Posted on: 01/09/2025
The Opportunity :
Were looking for Assistant Directors with 10-12 years of experience in M&A life cycle, integration & separation of a business post-announcement of transaction, cross-border M&A. This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a leading firm and develop your career through a broad scope of engagements, mentoring, and learning & development.
Your key responsibilities :
- Lead end-to-end execution of post deal integration & separation engagements
- Demonstrate excellent skills in project execution including Day 1 readiness, cross functional workplans, interdependencies, Operating model, TSAs, synergy assessment, standalone
costing, project management, legal entity readiness
- Lead multi-functional medium to large size M&A project teams (on-shore and within GDS) through agreed-upon phases of project governance, requirements definition, and risk analysis
of a clients M&A project life cycle
- Conduct industry, sector and deal analysis to identify right portfolio mix and opportunity
areas
- Demonstrate strong sector capabilities, including identifying key drivers and trends across sectors (Life Sciences, Industrials and Energy, TMT, Consumer Products and Health)
- Create work products documenting the engagement procedures performed against objectives
- Build relationships with EY offices across the globe, and demonstrate knowledge of regional practices
- Responsible for high degree of client satisfaction with engagement process and work products
- Lead business development activities (e.g. RFPs, points of view-based business development)
and demonstrate ability to build and nurture client relationships
- Provide guidance on projects and mentor a team of TSE professionals
- Conduct timely performance reviews for employees and develop other professionals by
providing effective performance feedback and training. Lead by example
- Drive adoption of technology on key engagements and promote cross-collaboration across teams
- Collaborating with on-shore team members in developing applicable methodologies, tools,
approaches, points of view, thought leadership and accelerators to differentiate EY in the
marketplace
Skills and attributes for success :
- Good understanding of M&A life cycle, integration & separation of a business post-
announcement of transaction, cross-border M&A
- Strong understanding of key sectors, including upcoming trends
- Possess financial analysis experience, with the ability to link detailed operational analysis to
financial statements
- Skill to synthesize approaches to complex carve-out and integration conflicts
- Excellent problem solving, project management, facilitation and interpersonal skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Strong executive presence with good networking and negotiation skills
- Excellent knowledge of MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint
- Working knowledge of analytical tools such as PowerBI, Smartsheets, Power Query, Python,
Macros would be preferred
- Analytical capabilities knowledge of how to synthesize large amounts of data, develop
hypotheses, test those hypotheses and use them to facilitate conversations with client
executives
To qualify for the role, you must have :
- Post Graduate degree in business, accounting, finance, engineering, computer science or
related field from a premier institute with 10-12 years of applicable industry and/or consulting
experience
- Understanding of M&A life cycle, integration and separation of a business post-
announcement of transaction, cross-border M&A
- Well versed with MS Excel and PowerPoint
- Willingness to undertake international travel as per business requirement
Ideally, youll also have :
- Project management skills
- Strong communication and presentation skills
- Ability to adopt new tools and technology
What we look for :
- A Team of people with commercial acumen, technical experience and enthusiasm to learn new things in this fast-moving environment
- An opportunity to be a part of market-leading, multi-disciplinary team of 3000 + professionals, in the only integrated global transaction business worldwide.
- Opportunities to work with EY SaT practices globally with leading businesses across a range of industries
What we offer :
EY Global Delivery Services (GDS) is a dynamic and truly global delivery network. We work across six locations Argentina, China, India, the Philippines, Poland and the UK and with teams from all EY service lines, geographies and sectors, playing a vital role in the delivery of the EY growth strategy. From accountants to coders to advisory consultants, we offer a wide variety of fulfilling career opportunities that span all business disciplines. In GDS, you will collaborate with EY teams on exciting projects and work with well-known brands from across the globe. Well introduce you to an ever-expanding ecosystem of people, learning, skills and insights that will stay with you throughout your career.
- Continuous learning : Youll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
- Success as defined by you : Well provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
- Transformative leadership : Well give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
- Diverse and inclusive culture : Youll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.
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.
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Posted By
Jacqueline Sweedel Karkada
TA Attraction & Acquisition at EYGBS (INDIA) LLP
Last Active: 24 Nov 2025
Functional Area
Senior Management
Job Code
1538524
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