Associate Manager - Deal Management - M&A - Big4

Deal Management_Associate/Assistant/Manager (6-14 yrs)

The opportunity:

Were looking for Associate Managers with 6-8 years of experience in M&A life cycle, carve-out / integration of a business post-announcement of transaction, cross-border M&A who specializes in Legal entity operationalization planning and execution.

Your key responsibilities:

- Demonstrate excellent skills in developing cross functional legal entity operationalization workplans, following a transaction (integration or separation) or transformation program.

- Identifying critical legal entity stand-up milestones for Day 1 and highlight any risks, issues and workarounds in various countries and regions.

- Developing readiness assessments for legal entities, with focus on end-to-end process, cutover and hypercare planning.

- Facilitating country and regional workshops to identify the critical path to achieve legal entity operationalization by Go-live.

- Build relationships with EY offices across the globe and demonstrate knowledge of regional practices. Responsible for high degree of GDS stakeholder Satisfaction with engagement process and work products.

- Assist in business development activities including preparing presentations for client and internal pursuit meetings.

- Provide guidance on projects and mentor a team of S&E professionals.

- Conduct timely performance reviews for employees and develop other professionals by providing effective performance feedback and training. Lead by example.

- Identify business development opportunities and assist Partners and Senior Managers on proposals and new business opportunities.

Skills and attributes for success:

- Good understanding of M&A life cycle, carve-out / integration of a business post-announcement of transaction, cross-border M&A.

- Understanding of legal entity stand-up, transfer, restructuring and rationalization in different transaction types.

- Ability to determine risks and opportunity areas.

- Skill to synthesize approaches to complex carve-out and integration conflicts.

- Excellent problem solving, project management, facilitation and interpersonal skills.

- Strong written and verbal communication skills.

- Strong executive presence with good networking and negotiation skills.

- Excellent knowledge of MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint.

- Working knowledge of analytical tools such as PowerBI, Smartsheets, Power Query, Python, Macros would be preferred.

- Analytical capabilities knowledge of how to synthesize large amounts of data, develop hypotheses, test those hypotheses and use them to facilitate conversations with client executives.

- AI capabilities demonstrate foundational AI literacy, including prompt engineering, understanding AI-driven insights, using AI tools to improve efficiency and decision-making, and applying critical judgment to interpret and validate AI outputs.

To qualify for the role, you must have:

- Post Graduate degree in business, accounting, finance, engineering, computer science or related field from a premier institute with 6-8 years of applicable industry and/or consulting experience.

- Understanding of M&A life cycle, carve-out / integration of a business post-announcement of transaction, cross-border M&A who specializes in Legal entity operationalization planning and execution.

- Well versed with MS Excel and PowerPoint.

- Willingness to undertake international travel as per business requirement.

Ideally, youll also have:

- Project management skills.

- Strong communication and presentation skills.

- Ability to adopt new tools and technology.

What we look for:

- A Team of people with commercial acumen, technical experience and enthusiasm to learn new things in this fast-moving environment.

- An opportunity to be a part of market-leading, multi-disciplinary team of 3000 + professionals, in the only integrated global transaction business worldwide.

- Opportunities to work with EYP practices globally with leading businesses across a range of industries.