VME - Government and Public Sector

Your Key Responsibilities

You are likely to spend your day-to-day working on commercial issues, working with management on parts of their expansion / acquisition process or transformation plans and regularly undertake assessments for strategic priorities. You will understand the key business drivers, co-developing our approach with the client, agreeing value measurements, and providing value to the client through insights, factual conclusions, and advice.

You will make technical contributions to client engagements by gaining a thorough understanding of the target business and its market, and of clients' issues, performing research and analysis of specific industry, governmental bodies and companies operating in the sector. You will plan, prepare, and review deliverables in various forms including written reports, presentations, excel models / data books and discussion documents with the client.

In addition, you will also help to create a positive learning culture for junior team members and support their development. You will take the responsibility for own learning and development, provide coaching to others, and participate in upward feedback.

Skills And Attributes For Success

• Strategic mindset – you will help clients identifying source of value creation and quantifying it. You will need to have a solution-oriented mind-set to act as a truly advisor to leverage on EY capabilities and assist clients in solving their issues and unlocking potential for value growth
• Commercial Acumen – as part of the team you will regularly advise businesses on commercial issues by performing business case development, valuations, feasibilities, analysis towards achieving optimization or reshaping results, and provide opinions on transactions and restructurings
• Financial knowledge – you will work with clients’ management to support them in understanding areas such as sector or company(ies) financial performance and forecasts, impact of acquired assets, budgeting & accounting requirements, fair value opinion, etc. by applying various valuation and modelling techniques.
• Technical skillset – you will be required to design / build / use business models and analytics to generate insights and influence clients to shape how they make their decisions and then guiding them through / facilitating the decision-making process. You will also be conducting research and analysis of publicly available data and information for future market scenarios, data presentation and visualisation as well as supporting go-to-market initiatives and developing new propositions
• Soft skills – you will be working on strategic business modelling projects that are typically characterised by having multiple stakeholders with widely differing agendas and high degrees of complexity and uncertainty. Therefore, your role will demand strong client handling and communication skills and proven commercial awareness as well as reasonable modelling and analytics capability.
  

To qualify for the role, you would ideally have

• As a minimum, a bachelor's degree in business, finance, economics or accounting with robust applied working knowledge and experience of feasibility studies, cost benefit analysis, business case development, strategic planning, strategic options development, financial statement analysis, investment appraisal and valuation techniques
• Strong analytical, critical thinking and problem framing/solving skills with an understanding of a product development cycle in a project-based consulting environment (either internal or external)
• Strong presentation skills, having developed business case, strategic plans to strategic management
• Strong attention to detail, together with an ability to see the big picture
• Excellent oral communication, listening and structured report writing skills
• The resilience and motivation to operate both in a team environment and individually