Manager, M&A Analytics – EY-Parthenon, Birmingham

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

About the Role You will join EY-Parthenon’s Transaction Analytics team in Birmingham as a Manager responsible for the day-to-day delivery of analytics on live M&A engagements. The role focuses on translating deal hypotheses into analytics workplans, producing robust insights, and shaping the transaction narrative through data-driven analysis. You’ll work closely with EY deal teams and clients to deliver data-driven support across buy-side, sell-side, vendor assistance and exit readiness.

What You'll Do

• Lead day-to-day delivery of Transaction Analytics workstreams across buy-side, sell-side, vendor assistance and exit readiness engagements.
• Translate deal questions and value hypotheses into practical analytics workplans, prioritising analysis based on materiality, timeline and client need.
• Manage Executives and Analysts, providing coaching, review and quality control across data preparation, modelling, dashboards and databooks.
• Lead client discussions on data availability, data quality, analytical approach and emerging findings.
• Build and review reconciled data cubes, dynamic databooks and dashboards that support due diligence, equity-story development and bidder Q&A.
• Coordinate with Financial Due Diligence, Corporate Finance, Strategy, Tax and sector teams to ensure joined-up insights across workstreams.
• Review analysis of revenue, margin, customer, cohort, pricing, retention, site or project-level performance and ensure outputs are clearly linked to the transaction narrative.
• Ensure analytical outputs are accurate, clearly documented, repeatable and capable of supporting client, investor and bidder questions.
• Contribute to development of reusable tools, templates, sector-specific approaches and Birmingham team capability.

What We're Looking For

• Strong commercial thinking and ability to understand the financial and operational drivers of a business.
• Ability to analyse businesses at pace and identify where to focus effort in a live transaction environment.
• Ability to gather, verify and assess information to formulate robust views and factual conclusions.
• Experience planning, preparing and reviewing deliverables including visualisations, written reports, presentations and client discussion materials.
• Strong attention to detail with a logical, structured and methodical approach.
• Strong team management, coaching and communication skills.
• Ability to communicate complex analytical findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Confidence working across service lines and building effective relationships at different levels.
• Commercial experience and/or relevant industry, analytics, finance or transaction experience.
• Experience managing analytical workstreams or projects, including reviewing outputs from junior team members.
• Understanding of data manipulation, integration and visualisation tools such as Excel, Alteryx, Power BI, Tableau, SQL or Python.
• A passion for providing high quality service to clients.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver high quality outputs under transaction timelines.