Senior Manager - M&A/Strategy, Diligence & Restructuring - Financial Services

Senior Manager - M&A/ Strategy, Diligence & Restructuring - Financial Services (Insurance, Banking & Capital Markets or Investment Management)

Are you an M&A professional experienced with clients in Insurance? Our practice is undergoing heavy growth and high demand for M&A talent. We proudly give our consultants the chance to work with world-class organizations solving the most interesting business issues as part of a collaborative team environment.

Work you'll do

As a Senior Manager, you will lead and deliver small or components of large, complex client engagements that identify, design, and implement creative business and technology solutions for large companies. Senior Manager level responsibilities include: providing 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. You will be expected to implement and oversee the quality of deliverables and effectively manage the team and day-to-day relationships to ensure exceptional performance. Managers participate in the development and presentation of proposals for business development activities.

The Team

M&A Strategy advises clients regarding the inorganic growth, portfolio rationalization, and associated risk profiles that serve as a catalyst for a transaction, restructuring and cost transformation event.

Our professionals assist clients to:

• Optimize their portfolio.
• Identify the right targets and assess fit to their strategic objectives.
• Work with senior executives to develop corporate development and 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. This is provided through corporate strategy, organic and inorganic growth paths, target profiles and investment thesis.
• Test the information that informs a client's M&A deal valuation and post-merger acquisition plan. We can validate a target's recurring revenue, growth, and margin sustainability, as well as conduct rapid primary research on its markets, customers, suppliers, and competitors worldwide.
• Develop hypotheses for value creation and transformation creatively; Assess value, costs, timing and risks for opportunities through strategic and operational diligence. Our professionals assist clients with critically evaluating a target's attractiveness through operational assessments and risk mitigation strategies. We link these findings to deal value for informed transaction decision-making, negotiations, and eventual strategic and financial value realization.

• 8 years M&A experience.
• 4+ years of experience within the Insurance industry.
• A Bachelor's Degree is required.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.
• Ability to travel up to 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.

• Ability to work with clients on Day One readiness and execution.
• Proficiency executing synergy targeting and realization.
• Experience conducting operating model fine-tuning and organizational design.
• Understanding of cross-functional and functional coordination.
• Experience with staff development and eagerness to mentor junior practitioners.
• Experience and ability to perform analysis and synthesize data into useful insights. Experience in financial analysis, operational performance improvement analysis and financial modeling.
• Experience managing large projects through a PMO or participating in a PMO as a workstream lead.
• Experience with project management tools and techniques such as developing a project plan, milestone plan, dependency identification, status reporting, and issue resolution.
• Knowledge of core financial processes (order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, record-to-report, etc.) and potential impacts associated with merger activities.
• Industry or consulting experience with financial reporting, finance processes, finance transformation/strategy, or finance shared services, particularly in relation to M&A or restructuring activity.
• Experience in M&A synergy capture, operational restructuring, cost reduction, shared services, outsourcing and process redesign.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills (MS Visio, MS PowerPoint).
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to exercise mature judgment.
• Apply practical experience with communications, culture, and change management.
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple task assignments.
• An advanced degree is preferred.