PEPI Senior Associate - IT M&A

Description

The role is within the Private Equity Performance Improvement (PEPI) – Information Technology & Merger Integration team at Alvarez & Marsal Private Equity. This team serves upper middle market and large cap private equity firms, focusing on improving operating results at their portfolio companies.

About the role

We are looking for individuals with 3-6 years of professional consulting or relevant industry experience, with a minimum of three years specializing in systems implementations, merger integration, business transformation, and change management. Key responsibilities include:

• Pre-acquisition IT diligence assignments, focusing on ERP, WMS, CRM, IT infrastructure, enterprise architecture, software development lifecycle, budgetary analysis, and organizational/personnel assessment.
• Merger-integration and carve-out execution, including day-1 and 100-day planning and execution.
• Driving performance improvement in key areas such as ERP, back office, supply chain, BI/reporting integration, customer and channel management.
• Implementing quality of deliverables and managing day-to-day relationships to ensure exceptional performance.

Qualifications

• Deep functional expertise in IT pre-acquisition diligence, merger integration and carve-out, business/IT transformation program/project management, supply chain, finance/accounting, IT operations, solution architecture, enterprise architecture and infrastructure, IT assessment and strategy development, IT performance improvement and cost reduction.
• Proven writing skills with a desire to produce polished client-facing documents.
• Excellent fact-gathering and analytical skills, including business process mapping and quantitative analysis.
• Experience designing and supervising the execution of internally-focused and externally-focused change/communications strategy.
• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Flexibility to travel at least 75% of time.

Benefits

The salary range is $100,000 - $150,000 annually, dependent on several variables including but not limited to education, experience, skills, and geography. In addition, A&M offers a discretionary bonus program based on individual and firm performance. Full-time positions and part-time positions are offered, with regular employees working 30 or more hours per week eligible for benefits including healthcare plans, flexible spending and savings accounts, life, AD&D, and disability coverages, as well as a 401(k) retirement plan. Employees are also eligible for paid time off including vacation, personal days, sick time, and parental leave.