Senior Consultant - HR M&A Transactions

Senior Consultant - HR M&A Transactions

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Your Key Responsibilities

• Support clients to address people related matters arising from enterprise wide or functional re organisations, restructurings and workforce optimisation, including post deal activities.
• Assist the project in addressing HR Transactions/People related matters through all stages of acquisition, divestiture and merger.
• Structure and manage projects of work which meet and exceed client expectations.
• Be confident and effective in recognising and managing potential issues during client assignments; ensure clear and timely communication to project leads.
• Review and perform report writing, project planning, data analysis, and development of presentation material.
• Analyse data and present high quality, risk managed reports/conclusions including client and executive presentations in various formats - this will also include delivery and presentation of such reports to clients.
• Work with key project leader to manage and maintain client relationship.
• Ensure that all client work is delivered consistently, complying with EY's Q&RM guidelines.
• Work collaboratively with other EY M&A service lines and wider firm teams, including EYP and Consulting, to deliver integrated, end to end client solutions.

To qualify for the role you must have

The current teams have a different range of expertise across the HR M&A deal lifecycle. Therefore, we are looking for both specialists in a range of the areas highlighted above and below, together with those who have broader M&A experience.

• Strong HR M&A deal background, including HR Due Diligence, Sell and Separate, Buy and Integrate, and post deal transformation activities.
• Proven Commercial HR experience from private, public sector or consulting.
• Strong project management, presentation and stakeholder engagement/management skills.
• Experience of specific HR disciplines; Employee /Industrial Relations, Compensation and Benefits, Change and Communication is ideal but not essential.
• Qualitative and quantitative data analysis skills and data manipulation, data presentation, via a range of tools.

Skills and Attributes for success

• Team player; ability to integrate with new teams quickly.
• Collaborative, good at building relationships.
• Ability to analyse complex problems and to deliver insightful, practical and sustainable solutions.
• Able to manage stakeholder and client relationships in a fast paced and complex environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and experience of producing high calibre reports, papers, presentations.
• Frequently and effectively leverage internal and external knowledge, experience and relationships to identify new opportunities.
• Regularly brings ideas and insights to clients and programme teams that provide value, help address risk and assist the deal lifecycle.
• Personal resilience and the ability to drive the project and team's agenda (both internally and within the client environment).

Ideally, you'll also have

• A primary degree and any post graduate degrees and professional qualifications are desirable but not critical e.g. CIPD.
• Experience of working on projects gained working within a professional services firm, global consultancy firm and/or large private and/or public sector organisations.