HR Due Diligence Manager for M&A Value Creation

Deloitte (UK); Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Deloitte’s M&A advisory team in Manchester is seeking a Manager to join our HR Due Diligence group. You will contribute to HR due diligence analyses, vendor and acquiror diligence, and post-signing reviews across sectors and geographies, supporting headline transactions with a commercial focus.

You’ll analyse the financial implications of HR issues, prepare reports, and work with cross-border teams to deliver end-to-end deal services.

Qualifications

• Excellent financial analysis skills.
• Strong problem solving, business diagnostic and analytical skills including Excel.
• 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.
• Ability to fluently communicate and present in both oral and written English.
• Qualification in a relevant field is desirable.
• Experience of the M&A / deal lifecycle.
• Experience from working in a related professional services role.
• Strong project management capability with a track record of successful delivery.
• Experience in business development, from opportunity identification to conversion into sales.
• Advanced analytics e.g. PowerBI, complex modelling

Responsibilities

• Analysis to understand the financial implications of HR issues, feeding into Quality of Earnings and Net Debt adjustments.
• Participating in calls/meetings with businesses to assess and review 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 buyouts and corporate divestments.
• Drafting and reviewing HR Due Diligence reports including preparing tables/charts and summarizing key messages.
• Working with colleagues from Transaction Services (Financial Due Diligence), Technology & Transformation, 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.
• Supporting management of client relationships and business development.
• Supporting the development of service offerings, tools and templates, and evolving propositions to drive practice growth.
• Supporting training and developing team members in role (particularly our support team in the ICC) Participating in grade appropriate training to further your personal development

Skills

Financial analysis

Problem solving

Excel

Employee costs

Financial statements

Organisation

English fluency

M&A lifecycle

Professional services

Project management

Business development

PowerBI

Complex modelling

Education

Relevant field qualification

Tools

PowerBI

Modelling

Job description

Deloitte’s M&A advisory team in Manchester is seeking a Manager to join our HR Due Diligence group. You will contribute to HR due diligence analyses, vendor and acquiror diligence, and post-signing reviews across sectors and geographies, supporting headline transactions with a commercial focus.

You’ll analyse the financial implications of HR issues, prepare reports, and work with cross-border teams to deliver end-to-end deal services.