KPMG - Director - Mergers & Acquisitions

You will be responsible for identifying new opportunities and converting these into sales as well as leading client engagements and practice development for the Technology in M&A team.

Your responsibilities will include:

Client delivery:

- Operate as a sales and delivery director for M&A technology engagements providing support to our clients through technology programmes arising from acquisitions, divestitures, carve outs, joint ventures and other transactions

- Lead the delivery of major engagements on a day to day basis, providing hands on management to the engagement team

- Lead the preparation, planning and delivery of M&A technology programmes and technology due diligence. This includes setting scopes, budgets, staffing resources, generating information and data requests, leading client and target workshops, creating and co-ordinating final deliverables, providing high quality and insightful advice to our clients

- Delivering and/or reviewing high quality, transaction reports and other M&A documentation including technology: due diligence, integration plans, separation plans and Transitional Service Agreements

- Drawing on knowledge and experience to provide high quality and deep insights and recommendations to our clients

- Managing relationships with key C level executives at clients. Interfacing with senior internal and external stakeholders both at clients and within KPMG

- Co-ordination of work with wider KPMG teams (both nationally and internationally) to ensure the best solution is developed for the client irrespective of geography or sector

- Maintain responsibility for risk management, quality and profitability on engagements and liaise with the client lead and KPMG partners

Wider team:

- Take a lead role with client interactions and lead preparation, development and delivery of proposals

- Lead other business development activities by leveraging new and existing relationships with deal makers across Corporate and Private Equity clients

- Understand wider Deal Advisory and KPMG service capabilities and offerings to co-ordinate these to ensure our clients get the best level of advice and support

- Supporting and contributing to the growth plans of our Technology in M&A business

- Coaching and mentoring junior members of the team

- Identifying and driving opportunities for wider KPMG as a result of work in transactions

- Sustaining a reputation for delivery excellence in the marketplace

Experience and skills

Significant and current experience in a consulting firm or industry of preparing and delivering technology programmes in a M&A environment including:

- IT due diligence (buy side and sell side)

- Vendor assist

- Planning and execution of IT integrations and separations across technology, infrastructure, applications and data

- Development of IT organisation design including people, process, governance, service management, technology and contracts

- Design, negotiation and operation of IT related transitional services

Technical expertise in the following areas:

- IT infrastructure, including networks and data centres

- Cyber security

- Digital

- IT operating models, including organisation and supplier strategy

- IT costs

- IT strategy

- Cloud

- ERP

Understanding of the deal lifecycle and the role of IT within it - starting from due diligence through to concluding transitional service agreements

- Have significant and proven excellence in transaction execution

- Proven ability to manage a team of M&A practitioners that are able to successfully source, manage and complete multiple projects at once

- Have strong presentation skills and impact, being competent in presenting ideas clearly and convincingly so as to influence others - demonstrating personal presence, with the ability to earn trust and respect quickly

- Programme management experience and track record of successful delivery of projects

Experience of IT outsourcing, supplier management and procurement

- To be able to demonstrate and disseminate (both internally and externally) deep knowledge awareness of current market trends and activities, both from a technology and deal perspective

- Comfort with ambiguity, fluid consulting situations and a highly pressured environment which characterise transactions

- Ability to travel at a significant level

- Experience of development of client propositions, delivery of training and development of team members

- Fluency in a European language beneficial

Respect for client and transaction con.fidentiality