Senior Consultant, Strategy, Growth, and Transformation

About the role

As a Senior Consultant within US Corporate Development, you will help evaluate and advance Deloitte's most strategic investment priorities. You will lead and support complex initiatives across the investment lifecycle - from market assessment and opportunity evaluation to business case development and executive-level recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Developing growth strategies and applying market assessment frameworks to evaluate priority growth areas and shape the acquisition priorities and target pipeline
• Applying hypothesis-driven problem solving and structured thinking to frame ambiguous strategic questions and drive to clear recommendations
• Building fluency in new markets and emerging technologies, and translating findings into business value, risk, and investment implications
• Conducting qualitative and quantitative analyses through market research to inform acquisition target identification, pipeline development, and investment prioritization
• Sourcing and screening potential acquisition targets aligned to Deloitte's priority growth areas
• Building executive-level presentations with advanced PowerPoint and storyboarding to communicate findings to senior stakeholders
• Supporting development of strategic rationale, investment theses, business cases, financial models, and executive-level recommendations for potential acquisitions
• Managing due diligence workstreams across financial, operational, commercial, technology, and human resources stakeholders, and synthesizing findings into executive-level materials
• Planning and supporting post-close integration activities, including integration roadmap development, synergy tracking, governance structures, project plans, and milestone tracking
• Staying intellectually curious across the full scope of the M&A process and the broader strategy work of the team

Requirements

• Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product
• Ability to build and sustain professional relationships
• Ability to lead projects or workstreams
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• 4+ years of experience in corporate development, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), investment banking, management consulting, transaction advisory, or private equity
• 2+ years of experience conducting market research, target screening, and business case development for acquisitions or strategic investments
• 2+ years of experience building financial models in Microsoft Excel and developing executive-level presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint

Preferred

• Master of Business Administration
• Experience supporting acquisitions across the investment lifecycle, from target evaluation through integration
• Experience in the professional services industry
• Experience developing synergy models and value creation assumptions
• Experience managing due diligence or post-close integration workstreams across cross-functional stakeholders
• Experience preparing materials for senior executive or board-level stakeholders