Private Equity Mergers & Acquisitions Strategy & Diligence Senior Manager

Work You’ll Do

• Sell, lead, and deliver complex strategic engagements that help our clients unlock value through inorganic growth and value creation.
• Contribute to the firm's growth and development in a variety of ways.
• Engage 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.
• Manage day-to-day interactions with executive clients and sponsors; participate in and lead aspects of the proposal development process; contribute to the development of proposal pricing strategies.
• Own and present project deliverables that reflect a high standard of analysis.
• Execute on multiple projects concurrently and work with Manager-level personnel to ensure excellence in project work.
• Manage direct on-time, quality delivery of work products.
• Manage engagement economics and engagement risk.
• Mentor and develop staff through informal coaching and day-to-day project interactions.
• Improve internal processes and promote knowledge sharing in the team, by contributing to the community of practice, blogs, and other forms of market eminence.
• Develop "point-of-view" documents, participate in public speaking events, and get published in industry periodicals.

The Team

Our M&A team offers expert guidance to corporate and private equity clients in navigating complex growth and divestiture scenarios. Our services encompass M&A strategy and transaction diligence, integration and separation planning and execution, and transaction financing.

Deloitte’s M&A Strategy & Diligence practice supports corporate and private equity clients end-to-end across mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures—helping shape deal strategy, validate the investment thesis, and improve odds of value realization. The team combines strategic advisory (M&A strategy, deal thesis, growth pathways, buy/build/partner, portfolio rationalization, and buy-/sell-side readiness) with diligence capabilities across commercial and operational lenses to pressure-test forecasts, quantify synergies, and surface value drivers and deal risks that can affect price or structure. The team also provides transaction support through the deal lifecycle (e.g., pre-bid work, target identification support, structuring/financing considerations, vendor assistance/value qualification) and sell-side advisory (positioning and readiness to enhance credibility and reduce disruption).

Qualifications

• A candidate must have 8+ years of M&A or M&A Service Delivery experience in the following areas:
• Leading strategy and diligence (e.g., commercial, operational, carve-out etc.) engagements for mid-market PE clients and portfolio companies
• Working with financial statements and complex models allowing for a strong understanding of where the numbers and data flow
• Providing a broad continuum of advisory services to support mergers, acquisitions, carve-outs, and partnerships including developing strategy, target scans, and commercial and operational diligence
• Pricing strategies
• Partnering with senior executives to define how they employ M&A – in alignment with their corporate strategy
• Setting and leading engagement objectives by defining the scope, plan, and budget
• Defining deliverable structure and content and facilitating buy-in of proposed strategies from top management levels at the client
• Mobilizing and managing multiple engagement teams / workstreams
• Experience either in client service or in a consultative role (e.g., Corp Dev, Business Development, or Strategy)

• A Bachelor's degree and 8+ years in a strategy consulting practice and/or industry experience; alternatively, an MBA with 6+ 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)