Our Deloitte Strategy & Transactions team helps guide clients through their most critical moments and transformational initiatives. We offer comprehensive end-to-end support and advisory services, covering areas such as valuation modeling, cost optimization, restructuring, business design and transformation, infrastructure and real estate, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and sustainability. The team works closely with clients at every stage of their journey, helping them navigate challenges, avoid financial pitfalls, and implement practical solutions before, during, and after major transformational projects or transactions creating lasting impact.

Deloitte's M&A Transaction Strategy & Diligence (S&D) offering helps clients strengthen competitive advantage, grow shareholder value, and transform their business through delivering strategy, diligence, and structuring support to our clients. Join today to be one of our innovative, market leading Managers!


Work You'll Do

As a Manager, you will manage and deliver small complex strategic engagements or parts of larger engagements that help our clients unlock value through inorganic growth and value creation. Managers are expected to contribute to the firm's growth and development in a variety of ways including but not limited to:

• Identify key client business issues and deploying innovative solutions
• Evaluate and validate analysis and develop recommendations for the client in the context of the overall engagement
• Manage development and quality review of client deliverables
• Identify opportunities to leverage analytical capabilities in client delivery
• Effectively manage day-to-day relationships with team and client to ensure exceptional performance
• Participate in business development activities
• Manage day-to-day interactions with executive clients and sponsors
• Develop and maintain contact with top decision makers of key clients
• Perform role of counselor and coach to junior staff
• Participate in staff recruitment and retention activities
• Provide leadership and support for delivery teams and staff in local offices
• Support development of eminence and "point-of-view" publications

The Team

Our M&A team offers expert guidance to corporate and private equity clients in navigating complex growth and divestiture scenarios. Our services encompass M&A strategy and transaction diligence, integration and separation planning and execution, as well as transaction financing.

M&A S&D serves as strategic advisors to Deloitte's senior clients across corporations and investors as they contemplate inorganic strategies. The S&D practice is one of multiple practices within the M&A offering - collectively these practices bring together market leading capabilities across the deal lifecycle. Specifically, our S&D team helps our clients define a strategy aligned with their objectives and industry trends, formalizing the target pursuit process for acquisitions and providing portfolio review and deal structuring for divestitures. We start by bringing bold ideas that shape the C-suite agenda, then develop strategies and rigorously test investment theses to support high-stakes decisions. We help identify, weigh, and compare growth pathways and potential targets to accelerate their pursuit of success. Our services include providing M&A based growth options, portfolio rationalizations, buy/build/partner decisions, buy-side and sell-side readiness assessment, target identification and screening/scanning, pre-bid advisory and diligence, vendor assistance, value lever identification, tax and deal structuring and M&A innovative technologies.


Qualifications:

Required:

• 6+ years of M&A operational and/or commercial due diligence and M&A Service Delivery experience in the following areas:
  • Setting engagement objectives and scope
  • Framing issues and breaking them down into hypotheses to be solved
  • Developing project work plans and coordinating activities between work streams
  • Designing deliverable content that reflects a high standard of analysis and reflects the engagement contract
  • Managing cross-functional teams to deliver M&A engagements across all of phases of the M&A lifecycle including due-diligence, pre-close, and post-merger integration
  • Partnering with senior executives to define how they employ M&A - in alignment with their corporate strategy - to drive profitable growth and enable them to compete effectively in their industry
  • Managing service excellence by identifying key client business issues, determining client needs by supplementing the standard assessment techniques and tools with innovative approaches, evaluating and validating analysis and developing recommendations for the client in the context of the overall engagement
  • Supporting the proposal development process; contributing to the development of proposal pricing strategies
  • Identifying and developing add-on sales opportunities
  • Improving internal processes, and promoting knowledge sharing in the team, by contributing to the community of practice, blogs, and other forms of market eminence
• Experience delivering 25+ Commercial Due Diligence and/or Operational Due Diligence Engagements
• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree and 6+ years consulting and/or industry experience; alternatively, an MBA with 4+ years relevant work experience is acceptable
• Ability to travel up to 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve
• Limited immigration sponsorship may be available

Preferred:

• Experience at a top strategy consulting firm or private equity / M&A Strategy focused boutique consulting firm

• Existing role as an Engagement Manager or Manager equivalent.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills (MS PowerPoint).
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Ability to apply practical experience with communications, culture, and change management.
• Ability to perform analysis and synthesize data into useful insights.
• Experience in financial analysis, business process reengineering and operational performance improvement analysis.
• Experience with staff development and eagerness to mentor junior practitioners.
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple task assignments.
• An advanced degree (MBA, PHD, JD, MD)

For individuals assigned and/or hired to work in California, Deloitte is required by law to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. This compensation range is specific to California and takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $159,500 to $265,000.

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