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About the Role
At EY-Parthenon, our unique combination of transformative strategy, transactions, tax and corporate finance delivers real-world value. As our Senior Manager, Deal Origination, you’ll play a leading role in building and operating our dedicated Deal Origination Hub across Australia and New Zealand. You’ll identify attractive businesses and acquisition opportunities, develop actionable M&A ideas, build relationships across the private equity and corporate market, and convert market intelligence into genuine transaction opportunities. This is not a traditional business development or research role.
Responsibilities
- Originate and qualify M&A opportunities by identifying attractive businesses, acquisition targets and transaction themes, assessing strategic fit and developing credible transaction or commercial theses.
- Develop acquisition theses by combining sector analysis, company intelligence and commercial judgement to identify attractive acquisition opportunities.
- Engage directly with the market, including business owners, private equity investors, advisers and other market participants, to develop relationships and opportunities.
- Support priority private equity accounts and targeted origination campaigns, including understanding investment strategies, mapping portfolio companies and identifying credible acquisition and bolt-on opportunities across priority accounts, sectors and market themes.
- Build new-to-EY relationships and identify opportunities within EY’s existing relationships, working with account teams and Partners to develop transaction hypotheses, appropriate approaches and routes to decision-makers.
- Lead the day-to-day operation of the Deal Origination Hub, setting priorities, allocating work and developing team members; overseeing the origination intelligence platform and pipeline; using data, technology and AI to improve origination; and working across EY-Parthenon and broader EY teams to convert originated opportunities into pursuits and mandates.
Requirements
- 5+ years’ relevant experience in M&A, corporate finance, deal origination, private equity, corporate development or a closely related environment, with a strong understanding of M&A and acquisition strategy.
- Strong commercial judgement and analytical capability, with the ability to turn detailed company, market and sector information into focused acquisition or origination theses.
- Confidence and persistence in approaching business owners, investors and advisers directly, together with demonstrated relationship-building and senior stakeholder management capability.
- The ability to manage and develop a small team while remaining personally involved in origination, operate with initiative and personal accountability, and use data, AI and emerging technology to improve research, screening and origination.
Skills
- M&A
- Corporate finance
- Deal origination
- Private equity
- Corporate development
- Commercial judgement
- Analytical capability
- Relationship-building
- Senior stakeholder management
- Team management
- Data analysis
- AI
- Emerging technology
Location
- Australia
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior Manager
- 5+ years
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary which is open to negotiation pending on skills and experience
Benefits
- Yearly wellness incentive
- Access to additional 8 weeks of flex leave per year
- Family-friendly policies
- Up to 26 weeks of gender-neutral paid parental leave
About the Company
- At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence.
- We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go.
- Join EY and help to build a better working world.
- EY acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands on which EY offices are located around Australia. We pay our respects to their cultures, and to their Elders — past, present, and emerging.
- Inclusiveness is core to who we are and how we work together, driving value for our people and for our business.
- Our preferred applicant will be required to undertake employment screening by EY or our external third-party provider.
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Equal Opportunity
- We encourage applications from people of all ages, nationalities, abilities, cultures, sexual orientations, and gender identities and are committed to providing an equitable and barrier free recruitment experience for all.
- We encourage you to share any support and adjustments you need to be your best and participate equitably in our recruitment process.
- Anything you tell us will be kept completely confidential.