Assistant Director - Operational Due Diligence - Strategy and Execution - EY-Parthenon - London

As an Assistant Director within our ODD team, you’d assist in aspects of business origination, including pitches and presentations to potential clients to help sell work, and leading project delivery working with senior client stakeholders within tight timeframes for some of EY’s most demanding clients. As a consultant you’ll advise clients across all sectors, supporting key decision makers in developing and executing strategies for value creation.

You would also be expected to contribute to our practice development initiatives, supporting the continued focus on our team as a great place to work.

Skills and attributes for success

• Industry and functional experience: engineering, supply chain or graduate scheme experience at a large corporate

• Consulting experience: be familiar working in a large-scale consulting environment or industry role where you can demonstrate the ability to perform and summarise analysis into management insights and recommended actions at pace

• Flexibility: be flexible to support on broader Operational and IT work

• Role model: act as a role model and support development of junior team members, coupled with the recruitment and training responsibilities

• Professional services / consulting;

• Transactions: ideally due diligence, carve-out or integrations experience; or

• Deep understanding of one or more core operational functions

• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to link operational analysis to financial statements, and understand the implications of findings to client strategy

• Experience in building strong working relationships with senior clients, including influence, advice and support to key decision makers

• Experience in supporting sales and business development processes for professional services projects in a large-scale consulting environment

• A track record of successful project delivery in corporate businesses where you are responsible for managing project team members and vendors

• Strong written and verbal communication skills and experience of producing and reviewing high-quality reports, papers, presentations and thought leadership