Senior Associate - Deals - M&A Strategy (Integration, Divestiture, Diligence)

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

Job summary

A global consulting firm is seeking a Senior Associate for its M&A Strategy team in Bengaluru. This role involves assisting clients with complex business issues related to mergers and acquisitions, from pre-deal due diligence to integration management. Ideal candidates will have an MBA and relevant experience in consulting and M&A. The firm offers a supportive environment to develop leadership potential.

Qualifications

• 3-6 years of relevant work experience.
• Experience in M&A or management consulting preferred.
• Ability to handle both quantitative and qualitative data.

Responsibilities

• Analyze financial data and prepare work plans.
• Manage stakeholder relationships effectively.
• Engage in business development and thought leadership.

Skills

Sales & marketing

Ability to analyze data

Market research

Consulting experience

Stakeholder management

Education

MBA in Strategy/Marketing/Finance

Tools

MS Excel

MS PowerPoint

Data analytics tools

Job description

Overview

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What does this role entail?

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

Competency Overview: M&A Strategy

Job Description: The M&A Strategy team provides the opportunity to help clients achieve maximum value in their M&A transactions by solving complex transformational challenges. As an Associate, you will 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:

Pre-Deal

• Operations Due Diligence: Assist clients (buy-side or sell-side) to conduct a detailed analysis of front-office and back-office operations and assess potential merger synergies, standalone improvement opportunities and risks.
• IT Due Diligence: Assess IT landscape for clients to evaluate go-forward risks, costs and planning of integration of technology, applications and infra
• Value Capture: Identify performance improvement opportunities and best practices through industry and functional expertise to increase value for client
• Commercial Due Diligence: Understand the commercial activity for a client on its viability and potential through insights on market demand, position, revenue and competitive dynamics

Post-Deal

• Integration Management: Work with client’s functional leads to chart out workplans and execute integration in back-office and front-office processes, systems and employees
• Separation Management: Assist sell-side clients to carve out target company while minimizing impact on either’s operations. Identify TSAs and reverse TSAs and create workplans to ensure smooth transfer of ownership
• IT Program Management: Integration or carve out planning and execution for clients to manage technology, systems, applications, and data and create maximum value from a transaction by streamlining systems and processes.
• Legal Entity Restructuring: Support high-value transactions by restructuring tax and legal entities to improve financial and/or operating efficiencies.
• Synergy Tracking / Value Capture: Identify best practices to improve operating efficiencies and profitability, and track identified synergies to ensure value realization.

Core responsibilities

Senior Associate would join high-functioning global project teams to solve M&A-related problems, analyze financial data, prepare work plans, manage stakeholders, and provide transaction recommendations. They will engage in business development, thought leadership, and firm-building activities, working with experienced consultants to address complex business issues from strategy to execution.

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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

Good-to-have Skills

• Intellectual curiosity with creative thinking and structured problem solving
• Ability to invite & give real time feedback and to identify & make suggestions for improvements with ownership-driven attitude
• Clear and concise written and oral communication; ability to build solid, 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; discipline to follow risk management and compliance procedures

Eligibility Criteria

• MBA in Strategy/ Marketing/ 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

• Legal
• Industries
• Professional Services

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