EY-Parthenon - Strategy and Execution - Corporate Real Estate - Senior Director

Location: New York, Hoboken, Boston, Philadelphia, McLean, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Detroit

 

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.

 

The Opportunity

 

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.

 

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.

 

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

 

As a Senior Director with EY-Parthenon’s Strategy and Execution Corporate Real Estate practice, you’ll have the opportunity 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.  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 Senior 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.