Favorite Parts of Being an Associate Consultant at Ernst and Young Parthenon
Hannah, an Associate Consultant at Ernst & Young-Parthenon, enjoys the "plethora of opportunity" in consulting, allowing exploration of diverse projects across industries and deal life cycles, from diligence to post-merger integration, quickly determining career preferences and eliminating unsuitable paths. This variety, unlike the potentially more limited experiences of peers in other fields, is what Hannah finds most fulfilling.
Project Management, Mergers and Acquisitions, Transaction Consulting, Career Exploration, Business
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Job Title
Company
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Hannah Feller
Associate Consultant
Ernst&Young-Parthenon
UCLA, 2021
NA
Economics
Consulting & Related Professional Services, Finance (Banking, Fintech, Investing)
Consulting
None Applicable
Video Highlights
1. Exposure to diverse projects across various industries and deal lifecycle phases (diligence, pre-deal, post-deal, transformation).
2. Opportunity to explore different functions within consulting, such as project management.
3. Ability to quickly gain a broad understanding of various business offerings and eliminate career paths that are not a good fit.
Transcript
What do you enjoy most about your current role?
That's a good question. I think what I enjoy most and the reason I really chose consulting is the career path I wanted to pursue when I graduated undergrad. It's the ability to be involved in so many different types of projects.
When I think of different types of projects, I think of different industries and different phases. I primarily work on transaction consulting, so for merger and acquisition separations, things like that. You know, I can work on all points of a deal lifecycle.
So I could work on diligence, or I could work on the sign to close days before the deal is announced. I could work on post-sign, and you know, trying to get to Day One. Then I also could work on more of a transformation, like after the deals close.
I also could work on different types of functions within all of those roles. I could work on project management. So, the plethora of opportunities available in consulting on a very quick basis is something that's really attractive to me.
I think what I enjoy most about my role, as opposed to peers who went into different career paths from my graduating class, is that they might determine they like sales or they don't like sales, but then they would need to move within their company or to another role. I appreciate my ability to get a very surface-level understanding of different types of business offerings.
This allows me to check, "Yes, I like this," or oftentimes eliminate things, and I don't really want to do that again. But it was good to eliminate that from my list. So, I think that's my favorite part.