EY - Associate Manager - Pursuit

The opportunity:

We're looking for Assistant Managers to be a part of business development assignments, and perform qualitative and quantitative research on the markets and/or target companies and join the leadership group of our GDS- SaT Pursuits Team. This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a leading firm whilst being instrumental in the growth of a new service offering.

Your key responsibilities:

- Understand, analyze and assess information from external and internal (EY) sources, including financial statements and KPI analysis

- Develop understanding and knowledge on focus sectors for EY SaT, to be able to interpret and derive insights from financial, strategic and market information

- Write sections of reports to synthesis and present the findings, and analysis from research

- Perform quality review of projects, guiding the team in execution and help them bring out analysis and critical insights.

- Undertake quality check (both qualitative and quantitative) to ensure:

- Output is insightful and as per expectation of onsite teams

- Delivering within agreed timelines

- Measure, monitor and improve client service by guiding team members and driving excellence in service delivery

- Focus teams on the key priorities while managing several medium to large size projects

- Develop excellent relationships with global stakeholders and be responsible for a high degree of client satisfaction with engagement process and work products

- Manage a team of 1-2 professionals

- Direct the progress of engagement work, inform supervisors of the engagement status and manage staff performance

- Conduct timely performance reviews of staff and senior analysts and help in developing and guiding junior professionals by providing effective performance feedback/training and ensuring that team responsibilities are consistent with skills and developmental goals. Lead by example.

- Identify and communicate training needs of his/her team members and impart training as per the program designed for the managers and L&D team

- Use current technology and tools to enhance the effectiveness of services provided

Skills and attributes for success:

- Expert knowledge of research databases such as Capital IQ, One Source, Factiva and Merger Market

- Financial analysis experience from a number of pre- and post-deal transactions, with the ability to link operational analysis to P&L, cash flow and balance sheet

- Ability to identify risk and determine EY service opportunity areas

- Understanding of transactions life cycle, and merger and acquisition (M&A) activities and products

- Strong written and verbal communication skills with experience in developing presentations

- Exposure to tools like Tableau, Alteryx etc.

To qualify for the role, you must have

- Master's degree OR MBA OR Master's in business administration or CFA

- 4-6 years of work experience in qualitative and quantitative research in Management Consultancy firms, preferably Big 4 or financial analytics firms Or Equity / Investment banking research role in leading KPOs/Captives

- Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills.

- Experience in Go to market, company/industry analysis and adhoc unstructured researc

Ideally, you'll also have:

- Project management skills

- Exposure to tools like Tableau, Alteryx etc.

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