Parthenon Strategy (Financial Services) Graduate Programme

Programme overview

Our team advise clients on a vast range of issues, such as core value proposition, competitive positioning, and growth strategy. Our people enjoy unparalleled contact with influential and highly experienced professionals within the firm, as well as with senior management at clients’ organisations across a number of financial sectors. We provide a mixture of corporate due diligence and strategy projects with private equity (PE) and corporate clients. These projects help our clients answer their most complex strategic questions by providing in-depth market, competitor, customer, and investment insights.

This role allows applicants with a particular interest in Financial Services (FS) to work within our dedicated EY-P FS team. The experience will be very similar to the general strategy track and would involve locating with our dedicated FS 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.

What you will 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.

Requirements

We operate an open access policy, meaning we don’t screen out applications on your academic performance alone. You will, however, need to be working towards an honours degree in any subject, have a minimum of grade 4/C GCSE (or equivalent) in English Language and Maths, or in your home language if you do not hold English Language GCSE, and three A-levels/Five Highers (or equivalent) to be eligible to apply.