EY Australia
EY-Parthenon 2021 Graduate Program (Sydney)
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Opportunity details
- Graduate Job or Program
- Apply by 1 Mar 2020
EY-Parthenon is a global strategy consulting boutique within the EY organisation. We are committed to combining unconventional thinking with our clients' smarts to help deliver actionable strategies. In today's complex business landscape, creativity has become a necessary ingredient for sustained success. At EY-Parthenon, we have an ideal balance of strengths – deep and concentrated skills with broad executional capabilities, intimate client relationships with larger networks of support, and proven processes along with a progressive spirit – to unlock opportunity for our clients, amplify the impact of EY strategies, and make EY-Parthenon the advisor of choice across the globe for business leaders.
Being part of EY-Parthenon offers exciting growth opportunities in professional development, international experience, and career opportunities. The team in Australia supports a wide spectrum of industries from Financial Services, Private Equity, Power & Utilities, Consumer Products through to Education.
Your key responsibilities
As a graduate, you will join EY-Parthenon as a consultant in our Sydney office. The Graduate Program here at EY-Parthenon is highly sought after: it is an incredible opportunity for you to fast-track your career by addressing the most pressing strategic challenges that businesses and organisational leaders face today. You will work side-by-side with an incredible group of colleagues, highly achieved mentors and senior leaders to advise our clients on concerns, opportunities and pathways to help them reach their full potential. From identifying information sources, collating data, executing analyses, conducting interviews, structuring hypotheses and developing presentations.
Skills and attributes for success
There is no common archetype for an EY-Parthenon professional. We are looking for talented students who have a strong aptitude for quantitative and qualitative analysis and the ability to link business strategy to performance. Being a strong team player is critical with the ability to adapt to changing requirements or deadlines in support of our clients' goals.
For this role, the following skills are preferred, but not mandatory:
- A strong aptitude for quantitative and qualitative research and analysis
- A forward-thinking and collaborative approach to problem-solving
- Effective organisation and time management skills with the ability to work under pressure and adhere to project deadlines
- A strong work initiative and the ability to adapt to new challenges and ideas
- Excellence in interpersonal and communication skills
To qualify for the role you must be:
- In the final year of your degree or as a graduate, within 18 months from your graduation date at the time of application
- Available to interview on 12th or 13th March 2020 (Sydney)
- An Australian or New Zealand citizen, or an Australian permanent resident
How do we help the world work better?
We pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. This is driven by leadership and everyone at all levels are held accountable day to day. We have a number of internal employee networks including Ability EY, our disability network, Unity, our LGBTI network and our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander network enabling us all to embrace and value the diverse society we live within.
To learn more about EY-Parthenon, please visit www.parthenon.ey.com. To understand our recruitment process and apply, visit www.ey.com/en_au/careers/students-apply-here. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of application via contactrecruitment@au.ey.com or +61 1800 017 666.
Applications close Sunday, 1 March 2020 at 11:59pm AEDT. We encourage you to apply early to get the best opportunity to secure your graduate role!
Reviews
I am an audit graduate and am slowly learning how to perform an audit from start to finish. This has involved me working on increasingly complicated accounts and assisting my seniors and managers in this process. Day-to-day I am typically responsible for sampling, discussing problems with client, and helping clean-up/present workbooks for seniors/managers to review.
My day-to-day responsibilities include updating seniors on my work, completing my assigned tasks, communicating with the client and building relationships
As a graduate consultant in the risk team, my day-to-day responsibilities vary based on the engagement/project I am working on. Risk projects tend to have three key phases: Planning, Fieldwork, and Reporting. The planning stage often involves tasks such as requesting information from clients, confirming the issue you are solving for them, and completing administrative work. Fieldwork is where I will deal with client communication, analyzing documents, figuring out risks/findings, and attempting to figure out where the client is going right or wrong. Once this is all completed, I will assist the team with writing the final report and sending it to the client for review. EY also provides a lot of learning opportunities when you aren't as busy with work. This involves internal modules, courses, and qualifications you can obtain.
About the employer
EY Australia
3.9
> 100,000 employees
Accounting & Advisory
As a global leader in Assurance, Consulting, Tax, Strategy & Transactions, we're using our expertise to build a better working world.
Pros and cons of working at EY Australia
Pros
The flexibility with my work schedule. I can work from home, or leave for appointments during the day if I need and make up the time some other days etc.
The people, learning and opportunities.
The opportunities available and having different aspects that are important to the company e.g. soccer tournament, ripples etc. Learning experience has been amazing and have had lots of hands-on help from upper management.
The work culture within EY's consulting practice has been incredibly welcoming in the early stages of my career. Off the bat, I've been given the opportunity to have a buddy (similar rank level) and counsellor (manager +) who have guided me in getting adapted to the team and ensuring I am exposed to different types of work.
Due to the size and complexity of the work we do at EY, an employee is able to expose themselves to a range of interesting working opportunities, as long as they are willing to extend themselves.
Cons
Salary is not the best.
The model of being coached by those that are only 1 or 2 years your senior... they might be a good worker, but that doesn't always make them a good teacher.
The salary at early stages.
End of Financial Year workload - unavoidable though and not the end of the world.
There are times where you may feel overwhelmed with what your key tasks/expectations are. This is something that gets better over time and is likely not specifically an EY issue - more something that is dealt with in other professional services companies as well.