M&A Consulting/HR Due Diligence & Change Management Role - Big4 Consulting Firm

M&A Consulting - HR Due Diligence & Change Management role with a Big 4 consulting firm

The primary role is to make direct contributions to the engagement team by assisting clients on organization readiness and consolidation in a deal / M&A scenario. The role will entail advising clients on HR Leads, HR Ops, Benefits, Compensation, Talent Development, Talent Acquisition, etc. to ensure seamless transition. The primary responsibilities of current role may include:

Organization readiness in a post M&A deal:

- Understand the integration vision and strategy set out in the deal objective

- Work with C-suite executives, business and internal firm stakeholders to identify integration guiding principles

- Identify the target operating model, organization construct and governance model for the consolidated entity

- Evaluate the considerations for organization readiness for interim (Day 1 /100), desired end state

- Establish Day 1 / Day 100 checklists and workplans for HR workstream

HR & Change management integration/separation support for post-deal activities:

- Understand and drive HR workstreams in post deal stage in integration/separation planning and implementation

- Facilitate execution of the post deal integration or separation of HR operations and organization

- Analyse organization structure and employee cost and provide recommendations on the cost efficiencies

- Assess the HR related opportunities and risks during an integration or separation, develop mitigate strategy for the same

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

- Ensure a smooth integration / separation process that complies with existing rules, procedures, and playbooks by assisting to HR functional teams

- Collaborate with functional stakeholders to identify change management needs and develop and execute change management & communication plan

HR due diligence and transformation:

- Conduct HR due diligence on the target in pre-deal scenario and prepare diligence report

- Evaluate the current HR capabilities and identify red flags on HR issues/risks

- Assess the Post deal consolidation and transformation opportunities

- Leverage industry best practices and Deloitte accelerators to define methodological approach to consolidation / separation