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 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 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.

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.
• 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.
• At least 50% of 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).