EY-Parthenon - Corporate Finance - Decision Modeling and Analytics - Senior Director

Location: New York, Denver, Los Angeles

 

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence. 

 

We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go.  Join EY and help to build a better working world.

 

EY-Parthenon’s unique combination of transformative strategy, transactions and corporate finance delivers real-world value – solutions that work in practice, not just on paper. Benefiting from EY’s full spectrum of services, we’ve reimagined strategic consulting to work in a world of increasing complexity.

With deep functional and sector expertise, paired with innovative AI-powered technology and an investor mindset, we partner with CEOs, Boards, Private Equity and Governments every step of the way – enabling you to shape your future with confidence.

Changes in technology is reshaping the way we work. Analytics technologies and data science techniques allow greater amounts of data to be analyzed in a timely manner, cloud opens up the possibility of tapping into a much broader and advanced range of capabilities than was traditionally possible, and clients have an increasing appetite for leveraging tools and technology in decision making across the value chain. 

The opportunity

The Decision Modeling & Analytics Team (DMA) sits within EY's Strategy and Transactions (SaT) practice and is a provider of rigorous modeling and analytics solutions to help support the full spectrum of Strategy and Transactions offerings. We work across sectors and our solutions focus on supporting strategic, operational, and financial decision-making using various financial modeling tools, technologies and analytics. Our team consists of financial modeling, corporate finance analytics, data and technology professionals, all of whom have a strong interest in business. Our work is often innovative and rapid (delivering solutions in weeks to a few months). 

Your key responsibilities

We are seeking data science professionals with experience of applying data visualization, statistical analysis, optimization, or machine learning to real world business problems. 

Skills and attributes for success

• Develop data science solutions for clients to structure, quantify and implement complex decisions such as mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, strategic options, investment appraisal, contract evaluation and program assessment
• Demonstrating in-depth technical capabilities and professional knowledge
• Experience and ability to manage teams
• Maintaining long-term client relationships and networks and cultivating business development opportunities
• Using analytics technology tools and data science techniques to enhance the effectiveness of services provided and act as a leader in adopting new tools and techniques

To qualify for the role you must have

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business analytics, Data Science or equivalent; Masters preferred
• 8+ years of corporate/financial analytics experience
• Intermediate level of proficiency in SQL
• 4+ years of corporate finance experience
• Experience of performing data science in SPSS, SAS, Azure Databricks, Python or R to solve business problems
• Experience of data visualization tools (Power BI preferred)
• Being a subject matter expert on a particular area of business analytics is helpful
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with a high degree of comfort in speaking with senior executives at large companies
• Ability to manage own learning and contribute to domain knowledge building
• Excellent interpersonal, leadership, and communication skills
• Keen interest in being at the intersection of business, technology, and analytics.

This position also requires up to 50% travel. 

Ideally you'll also have

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills paired with the ability to develop creative and efficient solutions
• Distinct customer focus and quality mindset; able to see from and sell to multiple viewpoints 

What we look for 

We are looking for candidates who are highly motivated, analytical, logical thinkers with a passion for business modeling and have a very stro