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Working at EY UK

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As an Assistant Director - Tech - Strategy and Execution at EY Parthenon in London, you will advise corporate and private equity clients on M&A technology strategies across the deal lifecycle. This full-time role involves leading complex client engagements, driving business origination, and mentoring diverse project teams within a globally connected environment.

Requirements

  • Professional services or consulting experience, ideally including transactions such as due diligence, carve-outs, or integrations.
  • Broad knowledge and deep understanding of a typical IT function including enterprise architecture, strategy, governance, systems integration, application development, service delivery, and infrastructure.
  • Experience working with Private Equity and senior IT stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated aptitude for quantitative and qualitative analysis, problem-solving, and effective communication.
  • Experience of leading large, complex, global delivery programmes and managing diverse project teams.
  • No specific educational degree or minimum years of experience are explicitly stated in the posting.

Skills & Responsibilities

  • IT Function Expertise: Advise senior clients on enterprise architecture, strategy, governance, systems integration, application development, service delivery, and infrastructure across various transactions.
  • Transaction Lifecycle Management: Sell, run, and deliver pre-deal, post-deal, and value creation engagements including technology due diligence, carve-out planning, and integration.
  • Team Leadership & Development: Lead blended project teams from transactions and advisory practices, acting as a role model and supporting the recruitment and training of junior team members.
  • Business Origination: Leverage professional networks to deliver pitches, presentations, and win new work with senior clients.
  • Potential transition routes: People from IT management consulting, corporate IT leadership, or M&A advisory roles may bring relevant technical and stakeholder management skills, alongside meeting the required consulting and transaction experience.

Job description

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.

Assistant Director – Tech - Strategy and Execution – EY Parthenon

Our Technology team sits within the Strategy and Execution team, which is EY’s leading market team providing Technology, Operations and Financial advice to corporate and private equity firms who intend to acquire, divest or restructure businesses. The team comprises advisors with specialist commercial, operations, software, technology, cyber, finance and deal / transaction experience from industry, advisory and audit backgrounds.

The Technology team has competencies in Product & technology, Enterprise technology and Cybersecurity:

  • Product and technology provides investment and acquisition guidance to clients across commercial, product, and technical topics needed to assess and advise companies in the “software economy”
  • Enterprise technology assesses major technology risks and opportunities related to a transaction across key areas of enterprise technology holistically including enterprise and business systems, infrastructure, data and reporting, tech operating model, tech spend
  • Cybersecurity focuses on understanding the business operating model, then applying our experience, benchmarks and tools to determine where Cyber is critical to the brand, operations, assets and applicable regulations.

The team has completed hundreds of successful projects and provides a unique capability to help companies make critical choices and complete successful transactions.

As part of EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.

The opportunity

We are seeking to further expand our team with IT consultants who work across a range of sectors, including Private Equity, Digital and Telecoms. As an Assistant Director in our team, you will advise clients across all sectors, supporting key decision makers in developing and executing strategies for transactions use your intellectual guile and enthusiasm to apply your technical skills across the MM&A (Mergers & Acquisitions) transaction lifecycle; including pre-deal diligence, portfolio review and corporate carve-outs & integrations.

Your key responsibilities

As an Assistant Director within our Strategy and Execution team, you would assist in aspects of business origination, including pitches and presentations, and attend meetings with clients to help sell work and work in a transaction environment operating under tight M&A timeframes and demands and be familiar working in a large-scale consulting environment or industry role. You would use your knowledge on technical IT topics and work on buyside and sellside mandates across the transaction lifecycle

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EY UK

Assistant Director - Tech - Strategy and Execution - EY Parthenon

London
Competitive remuneration package with FlexEY benefits.

Skills and attributes for success

  • Advise senior clients across all sectors, supporting key decision makers in developing and executing strategies for transactions.
  • Sell, run and deliver different types of engagements, including pre-deal (e.g. technology due diligence, carve-out planning), post-deal (e.g. sign to close, integration planning, synergy tracking) and value creation (e.g. cost reduction, tech enabled VC)
  • Lead blended project teams comprising colleagues from our transactions and advisory practices.
  • Lead complex engagements, including commercials, resourcing and risk.
  • Lead on business origination, including use of networks and delivery of pitches and presentations to senior clients.
  • Lead on practice development initiatives and training programmes, supporting the continued focus on our team as a great place to work.
  • Act as a role model and support development of junior team members, coupled with the recruitment and training responsibilities.
  • Learn and develop technical and personal skills to support achievement of career goals, through a blend of structured learning, coaching and experiences

To qualify for the role, you must have

  • Professional services / consulting; Transactions: ideally due diligence, carve-out or integrations experience; and
  • Broad knowledge and deep understanding of a typical IT function, including enterprise architecture, strategy, governance, systems integration, application development, service delivery and infrastructure.
  • Experience working with Private Equity and senior IT stakeholders
  • Adept at building strong working relationships with senior clients, including influence, advice and support to key decision makers.
  • Demonstrated aptitude for quantitative and qualitative analysis.
  • Effective written and verbal communication skills.
  • Experience of delivering high-quality reports and presentations.
  • Experience of leading large, complex, global delivery programmes.
  • Strong team leadership skills, particularly teams with diverse skills and backgrounds, coupled with the ability to lead and develop juniors.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills.

What we are looking for

You’ll be a trusted advisor to our clients and use your deep knowledge of multiple IT technologies to work closely to their needs. Your proven project management and stakeholder management experience will be key to the role. If you’re ready to take on a wide range of responsibilities and are committed to seeking out new ways to make a difference, this role is for you.

About EY Parthenon

EY-Parthenon teams work with clients to navigate complexity by helping them to reimagine their eco-systems, reshape their portfolios and reinvent themselves for a better future. With global connectivity and scale, EY-Parthenon teams focus on Strategy Realized — helping CEOs design and deliver strategies to better manage challenges while maximizing opportunities as they look to transform their businesses. From idea to implementation, EY-Parthenon teams help organizations to build a better working world by fostering long-term value. EY-Parthenon is a brand under which a number of EY member firms across the globe provide strategy consulting services. For more information, please visit ey.com/parthenon

What working at EY offers

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:

  • Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
  • Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
  • Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
  • Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

Please note: Prior to finalizing your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness. The information you provide is kept entirely confidential and will not be used to evaluate your candidacy. We collect this data to help us analyse our recruitment process holistically and implement actions that promote diversity and inclusiveness. While optional, we encourage you to provide this information to hold us accountable towards our goal of building a better working world. We ask because it matters!

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

The exceptional EY experience. It’s yours to build.

Apply now.

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Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.

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