Director, HR M&A Integration (12 Month FTC)

Director, HR M&A Integration (12 Month FTC)

The People M&A Director serves as the program manager for overseeing complex interrelated HR projects and/or programs from initiation through delivery, to include due diligence and integration planning and execution for company mergers and acquisitions (M&A). The role represents the department internally and externally on complex integration matters, translating deal strategy into successful team and system integration.

Responsibilities

• Leads the successful completion of major programs and projects, including managing due diligence and integration processes throughout the M&A life cycle.
• Manages and leads integration and planning according to timelines, budget and quality standards; works cross functionally with other project stakeholders to ensure project dependencies are identified and communicated.
• Serves as a subject matter expert through the diligence process, including assisting with framing diligence objectives and coordinating the reporting of diligence findings to leadership.
• Proactively ensures program and project planning gaps or other risks are effectively identified and mitigated, escalating information and recommending issue resolution as appropriate.
• Monitors and supports teams to ensure a smooth and seamless transition post M&A.
• Ensures appropriate consideration of any organizational impacts through the integration process, including management of integration implementation and data migration into company systems.
• Leverages expertise to help leadership build and execute business and cultural integration plans as well as change management.
• Aligns program roadmap strategically and financially to department and company goals.
• Collaborates with a cross functional team to manage delivery and governance of the integration.
• Creates strategic program timelines as well as detailed project plans; assesses resource loading, dependencies, and milestones.
• Evaluates progress to timeline and budget and adjusts project resource allocation as needed from planning through execution.
• Manages HR integration budget against pre determined budgets.

Qualifications

• Prior M&A experience preferred.
• Bachelor's degree in human resources management.
• Extensive HR experience.
• Demonstrated mastery in the key principles of cross functional project and program management (ex: time, quality, cost) as well as formal change management processes and methods (Prosci or similar approach).
• Proven track record of strong project management skills; managing multiple projects and meeting deadlines without compromising quality.
• Outstanding communication skills both oral and written; executive presence.
• Flexible work schedule; M&A projects often involve tight timelines.
• Demonstrated ability to lead initiatives on both strategic and tactical levels.
• Exceptional financial acumen.
• Ability to work with cross functional business teams to identify fundamental business drivers and risks to those drivers, and translate them into modeling parameters.
• Mastery of critical thinking skills with solid judgment and strong initiative.
• Demonstrated expert leadership/influence and collaboration across multiple and diverse groups.

Security Responsibility

• Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices.
• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed.
• Report any suspected information security violation or breach.
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.