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. The role involves leading teams through high-stakes diligences and coaching talent, working closely with private equity deal teams to help clients win deals.

Responsibilities

• Manage 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 in a variety of ways, including partnering with private equity clients, evaluating portfolio and engagement opportunities, assessing portfolio company operations, developing recommendations, managing deliverables, leveraging analytical capabilities, and managing relationships with clients and team members.
• Identify opportunities to leverage analytical capabilities in client delivery and effectively manage the day-to-day relationships with team and client to ensure exceptional performance.
• Participate in business development activities, mentor junior staff, and support staff recruitment and retention activities.
• Support the 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 mid-market PE clients and portfolio companies.
• Experience setting engagement objectives and scope, framing issues, designing deliverable content, managing cross-functional teams, and managing service excellence.
• Experience with staff development and mentoring junior practitioners.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills (MS PowerPoint).

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, especially if spent at least 50% of time advising PE clients.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills (MS PowerPoint).