EY - Assistant Manager - M&A

GDS SaT - TSE - Core - Assistant Manager- India

Within SaT, TSE team 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.

The opportunity :

We're looking for Assistant Managers with expertise in M&A life cycle, carve-out / integration of a business post-announcement of transaction, cross-border M&A. 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 :

- Demonstrate excellent skills in project execution, including synergy assessment, standalone costing, project management, problem-solving and facilitation

- Support execution of the carve-out / integration projects while working to constantly identify areas for improvement, including resolving issues

- Conduct industry, sector and deal analysis to identify right portfolio mix and opportunity areas

- Responsible for high degree of GDS user satisfaction with engagement process and work products

- Provide guidance on projects and mentor a team of TSE professionals

- Conduct timely performance reviews for employees and develop other professionals by providing effective performance feedback and training. Lead by example

Skills and attributes for success :

- Good 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

- In-depth sector and company decks providing insights as per the EY Capital Agenda approach

- Ability to determine risks and opportunity areas

- Skill to synthesize approaches to complex carve-out and integration conflicts

- Excellent problem solving, project management, facilitation and interpersonal skills

- Strong written and verbal communication skills

- Working knowledge of analytical tools such as Tableau, PowerBI, Macros

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

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

- Well versed with MS Excel and PowerPoint

- Willingness to undertake international travel as per business requirement

Ideally, you'l also have:

- Project management skills

- Strong communication and presentation skills

- Ability to adopt new tools and technology

What we 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 1400 + 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