GDS EY-P - SE - Standalone, One-time Stranded Costing - Assistant Manager - India

Job Summary

Within EY-P, SE team services clients with a full range of hands-on, operationally focused support and advice across the transaction life cycle, across buyers and sellers. We cover a wide range of operational aspects, including divestiture advisory services, carve-out readiness and support, operational due diligence, synergy assessment and delivery, day-one readiness assessment, 100-day planning, integration process support, carve-out/stand-alone costs assessment and risks, and cost reduction.

Our professionals work on transactions and business development across the globe.

The opportunity

We are looking for Assistant Managers with 4-6 years of experience in MA life cycle, carve-out / integration of a business post-announcement of transaction, cross-border MA who specialize in Standalone Cost Models, Stranded Cost Models, and One-time costs. This role sits within EY Parthenon Deal Management s Standalone Costing (SAC) Centre of Excellence (CoE), which is the global hub for delivering all standalone, stranded, and one time cost analyses across transactions.

Your key responsibilities

- Demonstrate excellent skills in developing and implementing standalone cost models, stranded cost models, and one-time cost projections following carve-out, spins and Integrations
- Develop and apply functional cost and headcount benchmarks using third party datasets to validate future state standalone assumptions
- Uncover key insights into potential business entanglements and cost implications associated with standalone projects, stranded assets, and one-time expenditures




- Classify costs into various functional heads using trial balance and further classifying into direct vs allocated costs and headcount vs non headcount costs
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure effective management and optimization of standalone projects, stranded assets, and one-time expenditures
- Build strong relationships with EY offices across the globe, demonstrating knowledge of regional practices and contributing to client satisfaction
- Support business development activities by providing expertise on standalone cost models, stranded cost models, and one-time cost considerations
- Utilize existing AI enabled tools and tech enablement assets to support standalone cost analyses, and proactively provide feedback on opportunities to improve current AI services, prompts, and automation workflows across the SAC delivery process

Skills and attributes for success

- Good understanding of MA life cycle, carve-out / integration of a business post-announcement of transaction, cross-border MA
- Possess financial analysis experience from a number of pre- and post-deal transactions, with the ability to link detailed operational analysis to PL, cash flow, and balance sheet




- Understanding of corporate allocations and methodology to replace allocated costs
- Skill to synthesize approaches to complex carve-out and integration conflicts
- Talent to adapt to current challenges and ideas
- Excellent problem solving, project management, facilitation, and interpersonal skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Strong executive presence with good networking and negotiation skills

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 4-6 years of applicable industry and/or consulting experience
- Proficiency in Excel based financial and cost modelling, with the ability to translate outputs into executive ready PowerPoint materials
- Willingness to undertake international travel as per business requirement

Ideally, you ll also have

- Project management skills
- Effective communication and presentation skills

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 1400 + professionals, in the only integrated global transaction business worldwide.
- Opportunities to work with EY-P practices globally with leading businesses across a range of industries

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