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 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

• Lead and deliver small complex strategic engagements or parts of larger engagements that help clients unlock value through inorganic growth and value creation.
• Contribute to the firm's growth and development by partnering with private equity clients on buy-side and sell-side inorganic opportunities, evaluating portfolio company operations, and deploying innovative value creation solutions.
• Evaluate and validate analysis and develop recommendations for the client in the context of the overall engagement.
• Manage the 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.

Requirements

• A candidate must have 6+ years of M&A or M&A Service Delivery experience in the following areas:
• Working on engagements for mid-market PE clients and portfolio companies.
• Setting engagement objectives and scope.
• Framing issues and breaking them down into hypotheses to be solved.
• Developing project work plans and coordinating activities between work streams.
• Designing deliverable content that reflects a high standard of analysis.
• Managing cross-functional teams to deliver engagements across all phases of the M&A lifecycle including due-diligence, pre-close and post-merger integration.
• Determining client needs by supplementing the standard assessment techniques and tools with innovative approaches.
• Managing day-to-day interactions with executive clients and sponsors.
• Contributing to business development and the development of proposals.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor's degree and 6+ years in a strategy consulting practice and/or industry experience; alternatively, an MBA with 4+ years relevant work experience is acceptable.
• Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.
• Advanced degree (MBA; PhD; JD; MD; Masters) preferred.
• Experience at a top strategy consulting firm or private equity / M&A Strategy boutique consulting firm preferred.
• Experience with staff development and eagerness to mentor junior practitioners preferred.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills (MS PowerPoint) preferred.