EY-Parthenon Senior Associate, Software Strategy Group

Our Software Strategy Group (SSG) operates within EYs Strategy & Execution (S&E) practice EYs market leading team delivering technology operations and financial advisory services to corporate and private equity clients pursuing acquisitions divestitures or business restructurings. The S&E team brings together specialists across commercial operations software technology cyber finance and deal execution drawing on deep experience from industry advisory and audit.

SSG provides top-tier product and technology diligence strategic guidance and transaction advisory. Each year we help hundreds of companies and investors evaluate product architectures enterprise technology environments and technical teams to inform critical investment every engagement you will interact directly with the target companys CTO / CIO and broader management team learning how real decisions are made and how mature tech organizations operate.

Key strategic focus areas include:

• Product & Technology: Providing investment and acquisition guidance across commercial product and technical dimensions to assess software businesses or companies leveraging proprietary technology.
• Enterprise Technology: Evaluating technology risks and opportunities across operating models including IT organizations enterprise systems infrastructure (server storage network cloud) data spend strategy and governance.
• Cybersecurity: Assessing how cyber considerations intersect with business operations regulatory requirements and critical assets using our proprietary tools benchmarks and operational understanding.

SSG has completed hundreds of successful engagements offering a unique capability to help clients make confident strategic decisions and execute transactions with clarity and conviction.

The opportunity

We are expanding our Singapore team and seeking a Senior Associate who can evaluate how technology is architected deployed and leveraged within a target business while applying a critical dealfocused lens to address core client questions in transactions. You will advise clients across sectors support executive decision makers and lead engagement workstreams across predeal software and technology due diligence carveouts and integrations and portfolio value assessments.

Your key responsibilities

• Deliver end-to-end technology due diligence across a targets technology landscape - including proprietary software enterprise technology data infrastructure cybersecurity architecture and delivery capability identifying key risks value drivers investment needs and operational implications.
• Evaluate proprietary software and product technology assessing feature set roadmap architecture R&D processes development practices scalability security posture technical debt and team capabilities to determine the products ability to support future growth and investment.
• Advise on technology and cybersecurity in separations and integrations from presign to postclose mapping dependencies in carveouts identifying integration synergies shaping Day1 readiness defining interim and target-state operating models assessing execution risks and guiding TSA structures and readiness.
• Conduct rapid valuecreation diagnostics identifying operational bottlenecks performance gaps and costoptimization opportunities and developing actionable plans to accelerate benefit capture.

To qualify for the role you should have

• Basic or strong understanding of modern software concepts (e.g. software development lifecycle product management cloud infrastructure software architecture APIs data platforms etc.) enterprise IT environments (ERPs CRMs HRISs etc.) and cybersecurity principles.
• Demonstrated experience analysing complex business or technical problems and synthesizing insights for senior stakeholders.
• Ability to apply a commercial and dealfocused mindset to assess technology risks investment needs operating models and scalability.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technology topics clearly to nontechnical executives (CIO/CTO/CEO investors deal teams).
• A selfstarter mindset with a commitment to learning continuous improvement and delivering exceptional client service

Ideally youll also have

• A bachelors or higher degree in Business Administration Economics Information Technology Computer Science or related fieldsTransactions / M&A experience.
• Client facing experience from a professional services background