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.

Within Deloitte’s M&A Offering, the M&A Integration & Divestiture (I&D), Finance & Operations (Fin & Ops) team helps clients plan and execute finance activities across the transaction lifecycle. This team brings finance and accounting depth to integration and separation planning, Day 1 readiness, financial close and reporting, operating model decisions, and value capture efforts to help clients manage risk and achieve transaction objectives.

Work You’ll Do

As an M&A Manager on the M&A I&D Fin & Ops team, you will be responsible for helping clients plan and execute finance integration and separation activities across the transaction lifecycle. You will lead and deliver small engagements or components of larger, complex engagements that identify, design, and implement creative business solutions for our clients. Managers assist and guide deal execution by aligning integration or divestiture strategies, Day 1 plans, and future-state goals to maximize value for our clients. Our M&A Fin & Ops managers execute across common finance focus areas such as integration strategy & planning, consolidation/financial reporting, finance operations/compliance, planning and forecasting, tax, and treasury. Manager level responsibilities also include but are not limited to:

• Partner 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
• Advise 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
• Implement and oversee the quality of deliverables and effectively manage the team(s) and day-to-day relationships to ensure exceptional performance
• Lead workstreams related to financial close and reporting, planning and forecasting, finance operations, controls and compliance, treasury, and tax coordination
• Develop playbooks, analyses, and client-ready recommendations to support integration, divestiture, carve-out, and value capture objectives
• Manage day-to-day engagement execution, including team coordination, deliverable review, stakeholder communication, and issue tracking
• Support business development and practice initiatives through proposals, market research, and internal offerings development

A successful candidate would possess these skills:

• Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product
• Ability to build and sustain professional relationships
• Ability to lead projects or workstreams
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to mentor and provide clear guidance to others

The Team

M&A advises corporate and PE clients across inorganic growth/divestiture scenarios through M&A strategy, diligence, integration/separation planning and execution, financial and modeling services, and transaction financing.

The M&A Integration & Divestiture, Finance & Operations team supports CFOs and finance organizations through finance integration and separation activities tied to mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures. The team advises on Day 1 readiness, close and consolidation, finance operating model design, planning and forecasting, treasury, controls and compliance, and transition planning to help clients capture deal value and manage execution risk.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's degree
• 6+ years of consulting and/or industry experience; or Master of Business Administration (MBA) and 4+ years of work experience
• 6+ years of experience in mergers and acquisitions or mergers and acquisitions service delivery, including Day 1 planning, policy, process, and systems alignment, financial consolidation and reporting, integration or separation planning, carve-out financials, business plan development, or synergy and value quantification
• 6+ years of experience managing mergers and acquisitions engagements, including scope definition, work plan development, workstream coordination, and lifecycle execution across due diligence, pre-close, and post-merger integration
• 6+ years experience leading workstreams within M&A engagements related to financial close and reporting, planning and forecasting, finance operations, controls and compliance, treasury, and tax coordination
• 5+ years of experience in accounting, finance, controllership, financial planning and analysis, treasury, or financial reporting
• Ability to travel 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve
• Limited immigration sponsorship may be available

Preferred:

• Master of Business Administration (MBA), Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), or other advanced degree
• Experience working in a professional services consulting firm
• Experience developing executive presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint and process documentation in Microsoft Visio
• Experience supporting communications, culture, or change management activities in mergers and acquisitions integrations or separations
• Experience performing financial analysis, business process reengineering, or operational performance improvement analysis
• Experience mentoring junior practitioners

For individuals assigned and/or hired to work in New York, Deloitte is required by law to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. This compensation range is specific to New York 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 $184,100 to $306,800.

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

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