Head - Strategy/M&A - Manufacturing Firm

Key Purpose of the Job:

Analyze industry and company prospects by gathering information. Be responsible for the research, evaluation, negotiation and closing deals according to the business strategy. Due diligence, pre-acquisition/post-merger activities, transaction strategy to secure deal value.

Major responsibilities:

- Work closely with senior management in assessing the strategic fit of a business by analyzing all aspects of a transaction, assessing the projected synergies, project managing the deal cycle, assisting in negotiations, and conducting financial modelling.

- Leverage off an extensive global network, empowering you to provide sector-focused advice on the sale process from strategic positioning to close, and help execute acquisitions, alliances and mergers

- Preparing reports and key documentation for fund-raising, acquisitions and disposals.

- Identifying opportunities, opening and leveraging relationships

- Meeting timetable by ensuring quality on deliverables as well as engaging with BU Head and other advisers to ensure transaction milestones are met

- Understanding the key business drivers as well as identifying, and managing key issues and risks through insights, factual conclusions and advice

- Working closely with the leadership team to formulate the business's medium to long term financial and strategic plan

- Work with Business Unit heads to build their annual budgets and forecasts

- Prepare Product cost analysis of the business

- Producing models to project long term growth and determine the impacting business factors

- Delivery of competitor analysis, market trends and associated commentary to the Leadership team

- Analyzing financial and operational results to better understand company performance

- Utilizing BI tools to delivery meaningful insights into business performance

- Communicate to senior management the reasons behind the product/department performance and results

- Preparing business cases to support new investment, strategic and other business decisions

- Reviewing existing processes and procedures to develop recommendations for improvement efforts

- Evaluating previous budgets, expenditures to develop and implement future budgets

- Communicating results and recommendations to senior management for improvements that will lead to cost optimization, revenue generation and streamlining operations

- Provide insights to senior management around financial modelling, forecasts and profitability

- Managing a team of Financial and Business Analysts

- Financial Analysis driving profitability: Provide and present meaningful, concise, and analysis, including variance analysis to senior management on financial issues and performance (actual versus budget/forecast/prior quarter/prior year etc.)

- MIS reporting: Publishing various dashboards to leadership team.

Educational and Experience:

- Degree ideally in an engineering and MBA from premier institutes/universities

- At least 13 - 15 years' experience in a Strategy and M&A environment

- Strong communication and presentation skills

- Ability to produce high quality and impactful professional documents for clients and internal use

- Flexibility to travel

- Experienced in managing information systems projects

- Ability to accept challenges and tackle difficult situations and meet the expected goals

- Focused on best practices and models that are used in the industry and can be helpful in meeting the expectations of the employees

Skills and Competencies

- Market Assessment

- Go to Market (GTM) strategies

- Go-NO Go Analysis

- Commercial Due Diligence (CDD)

- Competitor Analysis

- Customer & Supplier analysis

- Bid Advisory

- Bid Management

- Project Implementation

- Ops Excellence

- Digitalization

- Risk analysis

- Stressed Asset Assessment

- Business plan Validation

- Feasibility Studies

- Target Search

- Problem solving