EY Abu Dhabi Strategy And Transactions(Sat) Graduate Program (UAE Nationals Only)
EY - Ernst & Young Global Limited , United Arab Emirates
Job Description
An overview of the opportunity
Are you eager to learn about how organizations operate and succeed? Are you a problem-solver and strategic thinker passionate about the business world? We’re offering full-time employment post October 2020. You’ll be mentored as you work with supportive and diverse project teams that will help you learn and challenge you to grow. You’ll be helping the teams with specific components of a project, such as analyzing a client’s data or participating in client interviews. You’ll work with clients to understand their unique situations and uncover insights that help them know what needs to be done. You’ll feel a great sense of achievement after you synthesize your overall storyboard and present the findings to your client.
What do we offer our clients at EYP?
The breadth of the EY-P service offering from strategy to execution across 3 key competency areas will give you a broader set of opportunities to become a holistic strategic advisor. The focus and scope of work differs as follows:
1.Strategy: Helping clients reach their full potential by answering their most complex strategic questions via rigorous analysis and then bringing the solutions to fruition.
Corporate strategy | Purpose-led strategy and long-term value | Business model reinvention | New Market Entry Opportunities | Strategic cost evaluation | Portfolio strategy | Commercial / Vendor Due Diligence
2.Transaction Strategy and Execution: Helping clients integrate or separate acquired or divested assets and businesses, by providing a full range of hands-on, operationally focused support and advice across the M&A or transaction life cycle.
Merger Integration Blueprint | Synergy Assessment | Operational / IT Due Diligence | Capability Building | Transaction Tool Development | Business Carve-Out | Privatization Transformation
3.Turnaround and Restructuring Strategy: Helping clients address value creation, preservation or recovery, depending on where they are on the stress pendulum by providing leadership to rapidly solve, execute and ultimately transform the outcome during urgent, critical and complex situations
Turnaround, Operational Restructuring and Rapid Performance Improvement | PE Value Creation | Cash and Working Capital | Financial Advisory | Creditor Solutions | Insolvency | Pensions | Entity Rationalization
Your key responsibilities
•Analyzing and collecting client data
•Synthesizing reports to help present a storyboard to clients
•Attending client meetings (it could even be with the C-Suite of companies and government entities)
•Writing minutes of meeting
•Helping to write proposals
•Conducting market research specific to a client case
•Learning from monthly team workshops held by a Partner or Director
•Supporting internal activities such as organizing team events
Job Specification
Skills and attributes for success
•Great problem-solver demonstrating resourcefulness and creativity
•Maturity, poise and judgement when presenting to clients
•Proactivity within your project team and the wider EY-P team
•Ability to prioritize and work under tight deadlines
•Ability to adapt to changes
•High ethical standards
•Global mindset
•Commercial acumen
•Business writing skills
•Effective use of PowerPoint and Excel
•Effective communication in Arabic and English
•Extremely bright, intellectually curious, blending a command of analytics with an appetite for inventive thinking
•Friendly, humble style that relishes open collaboration and partnership
•Unrelenting energy focused on finding inspired solutions and delivering proactive service
To qualify for this role, you must have
•Bachelor’s or Master’s degree: Accounting, Finance, Economics, Political Science, Engineering or any Technology related degree
- Bachelor’s degree: completed within the past 18 months of applying to the graduate program
- Master’s Programs/Master’s Degree: completed within the past 18 months with no relevant work experience for more than 6 months or students who started their Masters directly after completing their bachelor degree.
•Available to start full-time job post January 2021
•UAE nationals will only be considered
What working at EY offers
A critical part of anyone’s journey in EY-P is continuous learning and training. We have monthly workshops held by a Partner or Director on specific management consulting topics. Besides that, we encourage furthering education through the vast database of EY training courses and your free access to Udemy.
We do a lot to ensure your smooth onboarding and that you will be fully supported and mentored throughout your career at EY-P. You’ll be assigned a buddy and a counselor who will respectively be your point of reference and mentor that will support you to have an exceptional experience since Day 1.
Onboarding support
•Induction: Attend induction (Day 1 & 2)
•Meet key people: Get to know your assigned buddy and counselor
•Meet your team and other colleagues on the floor
•Share a brief background / personal bio with your buddy (for your team introduction by a Partner)
Ongoing mentorship
•Your buddy will be a peer who plays a critical role in your onboarding experience by being a friendly, supportive team member and sharing knowledge, experience and networks. Your buddy will proactively support you during your first 90 days by “showing you around” EY-P.
•Your counselor will be a senior who will take the role of a mentor. Your counselor will be the one you turn to whenever you face challenges or need guidance. Your counselor will have a say in your work activities to ensure that you’re in the right place and satisfying your best interest. Your counselor will also be the one who approves your leave days and so on.
About EY-Parthenon
EY-Parthenon (EY-P) is a strategy consultancy that helps clients architect strategy from every seat at the table, helping deliver it across the enterprise for long-term value.