Senior Associate, Digital & Technology Transformation

Alvarez & Marsal; Madrid; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Alvarez & Marsal seeks a Senior Associate to join the Digital and Technology Services team in Madrid. You will structure problems, formulate hypotheses, and validate them with data to deliver insights for private equity and corporate engagements.

You will develop Excel-based financial/operational models and craft compelling PowerPoint/Word deliverables, supporting IT and Digital transformation programs and target operating model initiatives.

Qualifications

• Strong consulting toolkit: framing issues, building hypotheses, finding and using data appropriately, and drawing evidence-based conclusions.
• Experience developing Excel-based models; skilled in structuring and writing clear PowerPoint and Word presentations and reports.
• Exposure to Target Operating Model design, IT/Digital transformation, Enterprise Architecture, and strategic cost reduction.
• Understanding of digital technologies, including Big Data and predictive analytics, RPA, Machine Learning and AI, and Customer Experience/Omni-channel.
• Experience working pre- and post-deal with Private Equity firms and/or blue-chip corporates.
• Record of IT/Technology performance improvement within a top-tier technology advisory, strategy, or traditional advisory firm.
• Proven ability to work in international teams and deliver measurable improvements in Technology and IT.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; objective, fact-based problem solver.
• Strong attention to detail; ability to deliver high-quality outputs under tight deadlines.
• Very strong academic track record with robust analytical rigor.
• Advanced PowerPoint and Excel skills.
• Proficiency with AI tools to accelerate and enhance productivity.
• Fluent business-level English; additional European languages (French, Spanish, German, or Italian) highly desirable.
• Typically 5-10 years of professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a core member of engagement teams, structuring problem statements, building hypotheses, and testing them with judicious use of internal and external data—even where data is limited.
• Lead discrete workstreams, performing robust analysis and translating findings into clear, actionable insights and executive-ready deliverables.
• Develop financial/operational models in Excel; create compelling, well-structured materials in PowerPoint and Word to communicate recommendations.
• Support delivery of complex change across Target Operating Model design, IT and Digital transformation programs, Enterprise Architecture, and strategic cost reduction.
• Contribute to IT due diligence (pre- and post-deal), integration and separation planning, synergy identification, and value creation initiatives.
• Collaborate seamlessly with cross-functional A&M teams and manage day-to-day interactions with client stakeholders.
• Embrace AI-enabled tools and accelerators to enhance throughput, quality, and pace of delivery.
• Role-model A&M's core values-integrity, quality, objectivity, inclusive diversity, fun, and personal reward-on every engagement.

Skills

Consulting toolkit

Data analysis

Presentation skills

Excel modeling

PowerPoint & Word

Stakeholder management

AI tools proficiency

Financial/operational modeling

English fluency

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Word

AI tools

Job description

Alvarez & Marsal seeks a Senior Associate to join the Digital and Technology Services team in Madrid. You will structure problems, formulate hypotheses, and validate them with data to deliver insights for private equity and corporate engagements.

You will develop Excel-based financial/operational models and craft compelling PowerPoint/Word deliverables, supporting IT and Digital transformation programs and target operating model initiatives.