Associate Director – Transaction strategy execution needed at Ernst & Young Global Limited
Job title : Associate Director – Transaction strategy execution
Job Location : Gauteng, Johannesburg
Deadline : January 16, 2026
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Responsibilities
As a Associate director within the TSE team, you would be required to:
- Lead client engagement teams in developing and executing their transaction strategy to secure deal value.
- Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of integrations, carve-outs, and other types of transaction engagements.
- Demonstrate skills in project leadership, including synergy assessment, project management, problem-solving, and facilitation.
- Identifying risks and issues related to integration planning, timelines, and functional areas.
- Develop client relationships at the appropriate client level and be responsible for a high degree of client satisfaction with the engagement process and work products.
- Lead business development activities including preparing proposals, presentations and attending pursuit meetings with clients to help sell and cross sell work within SaT and EY.
- Work the market and develop pipeline of work
- Be responsible for fostering an open and inclusive teaming work environment.
To qualify, candidates must have:
Deep business operations experience:
- Deep understanding of one or more core operational functions (such as IT, supply chain, finance, sales & marketing, HR etc.); experience in business process re-engineering, cost optimisation, business integrations, with a demonstrated aptitude for quantitative and qualitative analysis
- Operating model development and design
- Strong understanding of the link between a businesses’ operating environment and resulting financial performance
Qualifications:
Candidates should ideally have one of the below qualifications and/or experience:
- A bachelor’s degree (business, finance, supply chain, engineering, computer science or related field, etc.) and approximately 7 – 10 years of related work experience; or equivalent work experience
- Professional services / consulting experience: from a management consultancy, corporate finance firm or as an ‘internal consultant’ in a corporate environment
- Experience related to transactions (ideally due diligence, M&A, carve-out or integrations experience)
- Related certification a plus
Other Skills Required:
- Experience in leading and managing complex business environments
- Strong systems or technology understanding (incl. ERP systems) with ability to make detailed assessments thereof
- Ability to make detailed assessments of operations or manufacturing infrastructure
- Ability to determine risks and opportunity areas
- Ability to synthesize approaches to complex integration conflicts
- Analytically strong, with the ability to link operational analysis to financial statements and understand the implications of findings to client strategy
- Ability to adapt to new challenges and ideas
- Excellent problem solving, project management, facilitation, and interpersonal skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- A dedication to teamwork
- Lead and mentor team members
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