Senior

About the Position

We are seeking a Senior Business Analyst with 7-9 years of experience in real estate, hospitality, and tourism sectors to join our team in Kochi, India. At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.

Responsibilities

• Lead project/workstreams pertaining to feasibility studies, destination strategy, tourism product development (leisure and entertainment), growth/expansion/entry strategies, highest-and-best use analysis and comparable/ benchmarking analysis.
• Work closely with the EY MENA stakeholders on new pursuits and support the practice in developing end-to-end proposals and proposal presentations to government clients.
• Leverage expertise in team management and stakeholder relationships to conduct in-depth market research and the ability to find innovative solutions to obtain and analyze non-public information through unstructured data sources.
• Experience in change management, including stakeholder engagement, communication, and driving adoption of new technologies.
• Recommending strategic alternatives, by conducting primary and secondary market research as well as analysing company's opportunities and financial situation.
• Ready to travel onshore to deliver the project (on a need basis), by working together with engagement team.

Requirements

• Required Skills:

  • Market research
  • Secondary research
  • Strategy development
  • Corporate Strategy
  • Business Strategy
  • Highest and Best Use analysis
  • Concept Development
  • Feasibility assessment
  • Go-To-Market Strategies
  • Competitive Benchmarking

• Preferred Skills:

  • Report writing
  • Communication and usage of analytical tools/ representations
  • Proficiency in detailed financial and commercial analysis
  • Negotiation and influencing skills

Candidate Profile

• 7-9 years of Business analysis, consulting and client management experience in RHT projects with exposure to working with senior leadership.
• Apply strategy consulting toolkit including storyboarding, basic financial modeling, and C-suite presentation development.
• Lead and mentor a team of analysts or senior associates, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and high performance.
• Experience working with “C level” executive clients, with extensive experience in projects in which the primary stakeholder was the CEO; Chief Strategy Officer.
• Good Business sense and logical reasoning and should be to conceptualize research storyboard along with strong PowerPoint and Excel skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and written.
• Self-starter, proactive, comfortable working independently and taking on significant responsibility.
• Experienced in presenting findings clearly in reports and other deliverables to clients.
• Strong strategic mindset with the ability to manage complex, cross-functional projects.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a focus on data-driven decision-making.

We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Permanent employment type
• Opportunity to work in a diverse and inclusive environment

About the Company

EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets. Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate. Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.