Senior Deal Architect

Ernst & Young GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 181,000 - GBP 350,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global professional services firm is looking for a Senior Deal Architect - Associate Director to lead and oversee pricing strategies for complex pursuits. The role requires 10-12 years of experience in professional services, strong financial modeling skills, and the ability to develop trust-based relationships with clients. This position offers comprehensive benefits and a hybrid working model, facilitating significant professional growth and impact in the industry.

Benefits

Comprehensive compensation package

Flexible vacation policy

Medical and dental coverage

Qualifications

• 10-12 years of experience in professional services or related fields.
• Expert proficiency in financial modeling and pricing strategies.
• Proven track record of building trust-based relationships.

Responsibilities

• Lead and oversee pricing and commercial aspects of strategic pursuits.
• Develop client value propositions and competitive pricing strategies.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to influence decision-making.

Skills

Leadership

Financial modeling

Client relationship management

Negotiation

Data synthesis

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification

MBA or Master’s degree (preferred)

Tools

MS Excel

Job description

The Opportunity

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence.

We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. Join EY and help to build a better working world.

Are you ready to take on a leading role in the commercialization of our firm's most strategic, complex, and innovative opportunities? As a Senior Deal Architect - Associate Director, you will engage in cross‑Service Line, cross‑Region pursuits spanning top‑end audit, transformation, and managed services. You will execute innovative positioning, pricing, monetization, and commercialization strategies aligned with the differentiated value of our services. Your contributions will deliver improved win rates, increased revenues, and expanded margins, ultimately accelerating our firm's profitable growth ambitions.

This opportunity is open across UK and Europe West.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Provide leadership, oversight, and accountability from qualification to close across all pricing, financial, and commercial aspects of our largest, highest risk, most complex, strategic pursuits.
• Build trust‑based relationships and influence decision‑making across internal and client stakeholders, contributing to positive sum outcomes that unlock/expand client value, improve win rates, increase revenues, and expand margins.
• Quickly develop and scale the client value proposition and associated competitive price range supported with detailed solution assumptions and indicative financial implications.
• Shape opportunities by connecting client and competitor intelligence across the domains of positioning, pricing, monetization, solutioning, and commercials.
• Influence successful win strategy and offer design by bringing forward insightful, actionable, data‑driven, and researched‑backed perspectives on competitors' solutions, pricing, monetization, and commercial positioning.
• Execute the agreed‑upon offer design with a differentiated pricing, monetization, and commercial strategy that is fit‑for‑purpose for the in‑scope services.
• Collaborate with solution architects and domain experts to align solution design to the client response requirements.
• Leverage MS‑Excel‑based and enterprise‑scale, cloud‑native, AI‑enabled platforms and technologies to rapidly develop, assess, refine, and iterate a given pursuit’s price position, solution design, and forecasted economics.
• Articulate the pursuit’s forecasted economics based on accounting standards and internal policies/guidelines.
• Identify, communicate, and mitigate competitive and commercial risks through proactive collaboration with Deal Lead, Lead Negotiator, Solution Architect, Legal, Risk Management, QRM, and Independence.
• Author client‑facing documents including value estimation/articulation, pricing and commercial proposal narrative, and all pricing, financial, and associated commercial terms and conditions.
• Actively participate in negotiations with clients and their trusted advisors to achieve positive sum outcomes through a fair and balanced exchange of value.
• Document and transition financial and commercial knowledge of pursuit to account and delivery teams in support of contract management execution aligned with approved/sold financials.

Skills and Attributes for Success

Understanding of macro and microeconomic environment, geopolitics, and technology trends that affect current and potential client industries and businesses is essential. You should have a proven track record designing, modeling, shaping, and structuring top‑end audit, transformations, and managed services utilizing innovative monetization techniques. Experience with a broad spectrum of pricing strategies applicable to professional services is required. Knowledge of the sources of value: efficiency, effectiveness, and enablement is crucial. You should understand the client decision‑making process and how to leverage behavioral science to influence preference. You should be adept at synthesizing large, disparate quantities of data and observations into actionable intelligence. The ability to simplify the complex, establish credibility quickly, and swiftly build trust‑based influence with senior stakeholders is necessary. You should be able to collaborate effectively across a matrix organization showcasing pursuit and relationship management skills. Possessing natural coaching skills, being comfortable facilitating pursuit team discussions, speaking in large group settings, handling difficult conversations, influencing without authority, and writing persuasively are all important attributes.

What We Look For

We are looking for candidates with a University/Bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification. An MBA or Master’s degree (or equivalent qualification) in Business or related field is preferred. You should have 10‑12 years of experience in professional services, strategy consulting, investment banking, financial planning & analysis, corporate development, SaaS/cloud commercialization, or pricing. Expert proficiency in financial modeling, accounting, budgeting, and associated metrics is required. A professional accounting or financial certification is necessary.

What We Offer You

The compensation ranges below are provided in order to comply with United States pay transparency laws. Other geographies will follow their local salary guidelines, which may not be a direct conversion of published US salary ranges.

• We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to the business. The base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $181,800 to $350,000. The base salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $218,200 to $397,700. Individual salaries within those ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography. In addition, our Total Rewards package includes medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, and a wide range of paid time off options.
• Join us in our team‑led and leader‑enabled hybrid model. Our expectation is for most people in external, client‑serving roles to work together in person 40‑60% of the time over the course of an engagement, project or year.
• Under our flexible vacation policy, you’ll decide how much vacation time you need based on your own personal circumstances. You’ll also be granted time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial and emotional well‑being.

Apply Today

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