Requisition Id : 1636860

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

•    Understand client issues and assist businesses in setting strategic goals and identifying the steps to meet them. 
•    Assist team with commercial due diligence which is to analyze market dynamics including the size and growth of an industry as well as the individual target’s positioning, potential growth levers, risks, and opportunities.
•    Assist with new strategy formulation which includes evaluating opportunities for growth including entering new geographies, offering new products and services, or serving new customer segments. 
•    Assist with solutions revolving around Digital Strategy and Innovation by assessing the clients underlying digital business models, explore avenues for new growth, both organically and inorganically, and construct the roadmap to build, grow and transform the organization for the digital world.
•    Offering Go to Market Strategy by identifying opportunities to improve how products and services reach customers including but not limited to decisions related to route-to-market, channel selection, pricing optimization, and customer segmentation
•    Responsible for a specific workstream in the project. 
•    Responsible for contributing towards knowledge sharing portals to build the practices intellectual property. 
•    Significant role in both formal training and on-the-job training of executives and analysts working in the project team. 

Skills and attributes for success

•    Demonstrated ability to deliver on complex assignments. 
•    Experience in delivering business strategy and diligence projects in complex environments.
•    Strong quantitative skills for data analysis, interpretation of output, and generation of 
•    insights. 
•    Research oriented mindset
•    Should have an eye for detail
•    Ability to flex individual styles and work back with diverse teams
•    Strong communication skills – oral and written (in terms of making presentation) 
•    Strong financial modelling skills and clarity of financial concepts 
•    Desire to contribute and succeed in a fun, exciting, collegial, and challenging 
•    environment. 
•    Proficient in the English language both in writing and verbally, in a professional 
•    environment. 
•    Willingness and ability to travel

To qualify for the role, you must have

•    MBA (from a premier institute) with a good academic background
•    Pre-qualification experience is preferred. 

Ideally, you’ll also have

•    Strong 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.

What we look for 

People with the ability to work in a collaborative way to provide services across multiple client departments while adhering to commercial and legal requirements. You will need a practical approach to solving issues and complex problems with the ability to deliver insightful and practical solutions.

What working at EY offers 

EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We strive to achieve the right balance for our people, enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities. While our client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites, our flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a lifestyle balance.

About EY and SaT

As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, we’re using the finance products, expertise and systems we’ve developed to build a better working world. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime. 

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.