BDO - Associate Director - Deal Value Creation

Associate Director - Deal Value Creation

Core Deal value creation Role & Responsibilities:

- Responsible for supporting the partner for building the practice in the north region for BDO in India

- Execution target of - 1.5 Crore

- Business development target of - 1 Crore in year 1

- Lead teams and be accountable for the end-to-end delivery of mid to large scale integration/separation programmes

- Act as the primary day-to-day interface with senior client executives to develop integration and/or separation strategies, and converting these into high performing programmes

- Develop strong and durable client relationships as well as build and maintain effective firm-wide relationships

- Support or lead various marketing and thought leadership initiatives and present findings at external events or firm seminars

- Shape practice and product offering development activities and lead a team to ensure progress and delivery on those activities

- Mentor and support development of junior staff and develop enthusiasm and commitment from teams

- Participate in end-to-end deal lifecycle from pipeline to due diligence to deal close and provide programmatic leadership and program management for the successful post-close integration, delivering on all acquisition objectives.

- Closely partner with senior executives and functional workstream leaders to architect, plan and execute integration for our M&A deals.

- Own integration plans and milestones, deal governance, day-to-day execution of the integration process and manage decisions and progress reports for the Integration team.

- Surface critical issues/risks/roadblocks and drive them to resolution with constant and consistent objectivity; drive timely and objective decision-making with sound advice and good judgment.

- Develop success milestones and metrics aligned with transaction value drivers, monitor integration success and report outcomes to the organization.

- Improve integration outcomes by demonstrating industry standard methodologies and applying post-integration learnings.

- Ensure and manage effective communications to all stakeholders.

- Represent BDO in external conferences and seminars.

Technical skills :

- Have experience in planning & implementation of atleast 15 integration/separations of various front office and back office functions (Understanding of various facets of mergers, acquisitions, and divestiture transactions would be helpful)

- Have led strategic project management engagements - strong PMO skills and the ability to work in a high pressure deals environment

- Ability to understand complex deal situation and its implication on the client's / target's business model

- Good knowledge about operations and processes across different functions in an organisation

- Strong Microsoft Excel and Powerpoint skills

Behavioural skills :

- Ability to build collaborative working relationships at all levels, establishing credibility both internally with senior management and externally with clients

- Self-starter with strong ability to drive decision making and stakeholder management

- Strong analytical skills and good verbal and written communication

- Operate in a fast-paced, iterative environment; successfully bringing together different functions, cultures, and processes

- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams/organizations