Private Equity Mergers & Acquisitions Strategy & Diligence Senior Manager

About the role

The Private Equity M&A Strategy & Diligence Senior 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

• Sell, lead, and deliver complex strategic engagements that help clients unlock value through inorganic growth and value creation.
• Contribute to the firm's growth and development by participating in a variety of ways, including engagement management.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• Partnering with senior executives to define how they employ M&A - in alignment with their corporate strategy.
• Defining 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.
• 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).