Associate Director

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The opportunity

EY-Parthenon’s Transactions and Corporate Finance team focuses on addressing the private equity and institutional investors key agenda, covering investment evaluation, value creation strategy and commercial due diligence. We are very active in the market and have deep relationships with Private Equity (PE) clients and Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) as well as their portfolio companies (portcos)

The role is focused on serving clients in the education sector, including investors and education sector operators. A secondary focus is on commercial due diligences in other sectors, including Consumer Products, Retail, Healthcare, Business services and Industrials.

With so many offerings, you could develop your career through broad scope of engagements, mentoring and formal learning. That’s how we develop outstanding leaders who team to deliver on our promises to all our stakeholders, and in doing so, play a critical role in building a better working world for our people, for our clients and for our communities.

Sounds interesting? Well, this is just the beginning. Because whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts for a lifetime.

Your key responsibilities

• Delivering impact as part of high-performing engagement teams supporting private equity investors, sovereign wealth funds, infrastructure funds and corporate clients on strategic and transaction-related priorities. Engagements typically span commercial due diligence, growth strategy, market assessment, business plan validation, value creation strategy and performance improvement.
• Independently leading engagements end to end, with responsibilities spanning from scoping, planning the engagement, structuring the team, driving execution, leading stakeholder engagements and managing engagement economics.
• Assessing market attractiveness, competitive positioning, customer dynamics and growth opportunities, while evaluating the sustainability of business plans, commercial risks and value creation potential.
• Supporting portfolio companies and corporate clients in identifying and executing value creation initiatives, including growth acceleration, operating model enhancement, commercial excellence and strategic transformation programs.
• Supporting leaders in the Transactions and Corporate Finance practice in driving business development efforts. This will involve leading research on PE/SWF portcos in Singapore and the Asean region and formulating hypotheses and points of views, developing relationships with PE/SWF clients and portco management teams, developing client proposals and pitches, supporting with commercial negotiations, helping to organise client events e.g. EY-Parthenon seminars, roundtables and panel discussions and demonstrating thought leadership e.g. publishing articles and participating in podcasts