Director, Strategy EY Parthenon, Financial Services, London

As a Director, you'll typically be responsible for leading our largest client projects, shaping the deliverables, client relationships, and developing the wider team, with the support and coaching of our partners. You'll drive exceptional client service across all engagements and guide your teams to ensure high quality of work and client ready outputs. Directors are expected to build recurring client relationships within their sector of expertise, acting as a trusted advisor and will often be consulted by clients beyond the project.

You'll also be involved in developing proposals and bids and actively contribute to EY-Parthenon thought leadership and internal operational initiatives. Directors form a fundamental part of the EY-Parthenon firm leadership team and are expected to help generate sales, especially via existing client and internal relationships, in order to drive the revenue targets of the business.

Coaching and mentoring are at the heart of EY-Parthenon Strategy's culture. Directors are expected to proactively support the professional development of the more junior members of the team as well as manage effectively upwards, working to develop an inclusive culture that drives high-performing teams whilst supporting the work-life balance experience of all involved in an engagement.

This role will include:

• Managing multiple project teams of between 4 - 10 consultants

• Creating an inclusive culture throughout the team and within engagements

• Developing our business - identifying opportunities within existing clients and driving sales activity

• Working closely with wider EY teams - across Business Consulting, Tax & Law, Strategy & Transactions and Assurance to drives cross-selling opportunities across the business and bring the best of the firm to our clients

• Taking responsibility for team management on risk, independence, objectivity, and compliance with EY policies across all that we do

• Overseeing engagement financials and manages book of business to optimise margin for the business

• Developing a community within the team - owning or developing internal practice initiatives such as Training, Professional Development, Innovation, Recruitment, etc.

• Counselling of Consultants to provide career direction and advice

• Have a minimum of 8+ years working experience

• Have prior experience of strategy consulting, preferably with commercial due diligence experience, or have strong commercial experience and/or relevant transaction experience

• Have relevant sector experience across Financial Services (e.g., subsectors including banking, insurance, wealth and asset management among others)

• Have credible project management experience and demonstrate an ability to plan, deliver, structure, write and present work against tight deadlines

• Have experience in business development, and overseeing engagement financials

• Have analytical work experience across activities including market sizing, competitor analysis, and assessing a company's performance/capabilities

• Be willing to share your technical and other knowledge with your team