Assistant Director, Operational Due Diligence, Strategy & Execution, Belfast or Derry, Londonderry

Ernst & Young Advisory Services Sdn Bhd; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

EY-Parthenon in Belfast is seeking an Assistant Director (Senior Manager) within Operational Due Diligence, Strategy & Execution. You will support business origination, lead project delivery with senior stakeholders, and advise on value-creating strategies across diverse sectors.

The role emphasizes strong analytical skills, senior client engagement, and contribution to the practice’s growth and development within EY-Parthenon.

Qualifications

• Professional services/consulting exposure in large-scale environments.
• Experience with transactions, due diligence, carve-out or integrations preferred.
• Deep understanding of one or more core operational functions.
• Strong analytical skills linking operational data to financial statements.

Responsibilities

• Assist in business origination, including pitches and client presentations to win work.
• Lead project delivery with senior client stakeholders within tight timeframes.
• Advise clients across sectors, developing and executing value-creating strategies.
• Contribute to practice development initiatives and team culture.

Skills

Due diligence

Strategic thinking

Project leadership

Client relationship management

Executive communication

Job description

Assistant Director, Operational Due Diligence, Strategy & Execution, Belfast or Derry, Londonderry

Location: Belfast

Other locations: Primary Location Only

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence.

We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go.

Join EY and help to build a better working world.

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence.

We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go.

Join EY and help to build a better working world.

Assistant Director (Senior Manager), Operational Due Diligence, Strategy & Execution, EY-Parthenon

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence.

We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go.

Join EY and help to build a better working world.

The opportunity

At EY-Parthenon, our unique combination of transformative strategy, transactions, tax 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.

Your key responsibilities

As an Assistant Director within our ODD team, you’d assist in aspects of business origination, including pitches and presentations to potential clients to help sell work, and leading project delivery working with senior client stakeholders within tight timeframes for some of EY’s most demanding clients. As a consultant you’ll advise clients across all sectors, supportingkey decision makersin developing and executing strategies for value creation.

You would also be expected to contributeto our practice development initiatives, supporting the continued focus onour teamas a great place to work.

Skills and attributes for success

• Industry and functional experience: engineering, supply chain or graduate scheme experience at a large corporate
• Consulting experience: be familiar working in a large-scale consulting environment or industry role where you can demonstrate the ability to perform and summarise analysis into management insights and recommended actions at pace
• Flexibility: be flexible to support on broader Operational and IT work
• Role model: act as a role model and support development of junior team members,coupled with therecruitment and training responsibilities

To qualify for the role you must have

• Professional services / consulting;
• Transactions: ideally due diligence, carve-out or integrations experience; or
• Deep understanding of one or more core operational functions
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to link operational analysis to financial statements, and understand the implications of findings to client strategy

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Experience in buildingstrong working relationships with senior clients, including influence, advice and support tokey decision makers
• Experience in supporting sales and business development processes for professional services projects in a large-scale consulting environment
• A track record of successful project delivery in corporate businesses where you are responsible for managing project team members and vendors
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and experience of producing and reviewing high-quality reports, papers, presentations and thought leadership

What we offer you

We will fuel your ambition and potential with future-focused skills development that equips you with state-of-the-art methodologies and technology-enabled solutions. With more than 25,000 people in 150 countries, you will join an inclusive and empowering culture that values your uniqueness, prioritizes your wellbeing, and immerses you in the diverse thinking and cross-cultural experiences necessary to help deliver impact to clients across the globe and to help build a better working world. Learn more about careers at EY-Parthenon.

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EY | Building a better working world

EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets.

Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.

EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions. Fueled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.

EY | Building a better working world

EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets.

Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.

EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions. Fueled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.

EY refers to the global organization, and may refer to one or more, of the member firms of Ernst & Young Global Limited, each of which is a separate legal entity. Ernst & Young Global Limited, a UK company limited by guarantee, does not provide services to clients.