Job Description

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EY-Parthenon – Software Strategy Group - Value creation – Associate Manager (GDS)

We are seeking an Associate Manager to join the Software Strategy Group (SSG) Value creation team within EY-Parthenon GDS team. This is an exceptional opportunity to build a career with the industry’s most scaled advisory practice serving Tech and Private Equity - from transaction through the value creation lifecycle

The SSG Equity Value Creation team is a specialized group focused on unlocking growth and operational efficiency for private equity portfolio companies. The team works primarily with PE-backed, SaaS businesses in the Technology, Media, and Telecommunications (TMT) sector. Our team helps private equity teams to identify critical business challenges, uncover actionable insights, and develop strategic and tactical recommendations, typically supporting execution planning and, in many cases, helping drive implementation. This is a high-impact, fast-paced environment where consultants play a key role in delivering results and shaping client outcomes.

The SSG team value creation team helps private equity clients improve portfolio companies in areas such as cost and revenue enhancements – profit maximization - cost takeouts, addressing growth challenges and preserving liquidity and support transformation by managing cash flows.

Our professionals work on transactions and business development across the globe.

The opportunity

The SSG Value Creation team provides transformative solutions to clients to achieve sustainable, margin improvements and strategically align resources to growth initiatives

We are looking for Associate Manager having experience in delivering value creation services. This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a leading firm and develop your career through a broad scope of engagements, mentoring, and learning & development.

Your key responsibilities

• Executing engagements around Rapid Cost Take-out / Profit maximization, Growth challenges and liquidity crunch
• Top-line assessment and acceleration, Pricing & Churn optimization
• Cost assessment and implementation, Product portfolio and R&D strategy
• Sales effectiveness, customer support strategies to boost retention and efficient support operations, marketing ROI
• Conduct structured, data-driven analysis to identify root causes and quantify opportunities using Excel and other tools.
• Develop and test hypotheses to address complex business problems
• Assist in business development activities including preparing presentations for client and internal pursuit meetings
• Build relationships with engagement teams across the globe and demonstrate knowledge of regional practices. Responsible for high degree of GDS user satisfaction with engagement process and work products
• Manage client engagement teams executing VC services which support key decision makers in developing and executing their transaction strategy to secure deal value
• Provide guidance on projects and mentor a team of SSG VC professionals

Skills and attributes for success

• Understanding of M&A life cycle, carve-out / integration of a business post-announcement of transaction, cross-border M&A
• Possess financial analysis experience from a number of pre- and post-deal transactions, with the ability to link detailed operational analysis to P&L, cash flow and balance sheet
• Ability to determine risks and opportunity areas
• Skill to synthesize approaches to complex carve-out and integration conflicts
• Talent to adapt to new challenges and ideas
• Excellent problem solving, project management, facilitation and interpersonal skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Post Graduate degree in business, accounting, finance, engineering, computer science or related field from a premier institute with 5-8 years of applicable industry and/or consulting experience
• Prior consulting experience with exposure to investment banking, corporate strategy, or PE roles, or operating roles with significant exposure to growth, go-to-market, or operational improvement.
• Experience in the TMT/software sector, private equity sponsors and/or PE-backed portfolio companies
• Understanding of M&A life cycle, carve-out / integration of a business post-announcement of transaction, cross-border M&A
• Experience of working on cost takeout or value creation projects
• Well versed with Microsoft tools MS Excel and PowerPoint
• Willingness to undertake international travel as per business requirement

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Project management skills
• Strong communication and presentation skills

What you can look for

• A Team of people with commercial acumen, technical experience and enthusiasm to learn new things in this fast-moving environment
• An opportunity to be a part of market-leading, multi-disciplinary team of 3000 + professionals, in the only integrated global transaction business worldwide.
• Opportunities to work with EY SaT practices globally with leading businesses across a range of industries

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