Private Equity Mergers & Acquisitions Strategy & Diligence Manager

About the role

As an M&A Manager in Deloitte's Private Equity (PE) Strategy & Diligence (S&D) practice, you will lead teams through high-stakes diligences and coach talent while working shoulder-to-shoulder with PE deal teams. You'll help clients win deals by leading fast diligences and building plans that actually get executed.

Responsibilities

• Manage and deliver small complex strategic engagements or parts of larger engagements that help clients unlock value through inorganic growth and value creation
• Partner with private equity clients as they 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

Required

• 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
  • Managing service excellence by identifying key client business issues
  • 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
• 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
• Ability to travel up to 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve

Preferred

• Advanced degree (MBA; PhD; JD; MD; Masters)
• Experience at a top strategy consulting firm or private equity / M&A Strategy boutique consulting firm
• Ideal candidates would have spent at least 50% of their time advising PE clients
• Experience with staff development and eagerness to mentor junior practitioners
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills (MS PowerPoint)