technology consulting experience focused on the deal advisory integration and separation processes
• Experience in assessing Information Technology processes, technologies, and frameworks, including:
  • Application Support & Maintenance
  • Application Portfolio Rationalization
  • Network & Data Center Operations Management
  • Infrastructure Optimization (e.g., consolidation, rationalization, cost savings)
  • Knowledge about enterprise business applications (e.g., ERP, CRM)
  • Experience in assisting with technology assessment/diligence

Preferred Skills

• Candidates with prior Consulting (Strategy, Management, or Technology) or Deal experience (mergers and acquisition, integration)
• IT specialization such as IT Strategy, applications, infrastructure, architecture, security
• Experience in facilitating client meetings, workshops and interviews
• High quality outputs on Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, Knowledge or experience on Visio, Power BI, SmartSheet would be beneficial
• Comfort with ambiguity, fluid consulting situations and a highly pressured environment as characteristics of transactions
• Ability to work well under pressure, learn quickly and leverage skills in new situations
• Ability to travel at a low/moderate level

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