Consultant, M&A Tech

About the Role

Support Tech M&A Managers and Senior Managers with small to medium sized engagements and be the day-to-day support on these engagements.

Key Responsibilities

Due Diligence

• Analyze target data to build up a view on the technology of the business including cost, products and systems, and IT contracts.
• Condense data and explain findings simply to other team members, highlighting the impact of technology on the business strategy, operations, and deal valuation.
• Develop an understanding of IT benchmarks and qualitative information to provide insights to clients to describe a typical IT function.
• Assist in client communications, calls, and meetings.
• Contribute content for sections of IT reports/deliverables.

Integration and Separation

• Understand technology aspects of integration, separation (carve outs), and optimization initiatives (e.g., synergy analysis), including understanding the current IT landscape.
• Support the development of target operating models.
• Define transitional service agreements.
• Develop detailed plans and support the implementation of such plans.
• Support the IT workstream lead in integrations and separations within a larger team of Integration & Separation colleagues to fulfill their workstream objectives.
• Support key client workshops and meetings.
• Support the identification or review of client synergies for IT within a larger team.

Wider Responsibilities

• Interact with senior client stakeholders as well as internal stakeholders (KPMG Partners and Directors).
• When not working on a project, provide support to senior colleagues in aspects such as preparation of proposal materials and the development of team propositions and initiatives.

Requirements & Tech Stack

Educational Qualifications

• MBA / Bachelor’s degree in a related field from an accredited college/university, preferably with a major in Technology.

Work Experience

• 1-5 years of total work experience.

Qualifications

Experience in implementing Information Technology processes, technologies, best practices, and frameworks, including:

• Application Support & Maintenance
• Network & Data Center Operations Management
• Software Development Life Cycle
• Service Management
• Security
• Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity
• Cloud-based Deployment Models (e.g., Infrastructure-as-a-Service)
• Software Asset Management/Compliance
• Infrastructure Optimization (e.g., consolidation, rationalization, cost savings)
• Service Level Definition and Agreements / IT Scorecard and Metrics
• Knowledge/certification in Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) service management and service support processes, and CMM SEI and/or CoBiT standards.
• Knowledge about enterprise business applications (e.g., ERP, CRM).
• Experience in assisting with technology assessment/diligence.