EY-Parthenon - Value Creation - Senior Director - Multiple Locations

EY-Parthenon – Value Creation - Senior Director

Competitive business today is all about making intelligent, informed decisions. As a Senior Director within EY Parthenon, you will help make that happen.  You will be an important part of our diversely talented, highly experienced team and work at the forefront of high-profile transactions. EY-Parthenon has a market-leading proposition to create and maximize value for our clients, whether they are developing their growth strategy, acquiring, or divesting assets, or undertaking operational restructuring.

The opportunity

EY-Parthenon - Value Creation helps PE firms, their portfolio companies, and corporate companies realize better returns by unlocking value and accelerating time to money through targeted operational improvements. We rapidly define, quantify, and help realize significant incremental and sustainable value through revenue enhancement, cost and margin improvement and working capital reduction.

Your key responsibilities

As a Senior Director in Value Creation, you will be a vital member of the team leading and executing operational focused projects. You will lead projects that span the entire lifecycle of a transaction, including operational due diligence where we focus on EBITDA upside and operational risk; buy side carve out and integration planning to ensure a newly spun out business can stand alone and a merger quickly realize and grow anticipated synergies; post-acquisition 100 day and value creation planning; ongoing performance improvement; and exit readiness planning to inform an optimal strategy for maximizing returns and ensuring the buyer is well positioned to continue to enhance value.

Skills and attributes for success

• Project Management - lead and manage project teams comprising of colleagues from across the Strategy and Transactions sub service lines.
• Business and Commercially Driven - working in a fast-paced, exciting environment with strong business acumen to drive value to our clients.
• Business Development - drive pursuits, including presentations and client meetings. Contribute to our practice development initiatives, supporting the continued focus on our team as a great place to work.
• People development - coach and mentor team members to support achievement of their career goals.
• Building Relationships - strong working relationships with senior clients, including influence, advice and support to key decision makers.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• A bachelor’s degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, Engineering, or related field and 8 years of related work experience; or a graduate degree and approximately 7 years of related work experience.
• Strategy and operations management consulting experience.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving/modeling skills, and the confidence to translate complex data into meaningful insights.
• Experience in operational due diligence, operational restructuring, and performance improvement.
• Experience in business integrations, divestitures, and/or carve-outs with a demonstrated aptitude for quantitative and qualitative analysis.
• Deep understanding of financial statements and operational performance metrics.
• Experience leading and managing in complex business environments.
• The ability to prioritize effectively on projects and the skills to adapt quickly to new challenges and concepts.
• Excellent negotiation and influencing skills, and the ability to develop long-lasting relationships both internally and externally.
• The ability and willingness to travel and work in excess of standard hours when necessary.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• A proven record of excellence in a transactions role.
• Experience working in operational improvement in a corporate setting.
• Experience gained within another large professional services organization.
• MBA is preferred.
• Dynamic individuals who thrive in ambiguous situations to help clients solve their most critical strategic, business, and economic challenges.

What we look for 

We’re interested in talented professionals with the ability to visualize our clients’ goals and think creatively to facilitate them. If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, and a genuine passion for taking on new challenges, this role is for you.