Director - (SSG) Strategy and Execution - EY Parthenon
13 hours ago
Slough
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. Director – (SSG) Strategy and Execution – EY Parthenon Our SSG (Software Strategy Group) sits within the Strategy and Execution team, which is EY’s leading market team providing Technology, Operations and Financial advice to corporate and private equity firms who intend to acquire, divest or restructure businesses. The team comprises advisors with specialist commercial, operations, software, technology, cyber, finance and deal / transaction experience from industry, advisory and audit backgrounds. SSG has competencies in Product and Technology, Enterprise Technology and Cybersecurity: • Product and Technology provides investment and acquisition guidance to clients across commercial, product, and technical topics needed to assess and advise companies leveraging their own proprietary software for commercial advantage, • Enterprise Technology assesses major technology risks and opportunities related to a transaction across key areas of enterprise technology holistically including enterprise and business systems, infrastructure, data and reporting, tech operating model, tech spend, • Product and Technology diligence: We provide market-leading product and technology diligence of companies in the Software Economy, an "inside-out" assessment of product capabilities, product road map, software architecture, technical debt, R&D organisation, and software development processes, enabling investors to understand a software company's capabilities and ability to execute against its corporate strategy, while also identifying risks and opportunities., • Software development optimisation: We assess a company's software development organisation for capacity, talent, and process, and provide actionable recommendations to improve productivity, timeliness, predictability, quality, and overall alignment with the corporate strategy. This assessment is conducted through site visits, interviews, reviewing data, hands-on evaluation, primary research, and benchmarking., • Technology strategy and roadmap: By studying clients' technology roadmaps and potential alternatives, as well as assessing cost, risk, and alignment with strategic objectives, we help companies identify and build a suitable technology strategy and architecture road map — sometimes building on internal efforts and sometimes on brand-new ideas. This type of engagement typically revolves around a potential re-platforming initiative or a major transformational effort, such as a substantial acquisition or a SaaS transformation., • Product strategy and roadmap: We examine a company's product roadmap and provide recommendations for improvement in product strategy and road map based on market and research, team capabilities, development cost and risk, and technology underpinnings. This type of engagement typically includes primary research on the competitive landscape and market greenspace., • Leading pre deal, post deal, value creation engagements with clients across all sectors including private equity across the UK and EU., • Directors manage an engagement’s successful execution, lead the engagement team and work directly with clients. Across each engagement, a Director will lead and direct the analysis approach, coach/ mentor team members, identify areas of necessary industry research, interview industry experts, conduct qualitative and quantitative investigation, and lead discussions with our clients, • Lead discussions to develop hypotheses, insights, and key findings critical to the engagement, • Executing qualitative and quantitative reviews (e.g., R&D Spend analysis, feature functionality benchmarking, competitor studies, organisational capabilities, technology capabilities) to support the formulation and validation of strategic recommendations, • Conducting in-depth interviews with key organisational stakeholders, industry experts and customers, • Analysing business plans and pro-forma financial models to help identify key assumptions and drivers, • A master’s or bachelor's degree (or equivalent) with outstanding academic performance. (Computer science or similar field would be a plus), • Prior experience as functional head (e.g. CTO, CPO, CIO, Head of Engineering) within a software company, or the software function of a more traditional company, especially product management, software engineering, data science or DevOps, and ideally with recognized industry expertise, • Track record of applying structured methodologies and industry standards for Product Management, UI/UX design principles, Software Architecture, Software Development Life Cycle methods and the ability to provide insights based on experience, • Prior experience in a transactions context, ideally performing technology due diligence and/or strategic value creation assignments, • Detail-oriented and good at sifting through datasets quickly to identify patterns and develop insights, • Comfort with developing hypotheses based on incomplete information, • Ability to make detailed assessments of industry, products, markets, competitors and customers to identify risks and opportunities, along with recommendations to achieve investment thesis goals and/or mitigate risk, • You will be a charismatic and effective leader of diverse teams, • You will be a fluid and professional communicator with “C-suite” presence, • You will have a strong grasp of ethical and regulatory obligations, • You’ll be a trusted business consultant to our clients and use your deep knowledge of technology trends to work closely to their needs, • Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next., • Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way., • Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.