EY-Parthenon - Strategy and Execution - Value Creation - Senior Director - Multiple Locations

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Location: New York - One Manhattan West, Chicago - 155 N Wacker Dr, Los Angeles, Houston, Philadelphia - 1 Commerce, Dallas - One Victory Park, McLean, VA, Detroit, San Francisco, Atlanta, Denver - 370 17th St, Boston - Rowes Wharf Building, Hoboken, Seattle.

 

EY Parthenon – Strategy and Execution - Value Creation - Senior Director

 

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. EY-Parthenon has a market-leading proposition to create and maximize value for our clients, whether they are developing their growth strategy, acquiring, or divesting assets, or undertaking operational restructuring.

 

The opportunity

 

EY Parthenon - Value Creation helps PE firms, their portfolio companies, and corporate companies realize better returns by unlocking value and accelerating time to money through targeted operational improvements. We rapidly define, quantify, and help realize significant incremental and sustainable value through revenue enhancement, cost and margin improvement and working capital reduction.

 

Your key responsibilities

 

As a Senior Director in Value Creation, you will be a vital member of the team leading and executing operational focused projects. You will lead projects that span the entire lifecycle of a transaction, including operational due diligence where we focus on EBITDA upside and operational risk; buy side carve out and integration planning to ensure a newly spun out business can operate by itself and potentially merge to quickly realize anticipated synergies; post-acquisition 100 day and value creation planning; ongoing performance improvement; and exit readiness planning to inform an optimal strategy for maximizing returns and ensuring the buyer is well positioned to continue to enhance value.

 

Skills and attributes for success

 

• Project Management - lead and manage project teams comprising of colleagues from across the Strategy and Transactions sub service lines.
• Business and Commercially Driven - work in a fast-paced, exciting environment with strong business acumen to drive value to our clients.
• Business Development - drive pursuits, including presentations and client meetings. Contribute to our practice development initiatives, supporting the continued focus of our team as a great place to work.
• People development – coach, train, and mentor junior team members to support achievement of their career goals.
• Building Relationships - strong trusted advisor relationships with senior clients, including influence, advice and support to key decision makers.

 

To qualify for the role, you must have

 

• A bachelor’s degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, Engineering, or related field and 8 years of related work experience; or a graduate degree and approximately 7 years of related work experience.
• Strategy and operations management consulting experience.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving/modeling skills, and the confidence to translate complex data into meaningful insights.
• Experience in operational due diligence, operational transformation, and performance improvement.
• Experience in business integrations, divestitures, and/or carve-outs with a demonstrated aptitude for quantitative and qualitative analysis.
• Deep understanding of financial statements and operational performance metrics.
• Experience leading an