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 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 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
• 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

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
• Experience framing issues and breaking them down into hypotheses to be solved
• Experience designing deliverable content that reflects a high standard of analysis
• Experience managing cross-functional teams to deliver engagements across all phases of the M&A lifecycle including due-diligence, pre-close and post-merger integration
• Experience managing service excellence by identifying key client business issues
• Experience determining client needs by supplementing the standard assessment techniques and tools with innovative approaches
• Experience managing day-to-day interactions with executive clients and sponsors
• Experience contributing to business development and the development of proposals
• 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

Qualifications

• 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