EY-Parthenon - Strategy and Execution, Restructuring, Director, Multiple Locations

The opportunity

EY-Parthenon’s unique combination of transformative strategy, transactions and corporate finance delivers real-world value – solutions that work in practice, not just on paper. Benefiting from EY’s full spectrum of services, we’ve reimagined strategic consulting to work in a world of increasing complexity.

With deep functional and sector expertise, paired with innovative AI-powered technology and an investor mindset, we partner with CEOs, Boards, Private Equity and Governments every step of the way – enabling you to shape your future with confidence.

Our global network of Restructuring professionals helps clients develop financial and operational strategies to improve liquidity, credit availability and shareholder return. Our Restructuring team is fully integrated both within our wider EY-Parthenon practice and our firm as a whole, and our clients reap the benefits of this broad range of knowledge, skills and experience. We work on the basis of creating long-term relationships with our clients and our teams work closely with them to understand their short and long-term goals - being there at every stage to identify problems and recommend and implement solutions that deliver measurable results.

Your key responsibilities

As a Director with EY-Parthenon's Strategy and Execution Restructuring practice, you will help clients evaluate capital options, capture greater transaction value and achieve strategic objectives - whether they are buying or selling a distressed asset, restructuring a business, dealing with underperformance, or looking to improve cash management. You'll work to prepare comprehensive financial reviews of company's operations, attend legal proceedings, engage in judicial management, support liquidation processes as well as advise clients on corporate risk management issues.

Skills and attributes for success

• Project Management - lead project teams comprising colleagues from across the EY-Parthenon sub service lines.
• Business and Commercially Driven - working in a fast-paced, exciting environment with strong business acumen to drive value to our clients.
• Business Development - drive client pursuits, including presentations and client meetings. Contribute to our practice development initiatives, supporting the continued focus on our team as a great place to work.
• People Development - coach and mentor team members to support achievement of their career goals.
• Building Relationships - strong working relationships with senior clients, including influence, advice and support to key decision makers.
• The expectation for this role is in person teaming, at client site or in an EY office, a minimum of 60% of the time or on average 3 days a week over the course of an engagement, project or performance year.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• A bachelor's degree and 5 years of related work experience; or a graduate degree and approximately 3 years of related work experience.
• Experience interacting with client c-suite and senior management teams to understand and evaluate key business issues including liquidity position, cash flow needs, and potential financial and operational challenges.
• Experience identifying data to prepare detailed complex financial analyses, including 13-week cash flow models, to understand the client’s liquidity positions, cash flow needs and financial viability.
• Experience in developing financial and operational strategies to affect a financial and/or operational turnaround to improve liquidity, credit availability and shareholder return.
• Strong financial modeling skills including the ability to create robust and flexible financial models based on client’s financial and operational information to drive key decisions and strategies.
• Able to work under high pressure and adapt to a dynamic working environment.
• Excellent problem solving, facilitation and interpersonal skills.
• You must either reside in or be in a commutable distance to your office location for this position.
• The ability and willingness to travel and work in excess of standard hours when necessary. In certain circumstances, travel may be required beyond your work location based on client and project needs.

Ideally, you will also have

• Finance/corporate restructuring experience.
• Client facing experience from a professional services background.
• Knowledge of how to leverage firm-approved AI tools in a business setting, including Microsoft Copilot.

What we look for

We're interested in talented professionals with the ability to visualize our clients' goals and think creatively to facilitate them. If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, and a genuine passion for taking on new challenges, this role is for you.