Transaction Advisory Services - Corporate Finance Strategy - Staff

Job description

Our Transaction Advisory Services (TAS) team works with clients to manage their capital agenda to drive competitive advantage and increased returns. As part of a global team of 10,000 professionals in 100 countries you will advise clients on preserving, optimizing, raising or investing capital. Major groups (or, as we call them, sub-service lines and competencies) within TAS include Mergers and Acquisition Services, Project Finance, Restructuring Services, Operational Transaction Services, Transaction Support, Transaction Tax, and Valuation and Business Modeling.

Join our Operational Transaction Services team and provide clients a full range of hands-on, operationally focused support and advice across the transaction life cycle, supporting both buyers and sellers. We cover a wide range of operational aspects, including carve-out readiness and support, operational due diligence and restructuring, synergy assessment and delivery, day-one readiness assessment, and 100-day planning, supporting the integration process, integration and assessments of carve-out/stand-alone costs and risks.

With so many offerings, you have the opportunity to develop your career through a broad scope of engagements, mentoring and formal learning. That’s how we develop outstanding leaders who team to deliver on our promises to all of our stakeholders, and in so doing, play a critical role in building a better working world for our people, for our clients and for our communities. Sound interesting? Well this is just the beginning. Because whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime.

Job summary

As part of our Corporate Finance Strategy team, you will help clients develop their investment strategies and evaluate potential transactions. Working with EY’s proprietary Capital Agenda framework, you will help clients determine the best way to raise, invest, optimize and preserve their capital. This includes developing growth and market entry strategies, conducting strategic portfolio reviews and undertaking commercial due diligence studies. The client base spans all industry sectors and includes blue chip corporates, multinational investors and Private Equity firms.

 

Responsibilities:

 

Areas of our work include:

·  Commercial due diligence
·  Strategy assessment
·  Market entry strategy and opportunity sizing
·  Product and business unit strategy development
·  Divestment options analysis

Requirements:

 

We’re looking for people with functional expertise in the following areas:

·  Being a true business advisor to the client and establish yourself as a key client contact;
·  Highly numerate;
·  Ability to collect and utilize relevant business and industry trend information and to analyze this information effectively by applying numerical and strategic analysis techniques;
·  Analytical work experience preferably gained in a strategy consulting firm or a strategy department of a leading corporate;
·  Ability to plan and deliver sections of work against tight deadlines;
·  Share your technical and other knowledge with your team and the department;
·  Strong commercial sense and project management skills;
·  Experience in executing and managing research and analysis of companies and markets, preferably with commercial due diligence experience;
·  Educated to degree level.

HR Number: 84193