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Economic Advisory – Assistant Director, Strategy and Transactions

The team is part of EY Global Delivery Services (GDS), SaT. As a part of GDS Economic Advisory team, we support EY Global Economic Advisory Practices on engagement delivery and Business Development support across the Transport, Health, Power & Utilities sectors, Local govt policies etc with a focus on consulting services in Economic projects service delivery.

The GDS EA team is part of the Economics Advisory and Infrastructure Advisory (EA-IA) team and focusses on both the government and private sector, Our Economic Advisory (EA) practice offers a suite of services that includes decision support, analytics, econometrics and operations research that assist clients in making strategic and tactical decisions. Incumbent will be applying economic theory and econometric tools to get to the root of client’s problem, analysing large and complex datasets and building predictive models to come up with robust and compelling solutions

Responsible for leading end to end engagement across the life cycle of Economic project

Prepare business proposals and presentations

Carry out and research and data collection, conduct analyses in a variety of fields within public and private sector

Modelling and benchmarking analysis

The opportunity

The EY GDS SaT Economic Advisory team is seeking an experienced Economic sector professional with exceptional modelling analysis to join our team. The individual will support engagements and business development initiatives in the transport, health and power and utilities sectors. A key part of the role will be to maintain strong communication with the practice offices and keep them informed of our evolving service offerings in order to drive growth, and willingness to understand the local policy and market environment of client offices they serve.

Your key responsibilities

As a senior member of the sector practice at Economic Advisory, the person would:

Leading and managing engagements related to Economic Advisory

Plan and scope projects manage stakeholders

Responsible for demand generation for projects for allocated regions

Identifying new services within business and working with partners and senior managers on learning and piloting activities from GDS

Manage/handle multiple requests at a time and guide team members accordingly

Measure, monitor and improve client service by guiding team members and driving excellence in service delivery

Building relationships with EY offices across the globe, demonstrating knowledge of regional practices business and developing open communication channels

At a detailed level, the responsibilities include:
Responsible for growing/managing a region from a revenue perspective (targets)

Leading engagement delivery and BD support related engagements for various practice offices

Be responsible for leading client interactions, maintaining an exceptional quality of deliverables, building relationships and support onshore practices in generating new business within the transport, health and human services (healthcare, urban development, education and tourism) and power & utilities

Take responsibility for driving improvements in the team’s understanding of requirements across key competency and sectors, and translate this into consistently high-quality deliverables

Assist the practice offices with all forms of high-quality deliverables such as:

Policy Conceptualization and Understanding

Macro-Economic or micro economic analysis

Desktop sector research and other adhoc requests

Assist the practice offices with high quality business development support including:

Proposal preparation support

Benchmarking studies across key indicators

From a modelling perspective (desirable), the candidate should be able to assist the practice offices with all forms of high-quality deliverables such as:

Cost benefit analysis as part of feasibility studies/Business cases

Econometric modelling and Machine learning analysis

Economic Impact estimation using Input-Output models and CGI modelling.

Familiarity with a broad base of statistical and analytics tools as below and expertise in a few of them:

Tools like Eviews, SPSS etc

Analytics Platforms (R, SAS)

Data Management (Excel, SQL, Alteryx)

Data Visualization (Tableau, Spotfire)

Programming or scripting experience (Python,VBA)

Manage a team of 10-12 people and act as a counsellor for team members by being responsible for their career management discussions

Maintain strong communications with the clients in practice offices through email, skype, video conferences and any others form of communication

Measure, monitor and improve client service by closely collaborating with the client and guiding team members and driving excellence in service delivery and ensuing billing

Manage workflow within the team including work allocation, adherence to timelines and quality reviews

Identify L&D requirements of counselees

Travel on assignments abroad, as required

Skills and attributes for success

Strong academic and professional background in Economics, Business or Industrial Economics and Econometrics

Good understanding of macro and micro economics and exposure in applying these concepts for analytics and forecasting.

Ability to guide team on the best way to synthesize relevant information from huge datasets and producing insights that are relevant as per the business needs

Knowledge and application of core data science and advanced analytics methods, such as statistics, segmentation & clustering, predictive modelling, simulation, and optimization in varied scenarios depending on the project requirements

Exceptional business writing skills

Demonstrated experience of working in Economic either transport or power and utilities sectors

Understanding of policy, regulatory norms in transport/P&U/social Economic

Possess good project and time management skills with the ability to multiple tasks in parallel

Coach and mentor team members on writing, technical skills and soft skills

Responsibilities, Qualifications, Certifications – Internal

To qualify for the role, you must have

Minimum of a Postgraduate in Economics. Any Specialization in Finance / Power / Economic Management will be desirable

Proven experience of 12 years + in developing and growing practices to serve new markets or provide new offerings, including ability to hold strategic conversations with stakeholders in senior and decision-making positions

People management experience of 7+ years, including recruiting, training, performance appraisals and overall team development

Excellent analytical, communication, organizational, interpersonal and teaming skills

Willingness and ability to travel, when necessary

What we look for

A Team of people with commercial acumen, technical experience and enthusiasm to learn new things in this fast-moving environment

An opportunity to be a part of market-leading, multi-disciplinary team of 1500 + professionals, in the only integrated global transaction business worldwide.

Opportunities to work with EY SAT practices globally with leading businesses across a range of industries

What we offer

EY Global Delivery Services (GDS) is a dynamic and truly global delivery network. We work across six locations – Argentina, China, India, the Philippines, Poland and the UK – and with teams from all EY service lines, geographies and sectors, playing a vital role in the delivery of the EY growth strategy. From accountants to coders to advisory consultants, we offer a wide variety of fulfilling career opportunities that span all business disciplines. In GDS, you will collaborate with EY teams on exciting projects and work with well-known brands from across the globe. We’ll introduce you to an ever-expanding ecosystem of people, learning, skills and insights that will stay with you throughout your career.

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.

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