EY - Vice President - Strategy - Education Sector - IIM/FMS/MDI/XLRI

About SAT and EY Parthenon

EY Strategy and Transactions teams work with clients to navigate complexity by helping them to reimagine their eco-systems, reshape their portfolios and reinvent themselves for a better future. Whether they are a corporate, private equity, government, sovereign wealth fund, private or family business, or educational institution client, we help with all their key strategy and transaction decisions.

EY-Parthenon is a unique, world-class strategy practice that delivers long-term value to our clients, our people and EY. As a sub-service line within Strategy and Transactions, EY-Parthenon brings together professionals with diverse strategic capabilities and deep sector insights. We enable our professionals to lead from the front, unlock the full potential of strategy, transactions and restructuring, and reshape work, paving the way for high value impact for our clients. EY-Parthenon plays a critical role in driving collaboration between sub-service lines, within service lines and across the firm.

The opportunity

EY is looking for a suitable member for our team in Strategy practice. The role provides an opportunity to be part of the team which assist businesses in setting strategic goals and identifying the steps to meet them, analyse industry dynamics such as market size, growth, and share of leading competitors, identify the business' unique competitive advantage and help create alignment among all business units and functions to support and enhance this positioning. Team offers clients with Business Model Reinvention, New Market Entry Opportunities and Digital Strategy and Innovation

Your key responsibilities

- Primary delivery responsibility in the execution of both commercial due diligence and strategy engagements

- Working on commercial due diligence, growth strategy and feasibility studies for private equity and corporates

- Involved in various business development initiatives such as preparation of pitch documents, industry notes, scope of work, etc.

- Working on engagements across the range of services, with focus on analysis of financial and MIS information on transactions, secondary research, primary discussions with industry stakeholders and report writing.

- Support in the creation of thought leadership and knowledge artifacts

The role will evolve from engagement delivery to engagement management and pro-active business development over time

Technical Excellence

- Strong analytical skills and structured thinking

- Excellent communication skills (written and oral)

- Proficiency with MS-Office (particularly, Power Point and Excel)

- Professional network and networking skills

- Ability to work with tight timelines

- Ability to manage client interactions

- Attention to detail

- Willingness to travel within India and abroad

To qualify for the role you must have

- MBA from a premier institute (Tier-I Indian B-school) with experience in transaction advisory, commercial due diligence, strategy verticals will be preferred

- Preferred : 8-10 years of professional experience (post MBA) in Consulting/PE/VC firms

Ideally, you'll also have

- Strong analytical, communication, facilitation, relationship-building, presentation and negotiation skills.

- Be highly flexible, adaptable, and creative.

- Comfortable interacting with senior executives (within the firm and at the client)

- Strong leadership skills and supervisory responsibility.