Senior Leadership Role - Due Diligence - Strategy/M&A

Senior Leadership Role - Due Diligence - Strategy/M&A ( ONLY Females )

Candidates Roles & Responsibilities :-

- Arrange appropriate assignments and experiences to support others' learning and development

- Seek out different ways to use current and relevant technological advances

- Analyze marketplace trends - economical, social, cultural, technological - to identify opportunities and create value propositions

- Deploy methods to keep up with, and stay ahead of, new developments and ideas

- Offer a global perspective in stakeholder discussions and when shaping solutions/ recommendations

- Drive and take ownership for developing networks that help deliver what is best for stakeholders

- Navigate the complexities of global teams and engagements

- Build trust with teams and stakeholders through open and honest conversation

- Proactively manage stakeholders to create positive outcomes for all parties

- Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct

The incumbent will lead project teams across the entire deal continuum in the pre-deal evaluation,post-deal execution and maximizing value stages of a transaction. They would be required to lead project teams on global engagements from India, driving company's strategic and operational initiatives, implementing innovative solutions, measuring results early and often, and ensuring performance meets the desired targets.

Job responsibilities mainly include activities driven towards delivering results - conduct analyses and develop insights, prepare work plans, work directly with global project teams and facilitate meetings to enable decision making, organize and write recommendations on client issues, and participate actively in new business development, thought leadership and firm building activities.

Knowledge Preferred:

Candidates should demonstrate experience and knowledge in any industry sector (Technology,Media, Telecom, Industrial Products, Oil & Gas, Energy, Utilities, Automotive, Pharmaceuticals,Health Industries, Consumer Goods, Retail, Hospitality, Private Equity) and in any of the following areas:

- Pre-deal Analysis:

- Operations Due Diligence: Assist clients (buy-side or sell-side) to conduct a detailed analysis of front-office and back-office operations and assess potential merger synergies, standalone improvement opportunities and risks.

- IT Due Diligence: Assess IT landscape for clients to evaluate go-forward risks, costs and planning of integration of technology, applications and infra

- Value Capture: Identify performance improvement opportunities and best practices through industry and functional expertise to increase value for client

- Commercial Due Diligence: Understand the commercial activity for a client on its viability and potential through insights on market demand, position, revenue and competitive dynamics

Execution / Post-deal Analysis:

- Integration Management: Work with client's functional leads to chart out workplans and execute integration in back-office and front-office processes, systems and employees

- Separation Management: Assist sell-side clients to carve out target company while minimizing impact on either's operations. Identify TSAs and reverse TSAs and create workplans to ensure smooth transfer of ownership

- IT Program Management: Integration or carve out planning and execution for clients in order to manage technology, systems, application, and data and create maximum value from a transaction by streamlining systems and processes.

- Legal Entity Restructuring: To support high-value transactions, manage and assist client's requirements to restructure tax and legal entities to improve financial and/or operating efficiencies.

- Synergy Tracking / Value Capture: Work with client to identify best practices to improve operating efficiencies and profitability. Also, tracking identified synergies to ensure expected value is realized in a transaction.

Skills Preferred:

Candidates should demonstrate a thorough level of abilities with, and/or a proven record of success as both a leader and team member:

- Leading large teams / multiple clients simultaneously

- Delivering significant business results that utilize strategic and creative thinking, problem solving, and taking individual initiative

- Ability to synthesize complex information and generate meaningful insights based on analysis of client's data and information from primary and secondary research

- Experience with analysis and modeling using Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Visio, Visual Basic, Tableau, Power BI, Alteryx, UI Path or other similar tools

- Experience in evaluating client's operations with limited amount of data, understand financial statements and the impact of cost levers on client's business, evaluate the client's IT systems with limited amount of data

- Strong business acumen, with analytical and problem-solving skills and ability to understand how business model decisions impact operating model design/ execution across operations, technology, risk governance and organizational design, develop business case for capex investments and identify the extent of investments for a successful transaction

- Secure new business development and project extensions, including client lead maturation, proposal development, and closing new business opportunities

- Experience in planning for integration/separation of various front office and back office functions (Finance, Information Technology, Human Resources, Operations, and/or Sales and Marketing)

- Strong understanding of project management techniques and tools, ability to work in high pressure deals environment

- Ability to support business and practice development efforts (e.g. proposals, thought leadership, case studies, work plans and internal team metric trackers

Qualifications:

- Undergraduate degree in engineering, finance, economics, commerce, sciences or business from a reputed college

- MBA / Masters / CA or equivalent post-graduate degree from a premium school would be an added benefit

- Previous experience in M&A / transaction advisory would be an added benefit.