Senior Associate - Deals - M&A Strategy (Human Capital)

Line of Service

Advisory

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

Delivering Deal Value

Management Level

Senior Associate

Job Description & Summary

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What does this role entail?

M&A Strategy team is a part of Management Consulting at PwC. Within the Management Consulting division, M&A Strategy team builds solutions for clients to maximize the value through Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) transactions, both strategic and financial, across the deal continuum by leveraging its core expertise and extensive experience in M&A from both Buyer / Seller perspective.

Competency Overview: M&A Strategy The M&A Strategy team will provide you with the opportunity to help clients achieve maximum value in their M&A transactions by solving complex transformational challenges. As an Associate, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. We focus on all business aspects of the deal lifecycle including:

Job Description:

Pre-Deal – Provides advisory services to clients by evaluating the human capital function of the company in consideration, to identify risks, liabilities, and opportunities, thereby informing strategic decision-making during a deal.

• Human Capital Due Diligence: Assist clients (buy-side or sell-side) to conduct a detailed analysis of HR operations including (workforce, key compensation and benefit plans, HR systems, culture) and assess potential merger synergies, standalone improvement opportunities and risks.

• Value Capture: Identify performance improvement opportunities and best practices through industry and functional expertise to increase value for client 

• Operations Due Diligence: Evaluating the efficiency, effectiveness, and scalability of HR operations within the target company. The aim is to identify operational strengths, weaknesses, and potential areas for improvement and synergies.

Post-Deal - Provide advisory services for large-scale integrations and complex divestitures, focusing on cross-functional planning, target operating models, and actionable work plans.

• Integration Management: Work with client’s functional leads to chart out workplans and execute integration in HR processes, systems and employees

• Separation Management: Assist sell-side clients to minimize impact to HR function while carving out target company. Identify TSAs and reverse TSAs and create workplans to ensure organizational stability and continuity

• Change Management, Culture, & Communications: Design and implement change management strategies to support organizational initiatives, assess and integrate cultural similarities through a detailed roadmap, and develop comprehensive communication plans to ensure transparency and alignment during transitions.

• Organizational Design: Analyze current organizational structures, and evaluate key talent, to support the target operating model and provide a comprehensive understanding of talent risks and opportunities

• Legal Entity Operationalization: Develop and manage plans for the legal entity separation process, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to facilitate operationalization and compliance for new legal entities

• Synergy Tracking / Value Capture: Work with client to identify best practices to improve HR-related operating efficiencies. Also, tracking identified synergies to ensure expected value is realized in a transaction.

Core responsibilities as an Senior Associate would entail (but not limited to) Candidates will join high-functioning global project teams to solve M&A-related problems, analyzing financial data, preparing work plans, managing stakeholders, and providing transaction recommendations. They will also engage in business development, thought leadership, and firm building activities, working with experienced consultants to address complex business issues from strategy to execution.

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Must-have skills

● Key drivers for primary functional areas such as sales & marketing, supply chain, R&D, Finance, IT, and HR

● Ability to handle, manipulate and analyze quantitative as well as qualitative data ● Concept and rationale of market & industry research, competitor analysis and benchmarking for key operational and financial metrics

● Experience of supporting one or more functional areas, organizing work to meet time and budget expectations, and keeping project leadership informed of progress and issues

● Prior knowledge/ experience in consulting (technology, risk, management, strategy) or in key M&A related areas such as pre deal diligence, integration and separation planning and execution

● Comprehensive knowledge of HR concepts and principles, such as HR Organization Design, Workforce Planning, Talent Management, Change Management, Culture, and Communications

● Skilled in project management for organizational change, company integrations, employee communications, and HR transformation, with expertise in deploying HR methodologies

Good-to-have skills

●Intellectual curiosity along with creative thinking ability and structured problemsolving approach

● Skills to invite & give real time feedback and to Identify & make suggestions for improvements through an ownership-driven attitude

● Ability to communicate confidently in clear, concise and articulate manner in written and oral format

● Ability to build solid and collaborative relationships with team members and external stakeholders

● Basic working proficiency in MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, and MS Word

● Basic knowledge of data analytics and visualization tools would be a bonus

● Discipline and maturity to follow risk management and compliance procedures

● Experience in HR-related M&A activities, including due diligence, target screening, integration planning and execution, and/or post-merger integration.

● Familiarity with cloud-based HR systems (e.g., Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Oracle HCM) and their impact on organizational efficiency

● Knowledge of using HR analytics for strategic decision-making, including workforce planning, talent management, and performance measurement

Eligibility Criteria

• MBA in Human Resource/ Strategy/ Finance from a premium B-School

• Past Experience: 3 - 6 years of prior relevant work experience

• Experience in M&A or management consulting domain and exposure to the multinational environment will be a bonus

Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)

Degrees/Field of Study required:

Degrees/Field of Study preferred:

Certifications (if blank, certifications not specified)

Required Skills

Optional Skills

Accepting Feedback, Accepting Feedback, Active Listening, Analytical Thinking, Business Administration, Carve-Outs, Change Management, Communication, Contract Negotiation, Cost Efficiency, Cost Reduction, Creativity, Embracing Change, Emotional Regulation, Empathy, Enhanced Due Diligence, HR Due Diligence, Inclusion, Initial Public Offering (IPO), Intellectual Curiosity, Learning Agility, M&A Strategy, Market Research, Operational Advice, Operational Performance Management (OPM) {+ 14 more}

Desired Languages (If blank, desired languages not specified)

Travel Requirements

Not Specified

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No

Government Clearance Required?

No

Job Posting End Date