EY-Parthenon - Experienced Financial Analyst - Turnaround and Restructuring Strategy

Working Location: Athens (hybrid)

At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too.

Join our continuously growing team, which employs over 2.500 professionals in Greece, and is listed in Greece’s Top Employers, Great Place to Work and Best Workplaces for Women for 2024! Experience great flexibility, under our hybrid operating model across our offices in Athens, Patras, and Thessaloniki, while benefiting from personalized learning and career development opportunities. We prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion, fostering an environment where everyone’s unique perspectives are valued, that supports you in building an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all. 

About EY-Parthenon

EY-Parthenon is part of EY and is one of the largest global strategy consulting organizations, with more than 8,500 professionals. We help CEOs and business leaders design and deliver transformative strategies across the entire enterprise, to help build long-term value to all stakeholders.

EY-Parthenon teams work with clients to navigate complexity by helping them to reimagine their eco-systems, reshape their portfolios and reinvent themselves for a better future. With global connectivity and scale, EY-Parthenon teams focus on Strategy Realized — helping CEOs design and deliver strategies to better manage challenges while maximizing opportunities as they look to transform their businesses. From idea to implementation, EY-Parthenon teams help organizations to build a better working world by fostering long-term value.

We advise on a vast range of issues, such as core value propositions, competitive positioning, and growth strategies.

For more information, please visit ey.com/parthenon

The opportunity

The Greek EY Strategy & Transactions (SaT) practice is the leader in Greece and South-Eastern Europe in professional financial advisory services market. Within SaT, our Turnaround & Restructuring Strategy team provides its specialized services to rapidly solve, execute and ultimately transform the outcome during urgent, critical and complex situations. Our World-class strategic, financial, turnaround and restructuring advice is provided to high profile clients who urgently need to address underperformance or capital constraint issues. Our specialized professionals with their deep insights in all sectors, regions and markets combining industry and situational expertise work at pace with private equity firms, financial institutions and large corporations providing them with tailored finance and strategy solutions on complex cases enabling them to make critical business decisions. Our team is fully integrated both within our wider Strategy and Transactions Services practice and our firm, and our clients reap the benefits of this broad range of knowledge, skills, and experience. We work based on creating long-term relationships with our clients and our teams work closely with them to understand their short and long-term goals - being there at every stage to identify problems and recommend and implement solutions that deliver measurable results and long-term value.

Your key responsibilities

• You’ll be working in a professional environment alongside a vibrant and exciting team of experienced financial professionals on a variety of projects across a wide range of sectors.
• As a financial consultant, you will be a vital member of the team executing financial advisory projects. You’ll be focused on understanding the client’s business, profit drivers and trends, help clients mitigate risks and improve deal structures.
• Your experience will be diverse, with each project offering new opportunities to expand your technical expertise over a wide range of sectors.
• Learn and develop technical and personal skills to support achievement of career goals, through a blend of structured learning, coaching and experiences.

Skills and attributes for success

• Teamwork: Encouraging an efficient, innovative and team-oriented working environment by maintaining cooperative relationships and positive attitudes that lead to open communications and sharing of information.
• Communication: Integrating with and influence clients from a varying range of organizations, as part of a diverse and highly driven team with a creative vision and the confidence to make it happen
• Attention to Detail: Illustrating critical thinking, professionalism, high level of self-motivation and ability to work in a multi-tasking and results-oriented working environment with keen attention to high quality and details.
• Tech-Oriented: Using technology to continually learn, share knowledge with team members and enhance service delivery.

What we look for

Required

• Excellent academic background, including a bachelor’s degree from a top tier university in Accounting / Finance / Banking / Auditing / Economics, or any other related field a with a strong quantitative focus
• 2+ years of relevant working experience, ideally in a Corporate Finance department, or Big4 professional services firm
• Excellent written and verbal skills both in Greek and English
• Excellent knowledge in MS Office packages, in particular MS Excel and PowerPoint
• Strong numerical / analytical ability, with corporate finance and financial accounting knowledge and experience
• Outstanding organizational skills, flexibility, and ability to work under tight deadlines
• Excellent project management, attention to detail, communication, problem solving, interpersonal and teaming skills
• Willingness to learn, proactivity and the ability to adapt to new challenges and ideas, while working in a multicultural corporate environment

Desirable

• An active CPA/ACCA/ACA/CFA certification (or in a final stage of completion) 
• A master’s degree from a top tier university in Accounting / Finance / Banking / Auditing, or any other related field a with a strong quantitative focus
• Accounting knowledge and experience (IFRS and Greek GAAP)
• Solid negotiation and influencing skills, and the ability to develop long-lasting relationships both internally and externally  

What we offer 

• Competitive remuneration package: You’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Depending on your experience, our comprehensive rewards package includes benefits that suit your needs including cutting-edge technological equipment, ticket restaurant vouchers, a private health insurance scheme, life insurance, income protection and an exclusive EY benefits club that provides a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. 
• Flexible working arrangements: We operate under a hybrid working model, which is defined based on both your own preferences and team’s needs, and we enjoy our summers with short Fridays.
• Personalized learning experience and career development: We provide free and unlimited access to educational platforms and EY Badges, support certifications, and provide coaching and feedback, as a part of our Leadership & Development process, all of which can lead to a meaningful impact and success as defined by you.
• 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.
• International Experience: Become part of international projects and work along multicultural teams, through our global network.
• Above all, you will be working in one of the most recognized employers in Greece, as we have been awarded the Top Employers, Great Place to Work and Best Workplaces for Women awards for 2024.

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.  

Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate.  

Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today. 

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