EY Parthenon Riyadh - Strategy Consulting COOP Program

Job description

EY-Parthenon Saudi Arabia Business Strategy Consulting Co-Op Training Program
Location: Riyadh

An overview of the opportunity

Are you eager to learn about how organizations operate and succeed? Are you a problem-solver and strategic thinker passionate about the business world? We’re offering a 3 to 6-month co-op training program starting January 2021, with possibility of full-time employment in September 2021. You’ll be mentored as you work with supportive and diverse project teams that will help you learn and challenge you to grow. You’ll be helping the teams with specific components of a project, such as analyzing a client’s data or participating in client interviews. You’ll work with clients to understand their unique situations and uncover insights that help them know what needs to be done. You’ll feel a great sense of achievement after you synthesize your overall storyboard and present the findings to your client.

What do we offer our clients at EYP?
The breadth of the EY-P service offering from strategy to execution across 3 key competency areas will give you a broader set of opportunities to become a holistic strategic advisor. The focus and scope of work differs as follows:

1. Strategy : Helping clients reach their full potential by answering their most complex strategic questions via rigorous analysis and then bringing the solutions to fruition.
Corporate strategy | Purpose-led strategy and long-term value | Business model reinvention | New Market Entry Opportunities | Strategic cost evaluation | Portfolio strategy | Commercial / Vendor Due Diligence

2. Transaction Strategy and Execution : Helping clients integrate or separate acquired or divested assets and businesses, by providing a full range of hands-on, operationally focused support and advice across the M&A or transaction life cycle.
Merger Integration Blueprint | Synergy Assessment | Operational / IT Due Diligence | Capability Building | Transaction Tool Development | Business Carve-Out | Privatization Transformation

3. Turnaround and Restructuring Strategy : Helping clients address value creation, preservation or recovery, depending on where they are on the stress pendulum by providing leadership to rapidly solve, execute and ultimately transform the outcome during urgent, critical and complex situations.
Turnaround, Operational Restructuring and Rapid Performance Improvement | PE Value Creation | Cash and Working Capital | Financial Advisory | Creditor Solutions | Insolvency | Pensions | Entity Rationalization

Your key responsibilities

• Analyzing and collecting client data
• Synthesizing reports to help present a storyboard to clients
• Attending client meetings (it could even be with the C-Suite of companies and government entities)
• Writing minutes of meeting
• Helping to write proposals
• Conducting market research specific to a client case
• Learning from monthly team workshops held by a Partner or Director
• Supporting internal activities such as organizing team events

Skills and attributes for success

• Great problem-solver demonstrating resourcefulness and creativity
• Maturity, poise and judgement when presenting to clients
• Proactivity within your project team and the wider EY-P team
• Ability to prioritize and work under tight deadlines
• Ability to adapt to changes
• High ethical standards
• Global mindset
• Commercial acumen
• Business writing skills
• Effective use of PowerPoint and Excel (but don’t worry if you don’t know all the tricks yet!)
• Effective communication in Arabic and English

Most importantly, we seek someone who is Smart. Nice. Driven.SM
• Extremely bright, intellectually curious, blending a command of analytics with an appetite for inventive thinking
• Friendly, humble style that relishes open collaboration and partnership
• Unrelenting energy focused on finding inspired solutions and delivering proactive service

To qualify for this role, you must be

• In your final year at university (Business, Economics or Engineering degrees)
• Available to start the internship in January 2021
• A Saudi national
• And you must also have an outstanding academic performance

What working at EY offers

A critical part of anyone’s journey in EY-P is continuous learning and training . We have monthly workshops held by a Partner or Director on specific management consulting topics. Besides that, we encourage furthering education through the vast database of EY training courses and your free access to Udemy. We also make an extra effort to train our KSA team members.

We do a lot to ensure your smooth onboarding and that you will be fully supported and mentored throughout your career at EY-P. You’ll be assigned a buddy and a counselor who will respectively be your point of reference and mentor that will support you to have an exceptional experience since Day 1.

Onboarding support
• Induction: Attend induction (Day 1 & 2)
• Meet key people: Get to know your assigned buddy and counselor
• Meet your team and other colleagues on the floor
• Share a brief background / personal bio with your buddy (for your team introduction by a Partner)

Ongoing mentorship
• Your buddy will be a peer who plays a critical role in your onboarding experience by being a friendly, supportive team member and sharing knowledge, experience and networks. Your buddy will proactively support you during your first 90 days by “showing you around” EY-P.
• Your counselor will be a senior who will take the role of a mentor. Your counselor will be the one you turn to whenever you face challenges or need guidance. Your counselor will have a say in your work activities to ensure that you’re in the right place and satisfying your best interest. Your counselor will also be the one who approves your leave days and so on.

About EY-Parthenon

EY-Parthenon (EY-P) is a strategy consultancy that helps clients architect strategy from every seat at the table, helping deliver it across the enterprise for long-term value.

EY-P brings all of EY’s capabilities to provide differentiated insights and solutions that help CEOs, business unit heads, and PE MPs answer their toughest questions and maintain or secure competitive advantage. With our strategic capabilities and deep sector insights, we lead from the front and unlock the full potential of strategy and transactions work, paving the way for major transformation programs which drive impact to EY as a whole.

Whether for smaller high-speed turnarounds or longer transformational evolutions, our highly collaborative, innovation-to-execution approach has had much success.

About EY-Parthenon in MENA (Middle East and North Africa)

The EY-P MENA Area team is composed of about 83 people between Riyadh, Dubai, Manama and Amman. We belong to the wider EMEIA region team of over 2500 people, 350 Partners and executives, with 3 competencies under our 1 brand and 1 ambition: to help clients reimagine, reshape and reinvent themselves for a better working world.

Key highlights of our work in MENA include:
• Our strong brand in the government and public sector across MENA means that we work on large-scale and strategic national development projects
• We support Sovereign Wealth Funds across MENA with Commercial Due Diligence and post-merger integration services on numerous high-profile transactions
• We’re heavily involved in Reshaping Results engagements with key national and flagship companies / entities to develop their business strategy and transform their business

Application Process

If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please complete the online application as per the process below.

Step 1: Apply
Make sure you apply early and do not forget to follow the instructions carefully and answer all the questions to ensure your application is successful.

Step 2: Test
After we review your application, you will receive an invitation email from ‘EY Careers’ to complete the EY online assessments. Approach the tests as you would approach any new challenge. It might be tough, but you can do it!

Step 3: OnDemand Interview
Upon passing the assessments, you will receive an email invitation to complete a prerecorded video interview. You will be required to record yourself responding to behavioral based questions. Being yourself is key to passing this step of the recruitment process.

Step 4: Attend
Once you have been shortlisted, you may be invited to attend a recruitment day or an interview. This is your opportunity to visit our office, speak with our people and ask questions about life and work at EY.

Step 5: Receive
If you are a great fit for the opportunity, you will receive an offer to join EY and begin your career at one of the best companies to work for. It’s time to celebrate.

Join us in building a better working world.

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