Associate Manager - Corporate Strategy - Big4

About the role:

As part of our EY-Parthenon team, you will help clients develop their growth and investment strategies and evaluate potential transactions. Working with EY-Parthenons proprietary frameworks, you will help clients to take steps the best way to raise, invest, optimize, and preserve their capital. This includes developing growth and market entry strategies and conducting strategic portfolio reviews. The client base spans across industries and includes blue chip corporates, multinational investors, and Private Equity firms.

The opportunity:

We are looking for an Associate Manager with expertise in Strategy Consulting to join the spearheading group of our EY-Parthenon Team. This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a prominent firm whilst being instrumental in the growth of a new service offering.

Your key responsibilities:

• Use an answer first approach to deliver growth, market and portfolio strategy engagements for corporates

• Spearhead a team of 3-7 professionals undertaking corporate strategy studies

• Support business development activities through both spearheading pursuits and developing strong relationships with existing clients

• Participate in building a sector focused practice across EY service lines; Specialization in a specific sector will be an added advantage

• Contribute in development of intellectual capital in your industry of expertise

• Be a part of case teams to provide solutions to unstructured problems

Experience and Skills for success:

• Growth strategy/ Market entry assessment

• Go-to-market strategy

• Strategic options study

• Portfolio & corporate strategy

• Business model redesign

• Strategic cost evaluation

• Digital & innovation strategy

• Clear articulation of thoughts and structured problem solving

• Experience of working with global stakeholders

To qualify for the role, you must have:

• Experience in executing and managing strategy consulting engagements, client engagement skills and expertise in delivering strategic insights on accounts and sectors

• Integrate AI and advanced analytics into core client problem solving across strategy, operations, growth, and transformation topics

• Use AI tools to accelerate analysis, create insights, and improve team productivity while ensuring quality and rigor

• Knowledge of databases such as CapIQ, Thomson etc.

• Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills, exposure to tools like Power BI, Alteryx, working knowledge of VBA, Python will be a plus

• Masters degree

Ideally, youll also have:

• Project management skills

• Exposure to tools like Power Bi, Alteryx etc.

What we look for:

• A team of people with commercial acumen, technical experience and enthusiasm to learn new things in this fast-moving environment

• An opportunity to be a part of market-prominent, multi-disciplinary team of 3000 + professionals, in the only integrated global transaction business worldwide.

• Opportunities to work with EY SaT practices globally with prominent businesses across a range of industries