Digital M&A Senior
Mission
CLA is a top 10 national professional services firm dedicated to creating opportunities for our clients, our people, and our communities through industry-focused wealth advisory, digital, audit, tax, consulting, and outsourcing services.
About the Role
This role supports digital M&A, integration, and carve-out engagements by leading project workstreams, conducting IT due diligence activities, and assisting with integration and separation planning. Working under the direction of senior leaders, this role manages day-to-day project execution, develops client deliverables, coordinates stakeholder activities, and helps drive successful transaction outcomes. The position serves as a trusted advisor to clients while applying digital M&A expertise to support value realization and operational success.
Essential Job Functions
- M&A Integration and Due Diligence Support clients with digital M&A, integration, and carve-out initiatives.
- Conduct IT due diligence activities, including data room reviews, diligence calls, request list management, and analysis of target company environments.
- Analyze technology landscapes, applications, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and operating models to identify risks and opportunities.
- Assist in developing integration and separation strategies, transition services recommendations, and diligence reports.
- Prepare client-ready analyses, presentations, and recommendations to support transaction decision-making.
- Manage project workstreams and day-to-day delivery activities across digital M&A engagements.
- Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, issue logs, risk registers, and status reports.
- Cook up project activities across cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
- Track project progress, identify risks and dependencies, and escalate issues as appropriate.
- Support implementation of project governance structures and reporting processes.
- Build productive working relationships with clients, internal teams, and third-party advisors.
- Facilitate project meetings, workshops, and workstream discussions.
- Develop clear and concise project communications, status updates, and meeting materials.
- Collaborate with client and project stakeholders to drive alignment and execution.
- Provide guidance and mentorship to junior team members and project resources.
- Contribute to knowledge sharing, training, and development of project delivery best practices.
- Support team leadership in resource planning and engagement execution.
- Monitor project budgets, resource utilization, and engagement economics.
- Support engagement leaders with forecasting, financial tracking, and project reporting.
- Ensure project activities are delivered efficiently and align with engagement objectives.
- Contribute to the enhancement of methodologies, templates, tools, and standards.
- Identify opportunities to improve engagement delivery, collaboration, and client outcomes.
- Support adoption of emerging technologies and project management practices.
Requirements
- Experience: 5 years of relevant experience required.
- Education: Bachelor's degree is required. Combination of relevant experience, education, and training may be accepted in lieu of degree.
- Certifications/Licenses: None required. Project Management Institute, Agile, and/or Scrum certification(s) preferred.
- Travel: Significant (>50%) travel required.
- Equal Opportunity Employer: CLA is an equal opportunity employer.
- Wellness: CLA offers comprehensive benefit options that include health, dental, vision, 401k, and much more.