USA – SaT – EY-Parthenon Generalist – Summer Associate – Summer 2025
About our business
EY-Parthenon teams work with clients to navigate strategic challenges, helping them reimagine their ecosystems, reshape their portfolios, and reinvent themselves for a better future. With global connectivity and scale, EY-Parthenon teams focus on helping CEOs design and deliver strategies to better manage challenges while maximizing opportunities as they transform their businesses. The firm promotes an inclusive culture, encouraging diversity and teaming to solve our clients’ toughest challenges, while providing world-class training for consultants to grow into transformative business leaders. As an EY-Parthenon Associate, you will be an integral part of project teams that advise C-suite clients on corporate strategy, transactions, and restructuring. Associates play a key role on engagement teams through research, data analysis, hypothesis development, and client interaction, providing a unique opportunity to learn from firsthand insights.
What you will do
This role involves conducting secondary research using diverse sources such as analyst reports and news articles to inform strategic decisions. It requires executing various technical analyses like customer segmentation and market sizing to underpin strategic recommendations. Associates are expected to continuously learn new skills relevant to different industries and support client engagement teams. Staying updated with industry trends and identifying risks and opportunities is a key responsibility, along with supporting financial aspects of engagements like budget management. The role also entails reviewing business plans, scrutinizing financial models, and developing project plans for effective transaction strategy and execution.
Job requirements and preferences
- Required qualifications
- A predicted bachelor’s degree from an undergraduate institution.
- Proficient in the English language, including the ability to listen, understand, read, and communicate effectively, both in writing and verbally, in a professional environment.
- The ability and willingness to travel and work in excess of standard hours when necessary.
- Access to reliable transportation to/from the EY office and client sites. A driver’s license is strongly recommended as ride share and public transportation options may not be available in all locations.
- Preferred qualifications
- Outstanding academic performance, including coursework relevant to the position, such as quantitative courses in finance, mathematics, business, economics, biologic sciences, or engineering.
- Demonstrated interest in related fields through internships, coursework or extracurricular activities.
- A strong aptitude for quantitative and qualitative research and analysis.
- The ability to assess complex situations and business problems to formulate potential solutions for our clients.
- The ability and the confidence to establish meaningful relationships with clients and colleagues.
- Unwavering integrity, work ethic and flexibility to quickly adapt to new environments/clients.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
- Willing and able to learn and work independently with minimal supervision.
In addition, our Total Rewards package includes medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, and a wide range of paid time off options. Our expectation is for most people to work together in person 40-60% of the time over the course of an engagement, project or year. Under our flexible vacation policy, you’ll decide how much vacation time you need based on your own personal circumstances. You’ll also be granted time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
- Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
- Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
- Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
- Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.
If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.
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