Senior M&A Strategy & Transformation Leader

Armanino Advisory LLC; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 202,000 - 276,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Generous PTO and paid sick time

Flexible work arrangements

401K with Profit Sharing

Wellness program

Generous parental leave

11 paid holidays

Job summary

Armanino Advisory LLC is seeking a senior leader to drive M&A strategy, integration, and transformation initiatives for private equity sponsors and corporate acquirers. You will oversee multi-disciplinary teams and shape value creation through governance and strategic programs.

The role emphasizes market-facing business development, executive stakeholder management, and delivering measurable outcomes while guiding complex carve-outs and integrations.

Qualifications

• 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.

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.

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience

Job description

Armanino Advisory LLC is seeking a senior leader to drive M&A strategy, integration, and transformation initiatives for private equity sponsors and corporate acquirers. You will oversee multi-disciplinary teams and shape value creation through governance and strategic programs.

The role emphasizes market-facing business development, executive stakeholder management, and delivering measurable outcomes while guiding complex carve-outs and integrations.