M&A Human Capital Diligence Manager

About the role

The Deloitte Strategy & Transactions team provides comprehensive end-to-end support and advisory services, including Human Capital (HC) Diligence, helping clients navigate critical moments and transformational initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver small or components of large, complex client engagements that identify, design, and implement creative business and technology solutions for large companies.
• Provide service excellence by identifying key client business issues, determining client needs by supplementing standard assessment techniques with innovative approaches, and evaluating and validating analysis and developing recommendations for the client in the context of the overall engagement.
• Implement and oversee the quality of deliverables and effectively manage the team and day-to-day relationships to ensure exceptional performance.
• Participate in the development and presentation of proposals for business development activities.
• Perform Human Capital due diligence (some or all of compensation, benefits, HR compliance, labor relations, HR communications, operations and technology, talent and culture) and post-deal integration / separation activities by identifying and quantifying transaction risks and opportunities.
• Review financial statements, trial balance details, government filings, employee census data, employment agreements, CBAs, and employee benefits and compensation documentation.
• Prepare data request lists and call agendas to facilitate diligence.
• Collaborate across internal and external stakeholders, including other Deloitte diligence workstreams, legal counsel, investment banks, and Client's HR leadership.
• Facilitate interviews with Target management team.
• Complete analysis including compensation benchmarking, individual equity proceeds (waterfall analysis or fully diluted share count), employee benefits side-by-side and migration cost analysis, executive compensation review including retention, severance, and transaction bonuses, turnover, and open positions.
• Contribute material employee-related findings to the Quality of Earnings and Debt-Like analysis.
• Prepare and deliver report findings.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting and delivering at least 50 M&A Human Capital due diligence projects.
• Experience in Human Capital due diligence (some or all of compensation, benefits, HR compliance, labor relations, HR communications, operations and technology, talent and culture) and post-deal integration / separation activities by identifying and quantifying transaction risks and opportunities.
• Experience in HR functions & processes, with experience in one or more of the following areas: HR Strategy, HR Employee Experience, HR Operating Models, HR Mergers & Acquisition (M&A), HR Outsourcing Advisory, and HR Technology.
• Experience assisting in business development and/or writing proposals for consulting work.
• Bachelor's degree and 6+ years consulting and/or industry experience; alternatively, an MBA with 4+ years relevant work experience including change management initiatives, communications development, organizational design and development, HR strategy or operations, and /or talent solutions.
• Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.