EY Parthenon - Strategy Realized - Financial Services - Senior Director - Boston

EY focuses on high-ethical standards and integrity among its employees and expects all candidates to demonstrate these qualities.  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 us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.  

Location:  Rowes Wharf, Boston.

 

 

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.  The EY-Parthenon sub-service line comprises three competencies:  Strategy; Transaction Strategy and Execution; and Turnaround and Restructuring Strategy.  EY-Parthenon Strategy is a leading advisory organization focused on strategy consulting. We are committed to combining our unconventional thinking with our clients’ smarts to deliver actionable strategies.   

 

The opportunity 

In today’s complex business landscape, creativity has become a necessary ingredient for sustained success. EY-Parthenon Strategy has an ideal balance of strengths – deep and concentrated skills with broad executional capabilities, intimate client relationships with larger networks of support, and proven processes along with a progressive spirit to unlock opportunity for our clients, amplify the impact of our strategies, and make EY-Parthenon Strategy the global advisor of choice for business leaders. You have the opportunity to develop your career through a broad scope of engagements, mentoring and formal learning. That’s how we develop outstanding leaders who team to deliver on our promises to all of our stakeholders, and in so doing, play a critical role in building a better working world for our people, for our clients and for our communities. 

 

The Financial Services Practice primarily focuses on projects for the C-Suite or line of business executives and covers the banking, capital markets, asset management, wealth management, and insurance segments.  Representative projects include: corporate portfolio strategy for an international commercial lending institution, revenue growth and market expansion strategy for a large regional bank holding company, strategic due diligence for a global wealth management company, and financial planning strategy for one of the nation’s largest insurance companies.   

 

Your key responsibilities 

Senior Directors act as the primary client contacts on EY-Parthenon Strategy teams and are responsible for translating client needs into project tasks and deliverables. Senior Directors manage day-to-day problem-solving and team analytical activities and serve as key liaisons between consulting team members, EY-Parthenon partners, and our clients. Senior Directors are also responsible for mentoring, inspiring and developing team staff. Additionally, Senior Directors support the growth of the business by working alongside partners on new opportunities with potential clients, including preparing for and participating in pitch meetings, creating proposals and working on the sale process. 

Our teams work on a variety of client issues. The range of assignments includes developing long-term strategies for organizations, evaluating the potential acquisition of businesses, improving educational achievement outcomes, developing new marketing channel strategies, reducing operating costs, and evaluating new business ventures. 

 

Skills and attributes for success 

• Play a leadership role in helping grow the EY-Parthenon Strategy business. 
• Define the objective and scope of strategy engagements and client deliverables in consultation with the Partner. 
• Lead teams in the execution of both commercial due diligence and strategy engagements. 
• Develop business strategies using tools such as market analysis, customer research, macroeconomic forecasting, and portfolio optimization. 
• Drive business development activities in key sectors and internally across the broader EY and Strategy & Transactions organization. 
• Manage, develop, and mentor junior team members at the Associate, Senior Associate, Consultant, and Director levels. 
• Develop and maintain relationships with clients.  

 

To qualify for the role, you must have 

• A bachelor's degree with outstanding academic performance and 8 years of related work experience; or a graduate degree and approximately 7 years of related work experience. 
• Experience managing business strategy development in the banking, capital markets, wealth management, asset management or