EY Parthenon - Corporate Real Estate (Transactions) - Director - Multiple Locations

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Strategy and Transactions EY-Parthenon TSE – Job Description 

Practice Area – Corporate Real Estate (CRE)

Functional Specialty – CRE Transaction Services

Role – Director 

 

About this role:

Competitive business today is all about making intelligent, informed decisions. As a Director within EY-Parthenon you will help make that happen. 

EY has built an industry leading corporate real estate (CRE) consulting practice. We work with our clients to address their most complex CRE issues and challenges. We advise our clients on strategic, operational, and analytical matters. 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 commitments to our stakeholders. In doing so, we play a critical role in building a better working world for our people, for our clients, and for our communities. 

 

The Opportunity:

Our team of strategic advisors sits at the heart of a global EY real estate network that delivers high quality advice through every phase of the real estate and M&A lifecycle. You will leverage EY's global network to support various account teams and M&A advisors on major transactions to tackle some of the largest and most complex corporate real estate and workplace challenges facing our clients. 

 

Your Key Responsibilities:

To be effective in CRE, you need to be able to make intelligent and informed decisions about people, place, and technology, during major M&A and divestiture engagements, or during corporate transformations. You will be an important part of our diverse, talented, and highly experienced team and work at the forefront of high-profile corporate real estate engagements. 

 

As a Director within EY Parthenon CRE Transactions, you will spend your days working on strategic and / or operational corporate real estate issues, while working with practice leadership and client management to deliver innovative solutions. A Director should have broad knowledge of at least three core CRE consulting disciplines - including CRE operating model and organizational design, CRE support for Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) / Divestiture transactions (pre-deal due diligence, integration support, and separation support, post close support), portfolio, occupancy strategy, and CRE IT / digital workplace strategy.  This knowledge should be grounded in a passion for solving complex and often ambiguous client challenges.  You will manage and execute projects across all sectors, supporting our client service teams across a national practice.   

 

Skills and Attributes for Success:

• Execute buy-side and sell-side client engagements.
• Lead teams through transaction advisory engagements, including pre-deal due diligence, integration support and/or separation support.
• Demonstrate strong understanding of the transaction lifecycle, including activities from diligence to sign to close.
• Demonstrate strong financial modeling skills and ability to analyze real estate KPIs, benchmarks and operational trends.
• Understand standard lease language and common terminology.
• Understand legal entity implications in an integration and separation environment e.g. - lease assignments, asset transfers.
• Understanding of common transition services agreements pertaining to real estate and the use of space.
• Develop innovative approaches to completing scopes of work.
• Participate in team problem solving efforts and offer ideas to solve client issues.
• Inspire teamwork and responsibility with engagement team members and use current technology/tools to enhance the effectiveness of deliverables and services.
• Develop presentation materials, briefings, scorecards, and implementation documents.
• Maintain responsibility for completion and accuracy of work products. Actively expand consulting skills and professional development through training courses, mentoring, and daily interaction with clients. 
• Manage the creation of proposals, presentations and other client-facing materials and deliverables.