Value Plus Management Consultancy

[Theodora Wallingford]

ValuePlusmanaged by 2 partners who have more than 15 years of consultancy experience in global management consultancy firms, with its global business partners is giving advisory services to its customers all over the world from its Istanbul office.

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Wavestone has acquired Coeus Consulting, a CIO advisory and management consulting firm. The deal surfaced a few weeks after Wavestone acquired management consultancy PEN Partnership. Together, the three companies are seeking to be "a leading player in the UK consulting market."

PEN Partnership, founded in 2012, is headquartered in London. The company has roughly 60 full-time employees and roughly 40 contractors. PEN Partnership supports financial services and life sciences clientele. The company's expertise spans:

PEN Partnership's revenues were 19.6m revenue for its fiscal year ending in March 2022, and adjusted EBITDA margin was 15% (roughly 2.94 million). The purchase price was 22.5 million in enterprise value, plus a potential earn-out of 7.5 million over the next 18 months.

With applications coming up soon, I thought I might ask this question. I'm currently attending a master in management at a target university in Europe. I have passed CFA L2 recently. Reconciling past and future, I sat for the exams to secure my career choices, given how well regarded the CFA is.

However, as I'm becoming more inclined to go for consulting, I am confused whether I've made the right decision to sit for those exams, in retrospect. Is it valued? Could it be leveraged for skills on the job?

Again, my university is target and has a proven track record with MBB & tier-2. I have previous experience but in equity research.

Happy to hear your thoughts. Thank you.

I am sure you had good reasons to invest the time & effort to get the CFA certification. Why doubt it now? Don't fall to peer pressure or some other external reasoning. You must trust your plan, efforts and stick to it.

But CFA is not an easy to get certification and there are plenty of skills you can bring to the table regardless whether you use it directly or not. So, its not wasted effort in my view. If you tell a good story about the skills you can bring, nothing is wasted!

The CFA is a nice-to-have in the CV but is not required to land into consulting. I would not recommend to do it just to improve your CV (you can get better results with networking and getting a referral), but if you have it already, definitely include it in the CV.

In terms of the job, it may be helpful for projects with a high focus on financial analysis given the topics it covers, in particular if you would have started without any business background otherwise.

I would say that it is a nice-to-have, but not required (or specifically sought for). It will provide a clear barometer of your quantitative skills and financial knowledge, and might be an advantage if you are looking to interview for PE/finance consulting roles (or companies that do a lot of work in those fields). However, it is not required and generally entry-level associates will not have the CFA qualification. It is not particularly applicable for the job.

So it certainly won't hurt your application, but is also unlikely to hugely help it, unless you are going for specific finance consulting roles. It will probably not be the most useful thing in terms of skills you'll be able to leverage for the job.

No - Equity research is not the best track for transition into consulting. Your skillset is limited to problem solving and insight generation. Communication, teaming, and leadership are important qualities relevant to consulting as well.

Some of the answers given here are very misleading!!! There are many concepts taught in the CFA that are applied in mgt consulting e.g. Time value of Money, Financial Statement Analysis, portfolio management, and Economics. And management consultants are usually also involved in M&A and IPOs. So obviously having an understanding of capital markets and portfolio management is a must for anyone in a top mgt firm. But don't take my word for it, just check on the Linkedin pages of Mckinesy, and Bane and see how many of their guys have CFAs. You can even go the extra mile and reach out to them and ask them if its relevant to their line of work.

Founded in 2003, T-Plus Consulting is a management consulting firm specialised in business growth, mergers and acquisitions, and value creation. The firm works for corporates across sectors including consumer goods, retail, healthcare, waste, manufacturing and technology, as well as private equity.

With the addition of T-Plus Consulting, EY-Parthenon will expand its strategy-focused offerings in the B2C and B2B industries in South Korea. The increased capabilities and capacity will support the competitive position of EY, particularly in relation to mergers and acquisitions and value creation strategies for acquiring companies.

The deal comes three months after EY-Parthenon acquired CMA Strategy Consulting, a US-headquartered firm focused on the technology, media, and telecom sectors. Meanwhile, in 2020, the strategy consulting wing of EY bought Port Jackson Partners in Australia, and in the years previous, the firm acquired the Dutch, German and French practices of OC&C Strategy Consultants.

EY-Parthenon was formed in 2014 when EY purchased The Parthenon Group (notably after coming close to acquiring Roland Berger). Under the wings of Big Four giant EY, EY-Parthenon has seen stellar growth, growing for a 350-strong boutique to more than 7,000 strategy consultants today.

After joining forces with PEN Partnership in August, Wavestone announces the acquisition of Cœus Consulting, a London based management consulting firm specialising in CIO Advisory. The three companies all share strong growth ambitions to build together a leading player in the UK consulting market.

Founded in 2013, Cœus Consulting is an independent, award-winning IT advisory firm, that empowers technology, business and procurement leaders to deliver more. Cœus Consulting serves leading Global 500 companies and organizations from the private and public sectors across the UK and Europe in industries including Manufacturing and Construction, Energy & Utilities, and Retail & Consumer Products. Its value proposition is built on four main service offerings: IT Strategy, IT Sourcing, Change and Architecture.

Cœus Consulting is headquartered in London, with a headcount of circa 45 permanent employees. Cœus Consulting relies on a small number of trusted subcontractors when additional capacity is needed to deliver projects.

Since inception, Cœus Consulting has successfully grown, with revenue targets projected to reach circa 9m for the current fiscal year ending in September 2022, with a profitability significantly higher than Wavestone's.

The addition of Cœus Consulting's leading IT expertise to Wavestone's will allow the firm to provide its clients with a genuine unbiased world-class value proposition. The presence of Cœus Consulting in the Energy, Utilities, Manufacturing and Retail sectors, combined with PEN Partnership's deep expertise in the Financial Services and Life Science sectors and Wavestone's historic Financial Services footprint creates a solid foundation to partner with blue-chip companies on their major transformation challenges.

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