EY - Assistant Director - Operational Transaction Services - Global Delivery Services - Transaction Advisory Services

EY Global Delivery Services Transaction Advisory Services (TAS) Assistant Director - Operational Transaction Services

EY is a global professional services organization providing advisory, assurance, tax and transaction services.

EY is among the world's most attractive employers. It offers opportunities and experiences that bring out the best in its people at work every day. Collaborating with diverse teams across the globe helps our people develop a global mindset. EY develops outstanding leaders who deliver value to all our stakeholders to meet their strategic corporate objectives.

GDS India has won several Global HR awards for its people practices: ranked first in the "Dream Companies to Work- . For the sixth consecutive year, we've been ranked as the "Best Place to Work for" in the - Great Place to Work- survey. GDS TAS has been one of the fastest growing services, delivering transaction support, transaction tax and capital transformation services to clients around the world.

GDS TAS professionals work as an extended team to global TAS practices. They deliver insights, analytics and advice to our clients on strategies to raise, invest, preserve and optimize their capital. GDS TAS offers you:

- First-hand knowledge on how the economic climate is changing

- Team of people with commercial acumen, technical experience, and enthusiasm to learn new thing in this fast-moving environment

- An opportunity to be a part of market-leading, multi-disciplinary team of about 600 professionals, in the only integrated global transaction business worldwide

- Opportunities to work with EY TAS practices globally with leading businesses across a range of industries

We are committed to providing learning opportunities to our employees through robust training and global secondment opportunities.

GDS TAS OTS

Within TAS, Operational Transaction Services (OTS) services clients with a full range of hands-on, operationally focused support and advice across the transaction life cycle, across buyers and sellers. We cover a wide range of operational aspects, including divestiture advisory services, carve-out readiness and support, operational due diligence, synergy assessment and delivery, day-one readiness assessment, 100 day planning, integration process support, carve-out/stand-alone costs assessment and risks, and cost reduction.

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

Position: Assistant Director

Location: Gurgaon

Reporting to: Associate Director / Executive Director

The main objective is to achieve business growth by developing and maintaining strong working relationships with key business decision-makers, informing them of our scope of services and communicating how these services benefit their organizations.

Key responsibilities:

- Work on client engagement teams executing Operational Transaction Services which support key decision makers in developing and executing strategies for transactions.

- Assess the client's state of readiness with respect to people, resources, planning, data collection, and strategy, while identifying high-risk areas, unidentified issues, and areas for overall improvement.

- Demonstrate excellent skills in project execution, including synergy assessment, problem-solving, and facilitation.

- Assist with the execution of the integration/divestiture plan while working to constantly identify areas for improvement, including resolving integration/divestiture issues.

- Be responsible for creating work products that document the engagement procedures performed against objectives.

- Maintain relationships with client and EY personnel at appropriate levels.

- Effectively participate on teams with diverse skills and backgrounds, while staying abreast of current business and industry trends relevant to the client's business.

- Supervise, coach, and mentor team members at the junior level.

- Demonstrate strong transaction knowledge in a particular industry (e.g., manufacturing, life sciences, consumer product goods, industrial products, technology, retail, etc.) with good understanding of IT functional areas

- Assist in business development activities including preparing presentations for pursuit meetings with clients to help sell advisory services.

Specific responsibilities:

- Manage teams- delivery in global transaction focused engagements by strengthening the IT function capability across key skills. Ability to understand IT capability of individuals and aligning them with right kind of engagements, managing feedback & functional skills enhancements.

- Ability to manage large multi-location teams.

- Participate in large engagements with scope for Senior Manager roles, to showcase top quality skills of the team.

- Support of the team's sales and market development agenda.

- Develop and maintain monthly actual/forecast variance report, with the cause of change.

- Identify leading practices that can be implemented with clients. Automate existing processes.

- Develop holistic business insights from consumer sales and internal data sources.

- Create tools or systems, including databases and spreadsheets, to improve financial data analysis and reporting.

- Assist in preparation of executive presentations

Qualifications:

- A bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or related field and master's/post graduate qualification in finance with at least 10+ years of related work experience

- Desirable to have IT transaction experience (mergers, acquisitions or divestiture)

- Expertise and understanding of broader set of IT functions from Transaction standpoint

- IT strategy

- Enterprise architecture

- IT security

- IT shared services

- IT organization transformation

- ERP Implementation

- IT service management and TSA development

- IT finance management

- IT infrastructure management

- IT outsourcing/offshoring

- IT contract management

- IT Diligence

- IT synergy identification

- Data separation and transition

- Experience in leading consulting project teams with 15+ resources

- Functional experience in:

a) Procurement to pay

b) Record to report

c) Order to cash

d) Plan to make

e) Hire to retire

- Certifications in Agile, ITIL, PMP/Prince 2, TOGAF and COBIT highly desired)

Understanding of M&A life cycle, carve-out / integration of a business post-announcement of the transaction, cross-border M&A

- Strong operations mindset and 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

- Well versed with MS Excel and PowerPoint

EY GDS is an equal opportunity employer.

Our diversified offerings will provide right opportunities to you to develop your career through a broad scope of engagements, mentoring, and learning and development. We develop outstanding leaders who keep our promises, deliver exceptional services to all of our stakeholders, and play a critical role in building a better working world for our people, clients, and communities.