EY GDS - Assistant Director - Economic Advisory - Strategy & Transactions

EY-Economic Advisory - Strategy and Transactions - Assistant Director

The team is part of EY Global Delivery Services (GDS), SaT. As a part of GDS Economic Advisory team, we support EY Global Economic Advisory Practices on engagement delivery and Business Development support across the Transport, Health, Power & Utilities sectors, Local govt policies etc with a focus on consulting services in Economic projects service delivery.

The GDS EA team is part of the Economics Advisory and Infrastructure Advisory (EA-IA) team and focusses on both the government and private sector, Our Economic Advisory (EA) practice offers a suite of services that includes decision support, analytics, econometrics and operations research that assist clients in making strategic and tactical decisions. Incumbent will be applying economic theory and econometric tools to get to the root of client's problem, analysing large and complex datasets and building predictive models to come up with robust and compelling solutions

a. Responsible for leading end to end engagement across the life cycle of Economic project

b. Prepare business proposals and presentations

c. Carry out and research and data collection, conduct analyses in a variety of fields within public and private sector

d. Modelling and benchmarking analysis

The opportunity

The EY GDS SaT Economic Advisory team is seeking an experienced Economic sector professional with exceptional modelling analysis to join our team. The individual will support engagements and business development initiatives in the transport, health and power and utilities sectors. A key part of the role will be to maintain strong communication with the practice offices and keep them informed of our evolving service offerings in order to drive growth, and willingness to understand the local policy and market environment of client offices they serve.

Your key responsibilities

As a senior member of the sector practice at Economic Advisory, the person would:

- Leading and managing engagements related to Economic Advisory

- Plan and scope projects manage stakeholders

- Responsible for demand generation for projects for allocated regions

- Identifying new services within business and working with partners and senior managers on learning and piloting activities from GDS

- Manage/handle multiple requests at a time and guide team members accordingly

- Measure, monitor and improve client service by guiding team members and driving excellence in service delivery

- Building relationships with EY offices across the globe, demonstrating knowledge of regional practices business and developing open communication channels

At a detailed level, the responsibilities include:

- Responsible for growing/managing a region from a revenue perspective (targets)

- Leading engagement delivery and BD support related engagements for various practice offices

- Be responsible for leading client interactions, maintaining an exceptional quality of deliverables, building relationships and support onshore practices in generating new business within the transport, health and human services (healthcare, urban development, education and tourism) and power & utilities

- Take responsibility for driving improvements in the team's understanding of requirements across key competency and sectors, and translate this into consistently high-quality deliverables

Assist the practice offices with all forms of high-quality deliverables such as:

- Policy Conceptualization and Understanding

- Macro-Economic or micro economic analysis

- Desktop sector research and other adhoc requests

Assist the practice offices with high quality business development support including:

- Proposal preparation support

- Benchmarking studies across key indicators

From a modelling perspective (desirable), the candidate should be able to assist the practice offices with all forms of high-quality deliverables such as:

- Cost benefit analysis as part of feasibility studies/Business cases

- Econometric modelling and Machine learning analysis

- Economic Impact estimation using Input-Output models and CGI modelling.

Familiarity with a broad base of statistical and analytics tools as below and expertise in a few of them :

- Tools like Eviews, SPSS etc

- Analytics Platforms (R, SAS)

- Data Management (Excel, SQL, Alteryx)

- Data Visualization (Tableau, Spotfire)

- Programming or scripting experience (Python,VBA)

- Manage a team of 10-12 people and act as a counsellor for team members by being responsible for their career management discussions

- Maintain strong communications with the clients in practice offices through email, skype, video conferences and any others form of communication

- Measure, monitor and improve client service by closely collaborating with the client and guiding team members and driving excellence in service delivery and ensuing billing

- Manage workflow within the team including work allocation, adherence to timelines and quality reviews

- Identify L&D requirements of counselees

- Travel on assignments abroad, as required

Skills and attributes for success

- Strong academic and professional background in Economics, Business or Industrial Economics and Econometrics

- Good understanding of macro and micro economics and exposure in applying these concepts for analytics and forecasting.

- Ability to guide team on the best way to synthesize relevant information from huge datasets and producing insights that are relevant as per the business needs

- Knowledge and application of core data science and advanced analytics methods, such as statistics, segmentation & clustering, predictive modelling, simulation, and optimization in varied scenarios depending on the project requirements

- Exceptional business writing skills

- Demonstrated experience of working in Economic either transport or power and utilities sectors

- Understanding of policy, regulatory norms in transport/P&U/social Economic

- Possess good project and time management skills with the ability to multiple tasks in parallel

- Coach and mentor team members on writing, technical skills and soft skills

To qualify for the role, you must have

- Minimum of a Post Graduate in Economics. Any Specialization in Finance / Power / Economic Management will be desirable

- Proven experience of 12 years + in developing and growing practices to serve new markets or provide new offerings, including ability to hold strategic conversations with stakeholders in senior and decision-making positions

- People management experience of 7+ years, including recruiting, training, performance appraisals and overall team development

- Excellent analytical, communication, organizational, interpersonal and teaming skills

- Willingness and ability to travel, when necessary

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 1500 + professionals, in the only integrated global transaction business worldwide.

- Opportunities to work with EY SAT practices globally with leading businesses across a range of industries

What working at EY offers

At EY, we- re dedicated to helping our clients, from start- ups to Fortune 500 companies - and the work we do with them is as varied as they are.

You get to work with inspiring and meaningful projects. Our focus is education and coaching alongside practical experience to ensure your personal development. We value our employees and you will be able to control your own development with an individual progression plan. You will quickly grow into a responsible role with challenging and stimulating assignments. Moreover, you will be part of an interdisciplinary environment that emphasizes high quality and knowledge exchange. Plus, we offer:

- Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around

- Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career

- The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that's right for you

About EY

As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, we- re using the finance products, expertise and systems we- ve developed to build a better working world. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime. And with a commitment to hiring and developing the most passionate people, we- ll make our ambition to be the best employer by 2020 a reality.

If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

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