Private Equity Mergers & Acquisitions Strategy & Diligence Senior Manager

Private Equity Mergers & Acquisitions Strategy & Diligence Senior Manager

Our Deloitte Strategy & Transactions team helps guide clients through their most critical moments and transformational initiatives. We offer comprehensive end-to-end support and advisory services, covering areas such as valuation modeling, cost optimization, restructuring, business design and transformation, infrastructure and real estate, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and sustainability. The team works closely with clients at every stage of their journey, helping them navigate challenges, avoid financial pitfalls, and implement practical solutions before, during, and after major transformational projects or transactions creating lasting impact.

Our Strategy & Diligence (S&D) area is part of Deloitte’s M&A Offering, within the broader Strategy & Transactions practice. Our dedicated M&A professionals apply deep knowledge and decades of experience. We offer services ranging from M&A strategy to financial, operational, and commercial due diligence and value qualification, to structuring advice and financing options. All this helps our clients navigate complex transaction execution processes while bringing more certainty and fewer delays.

Recruiting for this role ends on 8/13/2025.

Work You’ll Do

As a Senior Manager, you will sell, lead and deliver complex strategic engagements that help our clients unlock value through inorganic growth and value creation. Senior Managers are expected to contribute to the firm's growth and development in a variety of ways. You will be responsible for engagement management:

• Partner with private equity clients as they evaluate their portfolio and engage in buy-side and sell-side inorganic opportunities
• Evaluate portfolio company operations to identify key business issues and deploy innovative value creation solutions
• Manage day-to-day interactions with executive clients and sponsors; participate and lead aspects of the proposal development process; contribute to the development of proposal pricing strategies
• Own and present project deliverables that reflect a high standard of analysis
• Execute on multiple projects concurrently and work with Manager-level personnel to ensure excellence in project work
• Manage direct on-time, quality delivery of work products
• Manage engagement economics and engagement risk
• Mentor and develop staff through informal coaching and day-to-day project interactions
• Improve internal processes and promote knowledge sharing in the team, by contributing to the community of practice, blogs, and other forms of market eminence
• Develop "point- of-view" documents, participate in public speaking events and get published in industry periodicals

The Team

Our M&A team offers expert guidance to corporate and private equity clients in navigating complex growth and divestiture scenarios. Our services encompass M&A strategy and transaction diligence, integration and separation planning and execution, as well as transaction financing.

Evolving market needs, including regulation and client demands, are changing the way in which investment management firms are doing business. Our team connects proprietary insights, experience, and ecosystems to deliver value and allows firms to realize stable, sustainable growth. Deloitte is the market leader in helping private equity (PE) firms and portfolio companies navigate complex challenges and environments to accelerate value. Our Mergers, Acquisitions, and Restructuring Services span the full PE life cycle. In today’s complex environment, the pre-transaction phase is more vital than ever. Our M&A solutions and services help PE firms and their portfolio companies uncover, create, and drive value. The PE M&A S&D Team serves as strategic advisors to PE firms as they find ways to enhance investor return through activities such as portfolio rationalization analysis, market scans, diligence on the buy and sell side, and refining portfolio company operations.

Qualifications:

Required:

A candidate must have 8+ years of M&A or M&A Service Delivery experience in the following areas:

• Leading strategy and diligence (e.g., commercial, operational, carve-out etc.) engagements for large and/ or mid-market PE clients and portfolio companies
• Working with financial statements and complex models allowing for a strong understanding of where the numbers and data are flowing
• Providing a broad continuum of advisory services to support mergers, acquisitions, carve-outs, and partnerships including developing strategy, target scans, and commercial and operational diligence
• Partnering with senior executives to define how they employ M&A – in alignment with their corporate strategy
• Setting and leading engagement objectives by defining the scope, plan and budget
• Defining deliverable structure and content and facilitating buy-in of proposed strategies from top management levels at the client
• Mobilizing and managing multiple engagement teams / workstreams
• Experience either in client service or in a consultative role (e.g., Corp Dev, Business Development, or Strategy)
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future
• Ability to travel up to 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve

Preferred:

• Experience at a top strategy consulting firm or private equity / M&A Strategy focused boutique consulting firm
• Ideal candidates would have spent at least 50% of their time advising PE clients Experience managing and interacting with C-Suite stakeholders
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Ability to apply practical experience with communications, culture, and change management
• Ability to perform analysis and synthesize data into useful insights
• Experience with staff development and eagerness to mentor junior practitioners
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple task assignments
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills (MS PowerPoint)
• An advanced degree (MBA; PhD; JD; MD; Masters) is preferred

Information for applicants with a need for accommodation: https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/careers/articles/join-deloitte-assistance-for-disabled-applicants.html

For individuals assigned and/or hired to work in California, Deloitte is required by law to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. This compensation range is specific to California and takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.  At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.  A reasonable estimate of the current range is $175,300 to $322,900.

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.