EY-Parthenon - Senior Associate, Software Strategy Group

EY CORPORATE ADVISORS PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

EY Singapore is expanding its Software Strategy Group and seeking a Senior Associate to evaluate how technology is architected and deployed within a target business for transactions. You will advise clients across sectors, interact with CTO/CIO and deal teams, and lead pre‑deal software and technology due diligence, carve‑outs, integrations, and portfolio value assessments.

You will assess proprietary software, IT architecture, data, cybersecurity, and delivery capability to identify risks,

Qualifications

• Understanding of software development lifecycle and product management.
• Experience analysing complex business or technical problems for senior stakeholders.
• Ability to assess technology risks, investment needs, and operating models.
• Client-facing experience from a professional services background.

Responsibilities

• Deliver end-to-end technology due diligence across a target's landscape, including software, IT, data, and cybersecurity.
• Evaluate proprietary software, product technology, architecture, and team capabilities for growth.
• Advise on technology and cybersecurity in separations and integrations from pre-sign to post-close.
• Conduct rapid value-creation diagnostics and identify optimization opportunities.

Skills

Software concepts

Enterprise IT environments

Cybersecurity principles

Communication skills

Deal-focused mindset

Self-starter

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in Business Administration, Economics, IT, CS

Job description

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Our Software Strategy Group (SSG) operates within EY's Strategy & Execution (S&E) practice - EY's market leading team delivering technology, operations, and financial advisory services to corporate and private equity clients pursuing acquisitions, divestitures, or business restructurings. The S&E team brings together specialists across commercial, operations, software, technology, cyber, finance, and deal execution, drawing on deep experience from industry, advisory, and audit.

SSG provides top-tier product and technology diligence, strategic guidance, and transaction advisory. Each year, we help hundreds of companies and investors evaluate product architectures, enterprise technology environments, and technical teams to inform critical investment decisions. In every engagement, you will interact directly with the target company's CTO / CIO and broader management team, learning how real decisions are made and how mature tech organizations operate.

Key strategic focus areas include:

• Product & Technology: Providing investment and acquisition guidance across commercial, product, and technical dimensions to assess software businesses or companies leveraging proprietary technology.
• Enterprise Technology: Evaluating technology risks and opportunities across operating models - including IT organizations, enterprise systems, infrastructure (server, storage, network, cloud), data, spend, strategy, and governance.
• Cybersecurity: Assessing how cyber considerations intersect with business operations, regulatory requirements, and critical assets using our proprietary tools, benchmarks, and operational understanding.

SSG has completed hundreds of successful engagements, offering a unique capability to help clients make confident strategic decisions and execute transactions with clarity and conviction.

The opportunity

We are expanding our Singapore team and seeking a Senior Associate who can evaluate how technology is architected, deployed, and leveraged within a target business - while applying a critical, deal‑focused lens to address core client questions in transactions. You will advise clients across sectors, support executive decision makers, and lead engagement workstreams across pre‑deal software and technology due diligence, carve‑outs and integrations, and portfolio value assessments.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Deliver end‑to‑end technology due diligence across a target's technology landscape - including proprietary software, enterprise technology, data, infrastructure, cybersecurity, architecture, and delivery capability - identifying key risks, value drivers, investment needs, and operational implications.
• Evaluate proprietary software and product technology, assessing feature set, roadmap, architecture, R&D processes, development practices, scalability, security posture, technical debt, and team capabilities to determine the product's ability to support future growth and investment.
• Advise on technology and cybersecurity in separations and integrations, from pre‑sign to post‑close - mapping dependencies in carve‑outs, identifying integration synergies, shaping Day‑1 readiness, defining interim and target‑state operating models, assessing execution risks, and guiding TSA structures and readiness.
• Conduct rapid value‑creation diagnostics, identifying operational bottlenecks, performance gaps, and cost‑optimization opportunities, and developing actionable plans to accelerate benefit capture.

To qualify for the role, you should have,

• Basic or strong understanding of modern software concepts (e.g., software development lifecycle, product management, cloud infrastructure, software architecture, APIs, data platforms, etc.), enterprise IT environments (ERPs, CRMs, HRISs, etc.), and cybersecurity principles.
• Demonstrated experience analysing complex business or technical problems and synthesising insights for senior stakeholders.
• Ability to apply a commercial and deal‑focused mindset to assess technology risks, investment needs, operating models, and scalability.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex technology topics clearly to non‑technical executives (CIO/CTO/CEO, investors, deal teams).
• A self‑starter mindset with a commitment to learning, continuous improvement, and delivering exceptional client service

Ideally, you'll also have,

• A bachelor's or higher degree in Business Administration, Economics, Information Technology, Computer Science, or related fieldsTransactions / M&A experience.
• Client facing experience from a professional services background

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