M&A Strategy & Governance Manager

Our Deloitte Strategy & Transactions team helps guide clients through their most critical moments and transformational initiatives. We offer comprehensive end-to-end support and advisory services, covering areas such as valuation modeling, cost optimization, restructuring, business design and transformation, infrastructure and real estate, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and sustainability.

About the role

The M&A Integration & Divestiture (I&D) team focuses on the period between the announcement of a merger, acquisition, or divestiture and the closing (and post-close) activities of that transaction. As a Manager, you will lead and deliver small engagements or components of larger, complex engagements that identify, design, and implement creative business solutions for companies.

Responsibilities

• Provide service excellence by identifying key client business issues and determining client needs through innovative assessment approaches.
• Evaluate and validate analysis, developing recommendations for the client in the context of the overall engagement.
• Implement and oversee the quality of deliverables and effectively manage team(s) and day-to-day relationships to ensure exceptional performance.
• Lead projects or workstreams, managing and prioritizing multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
• Guide deal execution by aligning integration or divestiture strategies, Day 1 plans, and future-state goals to maximize value in complex market conditions.
• Serve as a mentor to staff, director in delivery transformation, industry expert, and engagement leader while participating in business development activities.
• Support major, market-shaping mergers and divestitures with deep functional and industry knowledge, as well as data and analytics-enabled approaches.
• Manage activities such as Day 1 certification, development of workplans and milestones, identification of functional interdependencies, facilitating cutover planning, testing, execution, or end-state blueprinting.
• Prepare clients for Day 1 implementation of an integration or manage costs and timelines to minimize business disruption during divestitures.

Requirements

• 6+ years of M&A or M&A service delivery experience in areas such as:
  • Setting engagement objectives and scope, developing work plans, and coordinating activities between work streams.
  • Designing deliverable content to reflect the engagement contract and client needs.
  • Managing cross-functional teams across all phases of the M&A lifecycle, including due-diligence, pre-close, and post-merger integration.
  • Providing advisory services to corporate and private equity buyers for mergers, acquisitions, carve-outs, investment and financing structures, disposition alternatives, and post-transaction activities.
  • Partnering with senior executives to align M&A with corporate strategy for profitable growth.
  • Providing industry insight and analytical support using data mining, pattern matching, data visualization, and predictive modeling tools.
  • Leading aspects of the proposal development process.
• Bachelor’s degree and 6+ years of consulting and/or industry experience; alternatively, an MBA with 4+ years of relevant work experience.
• Ability to travel up to 50%, on average.
• Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.

Skills

• Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills, including strong presentation skills (MS Visio, MS PowerPoint).
• Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product.
• Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor.
• Ability to build and sustain professional relationships.
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills with mature judgment.
• Experience applying communications, culture, and change management practices.
• Experience in financial analysis, business process reengineering, and operational performance improvement analysis.
• Experience with staff development and eagerness to mentor junior practitioners.

Preferred Qualifications

• Recent experience working in a professional services consulting firm.
• An MBA or advanced degree.

Pay

The wage range for this role is $155,700 to $306,800. At Deloitte, compensation decisions depend on skill sets, experience, training, licensure, certifications, and business needs. You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to program rules.