Executive - Deal Finance, Strategy & Execution, EY-Parthenon - London

The opportunity 

At EY-Parthenon, our unique combination of transformative strategy, transactions, tax and corporate finance delivers real-world value – solutions that work in practice, not just on paper. Benefiting from EY’s full spectrum of services, we’ve reimagined strategic consulting to work in a world of increasing complexity. 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.

Join our Deal Finance team within the Strategy and Execution practice. We are looking for self-starters passionate about driving value for CFOs across different sectors, including Advanced Manufacturing & Mobility, Telecommunications Media & Technology Energy, Health Science & Wellness, and Private Equity.

The Deal Finance practice at EY consists of a strong team of individuals, with diverse personal & professional backgrounds who have a mix of deep specialisms from consulting to broader finance experience in a range of industry sectors.

This rapidly growing team focuses on transactions, supporting clients throughout the capital lifecycle. We are expanding our Deal Finance team, providing exciting opportunities for those dedicated to delivering client value.  Our team works across all of EY, drawing on the best and most relevant expertise for our clients.

Your key responsibilities

As an Executive within our S&E team, you’ll assist in aspects of business origination, including pitches and presentations to help sell work as well as work in a transaction environment operating under tight M&A timeframes. You will be familiar working in a large-scale consulting environment or industry role.

As an Executive your key role will be responsibility for core aspects of client delivery, supporting the engagement manager.

You will be part of a team who:

• Advise on the impact of merger and acquisition transactions on the finance function and across CFO priorities.
• Understand and have the ability to advise on integration challenges, separation challenges, change in ownership (public to private and vice versa).
• Have analytical and advisory skills across the deal lifecycle – with specific focus on operational due diligence and value creation, including areas such as P&L optimisation, maturity assessments and designing models for scale and cost out.

To qualify for the role, you must:

• Have experience from having worked in transactions / finance / audit function as a consultant with Big 4 or Management Consultancy firm, or industry experience with roles in some of the core areas of Finance (e.g. FP&A, Financial Control, Commercial / Operational Finance Business Partnering, CFO).
• Be a qualified accountant – ACA, CIMA, or internationally recognised equivalent finance qualification.
• Have strong academics and interpersonal skills.

The following will be an advantage:

• Capability to work in a fast paced, deadline driven environment.
• Have been part of a change program in a previous role.
• Skilled in decision making.
• Ability to demonstrable analytical skills.
• Project Management skills.
• Commercially curious and committed to learning.

What we are looking for

We are looking for candidates who are highly motivated, driven, and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful transaction team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly over a number of client deals across the UK and Globally.