Senior M&A Consultant: Carveout & Integration Leader

West Monroe; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) plan

Stock purchase program

Unlimited PTO

Ten paid holidays

Parental leave

Job summary

West Monroe seeks a Senior Consultant to join our Merger & Carveout Services (MCS) team in the United States. You will work across the transaction lifecycle, from diligence and separation planning through Day 1 readiness and post-close execution, delivering data-driven recommendations and measurable business outcomes.

You will lead technology workstreams, develop financial models, and mentor junior staff while collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to enable value realization and

Qualifications

• 4+ years of client-facing management consulting, technology consulting, transaction advisory, or IT M&A experience.
• Experience supporting mergers, acquisitions, integrations, carve-outs, divestitures, or technology transformation initiatives.
• Experience developing financial models, standalone cost analyses, synergy assessments, TSA analyses, or technology business cases.
• Understanding of enterprise business applications, infrastructure, cybersecurity, data, and technology operating models within an M&A environment.
• Experience managing project workstreams, balancing competing priorities, and delivering high-quality client outcomes in fast-paced environments.
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills with the ability to communicate effectively with executive stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Support buy-side and sell-side merger, integration, and carve-out engagements for private equity and corporate clients across multiple industries.
• Develop standalone operating cost models, one-time separation cost estimates, synergy analyses, and technology financial models to support investment decisions and transaction execution.
• Analyze business applications, infrastructure, cybersecurity, data, and technology operating models to assess risks, identify value creation opportunities, and develop integration or separation recommendations.
• Support the planning, design, negotiation, and execution of Transition Services Agreements (TSAs), standalone operating models, and Day 1 readiness activities.
• Lead technology workstreams across post-close merger and carve-out programs while managing project plans, risks, dependencies, budgets, and executive reporting.
• Identify and document business, process, technology, contractual, and organizational entanglements to support successful separations and integrations.
• Facilitate client workshops, present recommendations to executive stakeholders, and translate complex analyses into clear, actionable insights.
• Leverage West Monroe’s proprietary methodologies, accelerators, and Intellio™ assets to improve planning, governance, collaboration, and transaction execution.
• Contribute to proposals, statements of work, client pursuits, and thought leadership initiatives that strengthen the growth of the M&A practice.
• Mentor consultants and analysts by providing coaching, knowledge sharing, and quality review of project deliverables.
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate analysis, synthesize complex information, and support data-driven recommendations for clients, exercising sound judgment in evaluating outputs.
• Apply AI technologies to enhance insights, improve delivery efficiency, and elevate the quality of client outcomes.

Skills

Client-facing consulting

M&A experience

Financial modeling

Data-driven decision making

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Smartsheet

Power BI

Tableau

Alteryx

Job description

West Monroe seeks a Senior Consultant to join our Merger & Carveout Services (MCS) team in the United States. You will work across the transaction lifecycle, from diligence and separation planning through Day 1 readiness and post-close execution, delivering data-driven recommendations and measurable business outcomes.

You will lead technology workstreams, develop financial models, and mentor junior staff while collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to enable value realization and