EY - Associate Manager - Value Creation

EY- Strategy and Transaction - TSE VC- Associate Manager

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, 100day 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

TSE Value Creation team provides transformative solutions to clients to achieve sustainable, margin improvements and strategically align resources to growth initiatives

We're looking for Associate Manager having experience in delivering value creation services. 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

- Executing engagements around Rapid Cost Take-out, Strategic Turnarounds, Business Process Optimization / Automation, Stranded Cost Reduction, Synergy and dis-synergy assessments, planning and value capture

- Assist in business development activities including preparing presentations for client and internal pursuit meetings

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

- Build relationships with EY offices across the globe and demonstrate knowledge of regional practices. Responsible for high degree of GDS user satisfaction with engagement process and work products

- Create work products documenting the engagement procedures performed against objectives

- Manage client engagement teams executing TSE services which support key decision makers in developing and executing their transaction strategy to secure deal value

- 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

- Identify business development opportunities and assist Partners and Senior Managers on proposals and new business opportunities

Skills and attributes for success :

- 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

- Talent to adapt to new challenges and ideas

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

- Strong written and verbal communication skills

- 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 7-10 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

- Experience of working on cost takeout or value creation projects

- Well versed with Microsoft tools MS Excel and PowerPoint

- Willingness to undertake international travel as per business requirement

Ideally, you'll also have :

- Project management skills

- Strong communication and presentation skills

What you can 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