Senior Associate - Deals - M&A Strategy (Human Capital)

PwC Acceleration Center India; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,000,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

A global professional services firm is hiring a Senior Associate in Bengaluru to support M&A Strategy. This role involves conducting HR due diligence, integration management, and change management strategies. Candidates should have an MBA and 3-6 years of relevant experience, particularly in M&A or consulting environments. This full-time position offers significant opportunities for professional development and innovation.

Qualifications

• 3-6 years of relevant work experience.
• Experience in M&A or consulting will be a bonus.
• Familiarity with HR analytics tools is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Assist clients in pre-deal due diligence and value capture.
• Work on integration management and separation management.
• Design change management strategies.

Skills

Sales & marketing knowledge

Data analysis skills

Market research experience

Consulting experience

HR concepts knowledge

Project management skills

Education

MBA in Human Resource/Strategy/Finance from a premium B-School

Tools

MS Excel

MS PowerPoint

MS Word

Job description

Senior Associate - Deals - M&A Strategy (Human Capital)

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About PwC: We help organizations and individuals create the value they are looking for, by delivering quality in Assurance, Tax and Advisory services. A role in PwC will provide you opportunities to apply skills beyond the workplace to create ground-breaking solutions for clients and our communities. PwC Acceleration Centers in India are diverse, global talent hubs focused on delivering value to our clients – providing virtual client engagement support around the world and across all PwC’s services and capabilities.

What does this role entail?

M&A Strategy team is a part of Management Consulting at PwC. Within the Management Consulting division, M&A Strategy team builds solutions for clients to maximize the value through Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) transactions, both strategic and financial, across the deal continuum by leveraging its core expertise and extensive experience in M&A from both Buyer / Seller perspective.

Competency Overview

M&A Strategy team will provide you the opportunity to help clients achieve maximum value in their M&A transactions by solving complex transformational challenges. As an Associate, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. We focus on all business aspects of the deal lifecycle including:

Job Description

Pre-Deal

• Human Capital Due Diligence: Assist clients (buy‑side or sell‑side) to conduct a detailed analysis of HR operations including workforce, key compensation and benefit plans, HR systems, and culture; assess potential merger synergies, standalone improvement opportunities, and risks.
• Value Capture: Identify performance improvement opportunities and best practices through industry and functional expertise to increase value for client.
• Operations Due Diligence: Evaluate the efficiency, effectiveness, and scalability of HR operations within the target company. Aim to identify operational strengths, weaknesses, and potential areas for improvement and synergies.

Post-Deal

• Integration Management: Work with client’s functional leads to chart out workplans and execute integration in HR processes, systems and employees.
• Separation Management: Assist sell‑side clients to minimize impact to HR function while carving out target company; identify TSAs and reverse TSAs and create workplans to ensure organizational stability and continuity.
• Change Management, Culture, & Communications: Design and implement change management strategies to support organizational initiatives, assess and integrate cultural similarities through a detailed roadmap, and develop comprehensive communication plans to ensure transparency and alignment during transitions.
• Organizational Design: Analyze current organizational structures and evaluate key talent to support the target operating model and provide a comprehensive understanding of talent risks and opportunities.
• Legal Entity Operationalization: Develop and manage plans for the legal entity separation process, and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to facilitate operationalization and compliance for new legal entities.
• Synergy Tracking / Value Capture: Work with client to identify best practices to improve HR‑related operating efficiencies; track identified synergies to ensure expected value is realized in a transaction.

Core responsibilities as a Senior Associate

Candidates will join high‑functioning global project teams to solve M&A‑related problems, analyzing financial data, preparing work plans, managing stakeholders, and providing transaction recommendations. They will also engage in business development, thought leadership, and firm building activities, working with experienced consultants to address complex business issues from strategy to execution.

Your opportunities at PwC Learn

• Develop business acumen, technical, and technology skills.
• Diverse opportunities to showcase your skills in an inclusive and supportive environment.
• Harness your leadership potential to expand your career.

Must-have Skills

• Key drivers for primary functional areas such as sales & marketing, supply chain, R&D, Finance, IT, and HR.
• Ability to handle, manipulate and analyze quantitative as well as qualitative data.
• Concept and rationale of market & industry research, competitor analysis and benchmarking for key operational and financial metrics.
• Experience of supporting one or more functional areas, organizing work to meet time and budget expectations, and keeping project leadership informed of progress and issues.
• Prior knowledge/experience in consulting (technology, risk, management, strategy) or in key M&A related areas such as pre‑deal diligence, integration and separation planning and execution.
• Comprehensive knowledge of HR concepts and principles, such as HR Organization Design, Workforce Planning, Talent Management, Change Management, Culture, and Communications.
• Skilled in project management for organizational change, company integrations, employee communications and HR transformation, with expertise in deploying HR methodologies.

Good-to-have Skills

• Intellectual curiosity, creative thinking ability and structured problem‑solving approach.
• Skills to invite & give real‑time feedback and make suggestions for improvements through an ownership‑driven attitude.
• Ability to communicate confidently in a clear, concise and articulate manner in written and oral format.
• Ability to build solid and collaborative relationships with team members and external stakeholders.
• Basic working proficiency in MS Excel, MS PowerPoint and MS Word.
• Basic knowledge of data analytics and visualization tools would be a bonus.
• Discipline and maturity to follow risk management and compliance procedures.
• Experience in HR‑related M&A activities, including due diligence, target screening, integration planning, execution and/or post‑merger integration.
• Familiarity with cloud‑based HR systems (e.g., Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Oracle HCM) and their impact on organizational efficiency.
• Knowledge of using HR analytics for strategic decision‑making, including workforce planning, talent management and performance measurement.

Eligibility Criteria

• MBA in Human Resource/Strategy/Finance from a premium B‑School.
• Past Experience: 3‑6 years of prior relevant work experience.
• Experience in M&A or management consulting domain and exposure to the multinational environment will be a bonus.

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Human Resources

Industries

Professional Services