Private Equity Mergers & Acquisitions Strategy & Diligence Manager

About the role

The Private Equity M&A Strategy & Diligence Manager role within Deloitte's Strategy & Transactions team focuses on guiding clients through critical moments and transformational initiatives. This includes comprehensive end-to-end support and advisory services in areas such as valuation modeling, cost optimization, restructuring, business design and transformation, infrastructure and real estate, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and sustainability.

Responsibilities

• Work with private equity clients to evaluate their portfolio and engage in buy-side and sell-side inorganic opportunities.
• Evaluate portfolio company operations to identify key business issues and deploy innovative value creation solutions.
• Evaluate and validate analysis and develop recommendations for the client in the context of the overall engagement.
• Manage development and quality review of client deliverables.
• Identify opportunities to leverage analytical capabilities in client delivery.
• Effectively manage the day-to-day relationships with team and client to ensure exceptional performance.
• Participate in business development activities.
• Mentor junior staff and perform role of counselor, actively participate in staff recruitment and retention activities, provide leadership and support for delivery teams and staff in local offices.
• Support development of eminence and "point-of-view" publications.

Qualifications

• A minimum of 6+ years of M&A or M&A Service Delivery experience in mid-market PE clients and portfolio companies.
• Experience setting engagement objectives and scope, framing issues, developing project work plans, and managing cross-functional teams.
• Advanced degree (MBA; PhD; JD; MD; Masters) preferred, with at least 50% of time spent advising PE clients.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills (MS PowerPoint).