Executive 1 – Corporate Finance Strategy

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Full Time
  • Post Date: June 27, 2016
  • Offerd Salary Negotiable
  • Career Level Executive
  • Experience 4 Years
  • Gender Both
  • INDUSTRY Finance
  • Qualification Bachelor Degree
Job Description
Executive 1 – Corporate Finance Strategy  DUB001YC
AE-All-Dubai
Within EY’s Transaction Advisory Services practice, we currently have an opportunity for a Senior in our Commercial Advisory Services (CAS) team in MENA. CAS focuses on helping clients in their strategic decisions such as portfolio and growth strategies for the regional family businesses; inbound entry/expansion decisions for global corporate clients; commercial/business due diligence for private equity and sovereign wealth funds and inbound corporate clients; evaluation of greenfield investment, partnership/JV/franchising, divestment and other such strategic decisions; and privatisation and corporatisation decisions for governments. CAS consultants typically work directly with the C-Suite on their strategic and transaction decisions.
 
CAS’ growth strategy has sector specialism, accounts focus and aggressive relationship building as its three cornerstones. It is in the process of building its leadership team and looking to recruit high calibre, ambitious managers and future leaders in each of the following sectors for the MENA region:
  1.  Infrastructure
The Transactions Advisory Services practice focuses on advising clients on their capital agenda –investing, raising, preserving and optimising capital. We source, design, structure, evaluate and execute acquisition, investment, divestment, financing, privatisation, restructuring and listing decisions for our clients.
 
The role:
 
  • Manage the delivery of client engagements across the region to a high standard while ensuring that quality of the client relationship moves to the next level during delivery.
  • Assist in defining the objective and scope of client engagements and deliverables in consultation with the Engagement Leader and Partner.
  • Design and execute analyses on clients’ problems and markets to validate key hypotheses.
  • Design and facilitate in-depth interview programs with key company stakeholders (i.e. Customers, suppliers, business partners). Manage engagements from initial data collection and analysis to creating final client deliverables that meet EY quality standards.
  • Build and maintain relationships with client personnel at appropriate levels and other EY TAS teams on the engagement.
  • Effectively support and motivate teams with diverse skills and backgrounds, while staying abreast of current business and industry trends.
  • Use current technology and tools to enhance the effectiveness of services and help document the engagement procedures performed against objectives.
  • Think like an entrepreneur and use creative techniques, analyses and presentations to answer clients’ most important questions.
  • Support the CAS Sector Leader in building high quality client relationships, developing sharp points of view, developing winning proposals, and developing sector focused thought leadership.
 

  

Qualifications
 
  • A bachelor’s degree and approximately 5-6 years of related work experience; or a post-graduate degree and approximately 4-5 years of related work experience.
  • A degree in business, finance, economics, engineering and/or other appropriate academic major with a strong background in strategy and finance. An MBA is a significant advantage.
  • Approximately 3+ years of industry and/or consulting experience in managing business strategy and M&A projects in complex business environments.
  • A keen ability to conduct detailed analysis of industries including value chains, products, markets, competitors, customers, channels, supply chains – from financial and operational perspectives.
  • Demonstrated aptitude for quantitative and qualitative analysis and the ability to synthesise findings and link them to client issues.
  • Excellent problem solving, project management, facilitation and interpersonal skills.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Executive presence.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead/work in teams, coach people, and inspire teams to achieve excellent results for themselves, their colleagues and their clients.
  • Demonstrated ability to build lasting client relationships based on value add, strategic insights, and high quality delivery of advice.
  • A dedication to teamwork and commitment to staying at the cutting edge of knowledge in focused industries.
 
The successful candidate must be willing and able to travel, when necessary. Estimated travel is approximately 25% of the time.

Qualified candidates should submit their CV’s in

https://tas-ey.taleo.net/careersection/gexp01/jobdetail.ftl?job=DUB001YC