Manager, Operational Due Diligence, M&A Strategy

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KPMG is currently seeking a Manager to join our KPMG Strategy practice.

Responsibilities :

• Lead enterprise-wide Strategy engagements including M&A (Operating Due Diligence, Synergy assessments, stand alone cost assessments) as well as Corporate Performance improvement projects from start to finish, including setting scopes, budgets, staffing resources, generating information/data requests, leading client and target workshops, creating and coordinating final deliverables, and assisting with presentation of results
• Act as the day-to-day, full-time project manager to help ensure successful problem formulation, hypotheses generation, comprehensive analysis in testing hypotheses, and problem resolution
• Provide oversight of highly skilled KPMG work teams throughout the project lifecycle and serve as the primary team interface with various levels of executives and team members
• Lead the team to create value-add insights that tie to the clients strategic and financial ambitions, including identifying the underlying value proposition and challenging the clients near and long term investment thesis through structured data analyses to identify operational risks, efficiencies, or other opportunities
• Help lead proposal development and other new business development activities by leveraging new and existing relationships with C-level executives across Corporate and Private Equity clients
• Support professional development of KPMG Strategy team staff

Qualifications :

• Minimum of five years of recent external consulting experience in a client-facing strategy discipline at a Big 4 firm, major strategy firm, or a boutique strategy firm; two years of additional relevant work experience, ideally with M&A Operations work experience for a private equity firm, strategy and/or corporate development department of a Fortune 100 firm
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university, preferably in Business Administration, Engineering, or other related field; Masters degree in Business Administration from an accredited college/university is preferred
• Experience in at least one of the following strategy consulting areas: transaction and business due diligence, operational and performance improvement, strategic growth, or other relevant strategy experience
• Strong business acumen, with analytical and problem-solving skills and ability to understand how business model decisions impact operating model design/execution across operations, technology, risk governance, and organizational design
• Comfort with ambiguity and fluid consulting situations
• Willingness and ability to travel
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future. KPMG LLP will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa)

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