Corporate and Growth Strategy careers

EY-Parthenon Corporate and Growth Strategy team works on a wide range of engagements, providing front-end strategy thinking to advise clients on investments and strategic growth opportunities.


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Joining the EY-Parthenon team has allowed me to work alongside exceptional people, and to deep dive into the world of commercial diligences and corporate strategy across a plethora of sectors. Additionally, I have thoroughly enjoyed becoming involved with our sector communities and our EYP Home initiative to increase belonging within our team.

Carolina

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In my 2 years with EY-P Strategy, I've enjoyed a diverse range of opportunities. From commercial due diligences in TMT to exciting business developments, it's been an interesting journey. I've even had a secondment to the TRS team. Since last year, I've been working on AI initiatives like the AI Value Accelerator, identifying AI-driven growth opportunities for our clients. The variety of experiences here has been truly rewarding.

Raghava Raj

 

Programme overview

Interns and graduates in the Corporate and Growth Strategy team will work on a mixture of commercial corporate due diligence and strategy projects with private equity (PE) and corporate clients across a number of sectors:

  • Education
  • Industrials & Energy 
  • Financial Services
  • Health Sciences & Wellness
  • Retail & Consumer Goods
  • Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) 

These projects help our clients answer their most complex strategic questions by providing in-depth market, competitor, customer, and investment insights.

The Corporate and Growth Strategy team advise clients on a vast range of issues, such as core value proposition, competitive positioning, and growth strategy. Our employees enjoy unparalleled contact with influential and highly experienced professionals within the firm, as well as with senior management at clients’ organisations across a multitude of sectors.

A due diligence project is typically 3-6 weeks long, whilst corporate strategy projects can be several months in length. This offers a fast-paced and challenging environment to grow and is an excellent way to both explore a huge range of sectors and deep dive into strategies that drive client opportunities in a short amount of time.

 

What will you be doing?

  • Identifying data sources, gathering, analysing, and interpreting data, and presenting your findings to team members or clients
  • Interviewing market experts, customers, and competitors of the client and synthesizing findings to make strategic recommendations
  • Building advanced market and business models and using those to generate forecasts to support with analysis
  • Ideation sessions with the case team (3-7 members) to tackle complex challenges
  • Collaborating directly with Partners to sell new projects to clients

Our teams

There are two teams for Corporate and Growth Strategy, UK & Ireland (UK&I) and Financial Services (FS) Strategy. Each team has different opportunities available, and applicants will follow different application and interview processes. On applying you will only be able to apply to one programme. Find out more on each team below.

 

UK&I General Strategy

This role will involve working across all sectors within the General Strategy consulting team. You will focus on developing a broad analytical strategy consulting toolkit. No specific background or experience is required. This role is based at our London Bridge office.

Financial Services Strategy

This role allows applicants with a particular interest in Financial Services to work within our dedicated EY-P financial services team. The experience will be very similar to the general strategy track and would involve locating with EY’s dedicated Financial Services practice based in Canary Wharf. You will focus on developing a broad analytical strategy consulting toolkit working on projects for leading financial institutions and/or investors focused on the financial services sector. No specific background or experience is required, although a strong interest in financial services/FinTech is encouraged.

UK & Ireland vs Financial Services

Once you join EY, you'll work in either UK & Ireland (UK&I) or Financial Services (FS) - the main difference between the two are largely the clients we work with. 

Watch the video below to find out more.

Student FAQs

The following FAQs apply to all programmes across EY-Parthenon and broader EY.

Key dates for events

In this section you will find all our recruitment dates for the Graduate and Summer Intern processes as well as details of our recruitment events which are open to anyone looking to learn more about EY-Parthenon Strategy.

General Recruitment Events  

Please find below the details of our virtual recruitment events which are open to anyone looking to learn more about EY-Parthenon.

Important dates – on-campus events

In this section you will find all the events we are hosting with specific schools and restricted to being attended by students at those universities. Please visit the respective school’s careers webpages for more details on how to sign up to these events. These events will all happen on campus.



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