PEPI, Senior Associate - M&A and Performance Improvement – Sports, Media, and Entertainment

About the role

The role offers significant client interaction, accelerated professional development, leadership opportunities, and the ability to contribute meaningfully to high-profile transactions shaping the future of the SM&E industry.

Responsibilities

• Provide service excellence by identifying key client business issues, overseeing workstreams and owning key client deliverables, driving cross-functional collaboration, and supporting client needs by supplementing the standard assessment techniques and tools with innovative approaches.
• Evaluate and validate analysis and develop recommendations for the client in the context of the overall engagement.
• Own and maintain key client deliverables throughout the engagement, including synergy and performance improvement models, separation and one-time cost models, integration and carveout trackers, and other workstream outputs, ensuring accuracy and executive-ready quality at every stage of the transaction lifecycle.
• Provide informal leadership by coordinating across workstreams, ensuring alignment on priorities and execution plans, maintaining consistency in approach and messaging, and supporting team development through coaching, feedback, and on-the-job guidance.

Requirements

• 4-6+ years of professional experience in management consulting, investment banking, private equity, corporate development, with a demonstrated track record of M&A ideally with experience within the SM&E space.
• Experience in integration / separation planning and execution a plus, but not required.
• MBA preferred.

Qualifications

• Eager to learn about core operations of SM&E.
• Initiative and drive.
• Critical thinking skills.
• Flexibility to travel at least 75% of time.

Skills

• Leveraging a strong technical and analytical toolkit, including advanced financial modeling for client deliverables developed, with expert Excel skills and the ability to structure and analyze large, complex datasets to drive insights and client decision-making.

Benefits

• Full-time Positions and Part-time Positions
• Over 30 hours Regular employees working 30 or more hours per week are also entitled to participate in Alvarez & Marsal Holdings’ fringe benefits consisting of healthcare plans, flexible spending and savings accounts, life, AD&D, and disability coverages at rates determined periodically as well as a 401(k) retirement savings plan.
• Discretionary bonus program based on individual and firm performance.

Pay

The salary range is $100,000 - $170,000 annually, dependent on several variables including but not limited to education, experience, skills, and geography.

Schedule

Regular employees working 30 or more hours per week are also entitled to participate in Alvarez & Marsal Holdings’ fringe benefits consisting of healthcare plans, flexible spending and savings accounts, life, AD&D, and disability coverages at rates determined periodically as well as a 401(k) retirement savings plan.