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 like valuation modeling, cost optimization, restructuring, business design and transformation, infrastructure and real estate, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and sustainability.

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, 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 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

• 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.
• Advanced degree (MBA; PhD; JD; MD; Masters) preferred, but not required.
• Experience with staff development and mentoring junior practitioners.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills (MS PowerPoint).

Benefits

Deloitte offers a competitive salary range, with a reasonable estimate of $155,600 to $306,800. Additionally, there is a potential for participation in a discretionary annual incentive program based on individual and organizational performance.