Manager - M&A Analytics - EY-Parthenon, Birmingham

Job Description

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Manager, M&A Analytics – EY-Parthenon, Birmingham

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

At EY-Parthenon, our unique combination of transformative strategy, transactions, tax 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.

EY-Parthenon’s Transaction Analytics team helps clients use data to make better decisions at critical moments in the deal lifecycle. We work with private equity investors, corporates, management teams and other advisers on buy-side, sell-side, vendor assistance and exit readiness engagements.

Our work sits at the intersection of M&A, financial due diligence, commercial insight and advanced analytics. We turn complex financial, operational and commercial datasets into clear, robust analysis that supports the equity story, helps answer bidder and investor questions, and gives clients greater confidence in transaction decisions.

This is an opportunity to join our growing Birmingham Transaction Analytics team and help build a regional platform within one of the UK’s leading deal analytics practices.

Our core work is delivered during the exciting and high-speed phases of an M&A process. We use data and analytics to assess a target company’s financial performance, business projections and key value drivers, identifying opportunities, risks, sensitivities and potential mitigations that can influence transaction outcomes.

The Transaction Analytics team works closely with Financial Due Diligence, Corporate Finance, Strategy, Tax and sector specialists to provide deeper insights, challenge value drivers and bring innovative digital capabilities to live deal situations. Our work includes building reconciled data cubes, dynamic databooks and dashboards that support vendor due diligence, commercial due diligence, information memoranda, management presentations and bidder Q&A.

Companies are collecting more data than ever before across finance, ERP, CRM, billing, operational and external sources. Our challenge is to use analytics at pace to identify and explain trends that may otherwise remain hidden — and to convert those insights into a clear transaction narrative.

Your key responsibilities

As a Manager in the Transaction Analytics team, you will own the day-to-day delivery of analytics workstreams on live M&A engagements. You will translate transaction hypotheses into practical analysis plans, manage junior team members, review analytical outputs, and work directly with clients and EY deal teams to ensure findings are robust, clearly documented and commercially relevant.

• Lead day-to-day delivery of Transaction Analytics workstreams across buy-side, sell-side, vendor assistance and exit readiness engagements.
• Translate deal questions and value hypotheses into practical analytics workplans, prioritising analysis based on materiality, timeline and client need.
• Manage Executives and Analysts, providing coaching, review and quality control across data preparation, modelling, dashboards and databooks.
• Lead client discussions on data availability, data quality, analytical approach and emerging findings.
• Build and review reconciled data cubes, dynamic databooks and dashboards that support due diligence, equity-story development and bidder Q&A.
• Coordinate with Financial Due Diligence, Corporate Finance, Strategy, Tax and sector teams to ensure joined-up insights across workstreams.
• Review analysis of revenue, margin, customer, cohort, pricing, retention, site or project-level performance and ensure outputs are clearly linked to the transaction narrative.
• Ensure analytical outputs are accurate, clearly documented, repeatable and capable of supporting client, investor and bidder questions.
• Contribute to development of reusable tools, templates, sector-specific approaches and Birmingham team capability.

Skills and attributes for success

• Strong commercial thinking and ability to understand the financial and operational drivers of a business.
• Ability to analyse businesses at pace and identify where to focus effort in a live transaction environment.
• Ability to gather, verify and assess information to formulate robust views and factual conclusions.
• Experience planning, preparing and reviewing deliverables including visualisations, written reports, presentations and client discussion materials.
• Strong attention to detail with a logical, structured and methodical approach.
• Strong team management, coaching and communication skills.
• Ability to communicate complex analytical findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Confidence working across service lines and building effective relationships at different levels.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Commercial experience and/or relevant industry, analytics, finance or transaction experience.
• Experience managing analytical workstreams or projects, including reviewing outputs from junior team members.
• Understanding of data manipulation, integration and visualisation tools such as Excel, Alteryx, Power BI, Tableau, SQL or Python.
• A passion for providing high quality service to clients.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver high quality outputs under transaction timelines.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Experience working in a transaction, financial due diligence, corporate finance, strategy, consulting or professional services environment.
• ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent qualification.
• Experience leading client-facing discussions or presenting analytical findings to senior stakeholders.
• Experience using SQL, Python, R, VBA or other analytical languages.
• Experience developing dashboards, databooks, reconciled data models or analytical outputs that support commercial or transaction decisions.

What we look for

We are looking for people who can combine analytical capability with commercial judgement. You will be comfortable leading teams, asking the right questions, challenging analysis, and converting complex data into clear insight that influences transaction decisions.

What we offer

We will fuel your ambition and potential with future-focused skills development that equips you with state-of-the-art methodologies and technology-enabled solutions. With more than 25,000 people in 150 countries, you will join an inclusive and empowering culture that values your uniqueness, prioritises your wellbeing, and immerses you in the diverse thinking and cross-cultural experiences necessary to help deliver impact to clients across the globe and to help build a better working world. Learn more about careers at EY-Parthenon.

Are you ready to shape your future with confidence? Apply today.

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EY | Building a better working world

EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets.

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.

EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions. Fuelled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.

EY | Building a better working world

EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets.

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.

EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions. Fueled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.