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 like 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 and review the quality of client deliverables.
• Identify opportunities to leverage analytical capabilities in client delivery.
• Manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
• Build and sustain professional relationships with clients and team members.
• Lead projects or workstreams and effectively manage day-to-day relationships with team and client to ensure exceptional performance.
• Participate in business development activities and mentor junior staff.
• 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, framing issues, developing project work plans, and managing cross-functional teams.
• Experience managing service excellence by identifying key client business issues and determining client needs.
• Experience managing day-to-day interactions with executive clients and sponsors.
• Experience contributing to business development and proposal development.
• 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.

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.
• At least 50% of time advising PE clients.
• Experience with staff development and mentoring junior practitioners.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills (MS PowerPoint).