Assistant Director, M&A, Value Creation Services, HR Due Diligence

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This is your opportunity to join Deloitte's market-leading M&A Operations team and work on the largest, most complex and high-profile deals in the UK and globally.

You will be working on high profile acquisitions, disposals and carve outs for prominent corporate businesses and private equity houses across a range of sectors and geographies and have the opportunity to work on a wide variety of projects within a highly commercial environment.

You will utilise your experience of M&A HR due diligence and develop an impressive range of M&A consulting skills that will multiply your career options. Benefiting from significant client exposure and learning from some of the top practitioners in the field, you will be involved throughout the M&A deal lifecycle.

The fast-growing M&A Operations team focuses on operational aspects throughout the transaction lifecycle, including pre-deal due diligence, performance improvement evaluations, synergy and carve-out assessments, divestments, pre-deal full potential assessments and post-deal 100-day plans. The team comprises highly experienced practitioners with a background in HR, pensions, share plans, and the operational elements of acquisitions and divestments and is a core part of Deloitte's market-leading M&A Transaction Services group. Collectively we are a group of over 600 professionals who provide M&A related expertise to corporate organisations, private equity houses and financial institutions. We are widely recognised as the most experienced, dedicated team in EMEA, supporting transactions across all industry sectors. We have worked on over 1,000 of the largest and most complex M&A transactions, divestments, joint venture creations and restructurings.

Our extensive experience, first hand insights and tried and tested methodologies give us a distinct advantage to serve a very diverse range of client needs. Our team of highly skilled business professionals with cross-border experience and diverse backgrounds is looking for candidates motivated to work on the headline-grabbing transactions of tomorrow.

We encourage consideration of flexible ways of working, both formal and informal arrangements that allow for the best outcomes for our people and our clients. If this opportunity is of interest to you with some flexibility, please do discuss with us.

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Your role will be to provide HR Due Diligence expertise to businesses across industry sectors. You will deliver services ranging across exit readiness, vendor due diligence, acquiror due diligence, and post-signing deep-dive reviews.

Specific responsibilities for the Assistant Director include:

• Providing businesses with both buy- and sell-side transaction HR due diligence
• Assisting these businesses in understanding the financial implications of HR issues, feeding into Quality of Earnings and Net Debt adjustments
• Working with these businesses in the assessment and review of future HR operational plans, the impact and complexities of carve-outs on vendor and target organisations and the stand-alone HR costs and issues for potential of buyouts and corporate divestments
• Working with colleagues from Transaction Services (Financial Due Diligence), Tax & Legal and the broader Deloitte network, to provide our clients with end-to-end deal services with a coherent overview of the HR issues.
• Working with colleagues from Deloitte member firms globally to provide our clients with an holistic view of the local HR considerations in relevant countries
• Managing the development and completion of the engagement scope and completion of client deliverables
• Leading the day-to-day delivery on engagements, reporting into the team of Directors and Partners
• Supporting management of client relationships and in most cases being a key client contact on engagements
• Supporting the development of service offerings, tools and templates, and evolving propositions to drive practice growth
• Supporting training and developing team members in role
• Leading diverse teams of Managers and Assistant Managers within an inclusive team culture where people are recognised for their contribution
• Participating in grade-appropriate training to further your personal development

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Essential:

• Experience of working in the M&A / deal lifecycle, specifically due diligence experience
• Excellent financial analysis skills
• Strong problem solving, business diagnostic and analytical skills including excellent Excel capabilities
• A strong understanding of the components of employee costs including salary increases, bonuses, share plans, pensions, benefits
• Experience of analysing and understanding financial statements particularly relating to employee costs
• Good organisational and administrative skills with the ability to prioritise effectively
• A strong academic track record including excellent degree and A-level (or equivalent) results
• Experience of operating with senior level stakeholders in the corporate and/or private equity industry
• Ability to fluently communicate and present in both oral and written English
• Strong commercial acumen and project management capability with a track record of successful delivery

Desirable:

• Experience from working in a related professional services role
• Experience in business development, from opportunity identification to conversion into sales
• Experience in coaching, mentoring or counselling colleagues

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In an ever-evolving world, there are no certainties in business. Our teams help clients to navigate risks, process major transactions and deliver transformational change that will future-proof their business. Join us to make a positive difference.

Mergers and Acquisitions

We challenge dealmakers to expect more and to see beyond the deal to create sustainable value for shareholders, employees and society. We support corporates, private equity and financial investors across the full M&A lifecycle and are committed to identifying and delivering sustainable value at every stage of the deal.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

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