Required Skills:

IT Strategy, Tech Strategy with or without M&A Experience

Education:

MBA (Tier 1 & Tier 2 College)

Work you'll do:

We guide M&A initiatives for companies to help identify and realize revenue and cost synergies, reduce transaction risk, and retain key talent, even as they make structural changes to their business, operating model or capital model. Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

Develop client deliverables and documentation:

- Identify and select the most relevant set of tools/techniques to meet client requirements such as business case development, financial modeling, and analysis

- Analyze and interpret project data, draw conclusions, and develop recommendations based on the result of the specific outputs

- Use analytics to build strategic insights for the client

- Define project standards, methodologies, and execute process improvement initiatives

Engage in client interaction:

- Conduct client interviews to verify and validate assumptions, hypothesis, and analysis

- Participate in workshops and training sessions

- Synthesize and present insights and recommendations

- Develop and maintain working relationships with client counterparts

Participate in engagement management:

- Own and manage specific work threads

- Develop plans for components of engagements

- Coordinate activities between different work threads

- Identify and help manage changes in scope

- Manage and mentor junior resources

Capabilities of an M&A practitioner:

- Developing an M&A strategy

- Providing buy-side and sell-side advisory support, screening targets and undertaking due diligence

- Optimizing the operating model and organization design

- Targeting synergies, developing a roadmap to help realize those synergies and measuring synergies

- Preparing for Day-One/Day-Two readiness and executing the plan

- Developing communications for culture and change management

- Integrating supply chains, distribution networks, R&D, finance, procurement, real estate and innovation

- Aligning customers, sales, marketing and back-offices

- Developing carve-out financial statements

- Formulating organizational separation and re-alignment strategies

- Optimizing transition services agreement (TSA)

- Identifying and eliminating stranded costs

Qualifications:

- MBA is mandatory. Engineering undergrads are preferred but not mandatory

- 3 - 5 years of relevant experience for Senior Consultants

Good to Have:

- Consulting Background

- M&A advisory experience

- Commercial/Operational due diligence experience

- Prior investment banking experience on the sell/buy side

- Specific functional knowledge in areas of Finance, IT, Contracts management, procurement

- Demonstrated experience in financial statement and operations analytics