Senior Associate - Deals - M&A Strategy (Integration, Divestiture, Diligence)

Line of Service

Advisory

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

Delivering Deal Value

Management Level

Senior Associate

Job Description & Summary

About PwC
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What does this role entail?
M&A Strategy team is a part of Management Consulting at PwC. Within the Management Consulting division, M&A Strategy team builds solutions for clients to maximize the value through Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) transactions, both strategic and financial, across the deal continuum by leveraging its core expertise and extensive experience in M&A from both Buyer / Seller perspective.

Competency Overview: M&A Strategy
The M&A Strategy team will provide you with the opportunity to help clients achieve maximum value in their M&A transactions by solving complex transformational challenges. As an Associate, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. We focus on all business aspects of the deal lifecycle including:

Job Description:
Pre-Deal – M&A Strategy team advises clients on acquiring target companies (buy-side) or divesting business units (sell-side).
• 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
Post-Deal - Provide advisory services for large-scale integrations and complex divestitures, focusing on cross-functional planning, target operating models, and actionable work plans.
• 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.

Core responsibilities as a Senior Associate would entail (but not limited to)
Candidates will join high-functioning global project teams to solve M&A-related problems, analyzing financial data, preparing work plans, managing stakeholders, and providing transaction recommendations. They will also engage in business development, thought leadership, and firm-building activities, working with experienced consultants to address complex business issues from strategy to execution.

Your opportunities at PwC
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Must-have skills
● Key drivers for primary functional areas such as sales & marketing, supply chain, R&D, Finance, IT, and HR

● Ability to handle, manipulate and analyze quantitative as well as qualitative data
● Concept and rationale of market & industry research, competitor analysis and
benchmarking for key operational and financial metrics
● Experience of supporting one or more functional areas, organizing work to meet time and budget expectations, and keeping project leadership informed of progress and issues
● Prior knowledge/ experience in consulting (technology, risk, management,
strategy) or in key M&A related areas such as pre deal diligence, integration and separation planning and execution

Good-to-have skills

●Intellectual curiosity along with creative thinking ability and structured problem solving approach
● Skills to invite & give real time feedback and to Identify & make suggestions for improvements through an ownership-driven attitude
● Ability to communicate confidently in clear, concise and articulate manner in written and oral format
● Ability to build solid and collaborative relationships with team members and
external stakeholders
● Basic working proficiency in MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, and MS Word
● Basic knowledge of data analytics and visualization tools would be a bonus
● Discipline and maturity to follow risk management and compliance procedures

Eligibility Criteria
● MBA in Strategy/ Marketing/ Finance from a premium B-School
● Past Experience: 3 - 6 years of prior relevant work experience
● Experience in M&A or management consulting domain and exposure to the
multinational environment will be a bonus

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Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

Government Clearance Required?

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