Technology Merger & Aquisitions

About the Role

Recruiting for Manager skillset in the Tech M&A team.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead client delivery and develop/support practice.
• Client Delivery:
• Lead complex IT due diligence, integration, and separation engagements across global transactions.
• Act as the primary delivery lead for IT workstreams.
• Manage offshore-onshore execution models and senior client stakeholders.
• Assist, support, and help clients navigate people challenges during the M&A lifecycle, specifically integration and separation processes.
• Manage multi-country delivery teams, ensuring quality, timelines, and risk management across workstreams.
• Deliver services from the development of integration or separation strategies to supporting Day 1 planning and post-deal implementation program delivery.
• Support transactions across industry sectors including Automotive, Digital, Technology, and Financial Services.
• Support clients and their in-house functional teams through integration/separation processes, playing a key role on small to mid-scale assignments and being a key part of the delivery team on larger projects.
• Own application, infrastructure, data, and security separation/integration strategies, including Day 1, TSA, and post-Day 1 roadmaps.
• Drive senior stakeholder decision-making through structured insights, trade-off analysis, and clear recommendations.
• Support day-to-day Program Management Office (PMO) activities on small/mid-sized engagements, including tracking key integration/separation activities, status reports, risks, actions, issues, and dependencies (RAID logs), benefits tracking, and cost tracking.
• Prepare reporting on overall program progress for senior executives, including risk mitigation and issue resolution proposals.
• Lead IT / Tech / Product Due Diligence engagements, owning findings, risk assessment, and executive-ready reports for buy-side and sell-side deals.
• Interface with senior internal and external stakeholders at clients and within KPMG.
• Provide high-quality and deep insights and recommendations to clients.
• Lead client meetings and work with various business functions to ensure all technical/functional requirements are captured during transactions.
• Practice Development:
• Lead or significantly contribute to Tech M&A proposals, pursuit strategy, and sales pitches for member firms.
• Work effectively in diverse teams within an inclusive team culture.
• Own engagement management, including quality and risk management for the project.
• Coach and mentor junior members of the team.
• Identify and drive opportunities for wider KPMG as a result of work in transactions.
• Develop Tech M&A playbooks, tools, accelerators, and templates (e.g., ITDD frameworks, separation checklists, TSA models).

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Skillset Required:
• Deep technical expertise in at least one of the following:
• IT Infrastructure
• IT Applications
• Cybersecurity
• ERP (SAP / MS Dynamics / Oracle etc.)
• Proven experience in planning and executing IT integrations and separations, covering applications, infrastructure, data, and technology platforms.
• Hands-on experience in IT Due Diligence (buy-side and sell-side), including authoring and reviewing executive-ready reports.
• Proven experience in a consulting firm or industry with exposure to ITDD / Tech DD / Platform DD, preferably in an M&A environment.
• Strong project management skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Understanding of the deal lifecycle and the role of IT within it – from due diligence through to concluding transitional service agreements.
• Leading and facilitation of client meetings and interviews.
• Experience Valued:
• Planning and execution of IT integrations and separations across technology, infrastructure, applications, and data.
• ERP assessment / implementation and support.
• Design, negotiation, and operation of IT-related transitional services.
• Good to Have:
• Experience in ERP architecture, diagnostics, or large-scale ERP transformations.
• Leading a team which includes both colleagues and client members of staff.
• Ability to learn quickly and leverage skills in new situations.