
Senior Analyst - Consulting – Douala
EY
Douala, Littoral, Cameroon
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EY Knowledge helps EY to win in the market by providing the right insights at the right time through an agile, client-first organization. In support of this vision, this senior analyst position will see you provide deep insights and perspectives to senior EY Consulting partners, identifying opportunities for EY products and services, and mentoring more junior analysts to develop their commercial and analytic skills.
In this role you will combine strong analytical skills and a strategic mindset with real-world perspectives driven by an understanding of client issues and broader marketplace drivers.
You will have a key role to play in supporting EY’s Consulting network, connecting and collaborating across industries and across other service lines to further strengthen the quality of your insights.
Your key responsibilities include:
- Providing deep analytical insight and understanding of the Consulting market, with responsibility for the execution of strategic and complex initiatives in accordance with the annually created knowledge plan.
- Engaging with and challenging senior domain stakeholders to provide commercial and provocative perspectives on issues, challenges and opportunities facing the service line.
- Developing and co-creating insights beyond publicly available information, interacting with Knowledge colleagues, account teams, service line colleagues, clients and external networks to incorporate proprietary knowledge and, where possible, developing proprietary data sets to evidence a differentiated point of view.
- Confidently advising senior stakeholders, driving business relationships, presenting to audiences and interfacing with stakeholders - both internal and external - at different levels of seniority
- Willingness to build a network of internal contacts to help support Consulting and broader business objectives
- Being collaborative and able to work well as part of a geographically dispersed multidisciplinary and multicultural project team
- Ability to put individual projects/initiatives into a “big picture” context and credible experience working in a fast-moving, client-centric environment
You will be known for your big picture thinking and ability to explain complex concepts in a crisp, clear, concise and graphic-rich style, using appropriate analytics and visualization tools.
To qualify for the role, you must have:
- 10+ years of experience in strategy, business analysis or management consulting
- Deep analytic capabilities leveraging data and analytics in support of EY’s Consulting agenda
- Strong commercial acumen, connecting marketplace opportunities to EY’s products and services
- Experience in interacting with senior business leaders, leading conversations and offering differentiating perspectives
- Succinct and structured oral and written communications skills with proven ability to explain complex concepts in a crisp, clear, concise and graphic-rich style, using appropriate analytics and data visualization tools (Power BI / Spotfire / Tableau).
- Ability to take ownership for delivering customized projects with a degree of autonomy; adept at leading several projects simultaneously
- Proven interview skills / elicitation, data story-telling and financial analysis capabilities
- Comfortable with public speaking and the ability to present complex topics to external stakeholders
- A willingness to innovate and be a change agent, challenging existing ways of delivering insight
» Years of work experience: Between 8 years and 11 years