Director, Strategy & Transformation

armaninollp; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 250,000 - 450,000; Full time

Job summary

Armanino seeks a senior leader to spearhead mergers, acquisitions, integrations, and carve-outs, advising private equity sponsors, portfolio companies, and corporate acquirers.

You will devote at least half of your time to business development, pursuing opportunities, and closing new work, while guiding Integration Management Offices and cross-functional teams to create value and measurable outcomes. Travel is required; some remote work is possible.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• 15+ years of leadership in management consulting, private equity operations, or related fields.
• Proven track record leading merger integrations and enterprise-level programs.
• Strong client relationships and engagement management experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead and expand Armanino's M&A Strategy, Integration & Transformation capabilities for sponsors, portfolio companies and acquirers.
• Allocate at least 50% of time to market-facing development, pursuit strategy, and closing new work.
• Design and lead Integration Management Offices with governance, plans, and issue resolution.
• Guide synergy, carve-out, and transition services programs with executive reporting.
• Assemble cross-functional teams across Strategy, Finance, Technology, and more.
• Act as senior relationship owner to deal sponsors, CEOs, and operating partners with focus on outcomes.
• Recruit, coach, and retain top talent while elevating methodologies and IP.

Skills

M&A Strategy

Business Development

Leadership

Relationship Management

Deal Execution

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

MBA or other relevant advanced degree

Job description

At Armanino, you determine your career path. This means it's possible to pursue challenges you are passionate about, in industries you care about.

Armanino is proud to be Among the top 20 Largest Accounting and Consulting Firms in the Nation and one of the Best Places to Work . We have a community of resources that are ready and willing to support your ideas, build your skills and expand your professional network. We want you to integrate all aspects of your life with your career. At Armanino, we know you don't check-out of life when you check-in at work. That's why we've created a unique work environment where your passions, work, and family & friends can overlap. We want to help you achieve growth by giving you access to a network of smart and supportive people, willing to listen to your ideas.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead and expand Armanino's M&A Strategy, Integration & Transformation capabilities, advising private equity sponsors, portfolio companies, and corporate acquirers on mergers, acquisitions, integrations, and carve-outs.
• Devote at least 50% of time to market-facing and business development activities, including relationship development, opportunity identification, pursuit strategy, proposal development, and closing new work.
• Design and lead Integration Management Offices, including governance, workstream structure, decision rights, integrated plans, dependencies, risks, issues, executive reporting, Day 1 readiness, first-100-day execution, and accelerated value creation plans.
• Direct synergy and value-capture programs and guide carve-out and separation programs, including transition service agreement governance, standalone readiness, exit plans, and operational stabilization.
• Assemble and lead multidisciplinary teams across Strategy & Transformation, CFO Advisory, Transaction Advisory, Finance and Accounting, Human Capital, Technology, Data, Tax, and other value-creation capabilities.
• Serve as the senior relationship owner and trusted advisor to deal sponsors, CEOs, CFOs, operating partners, and integration leaders while overseeing engagement quality, economics, staffing, risk management, and measurable outcomes.
• Recruit, coach, and retain a high-performing team; develop future engagement leaders; and strengthen the practice's methods, tools, playbooks, quality standards, and reusable intellectual property.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
• Minimum 15 years of relevant professional experience, with significant leadership responsibility in management consulting, private equity operations, corporate development, enterprise transformation, or a comparable environment.
• Deep experience leading merger integrations, carve-outs, or complex transaction programs, including direct responsibility for an Integration Management Office or enterprise-level integration governance.
• Demonstrated track record of originating, selling, and expanding complex consulting engagements and building executive-level client relationships.
• Ability to travel based on client and business development needs.
• Flexibility to work from home while collaborating in person half the time.

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA or other relevant advanced degree.
• Strong operational orientation and working knowledge of multiple business functions, with the ability to connect operational actions to the deal thesis, financial outcomes, and enterprise value.
• Experience mobilizing and leading multidisciplinary teams spanning operational transformation, finance, transaction advisory, technology, human capital, and other specialist capabilities.
• Strong commercial judgment, including scoping, pricing, contracting, engagement economics, delivery risk, and account expansion.
• Exceptional executive communication, facilitation, negotiation, and relationship-management skills.

"Armanino" is the brand name under which Armanino LLP and Armanino Advisory LLC, independently owned entities, provide professional services in an alternative practice structure in accordance with law, regulations, and professional standards. Armanino LLP is a licensed independent CPA firm that provides attest services, and Armanino Advisory LLC and its subsidiary entities provide tax, advisory, and business consulting services. Armanino Advisory LLC and its subsidiary entities are not licensed CPA firms.

Armanino provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Armanino complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Armanino expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment b