Assistant Director, M&A Analytics – EY-Parthenon, Birmingham

Job title: Assistant Director, M&A Analytics – EY-Parthenon, Birmingham

About the Role

This is a leadership role in EY-Parthenon's Transaction Analytics team in Birmingham. You will help grow the Birmingham capability, lead analytics workstreams across M&A engagements, and shape how data-driven insights support the equity story and decision-making throughout the deal lifecycle.

What You'll Do

• Lead analytics workstreams across buy-side, sell-side, vendor assistance and exit readiness engagements.
• Shape analytics scope, approach, timelines and deliverables with Partners, Directors, clients and other EY workstreams.
• Lead senior client conversations with management teams, CFOs, private equity deal teams, corporate clients and other advisers.
• Oversee the creation of reconciled data cubes, dynamic databooks, dashboards and visual outputs that support due diligence, equity-story development and bidder Q&A.
• Use analytics to test value drivers, evidence growth stories, identify risks and challenge transaction assumptions.
• Project manage teams across multiple engagements, ensuring quality, timeliness, risk management and commercial relevance of outputs.
• Build, coach and mentor junior team members, helping develop the Birmingham Transaction Analytics capability.
• Develop internal and external networks across Transaction Diligence, Corporate Finance, Strategy, Tax, sector teams and the wider EY-Parthenon platform.
• Contribute to business development, proposals, credentials, key accounts, recruitment and go-to-market initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to expand the role of analytics across the transaction lifecycle and help develop reusable tools, assets and methodologies.

What We're Looking For

• Strong financial and commercial acumen, with the ability to understand client challenges and link analysis to transaction value.
• Ability to define analytical approaches, challenge assumptions and focus teams on the questions that matter most in a deal context.
• Ability to gather, verify and assess information to formulate clear conclusions and advice.
• Demonstrable experience planning, preparing and reviewing client deliverables including visualisations, written reports, presentations and senior stakeholder materials.
• Strong attention to detail with a logical, structured and methodical approach.
• Strong leadership, coaching and team management skills.
• Ability to communicate complex analytical findings clearly to clients, investors, banks and non-technical stakeholders.
• Business development mindset, with the ability to build trusted relationships and identify opportunities for additional client value.

Nice to Have

• Entrepreneurial mindset

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary not disclosed in posting.