Director, M&A, Value Creation Services, HR Due Diligence

Deloitte LLP; Isle of Man, Daliburgh, City of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen City; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm seeks a Director in HR Due Diligence to provide expert insights across M&A transactions. The successful candidate will lead teams and work closely with senior stakeholders. Candidates should possess strong analytical skills, exceptional communication abilities, and experience in M&A. Hybrid working is supported.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience working in M&A / deal lifecycle, specifically due diligence at a senior level.
• Ability to fluently communicate and present in both oral and written English.
• Strong understanding of employee costs including pensions and benefits.

Responsibilities

• Provide HR Due Diligence expertise across industry sectors.
• Assist businesses in understanding financial implications of HR issues.
• Lead and empower your team to deliver quality insights.

Skills

M&A HR due diligence

Financial analysis skills

Problem solving

Project management

Communication skills

Job description

Aberdeen, Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Gatwick, Glasgow, Guernsey, Ipswich, Isle of Man, Jersey, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Newcastle, Nottingham, Port Talbot, Reading, Southampton, St Albans

Business Line

Strategy, Risk & Transactions Advisory

Job Type

Permanent / FTC

Date published

24-Oct-2025

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Connect to your industry

This is your opportunity to join Deloitte's market-leading M&A Operations team and work on the largest, most complex and high-profile deals in the UK and globally.

You will be working on high profile acquisitions, disposals and carve outs for prominent corporate businesses and private equity houses across a range of sectors and geographies.

With your strong experience of M&A HR due diligence and your impressive range of M&A consulting skills, you will be working on a wide variety of projects within a highly commercial environment. Benefiting from significant client exposure and working alongside some of the top practitioners in the field, you will be leading throughout the M&A deal lifecycle.

The fast-growing M&A Operations team focuses on operational aspects throughout the transaction lifecycle, including pre-deal due diligence, performance improvement evaluations, synergy and carve-out assessments, divestments, pre-deal full potential assessments and post-deal 100-day plans. The team comprises highly experienced practitioners with a background in HR, pensions, share plans, and the operational elements of acquisitions and divestments and is a core part of Deloitte's market-leading M&A Transaction Services group. Collectively we are a group of over 600 professionals who provide M&A related expertise to corporate organisations, private equity houses and financial institutions. We are widely recognised as the most experienced, dedicated team in EMEA, supporting transactions across all industry sectors. We have worked on over 1,000 of the largest and most complex M&A transactions, divestments, joint venture creations and restructurings.

Our extensive experience, first hand insights and tried and tested methodologies give us a distinct advantage to serve a very diverse range of client needs. Our team of highly skilled business professionals with cross-border experience and diverse backgrounds is looking for candidates motivated to work on the headline-grabbing transactions of tomorrow.

We encourage consideration of flexible ways of working, both formal and informal arrangements that allow for the best outcomes for our people and our clients. If this opportunity is of interest to you with some flexibility, please do discuss with us.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

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Connect to your opportunity

Your role will be to provide HR Due Diligence expertise to businesses across industry sectors. You will deliver services ranging across exit readiness, vendor due diligence, acquiror due diligence, and post-signing deep-dive reviews.

Specific responsibilities for the Director include:

• Providing businesses with both buy- and sell-side transaction HR due diligence
• Assisting these businesses in understanding the financial implications of HR issues, feeding into Quality of Earnings and Net Debt adjustments
• Working with these businesses in the assessment and review of future HR operational plans, the impact and complexities of carve-outs on vendor and target organisations and the stand‑alone HR costs and issues for potential of buyouts and corporate divestments
• Working with colleagues from Transaction Services (Financial Due Diligence), Tax & Legal and the broader Deloitte network, to provide our clients with end-to-end deal services with a coherent overview of the HR issues.
• Working with colleagues from Deloitte member firms globally to provide our clients with an holistic view of the local HR considerations in relevant countries
• Managing the development and completion of the engagement scope and completion of client deliverables
• Leading and empowering your team to deliver, working alongside our other Directors and Partners
• Being a key client contact on engagements and fostering client relationships at a senior level
• Developing service offerings, tools and templates, and evolving propositions to drive practice growth
• Fostering a growth and development mindset for your team, empowering your team and leading by example
• Leading diverse teams of Senior Managers, Managers and Assistant Managers within an inclusive team culture where people are recognised for their contribution

Connect to your skills and professional experience

• Experience of working in the M&A / deal lifecycle, specifically due diligence experience at a senior level
• Excellent financial analysis skills
• Strong problem solving, business diagnostic and analytical skills including excellent Excel capabilities
• A strong understanding of the components of employee costs including salary increases, bonuses, share plans, pensions, benefits
• Experience of analysing and understanding financial statements particularly relating to employee costs
• Good organisational and administrative skills with the ability to prioritise effectively
• Experience of operating with senior level stakeholders in the corporate and/or private equity industry
• Ability to fluently communicate and present in both oral and written English
• Strong commercial acumen and project management capability with a track record of successful delivery
• Experience from working in a related professional services role
• Experience in business development, from opportunity identification to conversion into sales
• Experience in coaching, mentoring or counselling colleagues

Connect to your business –Strategy, Risk & Transactions Advisory

In an ever-evolving world, there are no certainties in business. Our teams help clients to navigate risks, process major transactions and deliver transformational change that will future‑proof their business. Join us to make a positive difference.

Mergers and Acquisitions

We challenge dealmakers to expect more and to see beyond the deal to create sustainable value for shareholders, employees and society. We support corporates, private equity and financial investors across the full M&A lifecycle and are committed to identifying and delivering sustainable value at every stage of the deal.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

Connect with your colleagues

“At Deloitte you’re surrounded by subject matter experts; industry experts, technology experts, and you can access that knowledge whenever you need to.”

- Christian, Strategy, Risk and Transactions Advisory

Advisory "We have a great culture, and the number of opportunities here mean you can develop as an individual in the direction that suits you best."

- Gurpal, Strategy, Risk and Transactions Advisory

Our hybrid working policy

You’ll be based at on of our UK Offices with hybrid working.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You’ll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritiseyour wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing serious, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world‑class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever level you have to start at is arbitrary but must not be difficult.

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers