Transformation and Restructuring Manager, M&A IT

Transformation and Restructuring Manager, M&A IT

The US M&A and Restructuring (M&A/R) Offering Portfolio enables our client's ability to grow, shrink, and fundamentally change the nature of their business and competitive position in a dynamic market full of change and disruption. By providing M&A and restructuring services from beginning to end, we bring a large scope of capabilities to the market and opportunity for our practice and firm. The US M&A/R Offering Portfolio works with Industry teams to identify trends that could lead to M&A or restructuring and enables us to sell front-end strategic work creating pull through for transformative services.

Work you'll do

As a 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. 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, and 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. Role could include working with USI/Global Teams outside of regular business hours, such as early mornings or later evenings. Managers participate in business development activities.

The team

M&A/R IT advises, implements, and delivers transformative solutions to clients to optimize their IT activities due to a pending/completed transaction, restructuring and strategic cost transformation event. This team helps clients refocus their IT capabilities and identify their optimal Transaction and Transformation strategies. As the Next-Gen provider of M&A services, M&A IT uses Delivery Innovation, Cloud and Flexible Compute Services to enhance every aspect of IT within the M&A landscape. The team also provides subject matter knowledge across critical components of IT (e.g. infrastructure, applications, IT operations, IT finances and expenses, Active Directory, end-user computing, messaging, enterprise architecture, testing). Our practitioners perform business process analysis, mapping, and design for M&A projects focused on an IT work stream including IT infrastructure separation, data center migration, application integration/separation/rationalization, or IT synergies/cost reduction.

Qualifications:

• A candidate must have Restructuring and M&A Service Delivery Experience in the following areas:
  • Participating in setting engagement objectives and scope.
  • Framing issues and breaking it down into hypotheses to be solved.
  • Developing work plans for components of engagements, coordinate activities between work streams and identify changes in scope.
  • Designing deliverable content to precisely reflect the engagement contract and client needs and strive to improve deliverable quality through verification and validation of results.
  • Collaborating with practitioners in other practices and businesses.
  • Providing corporate and private equity buyers with a broad continuum of advisory services to support mergers, acquisitions, carve-outs, investment and financing structures, disposition alternatives and post-transaction activities.
  • Partnering with senior executives to define how they employ M&A and Restructuring - in alignment with their corporate strategy - to drive profitable growth and enable them to compete effectively in their industry.
  • Providing industry insight and analytical support using data mining, pattern matching, data visualization, and predictive modelling tools to produce analysis and algorithms that enables pre-deal and post-deal integration, divestiture, and major restructuring/cost transformation activities to achieve/exceed deal value, synergy targets, or strategic cost takeout objectives.
  • 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.
  • Managing day-to-day interactions with executive clients and sponsors; develop and maintain contact with top decision makers at key clients.
  • Participating and leading aspects of the proposal development process; contributing to the development of proposal pricing strategies.
  • Identifying and developing add-on sales opportunities.
  • Performing role of counselor and coach; actively participate in staff recruitment and retention activities; provide leadership and support for delivery teams and staff in local offices.
  • Improving internal processes, and promote knowledge sharing in the team, by contributing to the community of practice, blogs, and other forms of market eminence.
• Bachelor's degree and 6+ years consulting and/or industry experience; alternatively, an MBA with 4+ years relevant work experience is acceptable.
• Depth in at least one area of Information Technology.
• Knowledge of Cloud Migration/Standup is a plus.
• 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.

• Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills (MS PowerPoint & Excel Modeling).
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to exercise mature judgment.
• 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 is preferred.