Manager, M&A Consulting, Finance Integration - Deal Transformation & Post Merger Integration

Deloitte Canada; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 83,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking firm as a Manager in M&A Consulting, where you'll lead transformative finance initiatives throughout the M&A lifecycle. This role offers the opportunity to shape finance strategies, optimize processes, and engage with top decision-makers across industries. You'll leverage your expertise to guide clients through complex challenges, ensuring their finance functions align with corporate strategies. With a commitment to diversity and inclusion, this innovative firm fosters a culture of growth and collaboration, providing ample opportunities for personal and professional development. Make a meaningful impact in a dynamic environment that values your contributions.

Benefits

Flexible Work Arrangements

Mental Health Support Benefits

Flexible Benefit Spending Account

Deloitte Days

Development and Innovation Days

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in M&A advisory or finance transformation.
• Strong relationship management skills with senior executives.
• Proven problem-solving and analytical skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage client interactions and develop long-term relationships.
• Support engagement leaders in project planning and management.
• Contribute to practice development and create practical solutions.

Skills

M&A Lifecycle Management

Finance Process Optimization

Financial Analysis

Relationship Management

Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

CPA/CFA

Tools

Oracle

SAP

Workday

MS PowerPoint

Excel

Job description

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Manager, M&A Consulting, Finance Integration - Deal Transformation & Post Merger Integration

Date: Apr 24, 2025

Job Type:Permanent
Work Model:Hybrid
Reference code:129094
Primary Location:Toronto, ON
All Available Locations:Toronto, ON; Calgary, AB; Vancouver, BC

Our Purpose

At Deloitte, our Purpose is to make an impact that matters. We exist to inspire and help our people, organizations, communities, and countries to thrive by building a better future. Our work underpins a prosperous society where people can find meaning and opportunity. It builds consumer and business confidence, empowers organizations to find imaginative ways of deploying capital, enables fair, trusted, and functioning social and economic institutions, and allows our friends, families, and communities to enjoy the quality of life that comes with a sustainable future. And as the largest 100% Canadian-owned and operated professional services firm in our country, we are proud to work alongside our clients to make a positive impact for all Canadians.

By living our Purpose, we will make an impact that matters.

• Have many careers in one Firm.
• Enjoy flexible, proactive, and practical benefits that foster a culture of well-being and connectedness.
• Learn from deep subject matter experts through mentoring and on the job coaching

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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?

As a Manager, you will support clients throughout the M&A lifecycle, helping them refocus their finance capabilities and identify optimal transformation strategies. You will provide subject matter knowledge to facilitate:

• Defining the Finance function’s vision, strategy, and operating model leading up to transaction close and post-close.
• Performing finance process and technology analysis to achieve integration, separation, migration, rationalization, or cost optimization objectives.
• Designing interim/target state financial processes (e.g., financial close, order to cash, procure to pay, planning, and budgeting)
• Conducting Finance benchmarking and developing business cases
• Assessing Finance technology architecture
• Conducting synergy review and other financial assessment
• Managing overall project execution

You will support business development opportunities, lead project workstreams, and apply your industry knowledge to contribute to Deloitte’s Deal Transformation and Post Merger Integration (DT & PMI) practice. As a leader within the practice, you will be responsible for business development, project delivery, and practice-building initiatives.

Managers are leaders within Deloitte’s DT & PMI practice, responsible for business development and overall project delivery. They bring industry knowledge and expertise, positioning themselves as emerging “subject matter experts” both internally and externally. Managers also support practice-building initiatives and contribute to the practice’s distinct culture as organizational role models.

The M&A Finance Manager will focus on supporting the execution of Finance initiatives throughout the M&A lifecycle. The Manager will collaborate with senior leaders and manage junior M&A Consulting practitioners. Key responsibilities include:

• Manage day-to-day interactions with client stakeholders: Develop and maintain contact with top decision makers at key clients; and establish and sustain long-term relationships with clients.
• Engagement management: Support engagement leaders with engagement scoping, planning, management of engagement economics and risks; manage engagement teams; develop deliverable structure and content; support buy-in of proposed solutions from top management levels at the client.
• Contribute to practice development and eminence: Participate in the creation of practical solutions and methodologies; support and contribute to the development of "thoughtware" and "point-of-view" documents; and participate in or support industry and eminence events sponsored by the firm.
• Talent development: Develop high performing people and teams by being a counselor and coach for junior team members, provide input into the staffing process, participate in staff recruitment and retention activities, and provide support for delivery teams and staff.
• Develop core offering expertise: Leverage deep personal expertise in M&A and Finance service offerings to support sales pursuits and develop marketplace eminence.
• Sales and business development: Participate in business development activities, manage pursuit teams, participate in aspects of the proposal development process, and support the development of proposal pricing strategies.

About the team

Deloitte’s Deal Transformation and Post Merger Integration (DT & PMI) practice
Deloitte’s DT & PMI practice delivers comprehensive advisory services for clients undertaking M&A and value creation activity. Our practitioners are involved in all phases of the M&A lifecycle, including strategy, due diligence, operational readiness, pre- and post-close integration/separation planning and execution, and follow-on transformation.
We are actively building our presence in the Toronto, Montreal, and Calgary markets. Candidates will be asked to select either Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, or Vancouver as their primary office.

M&A Finance
Our Finance M&A specialists help our clients proactively plan, coordinate, and manage finance-focused initiatives throughout the M&A lifecycle. The services offered cover the full range of Finance-related M&A efforts, including, but not limited to, operating model design; financial close optimization; capital deployment optimization; finance organizational/operations transformation; and finance process/technologies integration.

Enough about us, let’s talk about you

Qualifications:

• A bachelor’s degree with 6+ years (or a master’s degree with 5+ years) of relevant experience in a similar role in consulting or industry (management consulting, venture capital / private equity, or related experience delivering M&A advisory / Finance transformation projects)
• 2+ years of team lead or management experience
• Relevant certifications including CPA, CFA, MBA, and/or other professional designations (or in progress) are an asset
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with ambiguous and changing requirements
• 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
• Experience in conducting financial modelling and analysis, including synergy review, working capital assessment, cash flow assessment is considered an asset
• 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

Experience in:

• Delivering M&A or transformation projects, accompanied by Finance expertise, including, but not limited to:
• Month end close controls and processes
• GL optimization
• Finance operations transformation
• Systems and technologies that support/enable the Finance function (e.g., Oracle, SAP, and Workday)
• Financial modelling and analysis
• Synergy review and assessment
• Identifying key client issues, determining client needs, evaluating and validating analyses, and developing recommendations
• Cross-functional project management, contingency planning, and Day 1 planning to help execute large Finance projects for mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures
• Guiding clients on key concepts for M&A engagements including, but not limited to, integration/separation planning and execution, stranded cost analyses, business continuity during transformation, and synergy identification and capture
  

Total Rewards

The salary range for this position is $83,000 - $175,000, and individuals may be eligible to participate in our bonus program. Deloitte is fair and competitive when it comes to the salaries of our people. We regularly benchmark across a variety of positions, industries, sectors, targets, and levels. Our approach is grounded on recognizing people's unique strengths and contributions and rewarding the value that they deliver.

Our Total Rewards Package extends well beyond traditional compensation and benefit programs and is designed to recognize employee contributions, encourage personal wellness, and support firm growth. Along with a competitive base salary and variable pay opportunities, we offer a wide array of initiatives that differentiate us as a people-first organization. On top of our regular paid vacation days, some examples include: $4,000 per year for mental health support benefits, a $1,300 flexible benefit spending account, firm-wide closures known as "Deloitte Days", dedicated days of for learning (known as Development and Innovation Days), flexible work arrangements and a hybrid work structure.

Our promise to our people: Deloitte is where potential comes to life.

Be yourself, and more.

We are a group of talented people who want to learn, gain experience, and develop skills. Wherever you are in your career, we want you to advance.

You shape how we make impact.

Diverse perspectives and life experiences make us better. Whoever you are and wherever you’re from, we want you to feel like you belong here. We provide flexible working options to support you and how you can contribute.

Be the leader you want to be

Some guide teams, some change culture, some build essential expertise. We offer opportunities and experiences that support your continuing growth as a leader.

Have as many careers as you want.

We are uniquely able to offer you new challenges and roles – and prepare you for them. We bring together people with unique experiences and talents, and we are the place to develop a lasting network of friends, peers, and mentors.

The next step is yours

At Deloitte, we are all about doing business inclusively – that starts with having diverse colleagues of all abilities. Deloitte encourages applications from all qualified candidates who represent the full diversity of communities across Canada. This includes, but is not limited to, people with disabilities, candidates from Indigenous communities, and candidates from the Black community in support of living our values, creating a culture of Diversity Equity and Inclusion and our commitment to our AccessAbility Action Plan , Reconciliation Action Plan and theBlackNorth Initiative .

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