Manager, M&A Consulting, Technology

Are you looking for a rewarding career that helps North America’s leading institutions solve their most complex M&A lifecycle challenges? Then look no further, this is the role for you!

What will your typical day look like?

The M&A Consulting, Technology Manager will play a key role in supporting our clients’ IT M&A initiatives throughout the M&A lifecycle, including post merger integration. Managers will lead and deliver components of large complex client engagements that identify, design, and implement creative business and technology solutions for large companies.

Managers will need to collaborate with senior leaders, manage junior practitioners, and contribute to the firm’s growth and development in a variety of ways:

• Engagement management: Lead the planning and delivery of engagements, including defining objectives, scope, resource plans, budgets, and delivering against these whilst managing project economics, leading junior resources, co-ordinating activities between workstreams, and developing deliverable structure and content
• Stakeholder management: Establish and sustain long-term relationships with top decision makers at key clients, and colleague across Deloitte Canada and globally
• Develop core offering expertise: Use experience in M&A and IT to enhance our methods, and develop new services, “thoughtware” and “point of view” documents
• Talent development: Develop high performing people and teams by coaching junior practitioners, providing input for project staffing and supporting recruiting activities
• Sales and business development: Participate in business development activities, manage pursuit teams, and support proposal development

M&A Consulting

Deloitte’s M&A Consulting practice delivers comprehensive consulting services comprising Strategy, Operations, Finance, Human Capital, and Technology experts. Our practitioners are involved in all phases of the M&A lifecycle, including strategy, due diligence, readiness, pre- and post-close integration/separation planning and execution, and follow-on transformation.

We are actively growing our team in Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal and Calgary. Learn more about M&A Consulting here.

Technology experts

Technology is a central component of every M&A transaction. The IT M&A team helps clients refocus their IT capabilities and identify optimal transformation strategies. The team also provides subject matter knowledge across critical components and functions of IT (e.g., networks, infrastructure, data centers and cloud; application development and management; IT strategy and planning; operations and service management; enterprise architecture; end user computing; data and information management; vendor management and outsourcing; cyber/security, IT risk and IAM; key enterprise systems such as ERP, HCM, CRM, etc.). Our practitioners perform business process, and systems analysis and design to help achieve objectives including integration, separation, migration, rationalization, or to achieve IT synergies / cost reduction.

Professional development

We believe there is always room to learn and grow. The M&A Consulting team will provide you with the foundation of a becoming great leader and focus on long-term growth. We offer opportunities to build new skills, take on leadership opportunities within the team and broader firm, expand your internal and external networks and nurture your career progression through mentorship. From on-the-job learning experiences, to formal development programs, to continuous coaching and mentorship, our professionals have a variety of opportunities to continue to grow.

You are someone who has:

• 5+ years of experience in management consulting, venture capital / private equity, or related experience delivering M&A advisory / IT transformation projects
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams to deliver IT M&A engagements across the M&A lifecycle including due-diligence, pre-close, and post-close merger integration or separation:
  • Set engagement objectives and scope
  • Frame issues and break down propositions to be solved
  • Design deliverable content to reflect engagement contract and client needs
• Ability to mentor and grow high-performing teams
• Knowledge of some common IT and enterprise technology systems, functions, and structures (see Technology experts section for list)
• Strong relationship management skills, including partnering with senior executives to define how they approach M&A – in alignment with their corporate strategy – to create value and enable them to compete effectively in their industry
• Proven oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills (i.e., MS PowerPoint & Excel modeling)
• Superior hypothesis-based problem solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to exercise mature judgment
• Experience in financial analysis, business process reengineering and operational performance improvement analysis
• Knowledge and interest in key industry trends and ability to guide clients on concepts for M&A engagements
• Passion to improve internal processes, and promote knowledge sharing in the team, by contributing to the various forms of market eminence