Manager - M&A Advisory Consulting
Posted 3 days 16 hours ago by PwC South Africa
Our Deals Merger and Acquisition Integration Consulting practice has seen significant growth in the last two years and is now looking to double in size. We work with clients to achieve maximum value and focus on providing value add and impactful advisory consulting services spanning pre and post deal due diligence, supporting complex divestitures and separations of public and private sector clients.
Responsibilities- You will partner with clients to guide and solve complex and challenging transformational M&A deals, working end to end from pre completion to large scale enterprise wide integrations.
- Develop and plan deals and carve outs as part of separations.
- Lead strategic M&A and carve out projects from pre deal due diligence to post close integration and separation planning.
- Proactively assist in the nurturing of several clients.
- Coach and mentor team members to build skills and confidence through knowledge sharing and building technical and client relationship management skills.
- Keep up to date with local and national business and economic issues.
- Drive business development activities - identifying new client and research opportunities through strong client relationships.
- Continue to develop internal relationships and your PwC brand.
- Lead project work streams, including project staffing, budgeting, planning, status updating, and work autonomously with little direction.
- Communicate effectively in written and oral formats to various situations and audiences.
- Facilitate working sessions of medium to large sized groups.
- Manage and conduct quantitative and qualitative analyses of complex data.
- Empower and support teams to achieve shared goals that foster a productive team work environment, and coach staff with timely meaningful feedback.
- Degree qualified and 5-7 years' experience in M&A and divestitures.
- Experience leading strategic M&A and carve out projects from pre deal due diligence to post close integration and separation planning.
- Strong analytical and innovative thinking skills with a solution design mindset.
- Experience in synergy and cost savings analysis, integration planning, separation planning, post close transformation.
- Additional knowledge of at least two functional areas: information technology, human resources, finance, operations/supply chain, and/or sales and marketing.
- Strong project management skills within a merger, acquisition or divestiture environment, or similar complex project with multiple stakeholders in a fast paced work environment.
- Ability to empower and support teams, lead project work streams, manage project staffing, budgeting and planning, and update status.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for various audiences.
- Experience facilitating working sessions with medium to large sized groups and managing quantitative and qualitative data analyses.
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