BDO - Senior Associate/Assistant Manager - IT Due Diligence/PMI - Deal Value Creation Practice

Location : Mumbai

Department : Deal Value Creation

Reporting : Manager Partner/Director

Qualification : CA/MBA

Core Deal: Value creation

Role & Responsibilities:

Deal Value Creation Practice :

BDO has a dedicated DVCS practice which primarily focusses on the following 3 areas:

- In this role, you will work on projects working closely alongside senior members of the team, who will provide guidance and insight into the deal environment, enabling you to build your transactions knowledge and further develop your technology skills base.

- Your responsibilities will include supporting the Managers and Partners with engagements and being the day-to-day support on these engagements, which may include:

Due Diligence:

- Analysing target data to build up a view on the technology of the business including cost, products and systems, and IT contracts

- Condensing the data and explaining findings simply to other team members, highlighting the impact of technology on the business strategy, operations, and ultimately, deal valuation

- Developing an understanding of IT benchmark and qualitative information to provide insights to clients to describe a typical IT function

- Assisting in client communications, calls and meetings

- Contributing content for sections of IT reports/deliverables

Integration and Separation:

- Understanding technology aspects of integration, separation (carve outs) and optimization initiatives (e.g. synergy analysis) including understanding the current IT landscape, supporting the development of target operating models, defining transitional service agreements, developing detailed plans, and supporting the implementation of such plans

- Supporting the IT workstream lead in integrations and separations within a larger team of Integration & Separation colleagues to fulfil their workstream objectives

- Supporting key client workshops and meetings

- Supporting the Identification or review of client synergies for IT within a larger team

Wider responsibilities:

- Interacting with senior client stakeholders as well as internal stakeholders (BDO Partners and Directors)

- When you are not working on a project, you will provide support to senior colleagues in a number of different aspects such as preparation of proposal materials and the development of team propositions and initiatives

Tech PMI:

Perform IT Due diligence in a pre / post-deal scenario (mergers, acquisition, carve-outs) including :

- Assess the IT landscape and identify the areas of synergies / dis-synergies

- Understand business's vision on IT transformation and evaluate areas of technical inefficiencies

- Provide recommendations on the target IT landscape, as applicable

- Assess the IT related opportunities and risks, develop mitigate strategy for the same

- IT spend analysis (including vendor contract reviews for any hidden transactional costs), provide recommendations on the cost efficiencies

- IT Benchmarking for key performance indicators leveraging the information shared in memorandums and using research databases

IT integration support for post-deal activities :

- Program / Integration / Transformation management office planning and readiness

- Day 1 / 100 Readiness planning

- Vendor evaluation and selection

- Bid formulation and vendor management- Facilitate execution of the post deal integration of IT operations and organization

- Drive the development and presentation of final project deliverables

Carve-out Management:

- Divestiture management office, identification of separation considerations and stand-alone costs, assessment of management's plans to become stand-alone, Transitional Service Agreements.

- Pre-deal Operational Assessment & Synergy Planning: Pre-deal operational assessments and Synergy assessment